Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sand
It was a dreary late- September morning in the East Texas woods outside of Winnsboro, chill and drizzly. Everything was wet or damp except...
Still Not Over The Rainbow
The piercing ding of my iPhone at 6:13 a.m. on June 1 barely registered while I sleepwalked through my weekday routine before work. I...
A Maze of Pain
Last April, Sergeant Chip Gillette, a 27-year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department, was coming to a stop at a red light when...
Sucking It Up
Tom B. Saunders’ family has been ranching for five generations. Surface tanks and wells provide water for the cattle and horses on the Twin...
Rising Up
Arletta Grant doesn’t remember a lot about that time in her life. “I blocked it out,” she said.
But some things she can’t forget: “At...
Busted
There was a knock on the door, and Callie answered it. It was the mail carrier dropping off a package. Normally, the delivery person...
Cleaning Out The Fishbowl… Again.
Low incomes, theft, drug sales, and prostitution are problems any forgotten community might face. The issues don’t end there for Ash Crescent, the new...
Constable Concerns (Updated)
The number of law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over Fort Worth is more than you might think. Someone breaking bad locally could be detained...
Accusations of a Mad Black Woman
The couple hundred fans who had gathered around the entranceway to Cinemark West Plano let out a roar as he arrived. I didn’t see...
A Bridge Too Far
Bellaire Drive South is a hidden gem, or so say a lot of people who live on or near that two-mile stretch in southwest...
