Subject: Jefferson Davis

• Silver Lining Huh?

  September 15, 2008

• Punched Out

  Have patience: From the wrath of dangling chads comes computerized dial-a-voting

  August 9, 2001

• Mr. Big

  December 15, 1994

• Rebmaster

  Web designer George Kalas wanted to re-fight the Civil War. Instead, he started one in his own movement.

  July 22, 1999

• Renovated Out of Existance

  The First Ward never had much in the way of worldly goods. But it had a rich history. Now, even that is disappearing.

  July 6, 2000

• Eating It Up

  Are HISD and Aramark cooking the books to feast on federal breakfast subsidies?

  November 4, 2004

• Houston 101: The Short Happy Life of Dick Dowling

  ​Aside from the city's namesake, no 19th-Century Houstonian was more famous than Dick Dowling, the Irish-born saloonkeeper/businessman and Confederate war hero. In fact, when city leaders commissioned Houston's very first public monument in 1905, it was Dowling and not Sam Houston who got the honors, not least because Dowling was loyal to the Confederacy and Houston was famously not.Dick Dowling was born in County Galway in 1838. Eight years later, his parents fled the Potato Famine and took l

  August 26, 2009