Holy Smoke
For photographer Wyatt McSpadden, the barbecue joints of Texas are soot-stained temples of meat and their pitmasters solemn keepers of an old-time religion.
May 2009 Issue
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The Dark Knight
Inside the fantastic rise and catastrophic fall of Sir Allen Stanford—that high-flying egomaniac with the offshore bank, gold helicopter, Caribbean island, and knack for disposing of other people’s money.
Still Life
A violent tackle in a high school football game paralyzed John McClamrock for life. His mother made sure it was a life worth living.
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Become the Knowledge Pioneer
Texans inherit a pioneering spirit nurtured by a sense that we should always be boldest and best. We can reaffirm this legacy with a vision to make lives better as the home for the top universities, health care, and research in the world. Texas is uniquely positioned in the
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Improve the Colonias
We must improve our colonias, the residential areas along the border that may lack necessities such as potable water and sewer systems, electricity, paved roads, and safe housing. Currently the state gives grant monies to counties to improve the colonias. But if improvements are not done to the specifications
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Protect Our Watersheds
Water will be the defining issue for Texas in the future. Virtually all our watersheds lie on privately owned lands. So we must now be bold and entrepreneurial—we should raise as much public and private capital as we can to purchase the development rights of private landowners. This will
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Use Public Schools to Deliver State Services
State government should better utilize the infrastructure of public schools, especially elementary schools, to deliver state services to adults. Elementary schools are located in every community in the state, and the capital infrastructure (rooms, computers, phone lines) is way underutilized on weeknights and weekends. State services would be held
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Build a National Energy Lab
Texas should create a national laboratory specializing in crosscutting technologies in oil and gas finding and drilling, renewable energy, batteries, other electricity storage technologies, smart-grid technology, and carbon-sequestration technology. Houston is the “energy capital,” but it is no longer the center of energy innovation. For Texas to continue to
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Slash the Prison Population
Texas should dramatically slash its prison population and eliminate a majority of felony crimes. We have criminalized too many different activities: Texas has 2,324 separate felonies on the books, including 11 involving oysters. From 1978 to 2008, Texas’s population increased 80 percent, while the prison population increased 595 percent.
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See the Future of Education
We need a twenty-first-century education system: national presenters who teach via video and occasional visits; local discussion facilitators; evaluators who create tests and diagnose local learning challenges; designers who craft curricula and adapt learning modules to individual students; and school leaders who coordinate the school day. Computers, classrooms, and
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Support Independent Businesses
All Texans, rural and urban, should support independent businesses—little shops, eccentric family-run restaurants, small-scale hardware stores—and boycott big-box stores and chains for a week, a month, or a year. As much as possible. This would help the quickly disappearing independent network of shops that is the fabric of our
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Prosecute Old Crimes
DNA testing has exonerated several citizens who were wrongfully convicted decades ago, and in many cases it has also identified the actual perpetrators. Yet the law prevents us from prosecuting the criminals because of the statute of limitations. We need to amend the statutes to allow us to prosecute
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Curb Sprawl
A positive by-product of the recession could be the curtailment of sprawl. We must make sure to reinforce this trend by focusing on our downtowns. We should commit capital to mass transit between our city centers rather than to highways that encourage sprawl. We should incentivize “energy-saving rehabilitations” of
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Learn Spanish and English
Dual-language education must be instituted in Texas from kindergarten through college. Texas is de facto a bilingual and bicultural state; it already owes a significant portion of its economic base to trade with Latin America. Texans must become national brokers and facilitators of north-south enterprise and exchange—in business, technology,
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Get Back to Basics
The modern age we live in has us at the mercy of materialism. We’re living a rat race, where human connections are lost and families pay the price. Spending quality time with your loved ones without distractions can improve your state of mind. Breathing, meditation, and positive thinking help
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Eliminate Teacher Tenure
I believe the most important change we could make would be to eliminate tenure. Judge educators based on their students’ ability to become employed, successful businesspersons and make significant contributions to the communities where they live and work. Pay-for-performance is the correct method to retain the best and brightest
Make Education Free for Everyone
It’s time to do for Texas what Charlie Wilson and George W. Bush said they wanted to do for Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s time for nation-building. It’s time to fix infrastructure and invest in human capital. It’s time to train for high-wage, long-term jobs, time to recognize that as
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Keep Taxes Low
It’s time to create an incentive for being successful in this country, reward people who have good ideas and re-instill imagination among our citizens. My recommendations: (1) Immediately lower the federal personal tax rate to two brackets, 12 percent and 27.5 percent, (2) reduce the federal corporate tax rate
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Encourage Innovation
We must develop international trade corridors with the countries of Central and South America to ensure that Texas, both through sharp elbows and smarts, is the hub of global trade. In order to spark innovation and reward pioneers, I would also establish the Texas Eureka Award—a grant of $1
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Put Windmills on Utility Poles
While Texas is number one in U.S. wind production, wind power supplies only about one percent of the nation’s electricity. Partly this is because “big wind” farms with huge turbines need billions for new transmission lines. Enter the concept of “small wind”—tiny vertical-axis wind turbines placed on utility poles
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Move the State Capital, Continually
Capitals are anachronistic—they hark back to a horse-and-buggy era, when politicians took days to reach the statehouse and cast their votes. We can wean ourselves from centralized government by rotating our capital—one month it can be in Houston, another in El Paso, and another (why not?) in Amarillo. While
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Make Texans Hike the South Rim
You can’t really appreciate the great state of Texas until you’ve gazed at the mountain majesties of Big Bend. So how about making a South Rim hike a high school diploma prerequisite, or maybe an “I’m a real Texan” license plate designation? The dramatic scenery from this fourteen-mile loop
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Start a State Venture Capital Fund
The diversification of Texas’s economy since the bloodbath of the eighties is the reason we have been relatively staunch amid the current recessionary environment. Big business has been fleeing “business hostile” states to move to “business friendly” Texas. Don’t change our business-friendly climate—keep ’em coming! One source of diversification
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Train the Next Nobel Laureates
Scientists at the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, at the University of Texas at Dallas, have developed an artificial muscle that is lighter than air, stronger than stainless steel, and more elastic than rubber. I think it’s time to channel more resources to Texas’ scientific-research institutes like the Nano-Tech
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Hold Nonpartisan Primaries
One of the most serious problems facing Texas, and the nation, is the increasing partisan polarization of the electorate and the resulting partisan polarization of our officeholders. Yet even as the public expresses its displeasure with this ever-worsening situation, the more pervasive it becomes. I suggest that we could
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Let the Border Solve Its Own Problems
The Texas congressional delegation should seek an international treaty between Mexico and the United States that enables border states to enter into their own cross-border collaborative institutional arrangements to solve local policy issues. When something or someone crosses the border, it should not unavoidably become a federal matter, where
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Never Be Satisfied
We need to teach children to work hard and have a positive attitude, to say, “My situation may not be good, but I can change that.” At our school I point them to the examples of people like George Washington Carver. He didn’t say, “I was a slave and
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Honor Our Heritage
By preserving our culture and heritage, we create distinct destinations. This encourages tourism, which promotes education about our history and prompts economic growth and job creation. Texans are exposed early in life to the state’s historic places. But visiting the Alamo, the San Jacinto Monument, and the Texas Governor’s
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Build With Adobe
The hundreds of thousands of Texans living in a desert or semitropical climate should stop building and buying wood- or steel-frame houses that will require expensive amendments. A better option is to dig the earth, toss it into a mixer with water and straw, mold it into forty-pound bricks,
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Plunder California’s Universities
Spend $1 billion, rape and pillage California’s best universities, and set Texas up for one hundred years with the best academics around. Great universities drive economic success. Unfortunately we’re behind. Texas’s universities have 52 members in the National Academy of Sciences; California’s have 625. Of course, California also has
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Make Texas the Global Green Leader
For instructions, read Green Star StateWebber is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin.The Next Big Idea »All 54 ideas from the magazine »And 28 more you’ll find only on the web »
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Put a Solar Array on the Roof of Every Public High School
Paul Hobby What: A 25-kilowatt solar array on every Texas high school designed and installed by students (properly supervised, of course). Why: (1) to inspire interest in science, technology, and the math of sustainability, (2) to demonstrate that we know how to use
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Identify New Leadership
Texas needs bold, inventive, clever, honest leadership. Our visionaries are often too insulated, unknown, or unconnected to the hubs of power, and the few who make it through the gauntlet are often transformed by a process that strips them of the luster that attracted us to them in the
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Build a Green City
Build a town in Texas from the ground up without the use of fossil fuels. Start with an undeveloped section of land and use all the wind, water, and solar technology available to create the first truly green city. Design it so as not to require machinery that uses
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Improve Mexico’s Schools
The Texas-Mexico border divides the countries with the most- and least-educated populations among OECD members. As long as this education disparity exists, there is zero probability that immigration or security policies can resolve problems of declining incomes and social integration in Texas. A major collaboration between Texas higher education
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Cover More Children
Texas should expand access to Medicaid and SCHIP for low-income children. Better health insurance coverage will improve the long-term productivity of our population, relieve pressure on our struggling health care system, and lower private health insurance premiums. We must also demand accountability from health care providers on the value
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Promote Household Conservation
In conjunction with utility companies, the state should establish water and power usage goals for every household in Texas. The goals could be based on number of people per square foot. Since most cities are faced with water and power shortages, for the benefit of the environment, families could
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Improve Our Schools
Our goal should be the best K–12 education in the nation. That is a tall order, given our urban-rural expanse, our demographic mix, and the grinding poverty of so many school districts. For starters, Texas would fund a network of five hundred first-class, high-expectations magnet schools in every region.
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Eleven Anagrams Based on the Phrase “Texas a Better Place”
Pace Taxes, Bet Later Eat Sex! Carpet Table! Creep at Battle Axes Beat Cat. Relaxes Pet Becat! A “Text” Pleaser Excrete a Belt Pasta Ace Relapse. Tab Text Cater Best Expat Ale Ate Lee Baxter’s Pact Excel! Patter a Beast Excel! Batter a PasteHancock is a painter who lives
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Hire an Ex-Felon
How about not judging a man based on a mistake in his past? As an employer, when you see that a man has a felony on his record, don’t automatically disqualify him—bring him in for an interview and hear him out on how he’s changed. Chances are, that man
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High-Speed Internet for Everyone
In 1935 FDR established the Rural Electrification Administration to provide electricity to rural America. With help from Lyndon B. Johnson, the REA went on to become one of the Great Depression’s best investments. Electricity, coupled with former governor Dolph Briscoe’s visionary system of farm-to-market roads, revolutionized rural Texas. Recently
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Establish a Personal Income Tax
Texas prides itself on being a low-tax, low-spend state. Consequently we rank forty-eighth in the nation in per-pupil spending for public education and almost last in mental health. But whether we choose to spend a little or a lot, we have an “upside-down” revenue system with overreliance on indirect
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Encourage Troublemaking
Let’s support artists who are society’s critics, even when—especially when—we don’t agree with them. Let’s enter a conversation with potentially dangerous art, especially when its themes are social justice. The National Endowment for the Arts has all sorts of safeguards to protect the public from artists who make people
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Texas Will Be Better When . . .
Texas will be better when . . . we value the growing diversity of the state’s population as a strategic asset in the global and innovation-driven economy of the twenty-first century . . . we share a vision of Texas’s leadership role in western hemispheric economic integration . .
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Embody Diversity
Texas should put more emphasis on highlighting its diversity. This state is a true melting pot of people from all ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Texas is considered by many as a place of refuge for individuals and businesses looking for a fresh start; we must ensure that our
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Teach Kids About Sex
Texas—my Texas—boasts the unfortunate reputation as the number one state in the union when it comes to spending for abstinence-only programs. These programs do not work, as even Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter recently pronounced from Alaska, in the matter of her baby born out of wedlock. Texas now has
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Develop Alternative Fuels
Texas, the energy capital of the world as well as the headquarters of three major airlines, should lead in the development of sustainable, second-generation alternative fuels. I don’t mean the kind that use food sources. Earlier this year Continental worked with Boeing, GE Aviation/CFM International, and Honeywell’s UOP to
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Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Early on, when he was still calling himself Smog, indie rocker Bill Callahan buried his baritone voice beneath chugging, repetitive beats. Since he began recording under his own name, his rock drive has dissipated somewhat, but the thing that has continually made Callahan’s recordings so fascinating—a complete abhorrence of
Tony Garza
“As Texas moves toward majority Hispanic status, the Republicans are going to have to do less shouting, less shorthand, and less sloganeering and court the Latino community in a way that’s relevant to Latino individuals—whether on education, taxes, or job creation.”
How to Make Peach Preserves
Before tossing a jar of name-brand preserves into your shopping cart, read its label. Made from fruit concentrate? High-fructose corn syrup a main ingredient? Canned in Alaska? “These days, people don’t generally make their own preserves,” says Lynette Gold, the co-owner of Stonewall-based Gold Orchards, which was established in 1940.
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The Lost Boys
Can a former member of a vicious Houston gang leave crime behind and build a new life for himself?
Mad to Play
Famed Texas-based guitarist Stephen Bruton was a man who knew how to count his blessings.
Last Call at Poodie’s Bar
Poodie Locke, longtime stage manager for Willie Nelson, died Wednesday at the age of 60.
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In Treatment
Diversionary programs such as drug courts, which provide treatment-based alternatives for non-violent criminals to prisons, remain critically underfunded.
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Rosemary Chicken
1 airline chicken breast 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1/2 ounce oil blend 4 ounces roasted vegetables 2 ounces fingerling potato 1 teaspoon garlic, minced 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 pinch pepper 3 ounces chicken stock 2 lemon wedges 1 ounce butter 1/2 teaspoon truffle blend 1 pinch parsley, julienneSeason
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Salmon With Roasted Squash and Sweet Onions
1/2 ounce oil blend 6 ounces salmon filets, skin on 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1/2 ounce oil blend 3 ounces caramelized onion 1 teaspoon garlic, minced 1 ounce spinach 1/2 ounce oil blend 3 ounces seasonal squash 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 pinch pepper 1 pinch parsley, julienneHeat oil
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Sautéed Salmon in Macadamia Crust and Coconut Curry Sauce
1 small onion, diced 1 small stalk celery, diced 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup white wine 1 fourteen-ounce can coconut milk, unsweetened 2 ounces cream 1 teaspoon green curry paste zest from 2 limes 2 six-ounce salmon filets salt and pepper to taste 1/2 cup macadamia nuts, crushedSauté vegetables in
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Crab Cakes With Red Pepper Ginger Sauce
Crab Cakes1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons onion, diced 1/4 clove garlic 1 cup serrano pepper, diced 1 cup red pepper, diced 4 tablespoons flour 1/3 cup heavy cream 1 tablespoon grain mustard 1 tablespoon dry mustard 2 tablespoons chives, chopped 1 egg yolk 12 ounces crab meat 1 tablespoon lemon
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The Color of Sustainability
Green has always been associated with money (or that queasy feeling you get on a turbulent airplane ride). But only recently has it become known as a social movement unto itself. There has been such a strong push to “go green” that companies are doing everything they can to go
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TEXAS MONTHLY Receives National Magazine Award for General Excellence
The magazine has received 18 nominations over the past ten years and 54 nominations in all.
Circle of Influenza
If you need an example of how the world can change in an instant, here is a small blow by blow.
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Testing My Patience
Why are so many people spending so much time taking Facebook’s inane quizzes?
Singin’ the Blues
Gary Clark, Jr., the 25-year-old blues musician, goes Hollywood. When he’s not opening for an Etta James concert.
Eyewitness News
The Legislature takes up photo and live lineup identification procedures in criminal cases.
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Adopt a School
As a fifth-generation Texan, I know Texas is a great state! We would become greater if every business with one hundred employees or more adopted an underachieving public school. The businesses could (a) encourage and affirm the value of teachers, (b) meet the school’s material needs when possible, (c)
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Take Care of Our Animals
Let’s put the “wildlife” back in Texas Parks and Wildlife. Birds, mammals, and reptiles get harmed by collisions with boats, entanglement and ingestion of plastics (especially fishing tackle), pollution of our waters, dredging and alteration of habitats by development. Aiding these animals is left to volunteer organizations, which must
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Put Great Schools Where They’re Needed
Now that President Obama has made education a top national priority, a long-term investment by the Texas Legislature is needed: Establish new top-quality universities with professional schools where demographic growth decrees. Instead of skimping on K—16 education and lagging behind states with less resources and dimmer futures, Texas must
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Use Pneumatic Tubes for Urban Transport
Our thinking about urban transport is stuck in the early twentieth century (buses, trams, or light-rail). How about something new? I like the idea of cars and passengers propelled by pressure and vacuum in a pneumatic tube. The propelling “engines” (pumps) and “fuel” (electricity) would not be attached to
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Learn How to Drink Seawater
Texas has a water problem. Texas has a Gulf Coast. The state should develop inducements for desalinization plants.Kempner is a businessman and civic leader in Galveston.The Next Big Idea »All 54 ideas from the magazine » And 28 more you’ll find only on the web »
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Get Smart About Prosecutions
Get over criminalizing conduct among consenting adults. Stop wasting money on morality prosecutions for drug use, sex work, and polygamy and start taxing and regulating the conduct instead. Stop capital prosecutions, which are far more expensive than life without parole. Demilitarize the border, de-incarcerate nonviolent criminals, and reallocate criminal
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Let Kids Manage Their Own School Funding
Texas is the greatest state and could distance itself forever from the rest of them by doing the following: Place Texas public schools under a czar who would be hired with the express purpose of putting the following plan into place: Czar hires superintendent, superintendent hires principal, principal hires
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Close the Door and Teach!
I would love to go off on the testing system we have set up, but in all honesty, I think Texas’s greatest academic problems stem from the people we have leading our classrooms. As teachers, we should be driven by our passion for students and not bullied into teaching
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Build Global Partnerships
Texas’s future rests on sustainable development enriched by global information sharing. Because our eco-zones actually represent repeated human-environment relationships that exist throughout the world, a pattern book of related experience can be drawn. This captured wisdom, these “protoMetrics,” provides an applied framework, connecting, for example, our coastal problems to
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Rethink the Drug Laws
The U.S. government is militarizing our side of the Rio Grande because the Mexican cartels are warring for the right to sell dope on this side. The drug war is like the blind men and the elephant. Nobody understands that there are no sides. It’s one big elephant, and
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Invest in Brainpower
As other states freeze faculty salaries and even cut college enrollments, we might find the best buyer’s market for brainpower in more than a decade. So let’s capitalize on the strength of our fiscal situation. Texas has taken some positive steps to encourage the commercialization of new ideas through
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Stop Incarcerating Mentally Ill Youth
The Texas Youth Commission has become the statewide dumping ground for mentally ill youth. The state needs to adequately fund community-based mental-health services up front and avoid sending these youth to a less appropriate and more expensive long-term lockdown environment. The diversion of that population would allow the TYC
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Put Justice in the Hands of Communities
The crime rate of the future is in the hands of our children, and they are in our hands now. The most powerful way to affect crime is to strengthen the community. That can best be done through the emerging concept of restorative justice, which reflects the ancient understanding
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Give Everyone Health Insurance
Adopt universal health coverage for all Texans. Here’s how: Expand enrollment in existing programs, including Medicaid, SCHIP, the state’s high-risk pool, the state employees’ health plan, and private health insurance, and develop new programs such as TexHealth’s 3-share products. Require community rating for private health insurance plans. Mandate participation
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Smarten Up!
You want a big idea, Texas? Stop being so damn ignorant. Invest seriously in education: early childhood, community colleges, junior colleges, vocational institutes, universities. Our politicians are actually debating whether to make kindergarten mandatory. Kindergarten? Hell, we should start there and also allow any Texan to get two years
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Free Rides for Our Best Students
The University of California-Irvine’s brand-new law school is offering the best and the brightest a three-year free ride, a project underwritten by donations from law firms. What if the University of Texas at San Antonio did the same to promote energy sustainability by partnering with engineering and architecture firms
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Make UT-Dallas a Tier-One University
We should take advantage of the economic plights of California, Michigan, and the East Coast to recruit their best companies to relocate to Texas. We should also lure away from their universities the best and brightest to come make the University of Texas at Dallas a tier-one university and
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Abolish the TAKS Test
Save trees. Axe TAKS. Ban the drumroll moment. It’s simple: Implement an online basic skills test. Instead of stopping everything for testing, let students log on individually in a campus testing lab. Instead of an “all hands on deck” approach against cheating, make it the testing lab supervisor’s job.
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Establish a State Income Tax
We need a state personal income tax to meet the challenges ahead. The Texas constitution guarantees that income tax revenue can be spent only on cutting property taxes and funding education. It also guarantees voter control over income tax adoption and rate increases. Uncle Sam would pick up some
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Ensure More College Degrees for Our Kids
We should upgrade the current state standards and curriculum with a road map that will prepare all our children for success in higher education. In an era when a college degree is increasingly valuable (it correlates to $1 million more in lifetime career earnings), only 30 percent of our
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Make the Lone Star State Self-Supporting
Make Texas wholly self-sustaining with enough food, power, jobs, and global exports to support every Texan. Food: Use technology and Texas talent to produce enough food so that every Texan can buy and eat locally. Power: Put our land, sun, and wind to work to power every community. Jobs/Education:
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Foster Humility
The central principle of depth psychology: What you see is a compensation for what you don’t see. Loving this state, I remain perplexed as to why people think we are so complete. This, surely, is a compensation for insecurity from the reality that the world is far bigger, more
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Raise Chickens
The economic catastrophe is a great excuse for Texans to dive into backyard gardening. Producing and preparing more of your own food is a hedge against shortages, but there’s also philosophical and spiritual liberation to be found in the new agrarianism. We’re all going to have to live poorer,
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Mate, Create, and Innovate
Creative mating generates a bounty of benefits. Reproduction lies at one end of the mating continuum, shuffling the genes of two to produce an entirely novel one containing unique generative powers. But even brief encounters can produce flashes of insight that cascade to great benefit. One occurs when a
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Decriminalize Pot
Decriminalize possession and use of marijuana. Texans will then be able to regulate, tax, and control its distribution and sourcing. The result: Eliminate 50 percent from the bottom line of the murderous drug cartels, undermining their ability to destabilize Texas’s biggest trading partner and terrorize the citizens of the U.S./Mexico
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Know Your Gift
We must stand quietly, look as far off and as deep inside as the moment allows, listen for the hum of the earth until we see and hear between the ever-presence of Paradox. Be thankful for Blue Bell, bluebonnets, and Bob Buford. We all have a gift. Know yours,
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Foster Cutting-Edge Research
Sustainable prosperity gravitates to areas capturing “the next big thing.” Nanotechnology facilitates convergence of electronics, avionics, medicine/biosciences, energy, communications, and materials science. Texas must compete universally in these disciplines while cultivating the requisite skilled workforce, creative capacity, and infrastructure. To do this we must support: (1) superior educational outcomes
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Rethink Teacher Training
Imagine a Texas where the words “I am a public schoolteacher” immediately enlist an inner “wow” reaction, where “educator” becomes the most honored and highly sought-out professional title. We can do it. Let’s abolish our 160 Educator Preparation Programs and replace them with 10 prestigious programs across the state;
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Grilled “Mongolian Style” Lamb Chops
Recipe courtesy of Five Sixty Restaurant by Wolfgang PuckCilantro-Mint Vinaigrette1 egg yolk 2 limes, juiced 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 medium garlic clove 1/4 cup rice vinegar 1/2 teaspoon Chinese chile sauce (Sambal recommended) 1 bunch cilantro leaves, chopped 6 sprigs of mint 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 1/2
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