Tightening the Screws
While former President Barack Obama deported an unprecedented number of undocumented immigrants during his eight years in office, Donald Trump appears bent not just...
Imprisoned Women, a Texas Tragedy
While the number of women in the entire United States’ criminal justice system has ballooned since 1980, the number of women in Texas prisons...
Toothless
I rarely felt at peace. Even — or especially — when lying down for the night. And when I did manage to hit the...
Complaint Filed Against Varsity
The City of Fort Worth is coming after Varsity Tavern.
After we wrote the initial story about allegedly racist dress-code enforcement issues at the popular...
Caught in the Middle
Late on a recent Friday afternoon, Cailin Daugherty heard the words every public-school educator dreads.
“I’m thinking of killing myself,” Daugherty said the student confided...
Those Battlin’ Billy Bobbers
Last Thursday in downtown Fort Worth, Concho Minick, Steve Murrin, and son Philip Murrin sat on hardwood benches on one side of a courtroom...
Buddy, Can You Spare A Billion?
Fort Worth officials and Tarrant Regional Water District personnel have more nerve than a bum tooth, or else they don’t realize the gall it...
Privatizing Public Jobs
The first thing she felt was betrayal.
This was after Sonja first heard that the Fort Worth school district is considering privatizing cafeteria workers like...
Rawsome Spreads
It all sort of happened organically. Since opening in Fort Worth last year, Rawsome has now spread to Austin.
The Race Street retailer of cannabidiol...
That Boy Is Left
Retired postal worker turned anti-Trump crusader Gale McCray clutched his simple but increasingly infamous sign earlier this week while standing on a grassy median...
