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- Boots On the Ground
- by Melissa del Bosque
- Sierra Blanca—“Y’all got here just in time. We’re going to look for a body. Are you up for it? It’s gonna get rough out there, but I can have you back by lunch.”
It’s 7 a.m. I’ve already driven two hours from El Paso with my husband, whom I’ve …
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- Enterprise »
- Justice for the Dispossessed: William Wayne Justice, 1920-2009
- by Lou Dubose
- “I’ve been called a controversial judge, so I suppose I am,” William Wayne Justice told me during a courthouse interview in Austin 10 years ago. A year earlier, he had moved from Tyler, where President Lyndon Johnson had appointed him to the federal bench in 1968. As a federal district judge …
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- Enterprise »
- In Her Father’s House
- by Andrew Wheat
- Nine months after members of the Texas House stripped Midland Republican Tom Craddick of his speakership, Craddick’s daughter is dusting off her Austin lobbying shingle again.
In September Christi Craddick reported to the Texas Ethics Commission that Scythian Ltd., a Midland-based company, will pay her up to $25,000 to …
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- Burning Justice
- by Dave Mann
- For decades, fire investigators walked into charred buildings in search of the same clues, the same subtle traces, that they thought indicated arson: the furniture and windows buckled by extreme heat, the burn patterns on the floor scorched by gasoline. Their methods weren’t scientific. Investigators relied on a set of assumptions—inherited …
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- POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE »
- ‘What Are You So Mad At?’
- Drew Ryun surveys the Dallas hotel conference room. He can feel the dissatisfaction—anger, even—radiating from the 40 or so newly minted conservative activists seated in front of him.
“You are all here because you are upset about something,” says Ryun, executive director of American Majority, whose mission is training …
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- Big Tobacco’s Big Whine
- Do you hear that long, low, wheezing whine? That’s Big Tobacco, moaning that it’s being picked on by a new law passed this year to restrict cigarette company advertising.
Picked on? This is the industry that continues to profit by picking on the public with addictive, carcinogenic products that …
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- South Toward Home
- by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith
- In their new biography of Molly Ivins, Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith chronicle the personal and journalistic arc of Texas’ late, lamented tormentor of the right. The excerpt below recounts Ivins’ decision in 1970 to leave her first post-graduate reporting job at the Minneapolis Tribune for a co-editorship at the …
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- Hollywood, Texas
- by Josh Rosenblatt
- Robert Hinkle’s career started in earnest in the spring of 1955, when the self-described “two-bit” actor from Brownfield, Texas, got a phone call from the Famous Artists Agency asking him to sit down with George Stevens, the director of Shane, A Place in the Sun, and Gunga Din. Up to that …
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- Alone With the Greasewood and the Sage
- by Elroy Bode
- I move along on my own two good feet down an Upper Valley road, the sun mildly shining after an early morning rain, the air a bit muggy but full of the smells of grass and weeds and wet dirt, the sound of water tumbling in a nearby canal.
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