Dirty Pool?
Tucked in a grove among oak trees, within earshot of the Fort Worth Zoo, the storied Forest Park Pool has served Fort Worth for...
Tatum Makes It Official
Rev. Kyev Tatum, minister, head of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and co-founder of the Black, Brown and Tan Coalition,...
Jefferson Davis Park: New Name Coming?
Though mayor and city council press secretary Cheraya Peña said discussions to change Jefferson Davis Park’s name have been going on “for some time...
MLS Championship Preview
It's eerie how similar the seasons of FC Dallas and the Texas Rangers have shaped up. Both teams had never won a playoff series...
Seeing Red
On the lawn of the state capital in Austin yesterday, about 200 women showed up at an impromptu demonstration called by Grammy nominee Marcia...
Equal at Last
Discriminatory, anti-gay marriage bans violate the Constitution. That’s the ruling of a 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court today that divided liberal and conservative...
George W. Bush To Give Graduation Speech At SMU; Bushisms Await
Southern Methodist University has asked the 43rd president of the United States to give the commencement address this year.
Were they unaware that our 43rd...
Santorum Brings the Crazy
File this under “really scary:” New polls indicate that Rick Santorum is the favorite primary candidate by a wide margin among Texas Republicans. (He...
The Last Man Burned at the Stake in Texas
On Saturday, December 2, 1933, a 30-year-old white woman named Nellie Williams Brockman was murdered near Kountze, Texas. Brockman had headed to town to...
Who cares about Lockheed’s machinists? Not the Pentagon
A Star-Telegram story from yesterday quoted a defense consultant and Lockheed spokespersons as shrugging off concerns that striking machinists will have any impact on...
