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The Power of Belief
On some mornings, Concepcion Arellano wakes up feeling unable to breathe. “My heart races and my body shakes,” the 86-year-old said. She calls the...
Paved Over Again
Brian Bentley has been sparring with Fort Worth officials for months over a mammoth elm tree that was cut down in his yard without...
Godmother to Rock ‘n’ Roll
The phone rings. A woman wearing a flowered blouse and black slacks rolls her office chair across the room and snatches up the receiver.
“Ema’s...
Don’t Eat The Brown Stuff
Julia Crawford and her family are not going down before the Keystone XL pipeline without a fight. Crawford (“Your Land Is My Land,” April...
Seeing Green
After a several-decade hiatus from the Texas agricultural landscape, hemp is back. Waxahachie-based Texas Botanics is one of a few dozen hemp farms to...
Expanding Territory
“We declare that Fort Worth is yours, Jesus,” Mercy Culture Church recently posted. “We declare your justice and righteousness resound in every part of...
Cowtown’s Growing Green
Fort Worth environmental activists have been struggling for years to save a few pockets of the tallgrass prairie that once covered Fort Worth, part...
My Dancing Dayz ’Bout Over
A Christmas party a few days ago gave me a look at the state of the black community. We had reason to dance, but...
Unhealthy Rhetoric
When the healthcare reform bill passed the U.S. House last week by a vote of 220 to 211, it wasn’t hard to find things...
Escalating the E-Wars
In Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Angelina Jolie plays a sexy professional adventurer, swinging through danger while never disturbing a hair on her sex-symbol head....
