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  Texas Monthly Refutation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Texas Monthly: “TLR’s leadership turned its attention to judicial races, investing around $1 million to defeat Elizabeth Ray, a Houston district judge, in a 2002 Republican primary runoff election for the Texas Supreme Court… [I]n an exceptionally bitter race, TLR tarred her as a sham Republican and a friend of the plaintiff’s lawyers.
Texas Monthly: Discussing the 2003 legislative session in which HB 4 was passed, “The 1995 tort reforms had been forged during negotiations between lawyers on the two sides, but with Republicans in total control of the legislative process, compromise was a thing of the past.” (p.
Texas Monthly’s allegations of Republican intransigence and TLR obstinacy are easily refuted by activities in the 2005 session of the Legislature, in which Republicans had solid majorities in both chambers and TLR led the effort to enact badly needed asbestos/silica litigation reform.
www.tortreform.com /texas_monthly.asp   (9163 words)

  
 Texas Monthly Memorandum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is a pity that Texas Monthly did not look beyond the partisan bickering and propagandizing of its favored special interest group and take the opportunity to examine the core issues of medical malpractice.
Furthermore, reports of deaths attributable to the absence of neurosurgeons in parts of Texas, as well as alarming marks of trouble such as emergency-room closings and declining numbers of physicians willing to practice in some litigation-prone areas of the state, would have introduced inconvenient facts that were at variance with the official story.
Texas Monthly weighed the actions of a home-grown volunteer group having no motive of personal gain against the professionally honed claims of the most aggressive, partisan, opulently financed and pocketbook-driven special interest group in Texas.
www.tortreform.com /texas_monthly_memo.asp   (4277 words)

  
 TEXAS REBEL RADIO
Texas music is Lee Roy Matocha, SPJST halls, and Brave Combo, who have been redefining the meaning of polka for almost thirty years now.
Texas music is sitting under a shade tree at the Quiet Valley Ranch outside Kerrville in May to play songs or listen to them, wondering if the person strumming the guitar will be the next Michelle Shocked, whose performance captured on a crude tape recording by an Englishman catapulted her to fame and fortune.
Texas music is Bob Wills Day in Turkey on the last Saturday in April and Frankie McWhorter fiddling at a platform dance on an open-air floor in the tiny Panhandle settlement of Lipscomb, reviving a Panhandle social custom of a century ago.
www.texasrebelradio.com /txmonthlymay00.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly is a general interest magazine with a circulation of 310,000 and a total readership of almost 2,000,000 each month.
Already enshrined in Texas literary folklore is the image of Bob Caro, in his blazer and regimental tie, arriving at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, in Austin, and gazing upward with epic resolve at a four-story display of red archive boxes containing thirty-four million documents.
Texas is a state with a history that's not only truly glorious but truly significant in understanding America.
www.robertcaro.com /prince.htm   (3436 words)

  
 Texas Monthly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Texas Monthly is published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. Texas Monthly takes as its premise that Texas began as a distinctive place and remains so.
For the natives, Texas Monthly functions as a reminder of what once was, a record of their proud heritage.
Texas Monthly's annual "Bum Steer Awards" poke fun at Texas politicians and policies, odd Texas-related news items and personalities from the previous year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas_Monthly   (399 words)

  
 Texas Monthly, Texas Monthly On ..., University of Texas Press
She's a very particular and recognizable type: independent and courageous, comfortable in her skin, possessed of both frontier survival skills and urban sophistication, fun-loving, forward-thinking, rich in spirit.
Such a person may not exist elsewhere—not in the sense of fully embodying the values of the place she calls home—but she certainly can be found here, and she's been with us as long as Texas has.
The women's profiles originally appeared as articles in the magazine, authored by some of Texas Monthly's notable writers—Cecilia Ballí, Gary Cartwright, Paul Burka, Mimi Swartz, Jan Jarboe Russell, Skip Hollandsworth, Robert Draper, William Broyles Jr., Jan Reid, Joe Nick Patoski, Pamela Colloff, and Helen Thorpe.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/texwop.html   (368 words)

  
 Texas Tech University :: Water Studies :: Texas Monthly June 2006 :: Water Source Protection
At Texas Tech University, we understand research to optimize natural recharge to the aquifer as well as improving water-use efficiency is critical.
Fueled by a $6.2 million grant, Texas Tech researchers are partnering with Texas extension agents and a water conservation district to figure out which farming combinations produce the most dollars – while cutting water use.
Collaborative research between Texas Tech University and the U. Fish and Wildlife Service is examining methods to control salt cedar and restore damaged ecosystems after it is removed.  Learn more at Texas Tech and the World's Water.
www.texastech.edu /txwater/water-source-protection.php   (508 words)

  
 Awards & Honors  - Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked in the top 5 among children’s hospitals by Child magazine and U.S. News and World Report.
Texas Children's is proud to say that of those 52 doctors, 11 are part of the Texas Children's Pediatric Associates network.
Caraciolo Fernandes of Texas Children’s Newborn Center® and assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor and Dr. Graciela Villarreal, chief of the spina bifida clinic at Texas Children’s and assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor, received the Teaching and Evaluation award.
www.texaschildrenshospital.org /allabout/awards/default.aspx   (634 words)

  
 Texas Tech University :: Water Studies :: Texas Monthly June 2006 :: Water Planning and Policy
Texas Tech’s Dr. Andrew Jackson, associate professor of civil engineering, and other researchers are developing systems that can speed up the hydrologic cycle (the time it takes soil and plants to scrub water) from years to a single day.
Texas Tech University’s CASNR Water Center coordinates water research from a diverse range of agricultural disciplines.
The Outdoor School at Texas Tech addresses this deficit, hosting 33 school districts and 3100 5th graders since its inception in 2003, in its “classroom” spread over 400 acres of natural resources in Junction, Texas.
www.texastech.edu /txwater/water-planning-policy.php   (660 words)

  
 RRC:TEXAS MONTHLY OIL AND GAS STATISTICS, OCTOBER 26, 2005
Texas preliminary August 2005 crude oil production averaged 717,359 barrels daily, down from the 918,051 barrels daily average of August 2004.
The preliminary Texas crude oil production figure for August 2005 is 22,293,902 barrels, a decrease from 28,503,133 barrels reported during August 2004.
Texas oil and gas wells produced 422,137,527 Mcf (thousand cubic feet) of gas based upon preliminary production figures for August 2005, down from the August 2004 preliminary gas production total of 457,909,462 Mcf.
www.rrc.state.tx.us /news-releases/2005/102605b.html   (246 words)

  
 New Magazine - Texas Monthly Magazine
Texas Monthly Magazine is your guide to the people, places, and events all over Texas.
The "Texas Monthly Reporter" is interesting, deals with (yet again) a Texan subject but almost certain to catch everyone's eye: be injured soldiers or a small-town coach who was fired (and her life turned into a misery) because of her sexual orientation.
The topics are so many and even though the first mention of them would not probably make you interested, read on because the quality of the writers and the way they research their subjects, are sure to keep you reading on.
www.magazinebargains.us /New/Texas_Monthly_Magazine-454517368.html   (1253 words)

  
 frontline: karl rove -- the architect: texas: harbinger of the future | PBS
Discussing this chapter in Rove's political career is Sam Gwynne, editor of Texas Monthly; Bill Miller, a Texas political consultant; Kim Ross, a lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association; and Tom Phillips, former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
When Karl Rove arrived in Texas in the late 1970s, state politics had been dominated by the Democrats for over 100 years.
The people of Texas have entrusted Republicans with the stewardship of every statewide elected office and majorities in the state senate, state house and on the state board of education.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/texas   (376 words)

  
 50 Best Companies to Work for in Texas - Career Opportunities - Texas Children's Hospital
The Texas Children's Hospital Integrated Delivery System is committed to a community of healthy children by providing the finest possible pediatric patient care, education and research.
Texas Children's needs the finest talent to care for the patients and families we serve.
Texas Children’s halls are filled with some of the best health-care professionals in the world.
www.texaschildrenshospital.org /allabout/careers/default.aspx   (265 words)

  
 Texas Monthly Archives (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Texas Monthly magazine has for over twenty years published some of the finest, most incisive writing ever done in or about Texas.
The Texas Monthly archive will be housed in a special 2,611 square-foot annex to the Alkek Library.
Texas Monthly's founding editor was William Broyles, Jr.
www.library.txstate.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /swwc/archives/texas_mon.html   (259 words)

  
 TEXAS MONTHLY MUSIC PUBLICATIONS
Southwest Blues is a free monthly magazine featuring blues artists, CD reviews, a monthly pullout blues calendar and more in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas sharing the love of the blues with others.
Texas Blues Magazine is "Bringing a world of blues to Texas and taking Texas blues to the world." We are dedicated to the rich heritage of the blues, specifically Texas, Gulf Coast and Southern blues.
Texas Polka News is the monthly journal of Texas polka music and the Texas Polka music industry.
home.houston.rr.com /jw/texas_monthly_music_publications.htm   (2178 words)

  
 Texas Tamale
When the founders of Texas Tamale Company realized that the tamale vendor was becoming a thing of the past and that no gourmet quality tamale was being made for sale in the Houston area, they made their first foray into the tamale business.
Texas Monthly named us the best mail order tamale in Texas.
We at Texas Tamale Company hope you will share in our passion for the superior tamales, quality drink mixes, salsas, BBQ and finishing sauces.
www.texastamale.com   (271 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle News: Pride of the Yankees?: Evan Smith and the New 'Texas Monthly'
Texas Monthly has now been with us for 28 years, and Smith -- who, after nine years with the magazine, took the helm from Gregory Curtis last year -- is only its third editor.
You could say that Texas Monthly has changed along with its readership, who used to be more spunky and less square in their wild Seventies years.
Given Texas Monthly's self-defined role as the user's manual for the Lone Star State, laying on the Texas chic and kitsch may be a high calling.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-07-20/pols_feature.html   (4427 words)

  
 Texas Governor Rick Perry - Texas Monthly Music Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Texas Hot Country is a monthly magazine with a circulation of 20,000 that covers traditional country and Texas music.
It is a free monthly publication, and we have a circulation of approximately 50,000.
The East Texas Entertainer is a free monthly music publication that is distributed throughout the East Texas area and abroad and is focused on the East Texas artists and the music that they play.
www.governor.state.tx.us /divisions/music/directory/press/pressm.htm   (6986 words)

  
 Monthly Average Gas Prices Decline - AAA Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The monthly average price is $2.041 a gallon — 12.8 cents less than last month's average price of $2.169 a gallon.
The current average is also 17.4 cents higher than last year's record high average of $1.867 a gallon, according to AAA Texas.
Today, more than a million AAA Texas' members benefit from the organization's roadside assistance service, insurance and financial products, travel agency, automotive pricing, buying and financing, trip planning services, and traffic safety programs.
www.aaa-texas.com /corpinfo/fuel/05-05-18-fuelgauge.asp   (264 words)

  
 Freedom Club at Texas State Bank - Seniors
The period we use is the monthly statement cycle.
The Trust Department of Texas State Bank offers a full range of personal, corporate and retirement plan services designed to help you meet your financial objectives.
Texas State Bank is not a registered broker-dealer.
www.texasstatebank.com /consumer/checking-freedom.html   (423 words)

  
 Texas Monthly April 1974: He's About A Mover
Thirty years before Patrick Swayze pranced across the silver screen, kids along the Gulf Coast and in South Texas were dirty-dancing to the sound of pounding pianos, descending horn riffs, and sentimental lyrics.
The dominant musical motif was the triplet-a cluster of three notes performed in the time it takes to play two-and couples were belly-rubbing to the beat on dance floors from the Tiffany Lounge in San Antonio to the Big Oaks Club across the Sabine in Vinton, Louisiana.
In January Sahm went on the road, headlining seven appearances in California of "Antone's Texas Rhythm and Blues Revue." He brought along Tex-Mex accordion ace Flaco Jimenez and Antone's regulars Angela Strehli and Mel Brown and the Silent Partners, and stretched the blues lineup to include a cross section of musical styles.
www.laventure.net /tourist/texas_monthly_blues.htm   (1472 words)

  
 Texas Cooking - Southwestern Recipes and Cooking Advice (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One example of that old school philosophy is the field blending of the grapes he grows at the Tio Pancho Vineyard in the high valley of San Saba county.
The camp is a rock fire ring in a sparse stand of oak trees on the land where Scott's herd of longhorn cattle live.
This volume from the University of Texas Press is a sight to behold.
www.texascooking.com.cob-web.org:8888   (1020 words)

  
 Texas Justice - Texas Monthly - Under the Gun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In Texas a person cannot be convicted solely on the word of a co-conspirator.
In truth, detailed, false confessions are not as rare as one might think, and the Austin police have been involved in several of them.
Perhaps the most shocking example of this was the case of Achim Josef Marino, a born-again Christian serving three life sentences in a Texas prison for aggravated robbery.
www.texas-justice.com /txmthly/underthegun.htm   (8568 words)

  
 KLRU: Texas Monthly Talks > Upcoming Shows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Texas Monthly Talks celebrates its fifth season with four special one-hour episodes on the front-runners in the Texas gubernatorial election.
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards talks about the challenges of being a woman in politics, her gift for public speaking and her book about her battle with osteoporosis.
For decades, Texas elections boiled down to, “Which Democrat?” But those days are long gone, and the state’s Democrats could be fighting for second.
www.klru.org /texasmonthlytalks/upcoming.asp   (545 words)

  
 Texas Monthly Article — Blue Genie Art Industries Press
But it was up to O'Brien, the exhibit sculptor for Texas Parks and Wildlife, to fill in the details.
To make sure that the timeless statements he intended to produce were grounded in their original moments, he pored over such authoritative sources as the six-volume Handbook of Texas, T. Fehrenbach's Lone Star, and old WPA photos.
There is a horny toad near the conquistador's horse that received as much attention as the rifles and sabers on the ground in front of the Alamo chapel.
www.bluegenieart.com /texas_monthly_press.html   (844 words)

  
 Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc.
Texas Co-op Power is like no other magazine in Texas.
With a circulation of some 1 million Texans -- a larger circulation than Texas Highways and Texas Monthly -- it's not only the most widely read magazine in the Lone Star State, but it offers a unique perspective on rural and suburban Texas.
TEC publishes TEXAS CO-OP POWER, an award-winning monthly magazine with a circulation in excess of 1 million.
www.texas-ec.org /publications   (210 words)

  
 TourTexas.com: Gateway to Texas Travel and Tourism
Use this Texas Travel Directory to get the latest travel information on popular destinations and attractions in the Lone Star State.
View handy locator maps of selected Texas cities and regions to help plan your Texas vacation.
Order Texas travel brochures, vacation guides, maps and travel planning kits from select destinations and attractions -- then have them mailed to you FREE.
www.tourtexas.com   (202 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Nominated for thirty National Magazine Awards by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the magazine won in 1974 for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Special Journalism, in 1979 for Reporting, in 1980 for Public Service, again in 1985 for Reporting, in 1990 for Photography and General Excellence, and in 1992 for General Excellence.
In 1994 Texas Monthly had a circulation of 308,052 paid subscribers and its editor was Gregory Curtis.
The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/TT/edt10.html   (213 words)

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