Subject:

Joe Allen

  • News

    December 29, 1994

    The Year of Living Anxiously

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

  • Dining

    October 12, 2000

    Political Communion

    Did Annunciation use its connections to knock the head off Little Woodrow's beer permit?

  • News

    June 9, 1994

    Restricted Access

    Public access TV promises to become a little less public

  • News

    December 22, 1994

    Battle of the Retreads

    Two soon-to-be-unemployed politicians may be headed for a City Council showdown

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    All About Elyse

    After years of making Mayor Bob presentable, Houston's First Lady is ready to get serious. Seriously.

  • News

    May 4, 1995

    Springtime for Bob

    Lanier worship reaches an apogee at the mayor's million-dollar bash

  • News

    May 11, 1995

    Lanier Village

    The mayor's hands are all over the APV redevelopment plan

  • News

    June 1, 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.

    The mayor's hands are all over the APV redevelopment plan

  • News

    June 15, 1995

    The Insider

    The mayor's hands are all over the APV redevelopment plan

  • News

    July 6, 1995

    The Insider

    The mayor's hands are all over the APV redevelopment plan

  • News

    December 7, 1995

    Having outlived the good ol' boy era, when it had a hand in every deal, houston legal giant

    Vinson & Elkins is entangled in a legacy of litigation from its past.

  • News

    December 7, 1995

    Into the Mystic (Book)

    Vinson & Elkins is entangled in a legacy of litigation from its past.

  • News

    December 21, 1995

    Lloyd Kelley's Dream House

    The controller-elect's fixer-upper is a real sore spot and something of a mystery to neighbors in the Woodland Heights

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    After him, the deluge

    Thank the Lord, Jesus Christ above, this is Bob Lanier's last term as mayor of Houston. Now that he's bankrupt every city service, he's leaving the whole mess to somebody else. But who?

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    The Passions of Privatization

    V&E joins Heard Goggan in battling the county attorney's office

  • News

    January 25, 1996

    Hotel Hell

    V&E joins Heard Goggan in battling the county attorney's office

  • News

    February 29, 1996

    Letters

    V&E joins Heard Goggan in battling the county attorney's office

  • News

    April 11, 1996

    Stadia Watch

    V&E joins Heard Goggan in battling the county attorney's office

  • News

    May 9, 1996

    The Insider

    V&E joins Heard Goggan in battling the county attorney's office

  • News

    May 16, 1996

    Coffee with Betti and the FBI

    Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    The Insider

    Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    The Insider

    Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    The Insider

    Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

  • News

    May 8, 1997

    The Insider

    Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

  • News

    August 7, 1997

    The Insider

    Lightning strikes the ReBates Hotel; death toll unknown

  • News

    November 6, 1997

    The Mall That Ate Katy

    Big money, big lobbyists, big tax breaks. The Mills Corporation is bringing one of its "megamalls" to Katy, and it's hardly business as usual in the little town on the prairie.

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Hotel Whitewash

    What do the FBI and developer Wayne Duddlesten have in common?

  • News

    December 3, 1998

    Shaping the Council to Come

    Time to pull out those election wish lists

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Which Bug Gets the Gas?

    Will the next house DeLay fumigates be that big White one or his own?

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Has Robert Eckels Lost His Mind?

    Or is the county judge just crazylike a fox?

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    First Out of the Gate

    Now that he's got Mayor Lee Brown's attention, can Chris Bell win your support?

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Letters

    Now that he's got Mayor Lee Brown's attention, can Chris Bell win your support?

  • News

    April 4, 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.

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Fire Away

    Plus: Labor Pains, Taking the Rains

  • News

    November 15, 2001

    For Whom Bell Tolls

    Chris Bell's bid for the mayor's office may be over, but his political career is just beginning

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    An Early War Casualty?

    Mayoral challengers find money, attention and time dwindling

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Dubious Deal

    Special tax zones are already stimulating growth-a thriving cottage industry of attorneys, lobbyists, high paid consultants, developers and questionable financial projections

  • News

    December 19, 1996

    The Insider

    Special tax zones are already stimulating growth-a thriving cottage industry of attorneys, lobbyists, high paid consultants, developers and questionable financial projections

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    Running at Lanier

    Mayor Bob casts a long shadow over the Tyra-Peavy runoff

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