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State Fair’s Heart Attack Delights: Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll
The Texas State Fair has released its eight finalists for best fried food and this year's junk food engineers have once again done their...
Tarrant County Never Convicts Innocents… Except Sometimes
Fort Worth, as many local columnists love to say, is so much better than Dallas. We've got bike lanes, great museums and none of...
Another Book? Nah, But I’ll Take That Drone, Please
Could there be a better example of how bookstores seem desperate to sell anything that will keep them in business?
As I paid for a...
Mass Shootings? Sure, But Did You Know To Run Away?
Could there be a better sign of how accustomed to mass shootings we have become? We no longer view these atrocities as surprising. We...
Chick-Fil-A, Not Cruz, Shows Enduring Strength Of Tea Party
For two days, the surprise victory of Ted Cruz was all anybody could talk about. The Tea Party upstart who beat back establishment candidate...
Little Attention Given To Tarrant Technician Who Ignored Rape Kits
Imagine you're a kid again.
Let's say you were a happy child (this is hypothetical, so why not) who knocked over the vase of grandma's...
Drones Bring US Pilots Closer To Enemies’ Lives
Thought drone warfare was making warfare into a video game?
Not so, according to a front-page New York Times story that flips the conventional understanding...
Another Poster Child For The National Rifle Association?
As gun owners defend their arsenals following Friday's mass shooting in Colorado, here's another guy who is probably not going to be the NRA's...
Breastaurant Owner Buys Texas Town, Names It ‘Bikinis’
Doug Guller, a self-described "breastaurateur" and the owner of Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill franchise, has bought a Central Texas ghost town on Craigslist...
Oink! Oink! Activists Roast ‘Water Hogs’ at Trinity Duck Pond
The journalists almost outnumbered the handful of activists at a Wednesday press conference on water conservation organized by Austin-based Environment Texas.
Four local news stations...
