News & Politics
January 20, 2013
Why Teachers Can’t Teach
Our system of training teachers is a crime that robs taxpayers of millions of dollars, robs potential teachers of competence and self-respect, and robs our kids of a decent education.
25 Articles
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
The Test Teachers Can’t Pass
Last year half of Dallas’ new teachers failed a standard test on general knowledge that was a piece of cake compared to what we once expected teachers to know.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1993
Greetings From Dogpatch
Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.
News & Politics
September 1, 1982
The Trouble With UT
The university at one hundred; how good is it, really?
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1981
Angry Men
Texas Fathers for Equal Rights joined divorced men from all over the country to protest family courts that have always favored mothers in child custody cases.
Sports
March 1, 1981
Cardinal Virtues
Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.
Education
January 1, 1981
Grade F
The Texas education Agency’s recent report on teacher competency doesn’t make the grade.
Reporter
November 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Gas pipeline companies are devouring Lee County; border plasma clinics beckon poor Mexicans; oh, deer, what can the matter be?
Reporter
August 31, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
A black Houstonian revised the Horatio Alger legend; making a racket in Mason; UT astronomers yearn to conquer the universe; requiem for a reef.
Reporter
July 31, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Yankee lawyers kick up dust in the Panhandle; maniacal marathon man runs for his life; the redfish that got away; are Dallas’s tax ills contagious?
Reporter
May 31, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Exploding the myth of the long-haul trucker; half a million Texas students get snookered; beating the IRS - maybe; praise the Lord and pass the ballot.
Critters
April 30, 1980
A Dog’s Life
Fighting over a black neighborhood in Austin; corralling the irascible Bull of the Brazos; fussing and feuding with the DAR; monkeying around with the San Antonio Zoo.
Reporter
April 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Rice University is up in arms; God is indicted for murder; Blackboard Jungle becomes a political thicket; the golden arm of Nolan Ryan.
Reporter
March 1, 1980
Texas Monthly Reporter
Del Monte gets steamed up over spinach; an entrepreneur’s scheme goes up in flames; Marlin takes the geothermal plunge; football is hot stuff in Mexico.
Books
April 30, 1979
Teachers’ Threat
A professional educator flunks the test. He asks all the wrong questions and gives the wrong answers.
Books
December 1, 1978
Days of the Hocus
Sleazy Holly inspires a book that is sleazier.
Books
November 1, 1978
Down on the Delta
Emma Blue spins lovely wheels in muddy issues.
Books
September 30, 1978
Dixie Drag
Sexual secrets in the Piney Woods.
Sports
February 1, 1978
The Great Rockdale Football Mutiny
What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?
News & Politics
January 1, 1978
The Last of the Big-Time Spenders
It’s not Diamond Jim Brady, Bet a Million Gates, an Arab sheik, or Liberace. It’s a library.
Sports
August 31, 1977
If They Don’t Win It’s A Shame
In the bush leagues, rooting for the home team can be a humbling experience.
Sports
February 1, 1977
Stars and Stripes
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.
Sports
January 1, 1977
Basket Cases
Surprise! There may be hope for Southwest Conference basketball.
Hunting & Fishing
September 30, 1976
Bass Fishing in America
Forget Jimmy Carter—this is what the New South’s all about.
Border & Immigration
May 31, 1976
The Newest Americans
Pity the poor Vietnamese: so far from home, so close to Beaumont.