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Dream of a Common Language. Sueño de un Idioma Común

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Monthly - By Nate Blakeslee - Aug. 24 (Special Report) - ... the dual language experiment has been a success by any measure. By the sixth grade, kids in the program—regardless of which language they spoke when they first enrolled—are outscoring native English speakers on the TAKS tests. They can also read, write, and speak Spanish at a sophisticated level.

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Faith, Hope, and Chastity

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Monthly - By Katy Vine - May. 05 (Special Report) - Texas ranks number one in teenage births, which, all told, cost taxpayers at least $1 billion a year. (Twenty-four percent of those births are not the girl's first delivery.) While the number of teenage births in Texas is actually going down of late, it is decreasing at a slower rate than the nation's at large. And 52.5 percent of Texas teens are having sex, compared with the national average of 47 percent. Rates of HIV/AIDS infection among teens are currently on the rise. Texas ranks fifth in teenage pregnancy (a number even more disconcerting in light of the fact that the U.S. ranks near the top in this category among developed nations).

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The Fire That Time

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Monthly - By Pamela Colloff - Mar. 31 (Special Report) - Life in the Branch Davidians' austere two-story wooden dormitory revolved around strict discipline, healthy eating, physical labor, and rigorous study of the Bible. But in the summer of 1992, the group caught the attention of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after a UPS driver reported delivering a package of dummy grenades to Mount Carmel. Koresh and other Davidians, who had been earning income for the group by working at weekend gun shows, had built up an arsenal of weapons, as well as an inventory of MREs (meals ready to eat), gas masks, and paramilitary gear that they called David Koresh Survival Wear.

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Bear Market

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Texas Monthly - By Michael Ennis - Mar. 08 (Special Report) - Call it the War Between the Megastates. This conflict burst into the national headlines on May 17, 2001, when then-governor Gray Davis told reporters that California, reeling from chronic blackouts and the bankruptcy of his state's largest power company, was "literally in a war" with "price gouging" Texas energy producers....For the most part, however, Texas versus California has been a cold war, a simmering ideological feud between two great powers. And we're talking about real global power, not the quaint, old-fashioned states' bragging rights....It's on the high end of the intellectual achievement scale that Texas runs a distant, even alarming, second. California racks up patents at more than twice the per capita rate of Texas, and the University of California System produces four times as many patents as the University of Texas System. But the figure that should blanch the face of every Texas leader is the margin that California holds in venture capital, probably the best measure of how the markets value our high-end human resources.

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"I Think We Got Blown Up for Nothing"

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Texas Monthly - By Robert Draper - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - A little more than halfway into their year-long tour of duty, with one dead and more than a dozen others wounded by improvised explosive devices, the young men of Bravo Troop found themselves thinking about a quiet little city where such mayhem would have been unfathomable.

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Everyone's Poop

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:43:01 -0800

Texas Monthly - By Nate Blakeslee - Dec. 13 (Special Report) - If sewerage is the cornerstone of civilization, then ours is a civilization in decline. Decades of neglect and postponed maintenance have left an estimated $500 billion in needed repairs and upgrades to wastewater pipelines and treatment plants nationwide.

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