All posts by Jan Jarboe Russell
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Texas Women
They shouldn't be messed with. But you knew that already.
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Sissy Spacek’s Long Walk Home
You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.
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Business • Red McCombs
Driven to succeed.
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The Worst Hard Time
My hometown of Cleveland has become the most disgraced community in America because of a brutal, unspeakable crime that has set everyone against one another.
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Alamo Heights
One year into his first term as mayor of San Antonio, Julián Castro is emerging as perhaps the most prominent young Hispanic politician in Texas. Get ready to get used to him.
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The Good Wife
Mary Alice Cisneros loved, honored, and cherished Henry’s political career. Now it’s her turn.
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The Equity Myth
What happened—and didn’t—when we “fixed” school finance the last time.
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The Good Rats
Cancer used to be something you died from. Now, thanks to clinical trials, it’s increasingly something you live with.
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Grand Opportunity Party
The Republicans have made real inroads into winning over Hispanic voters. If that doesn’t freak out the Democrats, I don’t know what will.
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The Old Gray Mayor
San Antonio politics, it ain't what it used to be—which is why it could be time for a grown-up at city hall.