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TEXAS'S BIG RANCHES ARE STILL SELLING FOR BIG BUCKS

Texas Monthly, February, 2023- Special Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition
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Griddy Argues It Was, in Fact, a Champion of Consumers

Texas Monthly, June 9, 2021
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Texas's Independence Didn't Cause the Power Crisis

Texas Monthly, Feb. 27, 2021
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Houston Chronicle, Feb. 21, 2021
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Opinion: 7 smart ways Texas can stop power blackouts - once and for all

Texas Monthly, Jan. 28, 2021
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Disaster or deliverance? What Biden victory means for oil and gas

Houston Chronicle, Nov. 21, 2020
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ExxonMobil's Failure to Go Green Could Worsen Its Financial Future

Texas Monthly, Nov. 10, 2020
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The State of the Energy Industry

Houston Matters, June 22, 2020
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Change in the oil patch may be more permanent than we are willing to admit

Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2020
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For a While This Week, Oil Was Cheaper Than Dirt. Should We Be Worried?

Houston Chronicle, April 23, 2020
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What We Know About the Surge in Jobless Claims in Texas

Texas Monthly, March 29, 2020
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The paradox of George Mitchell's legacy: Fracking and The Woodlands

Houston Chronicle, October. 20, 2019
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How One Desperate Energy Executive Launched the Fracking Revolution

Texas Monthly, October 16, 2019
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The first Barnett Shale gas well, the one that ignited the revolution, remains standing as the suburbs encroach

Dallas Morning News, Oct. 6, 2019
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Remembering T. Boone Pickens, the "Aw Shucks" Billionaire
Texas Monthly, Sept. 11, 2019
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What Happens When a Houston Energy Guru Messes With the Power Grid?
Texas Monthly, June 26, 2019
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The Oilman Who Loved Sustainable Energy
Houston Chronicle, May 19, 2019
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Texas Schools Should Teach Financial Literacy
Houston Chronicle, May 8, 2019
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Trump's Threats Amount to Amnesty for Immigrants Entering Country Illegally
Dallas Morning News, April 27, 2019
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Is the World Ready for Dell 3.0?     
Texas Monthly, February 2019
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How Herb Kelleher Made the World a Whole Lot Smaller
Texasmonthly.com, Jan. 4, 2019
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Will 2019 Bring the Long-Awaited Consolidation Among U.S. Shale Producers?
Oil and Gas Vision, January 2019
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How West Texas Became Woodstock for Frackers
Texas Monthly, January 2019
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Randall Stephenson Is Dragging AT&T Into the 21st Century
Texas Monthly, December 2018
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ICE Raids That Target Employers Won't Solve Our Immigration Crisis
Dallas Morning News, Sept. 4, 2018
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T. Boone Pickens on Selling the Ranch
Texas Monthly, June 2018
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A Farewell to Dairy Queens
Texas Monthly, May 2018
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The Long Fall of iHeart
Texas Monthly February 2018
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Why Offshore Oil Workers Should Reflect on December 10
Texasmonthly.com, Dec. 8, 2017
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John Goodenough Plans to Make Gasoline Obsolete
Texas Monthly, October 2017
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For Lessons on How to Rebuild, Look to Mitchell and The Woodlands, Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 16, 2017
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Black Elk Down
Texas Monthly, April 2017
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Perry's Missive Overlook's A&M's Great Strides
Houston Chronicle, March 23, 2017
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Big Oil Roars Back
Texas Monthly, February 2017
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Why, That Son of a Steak!
Texas Monthly, January 2017
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The Pot of Cold
Texas Monthly, December 201
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Is Being U.S. President Like Being A CEO? Not Exactly
Houston Chronicle, Dec. 10, 2016
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Blowout
Texas Monthly, October 2016
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Truth and Fiction on the Horizon
Texas Monthly, Sept. 29, 2016
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Electric Mayhem
Texas Monthly, August 2016
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Out of Gas
Texas Monthly, July 2016
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Food Fight
Texas Monthly, June 2016
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A Decade Later, Enron Verdicts Still Relevant
Houston Chronicle, May 15, 2016
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Uber for Frequent Fliers
Texas Monthly, May 2016
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The Aspen of Texas
Texas Monthly, March 2016
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Legal Beef
Texas Monthly, February 2016
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Got Oil? Even at These Prices, the Outlook for the Energy Capital Isn't All Bad
Houston Chronicle, Jan 23, 2016
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An Aramco IPO Won't Be Oil Market's Powerball Jackpot
Energy Voice, Jan. 22, 2016
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The Deepwater Horizon case's Potemkin Village of Prosecution Finally Crumbles
Energy Voice Dec. 9, 2015
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Great Planes
Texas Monthly, December 2015
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Black Marks for Black Elk
Energy Voice, Sept. 13, 2015
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Whatabattle!
Texas Monthly, September 2015
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As Blue Bell's White Knight, Bass Might Have to Get Hands Dirty
Houston Chronicle, July 21, 2015
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Imagine...If Yoko Understood the Tradeoffs of Energy Consumption
Energy Voice July 20, 2015
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Can BP Move Beyond Macondo's Legacy?
Energy Voice, July 6, 2015
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Behind the Curtain
Texas Monthly, July 2016
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There Is No Saint Blue Bell
Houston Chronicle, May 18, 2015
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Oil Sheiks No Longer Hold U.S. Hostage
Houston Chronicle April 10, 2016
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Lucrative When We
Texas Monthly, April 2015
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