Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

New year, new adventures

"...Age of American Illustration Jan. 19-March 31, San Angelo, www.samfa.org PINEY WOODS..."

Jan. 4, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Explore Texas and beyond in 2022

"...Sam Rayburn Birthday Celebration Jan. 8, Bonham, www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/sam-rayburn-house-state-historic-site..."

Jan. 6, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Celia Israel Makes "Exploratory" Move Toward 2022 Mayor's Race

State rep not seeking a fifth term in Texas House

"...of hers. "Any jackass can kick down a barn," Sam Rayburn, the East Texas populist and former Speaker of..."

Sept. 22, 2021 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

See what 2020 has in store

"...Sam Rayburn Day Jan. 4, Bonham, www.visitsamrayburnhouse.com..."

Dec. 31, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Kick off 2019 with some Texas travel

"...Sam Rayburn’s Birthday Open House Jan. 5, Bonham, www.visitsamrayburnhouse.com..."

Dec. 29, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Start 2018 with some Texas travel

"...Sam Rayburn’s Birthday Open House Jan. 6, Bonham, www.visitsamrayburnhouse.com..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Day trips for 2017

"...Sam Rayburn Birthday Jan. 7, Bonham, www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/sam-rayburn-house-state-historic-site..."

Jan. 4, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips & Beyond: January Events Roundup

Happenings, news, and more

"...Sam Rayburn Day Celebration Jan. 9, Bonham, 903/583-5558, www.visitsamrayburnhouse.com..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Brooks Papers

UT to accept acquires former US Congressman's papers

"...and to other notables Texas Democrats, like House Speaker Sam Rayburn. And he still lives in Beaumont...."

March 21, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Political Realist

An Interview With Ben Barnes

"...of the book, I have that conversation with Mr. [Sam] Rayburn, when I ask him what kind of president..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Ben Barnes on Barn Building

"...in the Capitol building on the House side. Like Sam Rayburn's old "Board of Education," I liked to have..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature

Man Shot in Face

Mental illness possible factor in suspect's behavior

"...health officer, responded to a "nature unknown" call on Sam Rayburn Drive just after 11am, where she found Roberts..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

'He's Forked Himself'

Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about 'The Hammer'

"...that the guys on the Democratic side did the same thing. He stuck to his ideological principles when they..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

"...the late Fifties and into the Sixties, and those same Texas Regulars and energy interests are already supporting the..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...west of I-35 that caps the north end of Sam Rayburn Drive between Highway 183 and Rundberg. Behind one..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Man on Fire

Denzel Washington heads up a pulsating kidnapping thriller.

"...better to do, comes to visit his old colleague Rayburn (Walken), who has since married and retired from the..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Daytrips

The lasting legacy of Sam Rayburn

"...Sam Rayburn left a legacy in Northeast Texas that can..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

'A Proprietary Love'

High-strung, hot-tempered Tom Miller made self-interest -- and his feuds with LBJ -- into Austin history.

"...over and, in time, greatly expand Miller Produce. The same year, he married Nellie May Miller, belle of another..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

On the Lege

The GOP prepares to vote down Robin Hood without bothering to craft a replacement school-funding system.

"...range of the speaker's social circles.) Dunnam also quoted Sam Rayburn, the legendary Texan speaker of the U.S. House,..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

The House Democrats on Ending Robin Hood

"...that leadership builds, does not just tear down. And Sam Rayburn said, "Any jackass can kick a barn down,..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature

The Johnson Treatment

It's been a dozen years since Robert Caro's previous book about Johnson, and now he's back, this time with Master of the Senate, an exhaustive and exhausting examination of the United States Senate during the years of Johnson's time there.

"...character sketch of LBJ's political mentor, U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, contained some of the best writing ever done..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Naked City

Statesman editor Rich Oppel finds Lloyd Doggett's words distasteful, but not the Re-publican's actions.

"...surprised to see them advocate a tax break for Osama bin Laden as a way to get him to..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

Apparently, the candidates for statewide office have better things to do than answer tough questions from the Texas NAACP.

"...political campaigns. The once-proud party of Ralph Yarborough and Sam Rayburn has apparently convinced itself that democracy can be..."

Oct. 12, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...puts stakeholders and knowledgeable, neutral third parties on the same side of the table. The Bruces' reaction is understandable,..."

July 27, 2001 Column

Day Trips

The venerable, towering National Forests of Texas.

"...to the federal inventory. Soon to follow were the Sam Houston, Sabine, and Angelina national forests. The 1984 East..."

June 1, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Exhibitionism

"...sense of distance between the America of this man, Sam Rayburn, and the America in which we live. He..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Review

The Alfaro Case

"...Doggett's words, "a long way from the days of Sam Rayburn"--i.e., a go-along-to-get-along microcosm of an ideologically homogeneous state...."

Oct. 9, 1998 News Feature

Toast to an Artspace About Art

Pro-Jex's Tunnel of Art on Fifth Street Was More Than a Gallery, Much More

"...arms to the merry weirdos who convened on Lake Sam Rayburn, and the controversy made national headlines. But Darling's..."

April 3, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong

Me No Kissy Ass

"...a large portrait of one of his political heroes, Sam Rayburn. Immediately behind Bullock stood a bronze bust of..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature

Day Trips

"...the bald eagle around the state include: Lake Livingston, Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Lake O' the Pines, Wright Patman Reservoir,..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Column by Gerald E. McLeod