Rising Partisanship
Examples of Tarrant County judges putting ethics above politics are not hard to find.
In 2008, a Republican judge ruled that Democratic Fort Worth City...
Leaving Las Vegas Trail
Though Las Vegas Trail itself is only about a mile long, it looms large in the history of Fort Worth and in most of...
Right-Wing Extremists Taking Over Carroll School District?
When Jennifer Schutter met her new neighbor two years ago, the mother and physician thought she had met an ally. The neighbor, Hannah Smith,...
Take Back Texas: Rally and Chill?
After almost two years of protests, marches, sit-ins, and red-faced rabblerousers from both parties spitting in each other’s faces, often separated only by a...
Cruisin’ Fort Worth
It started with a missed exit.
No biggie, I told myself. I’ll just take Cherry Street.
After exiting I-30, I headed toward downtown and the West...
Treated “Like Animals”
On particularly quiet days downtown, the muffled moans and screams of imprisoned men and women can be heard through the streets. When the cries...
Humanizing Life Behind Bars
Diane Wilson was familiar to physically grueling and mentally challenging situations, but nothing prepared her for the 150-day sentence to the Victoria County Jail...
Creating Safe Spaces
With COVID-19 cases steadily on the decline, the Crystal Methyd PRIDE Celebration at the Urban Cowboy Saloon on the East Side last month promised...
Protecting the Right to Publish
Just hours after the Weekly published a leaked email online, staff videographer Wyatt Newquist left a voicemail on my cellphone.
“Two police officers stopped by asking...
Juneteenth Jubilation
The dense crowd of Juneteenth celebrants seemed to disappear over the horizon. Carrying placards that read “Opal’s Walk 2 DC” and “Let’s Celebrate Freedom,”...
