Baseball Blame Game
First, a disclosure: I was born and raised in Cleveland and have been a big fan of the Cleveland Indians my whole life. And...
Tear Down the Parking Lots
On a fresh green late spring morning, I thought of young people working alongside their elders tending pinto beans and poblano peppers. I thought...
More Latex Gloves?
It is the duty of public officials to "do something" whenever a new threat appears, even if there is nothing sensible to be done....
Adrift
A couple of months ago I found myself on the verge of drowning in the Gulf of Mexico. The skiff I was in capsized...
A Hole for Riverside Park
A cruise down Scenic Drive in Riverside, just northeast of downtown Fort Worth, is a lesson in failed government. The road itself is actually...
The London Hicks-Sick Blues
When Metroplex sports team owner Tom Hicks announced recently that he was buying a $250 million share in the Liverpool soccer club of the...
Critical Thinking
I’m beginning to think that we Americans have lost our critical thinking skills. Or maybe our hearts are just too broken to revive them....
Two Sides of an Ugly Coin
It's easy, in some ways, for Fort Worth residents to feel superior when they look eastward and see the racially divisive politics that over...
Getting Along
Texas legislators from time to time “memorialize” Congress to do this or that. Since the request bears no force of law, the result is...
Mission Not Accomplished
In his visit to Afghanistan last December, British Prime Minister David Cameron ended up sounding just as deluded as President George W. Bush had...
