Bill Clements

What's in David Dean's Closet? Oh. A Closet.

But Look What Happened to Paris Vendome

Hunting Season

Sins of a Preacher Man

Until his overthrow, Bill Price led the Texas anti-abortion movement for 17 years. Was it politics, ego, or something worse that did him in?

BeloWatch

Until his overthrow, Bill Price led the Texas anti-abortion movement for 17 years. Was it politics, ego, or something worse that did him in?

Media merger madness

Cap Cities/ABC decision to fire radio host Hightower was a big mistake

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Cap Cities/ABC decision to fire radio host Hightower was a big mistake

Events for the week

Cap Cities/ABC decision to fire radio host Hightower was a big mistake

Blood and Feathers

A violent sport provides the knives, gaffs, and blood that bind

Buzz

A violent sport provides the knives, gaffs, and blood that bind

Raw deal

If John Ware, Ray Hunt, and Bill Clements have their way, Dallas taxpayers may foot the bill for turning 2,200 acres of Kaufman County lakefront property into a golf course

The Race Not Run

Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

Master stroke

Olympic gold medalist Jerry Heidenreich has become what he swore he never would -- one hell of a swimming coach

Buzz

Olympic gold medalist Jerry Heidenreich has become what he swore he never would -- one hell of a swimming coach

Bully Pulpit

Pushy, driven, and fearless, Texas Secretary of State Elton Bomer is Bush's big man on the border. But is he tough enough to cut through the red tape snarling efforts to help the poor people living in the colonias?

Parting Ways

Molly Ivins leaves the Star-Telegram's staff, but not its pages

Bread and circus

Despite upscale pretensions, Eatzi's aims for a lowbrow market. Will it fly?

Like Zombies, SMU football Plays on Without a Pulse

Despite upscale pretensions, Eatzi's aims for a lowbrow market. Will it fly?

History Lessons

The Smithsonian brings modern artifacts

Oopsie

It's not easy selecting the Best of Dallas

The Ex-Con Game

How do we deal with the staggering number of prisoners re-entering society? Ned Rollo thinks he knows. He should. He's been there.

Mad TV

The race for governor gets dirty fast

The Little-People Tax

Dallas tax appraisers can't keep up with Ross Perot. But if you're Average Joe, they've got your number.

SMU's Little Wilde Streak

The new Meadows Museum symbolizes everything good and bad about life on the Hilltop

Cruel and Unusual

Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

SMU Landed the Bush Library, But a Group of Former Condo Owners Still Want the World to Know At What Price

Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.

Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

SMU's Turner, Gov. Rick Perry Send Their Condolences Upon Passing of Bill Clements

​Among the hodgepodge of videos to which we linked only yesterday are a handful of particular note today, as Texans mourn the death of Bill Clements -- the 94-year-old Dallas native, two-time Texas governor, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford and chair of SMU's board of governor ... More >>

It's About Time We Pay College Athletes and Get Them Off the NCAA's Plantation

​Texas schools earn a couple of mentions in Taylor Branch's explosive article "The Shame of College Sports" in the current Atlantic Monthly. Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-wining civil rights movement historian, piles shame upon shame in calling for an end to the ludicrous fraud of amateur athle ... More >>