Open Government or Legal Loopholes?
Government accountability is impossible without transparency. The single most powerful tool for fighting governmental corruption, nepotism, and waste at the local and state levels...
Soul of DFW Tours
Deah Berry Mitchell launched Soul of DFW Tours in 2018 because she believed that a spoonful of history goes down better on a full...
Public Disservice?
This past summer, as protests against police violence erupted across the country, local grassroots groups took a multifaceted approach to creating transparency within city...
Double the Veggies
Double Up Food Bucks, a partnership between North Texas Healthy Communities and Blue Zones Project Fort Worth, allows low-income families to essentially buy one...
COVID Concerns
Sam came to AZZ with an open mind. In the popular imagination and many actual workplaces, corporate environments entail repetitive and sometimes humdrum work,...
Nuclear Waste Heading to Cowtown?
Like most large U.S. cities, Fort Worth is intersected by multiple rail lines that were first laid well over a century ago. Trains do...
Cherry-picking Science
Don’t be surprised if droves of public health officials turn in their county gigs for less turbulent work in private practices next year. Already...
Cashing Out
On November 3, while much of the news will be gobbled up by presidential election ads and pundits prophesying the end of the world...
Chipping Away at Voter Suppression
As the death toll from COVID-19 passes 200,000 in the United States, a record number of Americans are opting for absentee ballots as a...
Tested and Rested
For individuals living in poor and underserved Tarrant County communities, access to screenings for sexually transmitted infection (STI) was difficult before COVID-19 hit. To...
