Metro
Classy House?
TWU wants to ditch its home work.JEFF PRINCE
Historic Fort Worth Inc. filed a lawsuit after the city paved the way for demolition of a historic house, and the suit was set to determine whether the preservation ordinance has teeth. Hmmm. Maybe it should be called the Gummy...
Liquor by the Big Box
The booze business is getting chained up in North Texas.ERIC GRIFFEY
Just a few weeks ago, empty shelves at the Majestic Liquor on Camp Bowie Boulevard gave the long-standing retailer the look of a sad, picked-apart grocery store just before a natural disaster. Now a design crew is hard at work ...
Special Treatment
Arlington Heights staffers are furious about the lack of attention to some students’ needs.ERIC GRIFFEY
The toilet sat for years behind a thin privacy screen at the back of a special education classroom at Arlington Heights High School. It’s finally gone, but faculty members say it still symbolizes the serious problems they see...
Smooth Shaves, Rough Times
A Riverside barbershop, like its neighborhood, hangs on and hopes.JEFF PRINCE
Race Street Barber Shop is in a time warp. Three barber chairs circa 1938 provide comfortable seats for shaggy visitors needing a clip. The long, narrow room is designed to give those waiting their turn good spots to sit, read ...
In the Right Direction
Next Step program has a track record for helping ex-cons find and keep jobs.ERIC GRIFFEY
Melvin Qualls’ story is unfortunately an all-too-common one. His mother overdosed on drugs when he was five, and his dad was a drug addict as well. His grandmother took care of him until her death when he was a teenager, then...
High-Rise = High Traffic?
Oakhurst neighbors are wary of more development along the Trinity.JEFF PRINCE
The Near East Side’s Oakhurst neighborhood sprang up in the 1920s as an early Fort Worth suburb — I-35 hadn’t been built yet, and the Trinity River served as a natural buffer from bustling downtown. Residents still enjoy ...
Gloria Steinem Comes to Fort Worth
And sits down for a Q&A with the Fort Worth WeeklySARAH ANGLE
Fort Worth Weekly got the opportunity on Thursday to talk with longtime feminist leader Gloria Steinem about gender issues, equality, and women’s healthcare in Texas. Steinem, in her late 70s, is the guest speaker this week a...
Financial/Health
A faith-based coalition is studying the link between bad loans and poor health.SARAH ANGLE
Rachel was talking to her Sunday school class in Haltom City a few weeks before Christmas. Her voice broke, and she started crying. “We have to take our son’s gifts back to Wal-Mart,” she said. Rachel, 29, works part time...
Trap, No Shoot
A new city ordinance aims to humanely reduce feral cat colonies.ANNABELLE MASSEY MALLOY
Three weeks after a new “trap, neuter, return” city ordinance took effect on Jan. 1 in response to an out-of-control feral cat population in Fort Worth, local animal advocates and city officials were chasing down a rumor wi...
Short on Electricity
Texas gets a clear warning of power problems by summer.GAYLE REAVES
The old adage is that you should never watch laws or sausages getting made. But this spring the question may be who is watching how the future of the Texas electric grid gets decided. An organization called the North American E...