Email Author Stuart Eskenazi

1998 Stories by Stuart Eskenazi

• The biggest pump wins

  published November 19, 1998

  Bart Sipriano sits on the hood of a run-down pickup truck parked outside his shack and takes in a slice of East Texas he's proud to call his... More >>

• Bush's free ride

  published October 29, 1998

  He's dressed in gym shorts and a raggedy white "Texas Rangers" T-shirt, and he has propped his feet up in front of the TV in a cheap Brownsville... More >>

• GOP to gays: Butt out

  published September 3, 1998

  Inside a dimly lit banquet room in a tony downtown Dallas hotel, about 250 Americans who consider themselves brave soldiers for civil rights sit... More >>

• Rocket man

  published August 6, 1998

  On a summer day in 1969, as American hearts pounded in cadence to Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon, NASA engineer Tom Moser's heart almost... More >>

• Getting dumped

  published July 23, 1998

  In the stark, Wild West landscape of the Trans-Pecos region, a rancher and a baker kick up dust in the bottom of a trench 32 feet deep, 210 feet... More >>

• How to site a Nuclear- waste dump--for just $50 million

  published July 23, 1998

  1) Ignore scientific consultants. In 1983, the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority hired Los Angeles-based engineering... More >>