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Laredo

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    When Operation Streamline Deters: One Immigrant's Story

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Where's Greggo? In Wichita Falls. Sorta.

    ​I found Greg Williams. On the radio. Again. Sounding coherent, opionated and refreshingly edgy. Sounding like, well, the Greggo you know and love. "I've had to hook my delay back up," says Williams' new radio partner John Clay Wolfe. "This guy makes me want to cuss." Wolfe, who happens t ... More >>

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    Big D's Great Roar

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2007

    Dallas is Good for Two Things: Jobs and Cheap Houses. Well, Damn, Ain't That Enough?

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Number Crunched

    Self-Appointed lottery watchdog Dawn Nettles keeps her eye on the balls-and has some, too.

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    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

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    Heavy Traffic

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

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Dancing Across the Border

    Born in Mexico and raised by Celso Piña, sonidero music is taking over Dallas' Latino nightclubs. Is it here to stay?

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Open Season

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

  • Music

    November 15, 2001

    Sam and Larry

    The Winedale Tavern has an eclectic clientele. And at least one impostor.

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Let the Chips Fall

    Texas' Kickapoo Indians once lived in squalor under a bridge and worked as migrant laborers. Now things are looking up, thanks to a new Native American tradition: casino gambling.

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    Bill soon due

    Dallas beat the telecoms, but guess who pays the price?

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    All wet

    Supporters call the Trinity Plan a flood-control project. It isn't.

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    Hunter or prey?

    Matthew Harden tells the story about his dark days in DISD

  • News

    September 11, 1997

    See Yvonne. See Yvonne run. See Yvonne run from the truth.

    She's the toughest superintendent DISD has ever had. But Yvonne Gonzalez's administration has already developed a dangerous tendency for bulldozing the facts.

  • News

    July 10, 1997

    Busted

    Julio Mercado is Dallas' brand-new DEA boss, and he's inherited kilos of trouble. His city is about to be declared a drug disaster zone, but all his narcs seem to care about is snitching on each other.

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    Should Paul Fielding go to jail?

    He's violated the public trust and betrayed his own ethical standards. But is Dallas' perpetually annoying councilman guilty of fraud, perjury, and extortion?

  • Music

    March 28, 1996

    The beautiful loser

    Keith Ferguson keeps a loose grip on Fabulous past

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