Posts Tagged ‘Fort Worth City Council’
More Fallout From Marshall Hobbs Story
Jeff PrinceOur story on Fort Worth City Council candidate Marshall Hobbs (“Pesky Facts,” May 2, 2012) created some division in the West Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association. Member Suzette Watkins posted a link to our story on...
Another Hole In Hobbs’ Claim
Jeff PrinceMore evidence has filtered in that casts doubt on whether Fort Worth City Council candidate Marshall Hobbs was living in District 8 long enough to qualify to seek office. As this week’s Metropolis explains, Hobbs needed to li...
Rainbow Lounge Raid Leads To City Coffer Raid
Jeff PrinceWeekly staff writer Dan McGraw recently wrote about the Innocence Project and two wrongly convicted men who served long prison sentences because they wouldn’t accept plea bargains. Neither could force themselves to confes...
Fort Worth Bicyclists Win
Jimmy FowlerFort Worth bike riders, the city just made a commitment to your healthy, environmentally friendly mode of transportation: Last night the city council passed a bicycle parking ordinance that requires all new city development to ...
Joel Burns’s “Better” is Best
Jimmy FowlerOkay, I’ll be the first to admit something unpopular – as laudable as the It Gets Better video project against anti-gay bullying is, there are a fair number of cheesy, self-indulgent personal testimonies amidst the flood o...
Ethics Committee Overruled, Fired
Jeff PrinceFor once, Mayor Mike Moncrief went through an entire meeting without muttering his favorite phrase — “it’s the Fort Worth Way.” Strange, since the Fort Worth Way was so evident in today’s special m...
Reason No. 984 To Diss RadioShack
Jeff PrinceToday’s story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about Tarrant County’s inability to pay for the demolition of the civil courts building is just another knife in the back compliments of RadioShack. Let’s stroll d...
Crucial Pawn Shop Vote Set for Today
betty.brinkThere are lots of folks waiting with bated breath to hear how the council votes tonight on the hot-button issue of the day: the lifting of the zoning restrictions passed in 2006 that prohibit 13 pawn shop/payday lenders now op...
Lobdill Lobs Bomb At Drillers, Officials
Jeff PrinceFort Worth’s embracing of the oil and gas industry continued with last night’s unanimous city council decision to allow drilling next to Trinity Park. Most people who live nearby and own mineral rights want the wells and th...
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