Style & Design
January 1, 1981
Rags to Riches
When buyers and sellers converge on Dallas’s Apparel Mart for a week-long orgy of fashionable commerce, high style and discriminating taste confront the cold reality of the bottom line.
News & Politics
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1981
King of the Mountain
Clements is ready for the Legislature, but is the Legislature ready for him?
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1981
Laying Down the Law
That’s what the Legislature is here to do, and unless we’re lucky, it just may.
News & Politics
January 1, 1981
Being an Aggie Is No Joke
Honest.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
East is East, West is West, and in Texas the twain shall never meet.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Enter Ronald Reagan—the liberals’ true friend.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1980
Why Is Houston Falling Apart?
Because nobody at city hall is doing his job, that’s why.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
The press keeps telling us how bad Carter and Reagan are, but let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
News & Politics
October 1, 1980
Twisting the Night Away
South Texas went into a frenzy preparing for Hurricane Allen, then the guest of honor never showed up.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1980
What Ever Happened to the Storm of the Century?
Hurricane Allen proved that everyone talks about the weather but nobody knows much about it—least of all the National Weather Service.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1980
The $38,000 a Year, Wife and Two Kids, House and a Pool Blues
Is inflation deflating your standard of living? You are not alone.
News & Politics
August 31, 1980
The Inheritance Factor
In Austin, experts in genetics are helping parents of children with birth defects come to terms with the most painful questions of their lives.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1980
Behind the Lines
On the Move.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1980
Fire!
What you don’t know about your fire department could burn you up.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1980
Behind the Lines
Poor Houston.
Best Thing in Texas
July 1, 1980
The Best Strikes Back
Four years ago we brought you the Best of Texas. Now we do it again— only better.
Politics & Policy
July 1, 1980
Why I Turned In Lee Otis Johnson
When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.
Energy
July 1, 1980
Profits? What Profits?
Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1980
Behind the Lines
Once again our presidential candidates are promising to get the government under control. Here’s why they won’t.
Business
June 1, 1980
Who Owns Texas?
The biggest landholders in the state, acre by acre.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1980
The Bean Squawk
A lot of farmers and gardeners think Congressman Kika de la Garza is a pest.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1980
Behind the Lines
None of the old clichés about voluntarism are true except this one: it works.
Border & Immigration
May 1, 1980
Town Without Pity
Nuevo Laredo’s Boys’ Town, where lost innocence meets failed dreams.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1980
The Star-Crossed Palm of Billy Clayton
This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1980
Behind the Lines
Democracy in America
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1980
The Tragedy of Bob Bullock
Bob Bullock, in his flamboyant style, built a powerful state agency. Then Bob Bullock, in his flamboyant style, was seduced by its power.
Health
April 1, 1980
Little Boy Lost
Being autistic nearly ruined Michael Shipley’s life, but his parents sent him to a state mental hospital. Then Michael’s life was ruined for good.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Forgetting free trade, scrapping our factories, and other modest solutions to our economic troubles.
Business
March 1, 1980
Hustlers and Fortune Hunters Beware!
When the cable TV salesman comes calling, you should fully expect your city council to sell you down the river. Not that they mean to do it. It’s simply that history shows most city councils don’t know the first thing about cable. People who can barely figure out the briefs
News & Politics
March 1, 1980
The Law West of the Trinity
Justices of the peace, maligned since the days of Roy Bean, don’t operate like other judges. But if lawyers want to get ride of them, they can’t be all bad.
Business
March 1, 1980
Invasion of the Cable Snatchers
In Texas the best way to get rich in cable television is to know just a little about TV and everything about politics.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
No news is bad news.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Why Houston has the best schools in the state.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1980
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven . . .
The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
Health
January 1, 1980
The Baby Factory
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
Business
December 1, 1979
Picking Up the Pieces
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Ask your garbageman.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1979
Behind the Lines
If the eighties are here, where did the seventies go.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
The New Apartment Slums
Behind the gleaming facades of many new apartment villages are the crumbling walls of next year’s urban blight.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
The Truth About John Connally
There are two questions about John Connally: Is he good enough to be president? Is he too bad to be president?
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
Behind the Lines
A modest proposal for the eighties.
Business
October 1, 1979
Talking Money/The Heavy Hitters
What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.
Business
October 1, 1979
The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1979
After the Fall
Nicaragua’s new junta may discover it’s easier to depose a dictator than to rebuild a ravaged country.
Business
September 30, 1979
Sherwood Blount’s First Million
He believed in the American dream and it paid off.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1979
Behind the Lines
Give me land, lots of land . . .
Business
September 1, 1979
Easy Money
Faster than a speeding Master Charge, funkier than a garage sale, able to leap bad credit ratings at a single bound. Look, up at the sign! It’s a bank! It’s a store! It’s—Super Pawn!
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1979
Up the Creek
Everyone in Austin loves sparkling Barton Creek—especially the developers.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1979
Behind the Lines
Waltzing across Texas.
Energy
August 1, 1979
Ten Giant Steps to Disaster
How did we get into this sorry energy mess? By making sorry decisions.