Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Death and Texas
After its recent facelift, the state cemetery has Texas luminaries just dying to get in.
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Carol Flake
7 Articles
Sierra High
High in the Mexican mountains and only a day’s drive from Texas lies El Cielo, a stunning cloud forest where exotic birds soar but the temperature doesn’t.
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Carol Flake
Space Cadet
Painful implants and alien abduction experiences may sound like science fiction, but to San Antonio writer Whitley Strieber, they’re frighteningly real.
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Carol Flake
In God We Bust
Since the late eighties, dozens of big churches in Texas have put rapid growth ahead of financial health. Austin’s Great Hills Baptist is only the latest to pay the price.
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Carol Flake
Drinksmanship
How Seagram uncorked a national controversy by airing TV ads in Corpus Christi.
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Carol Flake
Trailing the Field
Texas was supposed to be horse racing’s salvation, a Thoroughbred–loving state with money to burn. So why can’t the sport get out of the gate?
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Carol Flake
Drag.net
When futuristic felons invade their midst, Austin’s computer firms know whom to call: the city’s high-tech police unit, which is building its reputation chip by chip.
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Carol Flake