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Call Sign: Havoc
For U.S. Marines in Fallujah, the deadly road has no end.DON JONES
The Marines call it Route Michigan, a two-lane blacktop highway that’s the most direct route between Fallujah and a major U.S. airbase. For Lima Company, this time around, it’s their battleground. It’s not territory where...
One Man’s Trash is a Fishy Condo
StaticThink of it as the poor man’s horror movie – “What Lies Beneath … the Interstate.” And it’s coming to a screen near you.
Two Sides of an Ugly Coin
MICHAEL PHILLIPSIt’s easy, in some ways, for Fort Worth residents to feel superior when they look eastward and see the racially divisive politics that over the years have repeatedly torn apart the city council and the school board in Dal...
Child Left Behind
JACOB TAYLOR and BETTY BRINKWhen the Rev. Kyev Tatum took his last $1,000 and plunked it down as earnest money toward the purchase of an old skating rink in Mansfield this May, it was an act of passion, not to mention faith. All he needs by July 30 is at ...
Re-Imagineering
SAMUEL HUDSONTheir buildings say it all. Fort Worth’s three art museums — the Kimbell, the Carter, and the Modern — are gifts to the city from the rich and powerful. Each museum is the work of a world-famous architect — Louis Kahn, ...
The Good Fight
JESSE JAMES DECONTOFive years ago outside the Walls Unit in Huntsville, on the night the State of Texas prepared to execute Lois Robison’s son, young photographer Scott Langley watched as she screamed and cried on the sidewalk.
The Real Ground Zero
E. R. BILLSOn Feb. 9, 2001, two American civilians (no doubt big George Bush presidential campaign contributors) were permitted to take the USS Greenville (a 7,000-ton nuclear submarine) for a joyride in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Super Target
LESLIE WIMMERA blue-collar neighborhood that has long been fighting against the Cultural District’s upscale development boom won a round at City Hall recently. Just as important, Linwood residents got the message from city officials that ...
Grasshopper, Clubhopper
Last CallA famous Zen proverb says: “You are where you are.” In Clubland, a similar adage holds true: “The party is where you are.”
Wilkes-Barre the Door!
StaticJournalists at the The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre breathed a misguided sigh of relief when Fort Worth’s Richard Connor and a group of investors recently bought the northern Pennsylvania newspaper.