Posts Tagged ‘owners’
Two Strikes
Property owners have lost the early rounds in gas lease fights but plan to appeal.DAN MCGRAW
Two North Texas homeowner groups, including one representing a broad swath of southwest Fort Worth, have struck out — thus far — in their attempts to hold gas companies to the terms of agreements on royalties and bonuses th...
Oh, What a Biutiful Mess
This drama among Barcelona’s dispossessed is one long slog.KRISTIAN LIN
In December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named Biutiful the best foreign language film of 2010. Last week, the movie picked up Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Javier Bardem’s lead p...
New ‘Cue
STEVE WATKINSAt first sight, Roscoe’s Smokehouse in Burleson seemed to violate so many rules of Texas barbecue that I almost didn’t go in. The lawn is well manicured, the building looks like it’s never been condemned, and ...
Worth the Paper They’re Written On
DAN MCGRAWA little more than a year ago, the Barnett Shale gravy train was shooting through North Texas at blinding speeds. Even while some residents were accusing the city council of surrendering Fort Worth’s future and environmen...
Paradise Lost
Their acreage in Azle was “stress-free” until the drilling started.Peter Gorman
When Mike and Annette Daniel moved to the Reata Estates gated community outside Azle last November, they thought they’d found paradise.
Same (Smelly) Song
Eastsiders say a local food processor is still stinking up their neighborhood.ERIC GRIFFEY
When Bill Cole saw a “haz-mat” team in front of his Riverside-area auto repair shop last month, it brought back some pretty bad memories.
Fighting Back
Jeff PrinceCows grudgingly rise from mid-morning naps as Billy Mitchell’s Ford F-250 jostles down a dirt road past the oak trees he climbed as a kid.