Gene Lyons

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gene Lyons

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.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gene Lyons

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.

Jan 1, 1993 — By Gene Lyons

Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.

Aug 31, 1982 — By Gene Lyons

The University at one hundred; how good is it, really?

Jul 31, 1981 — By Gene Lyons

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.

Mar 1, 1981 — By Gene Lyons

Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.

Jan 1, 1981 — By Gene Lyons

The Texas education Agency’s recent report on teacher competency doesn’t make the grade.

Nov 1, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

Gas pipeline companies are devouring Lee County; border plasma clinics beckon poor Mexicans; oh, deer, what can the matter be?

Aug 31, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

A black Houstonian revised the Horatio Alger legend; making a racket in Mason; UT astronomers yearn to conquer the universe; requiem for a reef.

Jul 31, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

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?

May 31, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

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.

May 31, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

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.

Apr 30, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

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.

Apr 1, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

Rice University is up in arms; God is indicted for murder; Blackboard Jungle becomes a political thicket; the golden arm of Nolan Ryan.

Mar 1, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

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.

Apr 30, 1979 — By Gene Lyons

A professional educator flunks the test. He asks all the wrong questions and gives the wrong answers.

Jan 1, 1979 — By Gene Lyons

It’s an inner-city school where discipline isn’t a problem and the students learn. It doesn’t have special programs, classes, or grants that set it apart from other schools. What makes the difference?

Dec 1, 1978 — By Gene Lyons

Sleazy Holly inspires a book that is sleazier.

Nov 1, 1978 — By Gene Lyons

Emma Blue spins lovely wheels in muddy issues.

Sep 30, 1978 — By Gene Lyons

Sexual secrets in the Piney Woods.

Feb 1, 1978 — By Gene Lyons

What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?

Jan 1, 1978 — By Gene Lyons

It’s not Diamond Jim Brady, Bet a Million Gates, an Arab sheik, or Liberace. It’s a library.

Aug 31, 1977 — By Gene Lyons

In the bush leagues, rooting for the home team can be a humbling experience.

Feb 1, 1977 — By Gene Lyons

The rodeo where it really doesn’­t pay to win.

Jan 1, 1977 — By Gene Lyons

Surprise! There may be hope for Southwest Conference basketball.

Sep 30, 1976 — By Gene Lyons

Forget Jimmy Carter—this is what the New South’s all about.

May 31, 1976 — By Gene Lyons

Pity the poor Vietnamese: so far from home, so close to Beaumont.