Ronnie Dugger

  • From the Archives: A Tribute to Bernard Rapoport

    Originally published in the Observer on March 13, 1981.  HOUSTON—Journalists, like politicians, are vested with the duty to serve the public interest and have [...] Full Story

  • Sustainability

    BID NOW! AUCTIONS CLOSE TOMORROW ONLINE AUCTION HELP THE TEXAS OBSERVER AND OWN THESE ONE-OF-A-KIND TREASURES JIM HIGHTOWER’S CARBID ON EBAY    BIDDING STARTED [...] Full Story

  • Tangling with Frank Erwin

    This is a continuation of Dugger’s piece “The Business of Education,” a review of Kenneth Ashworth’s Horns of A Dilemma. The book chronicles Ashworth’s [...] Full Story

  • The Business of Education

    In the early 1970s, Frank Erwin dominated higher education in the public University of Texas System of colleges and universities. He was a key [...] Full Story

  • LBJ, The Texas Observer & Me

    The confrontation between Lyndon Johnson on one side and The Texas Observer and me on the other arrived on its own terms at his [...] Full Story

  • The Texafication of the USA

    Driving north of Austin toward Dallas during the early days of my work on the Observer, suddenly I had one of those counterintuitive ideas [...] Full Story

  • Afterword

    We should not begrudge those who admired Ronald Reagan’s personal charm, reactionary flair, and mean-minded conservatism their declarations of his greatness in the midst [...] Full Story

  • Dateline Dallas

    Everyone has read so much now, and seen so much on television, I believe the right thing for me to do is to tell [...] Full Story

  • Afterword

    After President Kennedy’s American University speech , I began collecting materials under a heading, “Kdy Edtl,†Kennedy editorial. It did not matter much what [...] Full Story

  • In Memoriam

    An 82-year-old man, childless and ailing, could have had a lonely funeral. That’s not what’s happening today,” said Maury Maverick Jr.’s “sort of double [...] Full Story