Politics
Office of Civil Rights Clears FWISD
betty.brinkThere’s little doubt that the Fort Worth ISD needed some good news to offset a couple of bouts of negative publicity over the past few months, first with its finance department’s embarrassing admission that the district ove...
Mayor Mike’s Midnight Hallucination
dan.mcgrawFort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief gave his State of the City Address this week, and predictably everything is fairly wunnerful in Cowtown. He sucked up to the TCU football program, talked about job growth and better roads all the ...
Fort Worth ISD Races Heat Up
betty.brinkThe Fort Worth ISD trustees’ race — still two months away — has already heated up with the announcements this week that Ann Sutherland, who lives in Southwest Fort Worth, will run for the District 6 seat held by six-year ...
Crime Control District Board Dissolved by City Council
betty.brink Is it a power grab or just good government at work? On Tuesday, the Fort Worth city council voted unanimously to dissolve the 14-year Crime Control and Prevention District board and replace the appointed members with — ...
Mad Hatter for Texas Guv
Jimmy FowlerNow that Republican gubernatorial primary contender Debra Medina has told Glenn Beck she believes there are good arguments to be made that the U.S. government was involved in the 9/11 attacks, can we please please please stop p...
New Sheriff Armendariz Reads ‘Em Their Rights
Peter GormanRegional Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Dr. Al Armendariz made quite a splash last night at the February meeting of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance. Featured speaker Armendariz drew between 250 and 3...
Slap Rahm Emanuel’s Wrist And Move On
Jeff PrincePresident Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is under attack for using what is now known as “the R word.” Based on what’s been said about Emanuel’s private conversations, he’s one profane mofo. To him, describing s...
Rick Perry Flexes Muscles In Poll
Jeff PrinceLooks like Nolan Ryan hitched his team to a rickety wagon. No…not the Texas Rangers. (Well, ok, the Texas Rangers too, but that’s a different story.) I’m talking about the Texas governor’s race. Ryan backed Fort Wor...
Is the Right Wing Right About ‘Avatar’?
Kristian LinThe latest dispatch from the culture wars is the right wing’s attack column forming against Avatar. The Weekly Standard‘s John Podhoretz and John Nolte call the movie anti-American. Town Hall’s Jonah Goldberg tell...
Lowlights of the GOP Gubernatorial Debate
Jimmy FowlerWhat was up with that idiotic aw-shucks expression that Rick Perry wore during last night’s GOP gubernatorial primary debate? The raised eyebrows, the squinty eyes, the earnest grin-with-overbite: He looked like he was runnin...