Bud Kennedy is a homegrown Fort Worth guy who started out covering high school football here when he was 16. He went away to the Fort Worth Press and newspapers in Austin and Dallas, then came home in 1981. Since 1987, he's written more than 1,000 weekly dining columns and more than 3,000 news and politics columns. If you don't like what he says about politics, read him on barbecue.
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Heroic officer says policewoman at Fort Hood 'erased a lot of prejudice'
| |Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009
Ray Martinez helped end Charles Whitman's sniper spree at the UT Tower in Austin 43 years ago.Read more
Bud Kennedy: Party purity is a losing ticket for GOP
| |Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009
"True conservatives" alienate mainstream voters, even in GOP strongholds.Read more
Figures on child hunger are appalling, but some people don’t care
| |Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2009
A Texas activist offers a piece of his mind on the topic of food stamps.Read more
Chisholm Trail's history being rewritten, and it's time to draw the line
| Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009
Saginaw is one of several cities stringing hokum and hype together to claim a share of cowboy history.Read more
Time for UTA, UNT and Tech to get mad and get even
| |Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
A political e-mail making the rounds basically calls Texas Tech, UNT and UT-Arlington stupid.Read more
'Secession is a pathetic idea’ -- then and now
| |Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
The Clark family gathers to remember an ancestor who died in the 'Great Hanging at Gainesville.'Read more
Near stadium, Cowboys have a new rival: Satan
| |Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009
So says a nursing home chaplain concerned about an "occultic landmark" close to the stadium.Read more
If this is as good as it gets, why even have an election?
| |Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
As a wannabe nation, Texas looks more like the next banana republic.Read more
What light rail can and can't do
| Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009
Trips to Dallas were a success, except when tens of thousands tried to ride.Read more
Itching for a fight, Republicans take aim at themselves
| Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009
Local Reps. Vicki Truitt and Todd Smith are caught in the party’s crossfire.Read more
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Former Cliburn head to play role in reviving once-prestigious Tchaikovsky competition
Just a few days before the April telephone call, Richard Rodzinski had read a lengthy profile of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
