Walter Dansby – In or Out?
“I’ve never heard anyone on this board say a negative word – ever --- about Walter Dansby,” said Fort Worth schools trustee Carlos...
Noose on Eastside Property Prompts Petition
Inspired by a noose hanging above a domestic structure near his neighborhood, Gordan Sims has started a petition to make the display of a...
School District News That Didn’t Make the Print Edition (With a...
Dansby's recycled consultant
Superintendent Walter Dansby raised a few eyebrows this week when he hired an educator with a questionable educational history, Mary Bull, as...
Civil Rights or Civil Rights Lawsuit? FWISD Board to Decide Tonight
It’s called “cracking” by the courts, long-time civil-rights lawyer Jason Smith wrote in an op-ed piece recently in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. It is...
Scenes From a Political Marriage
Harry Reid has found trouble recently from Game Change, the upcoming book on the 2008 election. The real dirt, though, is on John and...
FW’s Brownstone Among State’s Best
Texas Monthly's current issue lists the best new restaurants in the state, and Fort Worth's Brownstone made the Top 10.
I don't watch Top Chef...
Palazzolo V FWISD Hearings Resume Today
For those readers following the case of former Arlington Heights High School assistant principal Joe Palazzolo's appeal of his firing before a Texas Education...
VIDEO: Race For Wendy Davis Senate Seat Getting Uglier
Texas Republicans, who already have a super-majority in the House, are salivating over the possibility of winning back the state Senate seat that Democrat...
Streaming Review: The Fallout
I swear, I wasn’t looking for a movie about school shootings. I just wanted something to pass the time on my flight back into...
Will Sarah Palin Just Say No?
A pro-marijuana group from Nevada thinks Sarah Palin might be cool.
She probably won’t be hot-boxing the hydro weed anytime soon -- she said in...