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Letters

Letters

Getting dumped

Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground

Pressing on

Finally, June Carter Cash gets her own record, and maybe some of the credit she's always deserved

No depression

With a new album, Radney Foster isn't so "heartbroke and then some" anymore

El Mejor de lo Mejor

We Asked a Mexican to help us pick the best Anglo covers of Mexican tunes

Patrolling South Texas for Illegal Immigrants

Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

Killer Smile

Tommy Lynn Sells claims to have murdered dozens, and Texas Rangers fear he's telling the truth

Chicken Man

Parting words from the greatest cockfighter who ever lived

Soldiers of Misfortune

Ranch Rescue’s paramilitary posse may have guns and camo gear to keep the border safe, but what they need is a good lawyer

Heavy Traffic

Border drug lords get rich while attorney Mike Barclay gets worn out defending the poor smugglers

Hot, Hot and Not

Two university galleries mount vastly different multi-culti shows

Radney Foster

September 12

Open Season

Border authorities fear a return to the law of the Wild West as Texas homeowners take up guns against illegal Mexican immigrants

Critics' Picks

Radney Foster

Red scare

Russia's The Red Elvises are rushing back to rock-and-roll tradition

Reel challenge

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

Bigger, louder

With 1,000 times the budget for his sequel, Robert Rodriguez comes out with guns a-blazin'

Country Hunks And The Women Who Love Them.

With 1,000 times the budget for his sequel, Robert Rodriguez comes out with guns a-blazin'

Operation Streamline costs taxpayers millions, tramples on the Constitution, treats immigrants like cattle and doesn't work. So why are the feds so committed to it?

With 1,000 times the budget for his sequel, Robert Rodriguez comes out with guns a-blazin'

Road Trip: Noshing My Way to Big Bend

The scenery was pretty cool too.​According to the cheery student volunteer who gave a short lecture at Big Bend National Park the other day, the desert is delicious: Any resourceful visitor can make a meal of prickly pear pads and pigweed seeds. While the ranger-in-training assured us the fed ... More >>

Wild Time: Steps Begin to Protect the Neches River Before Dam-Thirsty North Texas Kills It

​How would you like to have a federally designated wild and scenic river within a 90-minute drive from Dallas? That could be kind of a life-changer for a lot of us. We wouldn't have to be satisfied with donning a Hazmat suit and a motorcycle helmet, signing a new will and medical power of atto ... More >>