Counting Craddick’s Woes
While Gov. Rick Perry was off stumping in Iowa on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, district-by-district political skirmishes were going on at...
All the Fluff That Fits
Perhaps you heard a few weeks ago that more than 100 journalists accepted buyout offers from The Dallas Morning News. Maybe you said, gee,...
A Broad Heart
On a warm Sunday in December, in a closed-door special business meeting, the congregants and elected deacons of Broadway Baptist Church staved off potential...
Leasing Our Lives Away
So you've signed a gas lease. Congratulations: You've been taken for a fool. Certain material facts were kept from you that, had you known...
Suicide Pact
The Durban climate summit that ended earlier this month was proclaimed a great success. The chairwoman told delegates: “We have concluded this meeting with...
Re-Greening the Shrub
It’s official. Texas’ own Dubya is back, hinting at a dirty joke at a civil rights conference, leading wounded warriors on a 100K bike...
Plowing in Vain?
To: City Manager Dale Fisseler
Dear Dale, Since my retirement, I have received disturbing information about an initiative we began in the mid-1980s - the...
Save the Magic
It's getting darker earlier now. There's a chill in the air and the nights have an eerie foreboding to them. It's just a matter...
Of Wolves and Words
I appreciated the Weekly's recent cover story exposing unscrupulous mortgage lenders, but I have to take issue with the title "Wolves in Small Print."
Western...
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....
