Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?
​What do Oprah, the TV show 20/20, Houston crime victim advocate Andy Kahan and Houston lawyer Kim Ogg have in common? They're all involved in the sordid tale of Philippe Padieu, a Dallas-area man who is in prison for knowingly having unprotected sex with dozens of women without telling them he was HIV positive.In May, a Collin County jury found Padieu, 53, of Frisco guilty of six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Padieu was sentenced to 45 years in prison. The case is being
Gourmet, a magazine of "almost biblical status" in the food world, went under this morning after 68 years in print. My editor there, Jane Daniels Lear, brought the magazine most of its Southern writers. I met her at a Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Oxford, Mississippi. She encouraged me to write stories about subjects other food magazines wouldn't touch.
For Gourmet's Latino food issue, I wrote about taco trucks all over the country and the immigrants who run them -- hardly a s
