Win-Loss Ratio
Fort Worth's Travis Lutter is getting a rematch - with the scales. To be followed, he expects, by another shot at a national fight...
Learning to Love Big Gas
In his Aug. 26 Fort Worth Weekly report, "The Big Takeover," Peter Gorman wrote about all the bad publicity that natural gas extractors have...
Grass Capitalist
Toward the end of the presidential campaign, I started hearing the Republican rank and file express worries that the election of Barack Obama as...
Local Heroes? Who’d Know?
Since I was a little kid, I've always read the sports section of the daily newspaper before anything else. When I was a newspaper...
Oil to Dry Our Tears?
Someday I'd like to see the Sahara Desert. My Uncle Jimmy made an unscheduled stop there 20 years ago.
On Sept. 19, 1989, he hopped...
Don’t Ban the Bomb-Words
Last week NBC presented a special that chronicled the first five years of Saturday Night Live. For many of us, the mid-70s doesn't seem...
Groovy National Product
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for emerald waves of cannabis . . . .
OK, I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. It's just the first...
Budget Wars
The battles over budget priorities that the Texas Legislature goes through every two years are already well under way, on many fronts.
Some, including Republican...
Less Fighting, More Fear
Imagine for a moment that all the wars of the world have come to a peaceful conclusion. Most violent crime against people and property...
Wrong War
My father grew up on Gordon Avenue on the South Side of Fort Worth. After high school at Trimble Tech, he apprenticed in the...
