The Foilies 2021
The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare, “Biden is making transparency cool again.”
This was a...
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...
Ranch Tradition: Hanging On
The tools of a rancher’s trade are scattered around the office in Saginaw. Leather chaps, spurs, dusters, bridles, and sweat-stained cowboy hats hang on...
Leaving Islam
Keys to freedom can take many forms. Samya’s was an iPod, a Twitter account, and a group of North Texas atheists.
Samya is not her...
Sole Survivor
Trading his four pairs of Air Jordan sneakers for one pair of Yeezys sounded like a fair deal to Ryan Perez. The Jordans were...
The Speaker in Winter
Mornings begin with a trip to his spacious office and compiling a list of things to do. Days are spent knocking things off the...
High Class Haunting
Brent James is a fireman and a paramedic in the city of Glenn Heights, which straddles the Dallas and Ellis county lines. But for...
Rocks for the Goliath Road
BARTLETT - Sitting in Lois and Jerry's Restaurant, surrounded by a blue-jean and overalls lunch crowd, Mae Smith and Ralph Snyder don't look like...
What’s Brewing, Fort Worth?
Like its many consumers, Fort Worth’s craft brew scene keeps chugging along. There were many noteworthy beer-related events in 2019. Too many, in fact,...
Working on the Railroad Commission
At dawn last August 22, five North Texans piled into a Honda Civic and headed south to the Capitol in Austin for a public...
