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Texas has always had it’s share of lawmen who took on trouble with little help. Sheriff’s deputy James Lee Harms was hired to clean up Wise County. He has had amazing success. All alone, he has tracked down more litterbugs than anyone in Texas. Detractors call him, Deputy Dump. Vet...
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston (Henry Holt & Company, Jan 06, 2002) Bittersweet by Freddie Lee Johnson III (One World/Ballantine, Jan 02, 2002) Hot Johnny (And The Women Who Loved Him) by Sandra Jackson...
A Holarious Comedy Starrinh Mike Myers As Guru Pitka In Hjs First Original Character Since The Blockbuster Hit "austin Powers". Myers Plays An American Raised In India By Gurus (tugginmypudha & Satchabigknoba) And Returns To The U.s. In Order To Break Into The Self-help Business. His...
Armando Navarro, Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Movement in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995); Ignacio M. Garcia, United We Win: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida Party (Tucson: University of Arizona Mexican American Studies Research Center, 1989). [...
the results are unchanged. State policy data were gathered from the National Education Commission for the States [21,22,23]. Student attendance data were gathered from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and Public Education Information System (PEIMS). History guides the conclusions showing achievement...
Two poems by Virginia Woolf have resurfaced. I found them tucked in the back of a folder of letters to her niece Angelica Bell in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Light verse, quickly drafted for her niece and nephew (Quentin Bell) in pencil on two sheets of...
pandemic. As I drove to Texas, I stayed mainly in remote hotels, and only in rooms that clerks assured me had not been used for at least 72 hours. I didn’t eat in restaurants, just in the car. I feared catching the new virus and bringing with me to Austin, getting Jim even ...
Why was he inspired to build Austin FC and what did it take to bring the first professional sports team to the capital of Texas? We explore these topics and more with Eddie, co-founder of Austin FC and Managing Partner & Founder of Pixiu Investments (current investments include, among ...
Adolph Douai only arrived in San Antonio in 1853. He fled Germany after being imprisoned for participating in the failed German uprisings of 1848[Courtesy Texas Humanities Resource Center, Austin] Born into slavery in the community of St. Hedwig on the eastern edge of Bexar County around 1844,...