Email Author Tim Fleck

1996 Stories by Tim Fleck

• The Insider

  published December 26, 1996

  The Gold-Plated Mouthpiece Here's more proof that HISD Superintendent Rod Paige is hell-bent on proving the school district's critics... More >>

• The Insider

  published December 19, 1996

  A Love So Devine Civil District Judge John Devine is a strident right-to-lifer who's decorated his courtroom in religious kitsch, but... More >>

• Radack-al Treatment

  published December 12, 1996

  County Commissioner Steve Radack had been feuding with County Judge Robert Eckels for nearly two years, almost since the day Eckels assumed the... More >>

• The Insider

  published December 12, 1996

  Straight Outta West U With the prospect of a wide-open Houston mayoral race set to begin just after the New Year, an unlikely candidate is... More >>

• The Insider

  published December 5, 1996

  Let's Make a Bet "This," says lawyer David Berg, "is why the public hates lawyers." Last week, Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments... More >>

• The Insider

  published November 28, 1996

  Stockman's Stapp Infection When it comes to providing constituent services for campaign contributors under fire from federal agencies on... More >>

• The Insider

  published November 21, 1996

  He's Out of Here Achieving faculty diversity at the University of Houston has been the subject of much rhetoric by its administration in... More >>

• The Insider

  published November 14, 1996

  Custer at the River Texas Democratic Chairman Bill White is nothing if not optimistic. Shortly before voters returned most GOP incumbents... More >>

• The Insider

  published November 7, 1996

  Encore, Mayor Bob, Encore! Fresh from his boffo performance on Court TV as folksy Uncle Bob in the Sylvester Turner-Wayne Dolcefino trial,... More >>

• Opposing Counsel

  published October 31, 1996

  Sylvia Garcia and Mike Fleming, the two picture-perfect candidates for Harris County attorney, settled into their chairs opposite the anchors for... More >>

• The Insider

  published October 31, 1996

  Send Money or Face the Wrath of a Vengeful God Steven Hotze has been a very busy political impresario this election season. Of the 50,500... More >>

• The Insider

  published October 24, 1996

  Turning to Gold If you've been up nights worrying about the financial security of Larry Mathis, the departing president and CEO of the... More >>

• The Insider

  published October 17, 1996

  Driscoll in China Mike Driscoll has two and a half months left on his final term as Harris County attorney, but don't expect to see much of... More >>

• The Insider

  published October 10, 1996

  Swinging for the Fence A recent poll indicates that the interests campaigning for a new downtown baseball stadium have many minds to change... More >>

• The Kingdom and the Power

  published October 3, 1996

  This Easter found Mickey Lawrence taking a break at home from what had been an increasingly vitriolic campaign for the Republican nomination for... More >>

• The Insider

  published October 3, 1996

  When the Doves Cry A brace of good ol' boys embarked on a convivial hunting trip last month in northern Mexico, but their real target may... More >>

• The Insider

  published September 12, 1996

  Throw Back the Little Ones ... Not every fish that bit on the FBI trotline ended up on the stinger's stringer. Take Caesar Arizpe, the CEO... More >>

• The Insider

  published September 5, 1996

  Flushed Out It seems that the convention center hotel wasn't the only big-bucks city project that set dollar signs dancing in the eyes of... More >>

• The Insider

  published August 29, 1996

  The Family That Testifies Together It could be the "This Is Your Life, Ben Reyes" session of the federal grand jury hearing evidence in the... More >>

• The Insider

  published August 22, 1996

  Brother's Keeper Texas Monthly has adjudged golf-happy Congressman Tom DeLay one of the 20 most "impressive, intriguing and influential"... More >>

• The Insider

  published August 8, 1996

  Armed and Caucasian Last week we told you of a memo distributed by Harris County personnel director Janie Reyes that included a profile of... More >>

• The Insider

  published August 1, 1996

  Crazy, Man, Crazy Janie Reyes, the personnel director for county government, warned against the potential for on-the-job violence in a July... More >>

• Variety Club Follies

  published July 25, 1996

  Elizabeth "Lele" Brown's daughter was born prematurely, and the young mother soon found herself shuttling in and out of hospitals and doctors'... More >>

• The Insider

  published July 25, 1996

  Summer Interlude Make like The Insider, and don't postpone your summer vacation waiting for indictments from the federal grand jury... More >>

• The Insider

  published July 18, 1996

  Diversification Since the FBI investigation of alleged bribes to members of City Council went public in May, critics of the operation have... More >>