Posts by Tim Zinnecker

Texas is a state that elects its judges, so political affiliation and money can have a significant impact on the outcome.Wallace Jefferson (pictured), Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court,…

South Texas College of Law has named Donald J. Guter as its tenth dean (and president).  He is a law professor at Duquesne and its former dean.  Congrats, Professor Guter,…

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... on this date in 1980?I'm guessing that most of us who are over 40 were witnesses to one of the most talked-about attempted murders in history. J.R. Ewing was ...

Actually, the sky is NOT falling.  But as Dan notes in his post immediately below this one, housing values are.One of the cover stories in this morning’s Houston Chronicle reports…

Earlier this week NHL goalie Martin Brodeur set a new record for career wins.Today a New Jersey appeals court slid one past him.  Story here.

I was born on this date in 1891 in Los Angeles.My father was murdered.I played the clarinet in my high school band.I flunked a course in Greek as an undergraduate ...

March – the month when one of the more exciting spectacles in sport kicks off:  the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament.March – the month when one of the most emotionally-draining, ...

He was born in New York City on June 19, 1903, and attended Columbia University on a football scholarship.  But he excelled at baseball and later signed a contract to…

Did you wake up feeling under the weather?  Got a case of the shakes?  Maybe a bit of breathlessness?  Nausea?  Perhaps excessive sweating and dry mouth?  Did you wake up ...