Some Things Never Change: Doug Deep
He’s a little bit country, rock and roll, and everything in between. That’s why Doug Sahm is still going strong.
He’s a little bit country, rock and roll, and everything in between. That’s why Doug Sahm is still going strong.
Phil Gramm’s unrelenting partisanship has changed Texas politics, but it may cost him the presidency.
Once, you needed the price of oil to predict our ever-changing economic future. Now you need the want ads, the stock tables, and a whole lot more.
Last summer, restaurateurs Shannon Wynne and Gene Street bragged about their new partnership, but now they’re eating their words.
Up close and extremely personal with Boone Pickens, the takeover titan who changed Texas business.
In the heady days of banking, Texans ran the state’s biggest, most profitable institutions. Not anymore.
In Texas, lunch is for gossip and dinner is for dates. Breakfast, however, is for wheeling and dealing.
For years he renounced his Texas ties. Now Larry McMurty is once again calling Archer City home.
Remembering the Alamo, Candy Barr, J. Frank Dobie, and Farrah. Forgetting James Michener’s Texas.
The Standard Oil Collection captured details of everyday life in the forties and, in 1981, helped us to understand modern Texas.
With the suddenness of a revolution, Texas changed from a cultural colony to a hot spot for homegrown artists.
When Lloyd Bentsen joined the Clinton cabinet, Texas lost not only its senior senator but a link to its political past.
Long before environmentalism was in vogue, attorney Ned Fritz was fighting to keep Texas pristine.
Reading Bush, spinning Baker, regarding Henry, investigating Ross, explaining Ann, and toasting LBJ.
We started out bashing the worst Texas legislators. We ended up critiquing both the best and the worst.
When Leadership Texas began, there were no role models for women. Now its members are the role models.
From the Lip to the Gibber, Texas pols have always been ethical. They’ve just been creative about it.
Twenty years ago, we were two-steppers. Now we’re twelve-steppers, thanks to a set of self-help gurus.
The Baytown of my youth was a thriving refinery town. Today it’s a city struggling to reinvent itself.
Cap wearing, Urban Cowboy watching, football playing, Claytie selling, town creating, and tree tainting.
Writing about my children was more than a job—it was an adventure.
In Texas, spirituality ebbs and flows, but fundamentalism remains a dominant force.
Eating a hunk of beef at Brenner’s is not as politically correct as it used to be. But that doesn’t stop me.
Sharpstown used to be an affluent suburb. Today it’s where the world has come to live.
The mission of Houston minister Bill Lawson extends far beyond his church—and isn’t just about race.
Profligate prisons, prime Padre, proud photographs, controversial choice, and halfway health care.
A few weeks with the Polk family showed me how the welfare system made things better—and worse.
A look back at Roe v. Wade on its twentieth anniversary—and at the key players in Texas who made it happen.