As a bitter family feud drags on, Electra Waggoner Biggs if fighting to keep her fortune—and her ranch—intact.
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Articles by Dana Rubin
Jan 1, 1994 — By Dana Rubin
Until I house-sat there last year, I thought I knew rarefied Highland Park. To my surprise, it was much more fragile and defensive than it had seemed.
Sep 30, 1993 — By Dana Rubin
The biggest brouhaha in Dallas isn’t about taxes, potholes, or garbage collection. It’s about seventy bronze steers.
Aug 31, 1993 — By Dana Rubin
Trade with Mexico has made this onetime border pit stop Texas’ fastest-growing city.
Jul 31, 1993 — By Dana Rubin
The boss of American Airlines is mad as hell at cut-rate competitors, selfish unions, and ignorant government regulators—and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Apr 30, 1993 — By Dana Rubin
In Chiapas—Mexico’s wildes state—you can find cowboys, Indians, and ancient cities in the mist.
Apr 1, 1993 — By Dana Rubin
Mother Nature made it impossible to grow azaleas in Dallas’ alkaline soil—unless you mulch with money.
Feb 1, 1993 — By Dana Rubin
A look back at Roe v. Wade on its twentieth anniversary—and at the key players in Texas who made it happen.
Dec 1, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
Flamboyant philanthropist Wendy Reves showered her hometown with money for a makeover—but she wanted to run the show.
Nov 1, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
From longtime locals to environmentalists, everyone has an opinion about the future of Caddo Lake—but the issues they’re debating are as murky as the lake itself.
Jun 30, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
The face of Dallas’ most eclectic neighborhood changes every day, but its appeal remains familiar—and it keeps getting stronger.
Apr 30, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
When millionaire tennis star Martina Navratilova and her lover went to court, it was the lawyers who won.
Mar 1, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
Carol Collins thought her ex-husband had been killed in Vietnam—until a mysterious photograph reopened old wounds and threw her life into turmoil.
Feb 1, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
An Alabama Klansman posing as a folksy Texas novelist almost pulled off the literary hoax of the century.
Jan 1, 1992 — By Dana Rubin
When her charitable foundation collapsed amid allegations of mismanagement, the Dallas socialite did the unthinkable: She started a new one.
Dec 1, 1991 — By Dana Rubin
Why isn’t the Texas state archives trying harder to recover rare historical papers?

Jun 30, 1991 — By Dana Rubin
Under Jim Hightower, the agriculture department was liberal and loose. Under Rick Perry, it will be corporate and crisp.
Jun 30, 1991 — By Dana Rubin
Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.
Apr 1, 1991 — By Dana Rubin
Stormie Jones’s historic transplant gave her four and a half good years. But at what cost?
Sep 30, 1990 — By Dana Rubin
Are customers of the Comanche Peak nuclear plant better off with safety advocate Juanita Ellis on the inside or the outside?
Jul 31, 1990 — By Dana Rubin
In the farming town of Whitewright, stolen tenth-century illuminated manuscripts and ivory reliquaries weren’t all that Joe Meador had to hide.
Jun 30, 1990 — By Dana Rubin
John Neely Bryan’s cabin may be a fake, but as Dallas’ only claim to the past, it’s a beloved fake.
Dec 1, 1989 — By Dana Rubin
Football players at Dallas’ Carter High had it all: god futures, a state championship, and the feeling that they could do no wrong. The trouble was, their favorite hobbies were guns and holdups.
Sep 30, 1989 — By Dana Rubin
When a small private bank was closed on August 7, depositors lost all of their money, a pillar of the community came tumbling down, and the town’s trusting way of life was shattered.
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