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1997 Stories by Michael Berryhill

• East End Transit

  published November 27, 1997

  It's six o'clock on a Thursday evening, and in the East End, the buses are getting ready to roll. Crowds of travelers and their families are... More >>

• Captive of Fantasy

  published October 30, 1997

  Like other members of his therapy group, Jose Grover was encouraged to talk about his sex life and fantasies. Forty years old and noticeably... More >>

• Hotel Haute

  published October 23, 1997

  With a few rare exceptions, chain hotels are not places you'd expect to find fine cuisine. Chains are too often eyeing the bottom line; as a... More >>

• The Unchanging Face of Milby

  published October 9, 1997

  Under the front stairs of Charles H. Milby High School is a place that, almost 35 years after I graduated, still casts a spell on me. For no... More >>

• The Outsider

  published September 25, 1997

  Weird Power Trip The world-class pyrotechnics have turned to ash, the world-class traffic jam has dispersed and the world-class mountain of... More >>

• It's a bird, it's a plane ...

  published September 11, 1997

  The Greater Houston Partnership wanted to know how the five major mayoral candidates felt about the West Side Airport. We decided we did, too, so... More >>

• The Airport That Wouldn't Die

  published September 11, 1997

  Last September, environmental attorney Jim Blackburn thought he was approaching the end of one of the most contentious battles he had ever fought... More >>

• What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?

  published August 7, 1997

  Under the rules of the Texas prison system, the last photograph of Rodney Hulin alive should never have been taken. Visitors are forbidden to... More >>

• Fast Eddie's Getaway

  published July 3, 1997

  According to the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau, it was all just a matter of timing. Last week, when the GHCVB announced the... More >>

• Lost in the Cause

  published May 29, 1997

  After insisting that he had ordered the racial integration of the very restaurant in which he was now eating lunch, Eldrewey Stearns looked... More >>

• Brothers of the Road

  published May 22, 1997

  Back in April 1994, Roger Hord, the transportation policy director for the Greater Houston Partnership, heard some troubling news from North... More >>

• What's Wrong With Wheatley?

  published April 17, 1997

  For more than an hour, the principal of Phillis Wheatley High School had been showing off the improvements he and his staff have been making at... More >>

• Trial by Video

  published March 6, 1997

  Over the last six months, the Houston consumer protection office of the Texas attorney general has spent a lot of time, a lot of energy and a lot... More >>

• A Question of Competence

  published February 27, 1997

  On March 7 of last year, Beverly Goodie, a kindergarten teacher at Cage Elementary School, was fired. Given that the Houston Independent School... More >>

• No Problem, Man...

  published January 2, 1997

  An electrical transformer blew out at Texas Southern University the week before Christmas, casting the central administration building into... More >>