Health
November 16, 2020
I Live in the Middle of Nowhere. I Still Got COVID.
Eight miles from the nearest town, our ranch felt like a sanctuary. Until it didn’t.
50 Articles
Reporter
January 20, 2013
Back to Jasper
Looking in on Jasper.
Business
January 20, 2013
Briscoe’s Bounty
Dolph Briscoe used to govern Texas. He still owns a bigger piece of it than any individual in the world.
Reporter
February 1, 2003
Into the Sunset
Sorry, Willie. My heroes have always been cowgirlswhich is why I'm sad that these Texas icons are disappearing.
Business
July 31, 2002
A Wyly Strategy
Dallas billionaire Sam Wyly is gearing up for another battle in his war with Computer Associates. This time he may have the firepower to win.
Business
May 31, 2002
Together at Last
Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have completed the largest merger in the history of the technology industry, but is that good news for Houston and Texas?
Travel & Outdoors
April 30, 2002
Brownsville to Laredo on U.S. 83 and Mexico Highway 2
Vintage jukeboxes, puffed tacos, a deserted villageand a vision of Tom Landry.
Web Exclusive
February 1, 2002
Flying Aces
September 11 changed the airline industry. It's a good thing that the state's top airlines each have the right guy calling the shots.
Business
February 1, 2002
Up in the Air
Since September 11, Texas' big three airlinesAmerican, Continental, and Southwesthave struggled to survive. Here's their flight plan for the future.
Business
August 31, 2001
Rod Canion
Booting up Rod Canion, version 2.0.
Business
August 31, 2001
Comer J. Cottrell, Jr.
Comer J. Cottrell, Jr., one of Texas’ leading African American entrepreneurs, was a United States Air Force sergeant stationed in Japan in the early fifties and managing a PX when he noticed that it didn’t carry hair-care products for black soldiers. When he got back to the States, he was
Business
August 31, 2001
The Airline Guys
Robert Crandall and Frank Lorenzo.
Politics
August 31, 2001
Jim Wright
The longtime U.S. Speaker of the House from Fort Worth who personified the Democratic party for decades, Jim Wright has traded the public spotlight for the private life—sort of. He’s mostly stayed out of politics since he resigned in 1989 following allegations that he had used his influence to sell
The Culture
July 31, 2001
Old-Fashioned Texas
Texas is changing before our eyes, but fried pies, drive-in movie theaters, and other vestiges of earlier days are all around. To find these treasures, we risked life, limb, and cholesterol count-and had a blast from the past.
Business
July 31, 2001
Whine Country
Californians can blame Texans all they want for their energy crisis, but the truth is they had the power to avoid it.
First Person
June 30, 2001
Family Matters
Kathryn Jones pulls at her family's roots.
Reporter
May 31, 2001
Out of Range
Tracking down antelope in Marfa.
The Culture
May 31, 2001
Skeleton Crew?
Chasing ghosts in Corpus Christi.
Biz Feature
March 1, 2001
American Flier
Don Carty's vision for American Airlines takes off.
Biz Feature
December 1, 2000
Barons of Buyout
Texas’ buyout barons log on to online air travel.
Biz Feature
November 1, 2000
BabyBell Hell
SBC fails to connect with high-speed Internet access.
Reporter
September 30, 2000
Royal Treatment
Archer City brings up the lights on the Royal theater.
Biz Feature
September 30, 2000
A Bug in the Chips
Wayne Reaud's hard drive against Compaq.
Biz Feature
August 31, 2000
Can ZixIt Fix It?
A blockbuster start-up tries to end e-mail insecurity.
Feature
August 31, 2000
Business: Sanjiv Sidhu
Shy-tech.
High Tech
July 31, 2000
Cybersleuths
Put down that mouse and no one gets hurt: Meet a band of investigators in Houston and Dallas who are pulling the plug on a wave of computer crime.
Biz Feature
July 31, 2000
Saving Penney’s
Can the Web make a shiny new Penney's?
Biz Feature
June 30, 2000
The New, New Henry C
Henry Cisneros, TV star.
Business
May 31, 2000
Splurge! Merge! Purge!
Six months after the merger of Exxon and Mobil, a tally of the winners and losers.
Business
March 1, 2000
Wired Guns
They do more than just build companies: Meet the power players of Texas high tech.
Business
March 1, 2000
Spence for Hire
How is the president and co-founder of Austin ad agency GSD&M expanding his reach into the realm of entertainment? One account at a time.
Feature
November 1, 1999
Place in the Heart
When you fall in love with a piece of land in Texas, you quickly learn that it changes. And it changes you.
Biz Feature
August 31, 1999
The Money of Color
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a handful of rich Texans are exhibiting their mastery of the art of out-of-state philanthropy.
Biz Feature
May 31, 1999
Charles Hurwitz Is a Greedy Clear-cutter. Charles Hurwitz Is a Caring Environmentalist.
Different people have different opinions about the controversial CEO of Maxxam, and nothing will change their minds—not even a deal on the Headwaters Forest.
Business
March 1, 1999
Herb’s Flight Plan
For 28 years Herb Kelleher has run Southwest Airlines as a low-cost, short-haul carrier that’s fun to fly on and even more fun to work for. But there could be changes on the horizon.
Business
January 1, 1999
Pop Art
How 7 UP is trying to win back its share of the soft drink market, one commercial at a time.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1998
Our Foreign Legion
Austria. The Bahamas. Botswana. Jamaica. Sweden. In each place the U.S. ambassador is a Texan sent there by Bill Clinton, whoÕs as partial to our stateÕs best and brightest (and richest) as LBJ was.
Feature
August 31, 1998
Multimedia: John Romero
Game Boy.
Business
July 31, 1998
Shrinking Giant
Once more than a million acres, the Matador Ranch is today a fraction of that size. How it got from there to here is the story of Texas ranching.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1998
Marathon Man
Houston’s J.P. Bryan is remaking a West Texas town into what could be the next Taos—and for some locals, that’s a mixed blessing.
Books
December 1, 1997
“I’ve Written Enough Fiction”
So says Larry McMurtry, Texas’ best—and best-known— novelist. But that doesn’t mean he’s giving up literature altogether; in fact, his days are quite booked.
Art
December 1, 1997
Raymond Nasher
His artful gift to the city of Dallas ensures his legacy.
Food & Drink
November 1, 1997
Grape and Pillage
By chain-sawing three acres of its research vineyard near Fort Stockton, the University of Texas System uncorked quite a controversy.
Business
June 30, 1997
Corporate Makeover
EDS, the company Ross Perot imbued with his own conservative image, is designing Internet sites for magazines like Elle. What a tangled Web we weave.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1997
Drawing the Line
Where is the Texas-Oklahoma border? The answer has people on both sides of the river seeing Red.
Film & TV
December 1, 1996
Viz Kids
Texas A&M is churning out a new crop of students who aren't farmers or vets. They're the computer aces of the Visualization Lab, and they're Hollywood's new masters of special effects.
Film & TV
November 1, 1996
Disunion
The Texas film industry’s labor pain.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1996
Malled
Wealthy school districts think they’ve found a way to shield millions of dollars from the state’s Robin Hood law. Are they about to get malled?
Business
August 31, 1996
Nerd Herd
The drought drives cattle ranchers online.
Web Exclusive
December 31, 1969
Brownsville to Laredo on U.S. 83 and Mexico Highway 2
Vintage jukeboxes, puffed tacos, a deserted village—and a vision of Tom Landry.