Metro
Is a Parkway a Park?
Residents disagree over a city-owned wooded slope at Oakhurst’s border.JEFF PRINCE
The request seemed simple. A Fort Worth couple’s backyard pool had been partially built on city property years ago, long before the couple bought their house. In 2000, the couple asked the city to vacate 6,000 square feet of ...
Leaving Heights
About a fourth of the troubled high school’s faculty is heading out the door.BETTY BRINK
The first to go was Tommy Elliott, the winning head baseball coach at Arlington Heights High School for the last 30 years. This year he put both his glove and his grading pencil (he also taught English) on the shelf, retiring a...
English for the Test
Finding citizenship courses for non-English-speakers is getting a bit easier.LISA MARIA GARZA
Lots of folks in North Texas want to become U.S. citizens these days: Federal agency records show that the rate of applications for naturalization has risen by more than 20 percent in the last year. But there’s a big problem ...
High Interest in the ’Burbs
Payday lenders are targeting less affluent suburbs as well as inner cities.SARAH ANGLE
Driving along Denton Highway, the main thoroughfare of Haltom City, you pass churches, fast-food restaurants, and automotive repair shops. Here and there amid the other storefronts, brightly colored signs beckon with promises o...
Dammed
The waters have receded, but flooding near Randol Mill isn’t solved.LISA MARIA GARZA
Mary Kelleher and her neighbors on Randol Mill Road in East Fort Worth thought they had discovered the causes behind the severe flooding problems on their land over the last two years — gas drilling activities, in the form of...
Shaken and Stirred
In North Texas, most of the quakes are in the same area as most of the injection wells.KRISTA M. TORRALVA
A window that’s popped out of its frame allows spiders to creep into Keary and Kristina Rosalez’ Cleburne home. New cracks about six inches long are visible in the shower and along the bathroom counter. More cracks run alon...
God and the Principal
Everman teachers say religion is a tool of harassment at their high school.ANDREW McLEMORE
Everman High School teachers are divided over what happened in an April faculty meeting with Principal Nita Page. No one disputes that the principal, as usual, invoked her Christian faith. The question is: Did she use it to int...
Insult to Injury
Parking fees at Will Rogers are irksome. Stolen fees are worse.JEFF PRINCE
Thievery has been reported at the Will Rogers Memorial Center parking lot. How much money is missing? That’s hard to say. City officials don’t want to talk about it. Neither do officials at Standard Parking, the vendor that...
Better on Bullying
Fort Worth school trustees make a strong statement on treatment of LBGT kids.ANDREW MCLEMORE
Without public discussion or argument, the Fort Worth school board took action two weeks ago to give the district one of the most comprehensive policies in the country for protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT...
Storm Stays in Prison
The former film society director is denied parole.JEFF PRINCE
The former managing director of the Lone Star Film Society won’t be getting out of prison any time soon. A district judge showed leniency during the 2011 sentencing of John Storm, but the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles wa...