Posts Tagged ‘board’
Code Red for JPS
Patients, doctors, and activists say Fort Worth’s public hospital is failing in its primary job: caring for poor patients.ERIC GRIFFEY and BETTY BRINK
Alan Cattlett spent more than a week in 2006 eating almost nothing and drinking himself almost to death, a result of severe depression.
Charity at the Edge
Metroplex’s problems multiply, but food bank leaders keep trudging.Jeff Prince
The phone rings, and Opal Lee knows what the call is about even before she answers.
Mineral-Rights Manna
Will local officials’ vision match the moolah coming in from the gas boom?FW Weekly Staff
So, you’ve won the lottery — not the biggest one, maybe, but juicy enough that if you’re already earning, say $50,000, that winning ticket will add another $2,000 to $5,000 a year, after taxes. And while you can’t be su...
Airpushers
Listen UpOn the surface, the reserved euphoria that permeates Themes for the Ordinarily Strange by the Los Angeles duo Airpushers suggests any number of rock-influenced rap bands (or rap-influenced rock bands). But listen a little deepe...
Collaring Dollars
Jeff PrinceFort Worth taxpayers have been digging deep in their pockets for 11 years to pay for crime control above and beyond what’s financed by the city’s general fund. Nobody forced the Crime Control and Prevention District down th...
Rollin’ on the River
ELIZABETH BASSETTThe travel and expense policy for the Tarrant Regional Water District is simple. It says that the district will pay for business-related meals only if employees submit a receipt, a list of the diners’ partaking, and a stateme...
Gassed to Death
KRISTIAN LINChris Paine’s documentary asks Who Killed the Electric Car? I thought we knew. It was that secret society that Homer Simpson was trying to join. They even sang about it in a musical number. The movie gives you the real story,...