Politics
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...
Hypocricy Thy Name Is Rick Perry
Jeff PrinceThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram article on the 11 propositions passed by voters yesterday contained a quote that would be funny ha-ha if it weren’t so funny weird/tragic. The story describes how Texans stood tall in favor of pro...
Why is the city settling for a mere drop out of a million dollar bucket?
betty.brinkThe Fort Worth City Council, facing a budget gap of $59 million that it closed by firing long-time workers and forcing pay cuts on those it kept along with cutting millions from various city services, many of which benefited lo...
Fighting the Good Fight
Jimmy FowlerHere’s a big salute to Natalie Ellis, a 34 year old criminology student at UTA. A volunteer for the UTA Arlington Innocence Network, she didn’t pass up a case file on a 1997 Dallas murder that others had dismissed. Because ...
Dubya’s New Career Launches in FW
Kristian LinThe next surreal chapter in the life of George W. Bush plays out here in Fort Worth on Monday. He’s starting his career as a motivational speaker! The all-day event at Fort Worth Convention Center also features Colin Powe...
President Obama Inhales Common Sense
Jeff PrinceWhat a difference a president makes. Under President Obama, the Justice Department said today that people who toke the ganja or distribute weed for medical purposes “should not face federal prosecution, provided they act acco...
Stockyards “Lame In”
Jimmy FowlerAw, man! Last week when I endorsed Queer Liberaction’s Saturday ”Queer Kiss In” at the Stockyards, I sure didn’t have the lame result in mind: Earnest LGBT activists impeded from joyous lip-locking by a clueless band of...
First Democratic Gubernatorial Forum to be Held at TCU
eric.griffeyYesterday, the Tarrant County Young Democrats announced that they, along with the TCU College Democrats, are hosting the first democratic gubernatorial primary candidates’ forum at TCU’s student center (the Horned Frog Ball...
Brokeback Stockyards
Jimmy FowlerMy colleague, the ultra-prolific “Blotcher” Jeff Prince, made some excellent points in his “Big Balls” post. Most gay-sympathetic hetero Texans are as likely to roll their eyes at the idea of Queer Liberaction’s ”Ki...
Obama’s Nobel Is Novel
Jeff PrincePresident Barack Obama said he doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. A bunch of Americans agree with him. After almost 300,000 votes in an MSN.com online poll asking whether he deserved the prize, 62 percent said, “No, he ...