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2000 Stories by Brad Tyer

• Sue Me, Baby, One More Time

  published December 28, 2000

  By all appearances, the legal action was over last October in the Fort Bend County case filed by Children's Protective Services against Gary Gates... More >>

• RiceTec Paddy Whack

  published November 23, 2000

  As international trade protests go, Alvin, Texas was no Seattle. The demonstration was scheduled for 3:30 on a Thursday afternoon in late October,... More >>

• Green Horns

  published October 19, 2000

  David Cobb is a Nader man, no question. Thirty-seven years old, white, socked and Birkenstocked, gray-bearded, thoughtful lenses riding in... More >>

• A Father's Retribution

  published October 5, 2000

  Gary Gates, whose retired Air Force pilot of a father was shot to death by a second wife, is an intensely focused man who believes in improvement,... More >>

• Howdy, Neighbor!

  published October 5, 2000

  Eight a.m. is too early to be anywhere but bed on a Saturday morning, never mind the Astrohall, but civic-minded earnestness knows no clock, so I... More >>

• Home Sweet Cell

  published September 7, 2000

  Andrew and Lucy Young's dream home remains nothing but an overgrown five-acre plot in Montgomery County, littered with rotting lumber and a... More >>

• Street Scene

  published August 17, 2000

  Every culture regards certain places as special, distinct, transcendental, holy. They are the wellsprings of a community's myth and legend. A... More >>

• Jug Ugly

  published August 10, 2000

  So 27-year-old Aaron Loesch is going round and round trying to describe his -- and by extension, his band's -- operative aesthetic, and in his... More >>

• This Sand is Your Sand

  published July 13, 2000

  We have the third-longest coastline in the continental United States. Our beaches represent an $11.5 billion industry, employ directly and... More >>

• Sand in Your Craw?

  published July 13, 2000

  Ellis Pickett wants to be clear: Neither he nor the Surfrider Foundation acts out of bloodlust to see private property owners hurt. But the Open... More >>

• The Dream Home: A Cautionary Tale

  published May 18, 2000

  You may say to yourself, this is not my beautiful house. And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? -- Talking Heads The date... More >>

• Wayward Son

  published May 11, 2000

  You can maybe forgive Shelton Hank Williams III if he's not quite sure just who he wants to be when he grows up. The boy's only 27, skinny enough... More >>

• Methadone Meltdown

  published April 27, 2000

  There's not much seedier than the sight of the sun rising on a methadone clinic's early-morning trade. Everything about the scene screams shame,... More >>

• Long Haul

  published April 27, 2000

  It might as well have been the Mesozoic era for all the trace that's left on the local psyche, but the 1960s and early-1970s music scene in... More >>

• Bad Dog

  published April 13, 2000

  Julie McLemore and her husband, former Houston Post sports editor Ivy McLemore, grew up within a few miles of each other in the Meyerland... More >>

• Nickel-and-Diming

  published March 30, 2000

  It was 1996. Downtown was as yet pre-vitalized, Bayou Place still unopened, and the baseball stadium not even in the planning stages. The... More >>

• Mommy's little angel

  published March 16, 2000

  You were right about God, Marshall. He is a Good God. And you, you there, with imagination in your eyes And hope forever... More >>

• Out at the Zoo

  published March 16, 2000

  On Tuesday of last week, Houston's Parks and Recreation Department announced the retirement of Houston Zoo director Donald Olson, who has held the... More >>

• Real Life

  published February 24, 2000

  The ordained afternoon had weighed heavily on their minds, and finally it arrived. More than 70 girls, freshmen and sophomores at... More >>

• Turnstyled and Junkpiled

  published February 17, 2000

  "I been turnstyled, junkpiled, railroaded too / I been laid low, but honey don't you know, I'm still in love with you." -- Townes Van... More >>

• Like a Dog in the Dirt

  published February 17, 2000

  In 1992 Earl Travis was a former city employee who testified for the defense in a discrimination suit against the City of Houston. The city won. A... More >>

• Tear Down

  published February 3, 2000

  Watching through the blur of 65 miles per hour, from your car, from the freeway -- I45 North, between Tidwell and Parker, specifically -- ... More >>

• The Man Who Knew Too Soon?

  published January 20, 2000

  Tom Curtis -- neither a bitter nor an overtly sweet man himself -- must have indulged a bittersweet chuckle, sitting in his Galveston office... More >>