Email Author Stuart Eskenazi

1999 Stories by Stuart Eskenazi

• Grandma goes electric

  published December 30, 1999

  Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander couldn't have picked a better time to slip out of town. Democrats in Austin who have loathed her... More >>

• Vanity of the Bonfire

  published December 2, 1999

  A Texas A&M University student belts out commands like a Marine drill instructor. His crew of 10 college kids in storm-trooper helmets plays the... More >>

• Dissed robes

  published November 18, 1999

  Richard A. Anderson makes part of his living arguing cases before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a nine-member panel of elected judges that... More >>

• Maverick rides again

  published September 30, 1999

  There he stands, in grainy, jerky images resembling an old home movie. Captured on rough film is George W. Bush in a line of Cub Scout troops,... More >>

• Ross on the ropes

  published August 19, 1999

  Jack Gargan sought to raise a ruckus, if not spawn a revolution. The retired financial consultant from Florida started a campaign in 1990 against... More >>

• Flunking Out

  published July 22, 1999

  No bell rang to mark the beginning of class. It was just one of many things missing from this high school. For two months, as winter segued... More >>

• Nothing ventured

  published June 3, 1999

  Legislators had been in Austin barely long enough to break in their leather chairs when Comptroller Carole Rylander confirmed that the state was... More >>

• Gold gamble

  published May 27, 1999

  If Houston or Dallas has vaulted ahead of six other U.S. cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, it has the Texas Legislature to... More >>

• Ring Ma Bell

  published May 20, 1999

  It started with a lady in the clouds issuing you a challenge in a 30-second TV commercial. "As you look at your next phone bill," she said... More >>

• Bully Pulpit

  published April 29, 1999

  A commercial truck carrying bottled water rumbles up the rocky street, stopping in front of one of the 25 or so homes in a listless neighborhood... More >>

• Ignorance is bliss

  published March 11, 1999

  In 1997, a trio of consumer groups with an agenda to embarrass legislators set out to prove what everyone around the Capitol had long suspected:... More >>

• Texas Monthly's Midlife Crisis

  published February 4, 1999

  Passengers sit placidly at the gate, waiting to board a plane at Houston's Hobby Airport. Most of them are reading silently when a sudden gust... More >>

• Perfect game

  published January 21, 1999

  Reid Ryan remembers bumming around the streets of San Francisco alone as a 12-year-old kid, carrying $20 that his dad slipped him before heading... More >>

• Easy pickings

  published January 7, 1999

  Every other January, 181 state legislators, supposedly representative of Texas and supposedly armed with good intentions, come to Austin and... More >>