Subject: Dave Walden

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• 2001: A Bell Mayoral Odyssey?

  Councilman Chris tests the waters against Brown

  September 7, 2000

• Blocking Shots

  We pay for the arena; they'll finance the campaign

  October 19, 2000

• Food Fight Indigestion

  A losing lobbyist claims a councilman switched after failing to get his pals in on the deal

  October 24, 2002

• Mayoral Field of Dreams

  If you pay them, they will come

  February 20, 2003

• Battle of the Retreads

  December 22, 1994

• Funny Business II

  March 23, 1995

• Springtime for Bob

  May 4, 1995

• Debt Collection

  May 11, 1995

• The Insider

  May 25, 1995

• Term limits and a domineering mayor have combined to make the City Council little more than a rubber stamp. And Houston may pay dearly for that down the line.

  June 1, 1995

• King Benjamin's Mine

  July 6, 1995

• The Insider

  February 1, 1996

• Travels with Doug

  August 22, 1996

• The Insider

  October 10, 1996

• You Gotta Have Hope

  October 10, 1996

• The Usual Suspect(s)

  October 24, 1996

• The Insider

  November 21, 1996

• Covert Aid for Lee Brown?

  March 27, 1997

• No Competition, Please

  April 10, 1997

• Between Friends

  June 5, 1997

• Stadia Watch

  July 10, 1997

• Why Don't They Want This Man to Be Mayor?

  October 2, 1997

• The Insider

  October 23, 1997

• The Insider

  October 30, 1997

• The Insider

  January 8, 1998

• The Insider

  January 29, 1998

• The Insider

  February 19, 1998

• Hotel Whitewash

  April 23, 1998

• The Great Non-Communicator

  July 2, 1998

• No Account

  July 16, 1998

• Breaking the Blue Code of Silence

  October 8, 1998

• All Together Now

  October 29, 1998

• Election Ennui

  Why the mayor's race hasn't caught fire

  November 6, 2003

• Best Lobbyist

  Bill Miller

  September 25, 2003

• Trapped on the Tracks

  A mayoral candidate wrestles with a no-win choice

  September 18, 2003

• Tale of Two Cities

  Kid-Care's former leader says the attorney general is playing favorites

  August 7, 2003

• Mayoral White Knight

  A candidate plays a subtle race card

  April 17, 2003

• Bye to the Good Ol' Boys?

  The commissioner's race that could break the county mold

  October 31, 2002

• Power House

  What do Lakewood Church and its pastor Joel Osteen have that most mainline Protestant denominations don't? People. Lots of them. And in an assortment of colors.

  April 4, 2002

• America's New War Against Enron

  Lawyers go gunning for corporate terrorists

  December 13, 2001

• An Early War Casualty?

  Mayoral challengers find money, attention and time dwindling

  September 27, 2001

• Best Bureaucrat

  Jordy Tollett, Mayor's chief of staff

  September 20, 2001

• In Through the Out Door

  A new law hastens a Brown official's departure

  May 3, 2001

• The Bench Warmer

  After two defeats by voters, will Bob Burdette finally lose his black robe to a DWI?

  April 12, 2001

• Arena Wars

  "Environmental Darth Vader" pushed as campaign consultant

  August 24, 2000

• GOP Inc.

  How "Scary" Gary Polland turned his party apparatus into a political slot machine

  July 20, 2000

• Sarofim II: The Next (De)Generation

  In the latest divorce donnybrook, things didn't go better with coke

  November 18, 1999

• Cash Box

  The Port referendum means lots of jobs -- for consultants

  September 9, 1999

• Paradise Lost

  Milby's cleanup cost Houston $10 million. Now HCC says the site is still contaminated.

  August 26, 1999