Lou Dubose

Photo by Joeff Davis So President Bush went mano a mano with Tim Russert on Meet the Press and put to rest the claim that he went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard. He was serving in the state of Alabama while working on a congressional campaign of one......

“If you’re going to act like Mexicans, then you will be treated like Mexicans.” The crude ethnic slur referring to Democratic senators’ response to the majority party’s redistricting plan was uttered within the oak-paneled confines of the Texas Senate lounge — directly across the chamber from a painting of General......

Remember the Texas Miracle? A high school football coach becomes a professor of education at one of the state’s remaining African-American universities. Then wins a seat on the board of a big urban school district. Then becomes the downtown business establishment’s consensus choice for the city’s superintendent of schools. Once......

Will the oil-and-gas man at the Interior Department bring drilling back to California’s coast? George W. Bush’s number-two man at the Interior Department never intended to slow the progress of drilling along the California coast. But in 1989, that’s exactly what J. Steven Griles did. Griles worked at Interior during......

CRAWFORD, TEXAS — There was no public celebration of the president’s July 6 birthday in the central Texas town where George W. Bush bought a ranch months before he began to campaign for the presidency. George and Laura were in Washington, and this hardscrabble farm community was dead as always......

In a just world, Pete Laney would be U.S. secretary of agriculture. At least undersecretary of agriculture. Or ambassador to one of those insignificant Old Europe countries that can’t get it up for the occasional war of pre-emptive intervention. (Lichtenstein, Andorra and France come to mind.) No one in Texas......

Jack Ayres keeps a framed photograph of Willie Searcy on his desk. Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen doesn’t. She should. Both Texas lawyers were in the thick of the court battle to save the life of the African-American teenager paralyzed in a head-on collision that left him unable to......