AUSTIN -- Government's not so bad when it's just deciding on those
special-interest fights -- some titanic clash for turf between doctors and
chiropractors or AT&T vs. Southwestern Bell. True, the side that makes the
biggest political...
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11 May 2000
After the "Love Bug" virus struck millions of computer hard drives, many news outlets attributed the magnitude of the damage to overwhelming reliance on the same type of software. Suddenly, in the digital world, steep downsides of...
09 May 2000
AUSTIN -- Now that we've recovered from Janet Reno's assault on the Branch
Floridians, let's see if we can't get just a bit of attention for some
outrageous cases of robbery. As usual, our friends with the white collars
and the quick...
04 May 2000
AUSTIN -- To say that my knowledge of Chinese trade issues is inadequate is
a wild understatement -- it's not a hot topic in Nacogdoches. But at least I
approach the subject with appropriate humbleness, instead of the damn-fool
certainty...
03 May 2000
Last fall, when Jean Kilbourne's new book Deadly Persuasion was arriving on shelves, Publishers Weekly praised it as "a wake-up call about the damaging effects of advertising in our media-saturated culture." But six months...
02 May 2000
Several of Galveston's municipal races this season are weird enough to make
us all proud. God bless Texas politics.
In the mayoral race, the traditional developer-vs.-preservationist stand-off is given an added cultural je ne sais...
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