Tilting at Texas Windmills
The cliché “hope springs eternal” has to apply to Paul Sadler, the Democratic nominee to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who isn’t...
A Prairie Solstice
Life on the Trinity connects even to the White House.
By JARID MANOS
A life in the anonymity of street shadows is preferred to the glaring...
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...
Humankind at the Light Switch
The ocean is a prairie with its life underground and a perfect disguise above. About 18,000 short years ago, before the glaciers and continental...
Air Apparent
Sometimes you can look at an unpopular law and say, OK, I disagree with that, but I understand why it was passed.
Some statutes...
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...
Not So Revolutionary
Grant Wood’s most famous painting features an iconic farmer, his prim daughter and a pitchfork. His most satiric painting is “Daughters of Revolution.” Three...
Gateway to Violence
In the late ’90s, for a national magazine story on the issue of somehow making marijuana legal, I interviewed then-drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey....
Healthy Debate
Earlier this month my wife had a surgical procedure performed at a fairly new hospital in Fort Worth. The doctor was remarkable, the nurses...
Recruiting Tolerance
On my way to work a while back I saw a solitary picketer at the corner of Camp Bowie Boulevard and Cherry Lane. He...
