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1998 Stories by Patrick Williams

• Buzz

  published July 23, 1998

  Pay up and shut up Get ready. Buzz has located the nation's newest persecuted minority: the filthy rich. That's their claim, anyway,... More >>

• Buzz

  published July 16, 1998

  Info:Correction Date: 07/30/1998 Info: Buzz By Patrick Williams Where's Gopher and the gang? OK now, everybody... More >>

• Buzz

  published July 9, 1998

  The tryouts begin Please, would someone explain to Buzz how George W. Bush has become the Republican front-runner for the 2000 presidential... More >>

• Buzz

  published July 2, 1998

  And your point is? So former House Speaker Jim Wright--whom we love like kin; read last week's Buzz--says that Fort Worth and Dallas liked... More >>

• Buzz

  published June 25, 1998

  Home again Itinerant former city council candidate Brenda Reyes found a new place to hang her hat earlier this week--jail. Police... More >>

• Buzz

  published June 18, 1998

  George who? As the millennium comes to a close, it's good to know that American democracy rests firmly in the hands of a contented and... More >>

• Buzz

  published June 11, 1998

  The smell test Maintaining a healthy level of cynicism is not as easy as it looks. Life, especially here in Dallas, especially at 1500... More >>

• Buzz

  published June 4, 1998

  Doin' the Wright Shuffle We don't know who the author is, since the fax that Buzz received was unsigned, but we wanted to share this letter... More >>

• Buzz

  published May 28, 1998

  Do it yourself We hate to say it, but Buzz thinks Tom Hicks and Ross Perot Jr. did just fine picking David Schwarz as architect for the new... More >>

• Buzz

  published May 21, 1998

  Winning friends, influencing people It sounds like such a good idea: a big, wealthy, downtown law firm opens up a storefront office in... More >>

• Buzz

  published May 14, 1998

  Venable ego-watch Washington at Valley Forge. Travis at the Alamo. Venable at DISD. That's right, history buffs. Dallas' own... More >>

• Buzz

  published May 7, 1998

  One born every minute Buzz isn't quite sure what possessed us to stop by last week's book signing for self-professed medium James Van... More >>

• Buzz

  published April 30, 1998

  Ron's pal If Buzz were conspiracy-minded, here's one we could peddle with the Kennedy assassination freaks: Lee Alcorn's opposition to the... More >>

• Buzz

  published April 23, 1998

  The scoop on Paula Buzz generally tries to avoid those mendacity festivals known as news conferences--the hard questions never get... More >>

• Buzz

  published April 16, 1998

  Free at last Someone may have sent the managers of Regis Square Apartments a copy of the Constitution, with its pesky allowances for free... More >>

• Buzz

  published April 9, 1998

  April fools We'd like to say it was a deliberate April Fools' joke, but even Buzz, with our sometimes--ah--imaginative interpretation of... More >>

• Buzz

  published April 2, 1998

  Life doing a bad imitation of art When Buzz ran across the name Delvin J. Diles as one of two suspects charged in the abduction and murder... More >>

• Buzz

  published March 26, 1998

  Look for the slavery label Congress has scheduled its first hearing on Saipan's sweatshops, those bastions of free-market economics and... More >>

• Buzz

  published March 19, 1998

  Run, Jesse, run? If things have been a bit too quiet lately on Dallas' racial front, here's a piece of news that promises to warm things... More >>

• Buzz

  published March 12, 1998

  That's ho---m'fo---bik Like many, Buzz, uh, forgot to vote in this week's primaries. It's not that we don't care about good government.... More >>

• Buzz

  published March 5, 1998

  Have rubbers, will travel It was a nice gesture. DISD board members, who've come under fire in the past for their supposedly excessive... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 26, 1998

  Garbage in One man's trash is another's news story, at least at The Dallas Morning News. On Tuesday, the News devoted 47 column... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 19, 1998

  Making amends Buzz has just been all torn up inside since colleagues here at the Dallas Observer wrongly accused FOX 4 anchor Ashleigh... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 12, 1998

  Conspiracy du jour They were all in one place, sitting in a stuffy back room at DISD's Environmental Education Center in Seagoville:... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 5, 1998

  The dog never smells its own DISD board member Don Venable has a tendency to attach himself to nitpicky legal issues like a rabid... More >>