Dick Reavis

Jul 3, 2018 — By Dick Reavis

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has always leaned left, but he shows a pragmatic centrist streak that leaves some supporters uneasy.

Mar 28, 2018 — By Dick Reavis

There are parallels between today’s protests against guns and the sixties protests against the Vietnam War—among them the criticism by adults.

Aug 31, 2006 — By Dick Reavis

Mexico in 2006 may not be Florida in 2000, but there are at least two similarities: The final results of its closest-ever presidential election are taking pretty long to determine. And however it comes out, a lot of people are going to be unhappy.

Apr 30, 2001 — By Dick Reavis

Dick J. Reavis was a crazy white boy at Texas Tech.

Jan 1, 2001 — By Dick Reavis

When San Antonio restaurateur Mario Cantú died last November, he left behind a legacy of political activism along with fine Mexican fare.

Dec 1, 2000 — By Dick Reavis

His election was historic for many reasons, not least because he embodies the stifled hopes of generations of his countrymen. Still, the obstacles he faces when he assumes the presidency on December 1 are considerable. Will he be able to deliver?

Jun 30, 1995 — By Dick Reavis

Just as congressional hearings are set to begin, an exclusive excerpt from a new book casts a different light on the government’s role in the fiery end to the siege at Mount Carmel.

Mar 1, 1994 — By Dick Reavis

Can you name any of the fourteen Branch Davidian defence lawyers? They hope so.

Dec 1, 1991 — By Dick Reavis

In an affluent suburb of Monterrey, young Mexican professionals hunger for prestige and try to live like Americans.

May 31, 1990 — By Dick Reavis

An intrepid explorer searching out Mayan ruins in the Yucatan remains undaunted, despite the language, the unkind elements, and other tropical afflictions.

Sep 30, 1989 — By Dick Reavis

The parallels between Mikhail Gorbachev and Mexico's Carlos Salinas just might end when it comes to their effectiveness at achieving reform in their nations.

Apr 1, 1989 — By Dick Reavis

Among the harsh mountains of Chihuahua, Mennonite immigrants and Tarahumara Indians maintain their ancient ways.

May 31, 1988 — By Dick Reavis

On the eve of the Mexican elections, the country’s dwindling middle class prefers fatalism o Fabianism.

Apr 1, 1988 — By Dick Reavis

The assignment was the chance of a lifetime to see the whole state once and for all. At times pure pleasure and at times a feat of will, it was always and foremost a writer’s dream come true.

Mar 1, 1988 — By Dick Reavis

A glowing beacon near Haynesville; broomweed royalties in Foard County; Archer City’s decorated dump; curative waters and a grand hotel in Mineral Wells; faux Alamo in Farmersville.

Feb 1, 1988 — By Dick Reavis

When a rural Texas says, “It looks like rain,” he’s really meditating on the nature of the universe.

Jan 1, 1988 — By Dick Reavis

Out itinerant reporter visits with a Lubbock man determined to preserve the American Way of Life; the doughty clan that brought beer to Levelland; a windy lady fascinated with the weather and a rusticated professor gone to seed.

Dec 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

In the Mesquite Kingdom, where the coyotes howl, the wind blows free at the MacArthur Academy of Freedom, an honest face gets you a phone and immigration throws mariachi parties.

Nov 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

In search of elusive Central Texas: along the Cold Beer trail, inside Killeen’s soldier shops, through the hills of Toy Texas, deep within a nameless cave.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Across pastoral northeast Texas, where Baptists debate the niceties of immersion, truckers and hookers turn the airwaves blue, and bass have their private lives laid bare by electronic snooping.

Aug 31, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Tales of the Piney Woods: the original kinds of the forest, the Bright way to get a chicken in every pot, the gamble of today’s Tenaha. Plus: an unusual graveyard, a haunting ruin, a chilling church name.

Jul 31, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Passing (slowly) through Kendleton. Then on to Houston, where student murals record the march of time and Vietnam vets gather; to a meal so good it’s kept under lock and key; and finally to the (formerly) Golden Triangle.

Jun 30, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Back from the Gulf and along its coastal bend, picture-book towns offer scenes that have nearly vanished from urban Texas, not to mention the most confusing sign, the best noontime stop, and the most Shakespearean site.

May 31, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

From the harsh landscape of the Permian Basin, whose residents find their faith in free enterprise tested by hard times; to the subtropical city of San Antonio, whose Hispanic citizens have gone gaga over Goyo-Goyo; into deepest South Texas, where the old times of the Parr machine are not forgotten.

Apr 30, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Travels through the Trans-Pecos—splendor in the Big Bend, the greening of the Alpine grasslands, today’s version of profitable ranching, escape from the rat race in South Brewster County, innkeeping Indians in Van Horn—to El Paso, way out on the edge of Texas.

Apr 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

Out of the Valley and into the Borderlands, where the architecture is erratic, the radio is heavenly, and the peso has lost its power.

Mar 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

The Rio Grande Valley never had a valley—except in the minds of developers who invented its name.

Feb 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

The view from the Great Freeway: I-35 is two things, the speediest drive from Dallas to the Valley and the clearest division of Texas into West and East.

Feb 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

In his dream to create a dynastic empire along the Rio Grande, Chito Longoria went against the wishes of his family and the values of his native land.

Jan 1, 1987 — By Dick Reavis

I’ve long dreamed of driving every highway in Texas. This year I’m doing it—all 32,000 miles worth.

Dec 1, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Screaming headlines and shameless photos make Laredo’s El Arma! the largest-selling Spanish weekly in the U.S.; Norbert Lyssy has mile to go before he sleeps (soundly); within our midst lies an alien and insurgent clan, the New England of Texas.

Sep 30, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Don Williams won’t do beer commercials, sign autographs, or sing in honk-tonks. If that means he isn’t a superstar, that’s fine with him.

Aug 31, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Houston is famous for medical cures. But when British rock star Ronnie Lane came to town with a crippling disease and $1 million for research, all he got was crippling legal problems.

Jun 30, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Pancho Barrio, an ex-accountant, a charismatic Catholic, and the mayor of Juarez, hopes to topple the ruling party in a July governor’s race.

May 31, 1986 — By Dick Reavis

Sep 30, 1985 — By Dick Reavis

The villains behind the seat belt law; the shoeshine boys behind the border bird trade; the pastor behind Austin’s chicest church.

Sep 30, 1985 — By Dick Reavis

What’s wrong with Mexico is exactly what’s right with it.

Apr 30, 1985 — By Dick Reavis

Battles at the border; weirdos at the Starck Club; monument at the end of the tracks; Mr. Migra goes after Zopilote; Baptists at each other's throats.

Apr 30, 1985 — By Dick Reavis

Before Ruiz v. Estelle, prisons in Texas were the safest, most productive, and most economical in the nation. Now—after costs have quadrupled—our prisons are the most dangerous in the U.S.

Apr 1, 1985 — By Dick Reavis

He left his parents’ house in search of a world where things were black and white, where there were heroes and villains. What he found in the slums of Port Arthur was a world that would tolerate people like him—and take advantage of them.

Jan 1, 1985 — By Dick Reavis

A book on Mexico by New York Times correspondent Alan Riding is a little more than a rehash of recent history.

Dec 1, 1984 — By Dick Reavis

Three Texas Trivia games separate Lone Star zealots from ordinary believers.

Nov 1, 1984 — By Dick Reavis

Why did I trade in my trouble-free condo for an aging country home with decrepit plumbing? I’m trying to figure that out myself.

Nov 1, 1984 — By Dick Reavis

These fourteen Texas sheriffs are everything you thought a sheriff ought to be. But look quick; the old-time county lawman is riding off into the sunset.

Sep 30, 1984 — By Dick Reavis

W.A. Criswell has spent forty years convincing his huge flock at Dallas’ First Baptist Church that the end of the world is near. He hopes you’ll believe it too.

Dec 1, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

Masons in trouble; Wally in wonderland; vice in Amarillo; vitamins in Mount Pleasant; Czechs in print.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

Presidio crouches on the border of Mexico and the extreme edge of life in America. There, Spanish is the language, hundred-degree heat is the norm, and the hoe is the crucial tool for scraping out life on the desert.

Sep 30, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

You too can be an author-if you’re willing to publish the book yourself. All you have to have is a stack of paper, a tale to tell, and a couple of thousand bucks.

Aug 31, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

Across the Panhandle stretches a thin red line that divides doughty plains dwellers from Texas’ lesser changed.

Apr 1, 1983 — By Dick Reavis

Today’s desperadoes are in the bays of the Texas coast, roping redfish and cursing the Parks and Wildlife Department.