Robert Bryce

Columns | Miscellany

Merchant of Death

By pooh-poohing sentimentality and focusing on profits, Houston funeral home mogul Robert Waltrip is making a killing. (June 1996)

Reporter

War Rooms

A massive buildup for Texas Tech University’s Vietnam archive. (June 1997)

Fishy

The Barton Springs salamander goes to court. (August 1996)

Trash Talk

Why the citizens of Alvin are down in the dumps over garbage. (June 1996)

Cattle Call

The Federal Express of the cattle business. (May 1996)

Bombers Away

The B-1 bomber costs too much and does too little—so who wants to keep it alive? The people of Abilene, whose economy could take a direct hit if the Pentagon pulls the trigger. (May 1996)

War, Inc.

Brown and Root goes to Bosnia for the Pentagon—and cleans up. (April 1996)

All’s Well?

Candelaria’s only well supplied free water to all until the EPA weighed in. (January 1992)