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...
Bells Will Be Ringing
At a recent outdoor rally calling for the reopening of Tarrant County classrooms, a mother with children in a private Christian school put it...
Baseball is back
The waiting is over. Baseball is back. Fans are not.
After a four-month hiatus that saw the cancellation of more than 100 games, the long-awaited...
Where Dogs Go before They Go to Heaven
Vici Menzel’s backyard is one hopping dog sanctuary. Sookie, an Olde English bulldogge, is next to me panting and periodically licking my knee. While...
Globe Life Field
“Build it, and they will come” is definitely true now as people are coming –– by the thousands –– not to see a baseball...
Criminalizing Poverty or Ensuring Justice?
Pamela Young remembers the smiles, tears, and stories that accompanied the recent release of 16 Black and Latinx inmates from the Tarrant County Jail....
The Leaders
Three months ago, before the arrival of COVID-19 and the latest wave of demonstrations against police brutality and in support of Black lives —...
Utopia No More
The fire had been burning continuously for the last three days, ever since the eviction order had come down. What had started simply as...
Voting Reform on the Horizon?
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its more than 100,000 U.S. casualties, voting reform has become a heated topic. In Texas, electoral politics...
A Call for Justice and Peace
Against a backdrop of several hundred protesters and signs calling for criminal justice reform, one of the protest organizers, Nysse Nelson, addressed the crowd.
“Hey, listen...
