Politics
Scenes From a Political Marriage
Kristian LinHarry Reid has found trouble recently from Game Change, the upcoming book on the 2008 election. The real dirt, though, is on John and Elizabeth Edwards, as detailed in this excerpt in New York magazine. I just got through readi...
Starbucks Baristas Get Steamed
eric.griffeySome of the baristas at the 8th and Rosedale Starbucks announced today that some of their employees have unionized, making them the first unionized Starbucks in Texas. Here is their press release: Fort Worth, TX- Baristas and c...
Holy Mischief
Jimmy FowlerAccusations of child sexual abuse against Catholic priests are so unsurprising, they barely blip on the media radar, as when seven Tarrant County women recently filed a lawsuit alleging that a priest who served locally molested...
Mayor (Not Named Mike) Gets Tough On Polluters
Jeff PrinceTexas Monthly’s glowing, in-depth feature story on outgoing Houston Mayor Bill White (“The Great White Hope,” December 2009) describes a hard-working, go-getting, populist politician who comes across as fairly rem...
Trinity Visions
Jimmy FowlerTree huggers, owl savers and local historians, take note – tonight (Monday) at 9pm is when KERA TV Channel 13 airs its original documentary ”Living with the Trinity.” The hour-long doc focuses on an eight year period (196...
Today’s Most Gruesome Story
Peter GormanTimes are tough here, but in some parts of the world they’re considerably tougher. Today’s most gruesome story comes out of the Guardian, a British paper, which reported on the arrests of several members of a gang i...
The Sky isn’t Falling
Jimmy FowlerI had to double-check the sky last night. There were no fiery horses stampeding from above. No dragons spewing pestilence. This dude gave nary a peep. I suspected that the ordination of Susan Slaughter as Fort Worth’s first f...
We Can be Heroes
Jimmy FowlerMost of us love a story about an unlikely hero (male or female) who steps up to confront a horrifying crisis, neutralizes the situation, and saves lives in the process. But do we love that story enough to throw out the truth? A...
FW’s Trannie Budget Crisis
Jimmy FowlerLots of people are preening with moral outrage that FW city leaders will consider covering gender reassignment surgery in the employee health plans. That’s only one in a list of 20 recommendations by a post-Rainbow Lounge rai...
Smokers, Dippers, Chewers Unite!
Jeff PrinceWhen the state and federal governments started hiking tobacco taxes – a so-called sin tax — and driving the cost of cigarettes above $5 a pack, well, I got pissed. And when I get pissed, I spring to action. I’m li...