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Sex, Politics, and Journalism
A Star-Telegram story ensured that homosexuality would be an issue in an Eastside council race.Jeff Prince
A close race between two Fort Worth City Council candidates might have ended differently if the city’s daily newspaper hadn’t gone against protocol and “outed” Louis McBee a week before the May 13 election. McBee is sti...
Where the Buffalo Roam
Historical and ecological merit may not save a state-owned tract from development.SHOMIAL AHMAD
In a little house on the prairie, environmentalist Jarid Manos unrolled map after map, showing where nearly 2,000 acres of almost pristine grassland prairie lie, on the edge of suburban Crowley.
A Degree in Inequality
MICHELLE PARSONSI’m about to graduate from college, and, like most college students, I’ve learned a lot of valuable things I was supposed to learn and other things that I wasn’t. Some of those aren’t necessarily so wort...
Yawn Radio
MARK K. CAMPBELLI miss Bigfoot. It used to be you could count on discovering his latest adventures from Kevin McCarthy on KLIF. But, alas, no more.
As the East Side Turns …
StaticSupporters of the independent-minded Louis McBee were heartbroken when he was narrowly defeated by the establishment-backed Danny Scarth in the District 4 city council race on May 13.
Tear Down the Parking Lots
Kendall McCookOn a fresh green late spring morning, I thought of young people working alongside their elders tending pinto beans and poblano peppers. I thought of untilled, fertile river and creek bottomland, hidden places where 10- and 20- ...
Downtown Hits Pay Dirt
StaticThe Fort Worth establishment had its prayers answered (assuming those folks can still pray without being struck by lightning).
Oh Say, Can You Hear?
DAN MCGRAWIn 1983, I was sitting on the couch at my father’s house watching the National Basketball Association All-Star game in Los Angeles. Don’t remember much about the game, but I do remember the national anthem.
How Did They Die? Technically.
StaticLast week’s article on the never-ending medical horror stories oozing from Cars-well Federal Medical Center lacked answers to critical questions that were put to a prison spokeswoman two weeks before the story went to press.
Reality Bites
E. R. BILLSI have a 6-year-old son. A couple of weeks ago, he got spooked while we were watching The Day After Tomorrow. In fact, during the scene that depicted the tornados in Los Angeles, he ran out of the living room and hid.