Posts Tagged ‘flood’
J.D. Granger A Tease?
StaticLast month, the Trinity River Improvement Partnership (TRIP) sponsored a forum at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden to discuss the merits of the Trinity River Vision project.
Say Neigh to Equine Suffering
StaticThere was a time in Texas when horses meant the difference between life and death for people. Horses carried riders, pulled plows, and hauled wagons across rugged terrain. Horses were heroic. Nowadays they’re little more than...
Unleashing a Flood of Questions
Opponents say officials are bypassing serious questions about the Trinity River Vision Project.Dan Mcgraw
What a difference a decade makes. It was about that long ago that that the Tarrant Regional Water District and City of Fort Worth gave the go-ahead to what would become the Trinity River Vision, an ambitious project intended no...
A Hole for Riverside Park
They want to dig up the park and haul it away.Robert J. Gieb
A cruise down Scenic Drive in Riverside, just northeast of downtown Fort Worth, is a lesson in failed government. The road itself is actually part of Riverside Park along the Trinity River, its right of way conveyed to the city...
Outside Influences
GalleryMichael Noland and Fred Stonehouse share our fascination with the bizarre motifs and garish rawness of outsider art.
Everyfamily
KulturNew York audiences were understandably abuzz when Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth debuted way back in 1942. Wilder was already considered an innovative American dramatist on the strength of 1938′s Our Town a...
Deep Waters
Haltom City’s getting the floods, but Fort Worth’s getting the money.Dan McGraw
When Natasha Collins thinks about her precious little girl these days, she doesn’t dwell much on the horror the two went through on that last night, in the early hours of June 18 — the water rising to five feet in their...
Troubled Waters
Trinity River Vision opponents want to shut off the funding faucet.DAN MCGRAW
When U.S Rep. Kay Granger pushed funding through Congress for the Trinity River Vision project — anointed as flood control, but really an economic development venture — she did it with amazing speed. The approval for the U....
An Unnatural Disaster
JASON BERRYKatrina’s winds shredded through cities and towns like a giant scythe, but the Gulf Coast had seen major hurricane winds before.