Subject: The Army National Guard

• Bush Visit Causing Gridlock, Galveston Reporter Claims

  September 16, 2008

• Too Pharr-out?

  November 10, 1994

• The Old Guard

  January 29, 1998

• Wild Man Blues

  July 2, 1998

• In the Line of Fire

  November 12, 1998

• Up To Date on '98

  January 7, 1999

• Hurricane Ike's Wake

  Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath

  January 8, 2009

• Janet Napolitano = Homeland Futility

  Janet Napolitano’s sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Homeland Security secretary.

  November 27, 2008

• Poor Treatment of Returning Veterans

  August 14, 2008

• Texas Air National Guard Boots Sick Soldier

  Jason Franco now struggling in civilian life

  July 31, 2008

• A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita

  March 6, 2008

• Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

  January 17, 2008

• Mail Call

  A Different Breed

  August 30, 2007

• Home of the Brave

  This is not what Francis Scott Key had in mind

  May 10, 2007

• Life in a Hurricane

  The New Orleans sound of The Morning 40 Federation

  July 20, 2006

• Online Confessions

  An alleged killer bares all on MySpace

  July 20, 2006

• Bad Checks

  Sure you can ferret out the slimeballs in our midst? Guess again if you're relying on standard background searches in Texas

  July 6, 2006

• Rush to Judgment

  In World War II, Houston attorney Leon Jaworski prosecuted a group of black American soldiers. In a hurried-up trial, they were court-martialed and sentenced to hard labor. The verdict was probably wrong. And Jaworski had a lot to do with that.

  June 22, 2006

• Why do Mexicans Worship Che Guevara More Than Argentines Do?

  June 15, 2006

• Au Revoir, Chauncey

  The goat and his two humans go home to New Orleans

  November 3, 2005

• Against All Odds

  A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.

  November 3, 2005

• Who Cares?

  Celester Hall went to Afghanistan to help the troops and make his fortune. He came back deaf, in diapers and looking for benefits.

  August 11, 2005

• Books and Bullets

  A gun shop and a school make great neighbors

  December 30, 2004

• Chasing Its Tale

  The Chron gets scooped on Bush -- by one of its own

  November 18, 2004

• Toll-Free Hassle

  When good EZ TAGs go bad

  October 28, 2004

• Playbill

  September 2, 2004

• Walking Tall

  Jack Massing of the Art Guys sports a new pair of kicks

  May 13, 2004

• Split Lip Rayfield, with the Meat Purveyors

  Saturday, September 13

  September 11, 2003

• Preparing for the Millennium

  Go to the Austin Hill Country and meet some folks who are taking Y2K very seriously

  April 8, 1999

• Want to Levitate the Pentagon? These Songs Might Help

  ​On this date in 1967, some 50,000 protesters marched on the Pentagon with the intention of levitating it and exorcising any "evil spirits" within. The effort was led by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, poet Allen Ginberg, and Ed Sanders and satirically-minded rockers the Fugs. As we all know, the exorcism worked, the Vietnam War ended the next day, and peace and love have reigned supreme for over 30 years. Ha ha, no. But Rocks Off isn't all about sarcasm and laughing at hippies, we're here t

  October 21, 2009