Entries from Michael Erard - Archives tagged with 'Texas'
Fragments of English, Texas Observer, June 30, 2006
Part of the real history of English and Spanish in Texas... There is a concoction of self-satisfied myth and ignorance about English that is served up at Sunday services, on the floor of the Texas Legislature, in newspaper editorials, and...
Spotting the Rare Cheap Rental, Austin Chronicle, June 25, 2004
The history and habits of a not-quite-extinct-yet Austin species Do you know that little stone house at Eighth and Waller streets, set up high on a stone retaining wall, behind a stand of agaves and redbud? That's where I live....
Worth the Wait, Texas Observer, April 12, 2002
The Slow Work of Evaluating Abstinence Education Does abstinence-only sex education work? Buzz Pruitt and Pat Goodson, two professors of health education at Texas A&M, can’t say. Not yet, anyway. In the last two years, they have received nearly $360,000...
A Colossal Wreck, Austin Chronicle, Nov. 16, 2001
Eyesore, money pit, or romantic ruin, Intel's Ozymandias awaits its fate Ozymandias I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half...
Is Knowledge Power? Austin Chronicle, Sept. 14, 2001
Austin-based Stratfor Attempts to Make Smart Money on Global Intelligence On November 22, 1999, an Austin company called Stratfor sent a bold e-mail to 15,000 recipients around the globe. Its subject line: "Philippine President's Days Are Numbered." In the brisk...
You Don't Have to Prove a Thing, Texas Observer, Sept. 14, 2001
Dueling Media Campaigns About Sexual Abstinence Let Everybody Off the Hook It’s difficult to be enthusiastic while you’re telling teens not to have sex, much less look hip and cool about it, which is why the Texas Department of Health...
Feeling the Heat, Austin Chronicle, April 27, 2001
Will Harrell and the New Texas ACLU Lay Siege to the Lege For an organization that limped through the Nineties with virtually no presence at the Legislature, the Texas state office of the American Civil Liberties Union is enjoying something...
The Subtext of a Young Filmaker's Education, Texas Observer, April 13, 2001
Laura Dunn takes Green back to Louisiana's Cancer Alley We’ve been on the road to Baton Rouge for an hour when Laura Dunn, a 25-year-old student filmmaker dressed in bell bottoms and platform shoes, snaps in a CD playing...
Writing Around Politics, Texas Observer, Dec. 22, 2000
Looking for Meaning at the Texas Books Festival Around 2 o’clock that afternoon, the protesters filed loosely up the Capitol ground’s main drive, and that’s when the Texas Book Festival started to get spicy. It was Saturday, day of rest...
So Far From God, Texas Observer, August 6, 1999
On the day I flew into London, the news of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had been pushed to The Guardian’s eighth page. Hospitalized with a stomachache while his lawyers appealed a British court’s decision, a weakened Pinochet appeared to...
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