
Texas Monthly A fond look back at 22 Texans who died in 2009, from Farrah Fawcett and Walter Cronkite to Brandon Lara and Joe Bowman.
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Texas Monthly If you haven't read our story on Bill White yet, hurry up before he announces for governor so you can be in the know.

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Is a loophole in our health insurance system costing the state millions in unnecessary spending or saving people’s lives in the Rio Grande Valley?

Bill Graves I've never seen the Quihi dance hall in the sunlight. But I've seen it glowing in the night on a number of occasions. My better-half and I have floated on the smooth boards of the dance floor doing the Two Step and Cotton Eye Joe--and that's no bull****.

Evone Jungmann Please take your Texas Dance Hall saga one step further and give us some articles about the wonderful Texas Music that is played in those wonderful old halls. Dance music that polished those hard woods to a snooth surface. Bob Wills, Milton Brown, Johnny Bush, Jody Nix, Billy Mata, Bobby Flores, to name a few. Bob W...ills and Milton Brown grew that wonderful dance genre right here in our State.

Cristela Flores Loves the bonfire cover story...it was touching and moving. It made me cry.

Texas Monthly And here's what he thinks of Kay's. (Answer: not much)
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Hutchison is shown sitting in a living room, or perhaps a hotel suite. She is wearing a white blouse with a dark vest, brown or perhaps purple. A lamp is lit on a desk behind her left shoulder. In the foreground is a built-in segment of a bookcase. A red sofa is in the background off to the left.

Texas Monthly Here's what Burka thinks of Perry's first ad (9 out of 10??).
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It opens with an angled shot looking upward at the U.S. Capitol dome, through trees. Over it is superimposed a red line, as if to suggest a graph of an economic indicator, and general direction is down. ...

Texas Monthly Watch historian and author Taylor Branch discuss his new book, The Clinton Tapes, on Texas Monthly Talks.

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Democrats haven’t won a statewide race since 1994, so why does this middle-aged guy with a bald head and big ears think he's the fresh face of the party? Because outgoing Houston mayor Bill White ...

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What has Rick Perry and his record-setting time in office taught me? Texas needs term limits to curb the power of the governor’s office.

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As the most powerful jurist in Galveston, Judge Samuel Kent intimidated everyone: the lawyers who argued cases before him, the defendants and plaintiffs who appeared in his courtroom—and the female courthouse employees he groped, kissed, and forced himself on when no one was looking. ...

Texas Monthly The December issue is now live online!
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A slide show of images featuring our state’s classic dance halls, from the John T. Floore Country Store to the Stampede in Big Spring. Photographs by Jeff Wilson.

Texas Monthly A sneak peek at our December issue on the best dance halls in the state, Bill White's Senate campaign, and the Galveston judge who was a sexual predator.
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The December issue hits newsstands this week. Here’s the gorgeous cover–a couple dancing at the Quihi Gun club and Dance Hall, one of the great old spots on our tour of classic country dance halls this month.













