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2000 Stories by Thomas Korosec

• What a Crime

  published December 21, 2000

  Just before Trina McReynolds was carjacked, she remembers being in the crowded drive-through lane at the Cityplace Whataburger. Things were going... More >>

• Sects and Lies

  published December 7, 2000

  His looks could not have helped. That's the first thing you think as you watch Edward Lee Stevenson lower his large, lumpy frame onto a... More >>

• Pirate Ride

  published November 23, 2000

  For nearly three years they have claimed that Dallas developer Lou Reese hid an ill-gotten S&L fortune overseas rather than pay his creditors and... More >>

• Queeg's Revenge

  published November 2, 2000

  The episode started with plans for strawberry shortcake, moved through discussion of important banana and hamburger precedents, and ended with... More >>

• This Old House

  published October 19, 2000

  David Dean says he was fighting for justice, equity, and due process--that and the right to build a new closet wherever he damned pleased. The... More >>

• Deadbird

  published October 12, 2000

  The brick house on Good Shepherd Drive in the West Texas town of Brownwood seems an unlikely place for the headquarters of a minority-owned Dallas... More >>

• Bad Signal

  published August 10, 2000

  The business used a lot of cable and amplifiers and low-tech electronic gadgets with names like "load isolators" and "heliax." That much is... More >>

• Highwaymen

  published July 20, 2000

  In less than a month, Dallas voters with time on their hands will flock to the polls by the dozens to consider whether DART should be allowed to... More >>

• Horse sense

  published June 29, 2000

  In one of the remarkable horse-racing passages in Jane Smiley's new novel, a first-time jockey named Roberto aboard a workaday thoroughbred named... More >>

• Blowing it

  published June 15, 2000

  Did the city of Dallas deliberately blow a permit hearing last month and let the much-dissed Baby Dolls topless club stay open another year at... More >>

• Hide and seek

  published June 8, 2000

  Over espresso and orange juice, Dallas developer Louis Garfield Reese III huddled with several would-be business partners in a suite in Milan's... More >>

• Cleaning a smear

  published June 1, 2000

  Dallas police ignored or dismissed Assistant City Attorney Robin Page's claims that she was the target of a deliberate smear campaign, so now they... More >>

• Pistol-packin' mama

  published May 4, 2000

  East Dallas' second-story men, smash-and-grab specialists, and plain old-fashioned burglars can breathe easier now. Willetta Stellmacher has hung... More >>

• Damaged goods

  published April 27, 2000

  Studio portraits of the mayor and 13 council members decorate a side wall in the cavernous, glass-and-concrete atrium at Dallas City Hall. There... More >>

• Idiot box

  published March 16, 2000

  Dallas Community Television's studios usually don't get busy until after 5 p.m., when people get off their real jobs and turn to shooting,... More >>

• Bench press

  published March 9, 2000

  Nearly a hundred lawyers filled the Routh Street Brewery's private party room one hot evening last summer. The faux rustic setting -- hewn... More >>

• Fur flies

  published February 3, 2000

  A series of lawsuits against anti-fur protesters -- the latest naming John Paul Goodwin and his Dallas-based organization as defendants -- appears... More >>

• Goodfella

  published January 27, 2000

  "That's me and Gotti...Not that Gotti. Gene Gotti. John's brother," says Norm Berger, pointing to one picture on the Las Vegas-Atlantic City wall... More >>