2nd Thought
You Want Fair?
DAN MCGRAWTexas Christian University’s football program has achieved remarkable success in recent years. The Horned Frogs finished this year ranked fourth in the country – quite an accomplishment for a relatively small privat...
Kinky on the Farm
DAVE MCNEELYWith Houston Mayor Bill White in the Democratic race for governor, humorist/author Kinky Friedman has shifted his attentions to the race for agriculture commissioner.
A Gem in Southeast
WALTER H. WILLIAMS IIIAs board chairman of the Near Southeast Community Development Corporation, I appreciated Fort Worth Weekly‘s recent article about the city housing department (“Falling Down, Getting Back Up,” Oct. 21, 2009). B...
Transfer from If to When
DAN MCGRAWFive years ago, no one in Fort Worth was thinking much about public transportation, particularly an inner-city streetcar system. Real estate developers, assuming that only poor people used mass transit, didn’t want any li...
Denial and Tragedy
SHARI JULIANWhen I heard about the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, I packed my bags for Killeen. As a former military wife, a military mom, and a clinician specializing in mass trauma, I suspected what I would find – not so much about...
Spending the Planet
E. R. BILLSI’m not a big fan of most conservatives. Historically speaking, they are – to put it bluntly – too often on the wrong side of history.
Plowing in Vain?
EDDIE GRIFFINTo: City Manager Dale Fisseler Dear Dale, Since my retirement, I have received disturbing information about an initiative we began in the mid-1980s – the revitalization of the Evans and Rosedale Business and Cultural Dist...
Back to the Sofa
DAN MCGRAWA few weeks ago, I did something I hadn’t done in 25 years. I made my way to a college town to visit someone whose couch I could crash on for the weekend. At the off-campus house, I was awakened by folks coming and goin...
Leasing Our Lives Away
Jerry LobdillSo you’ve signed a gas lease. Congratulations: You’ve been taken for a fool. Certain material facts were kept from you that, had you known them, likely would have made you throw the contract in the trash where it be...
Don’t Tax, We Spend
DAVE MCNEELYIn some ways, it’s reminiscent of the 1980s, when competing black Democrats, some who couldn’t stand one another, got in elbowing matches to stand closest to black presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.