Confederacy of Dunces
Earlier today, Dallas hosted a health care reform discussion with a joint appearance by U.S. Congressfolk Eddie Bernice Johnson and Pete Sessions. By all...
R.I.P., Tim Hetherington
War reporters sign on for their jobs knowing that they might be killed in the line of duty. That doesn't make it any easier...
Sharon Pate: 1, Melody Johnson: 0
In another setback for Fort Worth schools’ superintendent Melody Johnson, the Texas Education Agency this week cleared former Diamond Hill Elementary School math teacher...
Who’s An Armendariz? And What Bombshell?
Al Armendariz, this region's former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will speak at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing this week in...
Spanish Flu May Help You Remember the Pandemic of 2020
Sometime back in the 1970s, while visiting my grandparents on the east side of Fort Worth, I ran across a puzzling photo in an...
FWISD in Palazzolo Case Claims Racial Misidentification by Hearing Examiner a...
The Fort Worth school district through its attorney, Walsh Anderson, recently filed a petition in the 348th District Court appealing the Commissioner of Education’s...
FW’s Trannie Budget Crisis
Lots of people are preening with moral outrage that FW city leaders will consider covering gender reassignment surgery in the employee health plans. That’s...
Prop. 8 Struck Down
One day after a watershed moment for religious tolerance comes encouraging news from the other coast, as U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker rules...
A Good and Bad Night for Fort Worth Schools Super
Fort Worth schools superintendent Melody Johnson got a three-year extension on her contract last night with a 6-3 vote, again benefitting from the lopsided...
Texas lesbian couple shot in possible hate crime
Two teenage lesbians in the small town of Portland, Texas were shot, one of them fatally, on the same weekend as gays and lesbians...
