Publications

Hobby’s Books

Former Texas Lt Governor Bill Hobby has announced the release of his new book, How Things Really Work: Lessons from a Life in Politics. Written with Saralee Tiede and published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, information about Governor Hobby’s new book is available at www.billhobby.com.

“The Hobby Family History in Texas” by Bill Hobby

View and/or download the book “The Hobby Family History in Texas” by Bill Hobby

Speeches

Texas Exes
April 24, 2010

San Jacinto Day Speech
April 17, 2010

Convocation Address for the UT College of Natural Sciences
Delivered at the University of Texas at Austin, May 19, 2007

The Privatization of Public Higher Education
Delivered at the University of Virginia, October 2003

Remarks at Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas Dinner
Delivered March 25, 2003 in Austin, Texas

Book Chapter

The Urban System: The University of Houston
A chapter from the Multicampus System: Perspectives on Practice and Prospects, published in 1999 by Stylus Publishing, LLC.

Essays Published in Newspapers and Magazines

2014

The real crisis in Texas isn’t Ebola – TribTalk

2013

Letters to the Editor

2011

A Simple Truth 22-1 Ratio Works

2010

How We Learned to Count One Another: Census Means More as US History Unfolds

Bill Hobby: How to end robocalls for good

Hobby: Texas has become a national laughingstock

2009

Open Government

2008

Suspicious Ayes in Texas

American Astronomical Society Speech

Before Saving the Nation’s Banks, Jones Bailed Out Houston

2007

“Lady Bird Johnson” Article as Published in Houston Chronicle

“Poll Tax” Article as Published in Houston Chronicle

Perry-Ferguson

2006

September DeLay

2003

Book Review – Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State

2001

Pardon Me!

2000

Bill Hobby for President!

The Great Y2K Compromise

November Election

1999

Texas Education

Who Counts?

Texas Officials: Texan or Republican? Census Paranoia

Just Vote No

1998

Get Out of My Face!

1997

So Maybe Low Voter Turnout Isn’t Always a Bad Thing?

Why the Fuss in Congress Over Census Count?

Texas Can Educate Itself Out of Economic Decline

1996

Eloquence Came from Her Head, Not Her Voice (Ann Richards)

Universities Must Embrace Changes

Texas Faces an Uncertain Future

San Antonio’s Quest

1995

Software Lets You Write a Texas Budget

Stealth Budget Cuts Hurt Higher Education

TV’s Pernicious Effects

New Congress on Line to be Next Big Brother

Affirmative Action Becoming Political Weapon

Past Laws Doing Harm to America’s Future

UH Has Problems, But it Excels, Too

Houston Addresses Dropouts

Running Up Debt to Build Prisons

Health Care Reform

1994

Feds Have Forced it on Us

Political Correctness

Milteach

The High Cost of Health Care

Carbon I and II

Hong Kong

Edward’s Aquifer

Research Paying Off for Texas

GOP Might Win U.S. Senate Majority

Tax System

Bangladesh Bank Idea Combats Poverty

1993

A Requiem for the Houston Post

Texas Advanced Placement Project

Practice of Medicine Should be Left to Doctors – SB370

Worker’s Compensation System

State Budget Tricks

Health Care Costs

TV Restrictions Smacks of Orwell’s 1984

Texas Shadows Michigan’s Nightmare

Medicaid Recovery in Texas

Texas Confronting High School Faults

School Finance

1992

State’s Frugality has Hurt Too Many Texans

Math

Texas Military Initiative

Buckyballs

Punishment Standards Commission

Knowledge, Economics and Technology

Kenedy Court Case

House Banking Scandal

Paying for Public Education

Educators Show It’s Possible to Deliver Excellence

Efficient and Effective Schools (1)

Efficient and Effective Schools (2)

Paying for Texas Public Schools

The Childrens Charter

Family Learning Centers

Cornea Transplants

Automated Voting

Texas Adheres to GOP Principles