AUSTIN, Texas -- In May 1957, one of the ugliest times in Texas history, the Legislature was debating a long series of bills designed to reinforce the legal structure of segregation.
Henry B. Gonzalez opposed the bills for 22 hours...
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19 November 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Here's the challenge: Let's everybody with a dog in this fight -- meaning either pro-Gore or pro-Bush -- be obliged to make the case for the other side for at least 15 minutes.
Because I think we're watching something...
12 November 2000
AUSTIN -- Bliss it was in that very dawn to be alive. Of course, we all need to behave like grown-ups -- the fate of democracy, great principles and all the money that these people have spent are at stake here. But this episode also has...
09 November 2000
A few hours before dawn, the nation's TV networks foisted their
second outrageous blunder of the night on the American people. After
"calling" the state of Florida for Al Gore earlier in the evening, the same
networks announced that...
05 November 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- In the long view of history -- always a consoling perspective at a time like this -- the 2000 presidential campaign most likely will rank as a giant waste of time.
Our future depends on The Stuff They Wouldn't Talk...
02 November 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- In Texas, the state where you have a right to a lawyer who sleeps through your murder trial, we are familiar with life under George W. Bush's concept of justice for all.
The recent "Hey, a sleeping lawyer is still a...
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