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Joe Holley

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Dawn

September 2001

Columns | Miscellany

Case Open

Nearly three years after attorney Steve Davis’ body was found, his family still doesn’t know how he died. Thanks to an out-of-court settlement with Comanche County, they probably never will. June 1999

Is Waco Wacko?

After the latest standoff there—by an armed UFO cultist—you might think so. But on the fifth anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege, the Central Texas community is doing just fine, thank you. April 1998

Weekly, Strongly

Why are small-town Texas newspapers thriving? Because unlike big-city dailies, they know their readers, and they give them what they want. December 1997

The Doctor Is In

For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success. June 1997

Tough Nuts to Crack

Marketing the Texas pecan like the California raisin seems to make good business sense. So why do small Texas growers think it’s a shell game? March 1996

Reporter

Snyderman

A Holocaust survivor saves a West Texas town (maybe). November 1998

Unconventional

From Lee Otis Johnson’s arrest to Ben Barnes’s ascent, 1968 was a hell of a year in Texas. August 1998

Hog-tied

The Panhandle goes hog wild. December 1997

Heirhart

A San Antonio pilot takes her admiration of Amelia Earhart to another plane. March 1997

Guarded

Private prisons lock out the press. February 1997

Sleepy Teepees

The last surviving Teepee Motel in Texas. December 1996

A Whitman Sampler

Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us. September 1996

Belo the Belt

Reading the Arlington newspaper war. July 1996