2024 Bum Steer of the Year: Dan Patrick
The lieutenant governor has made himself the state’s most commanding politician. But with great power has come great irresponsibility.
The lieutenant governor has made himself the state’s most commanding politician. But with great power has come great irresponsibility.
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
Only in Texas could crime stories contain such characters as a murderous cheer mom, a fraudulent fruitcake accountant, and a polo shirt–wearing bandit. Throughout the years, these criminals and more have found their bizarre, macabre, and even humorous true tales told within our pages.
How serial killer Rafael Resendez-Ramirez struck fear in the hearts of the men and women of Weimar, a tiny Texas town that will never be the same.
The grand champion steer auction at the Houston Rodeo, from the September 1986 story “My Kind of Town.”
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