Posts Tagged ‘betty brink’
Dear Editor
JOHN Q. READERTo the editor: What an honor it has been to read the late Betty Brink’s award-winning stories in Fort Worth Weekly for the past dozen years. She was one of America’s most intrepid journalists, a wonderful person who cared a...
Betty Brink On Immortality
Jeff PrinceFort Worth Weekly writer Betty Brink‘s obituary included an excerpted paragraph from an article she’d written about seeing the birth of her first grandchild. The passage was beautiful and reminded people, including ...
Brink Blossoms
STATICLongtime Fort Worth Weekly writer Betty Brink’s name and spirit will live on in an urban garden — and in apple pies and plum jam as well. The Fort Worth branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will plant frui...
Final Farewell
Fort Worth WeeklyThe recent memorial service for longtime Fort Worth Weekly writer Betty Brink was impassioned, irreverent, and entertaining, just like the woman herself. Family members recounted stories, recited a poem Brink had written, and r...
Betty Brink
Fighting for justice to the end.JEFF PRINCE AND GAYLE REAVES; PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE BRINK FAMILY
You couldn’t call Betty Brink the face of Fort Worth Weekly because reporters seldom get their mugs in the paper. Most readers had no idea that the byline attached to her hard-hitting investigative stories belonged to a short...
So Long, Betty Brink, And Rest In Peace
Jeff PrinceThe writer who personified Fort Worth Weekly‘s willingness to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted died last night at her home, surrounded by her loved ones. Betty Lee Bauer Brink was 80. She was born and rai...
Self-Inflicted Wounds
STATICSome people (and companies) just keep shooting themselves in the foot. On Sept. 19, the Weekly reported on the potential takeover of a Kerrville state mental hospital by GEO Care, a subsidiary of GEO Group, the private prison o...