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...
A Crack in the Carswell Wall
Hospital personnel at the Federal Medical Center Carswell took so long to call the exterminators for an ant infestation in December that the tiny...
La Familia Under Fire
Last week, Fort Worth Weekly broke the news of a lawsuit filed against La Familia by three former employees who claim they were threatened,...
Treading on Trouble
A long career managing liquor stores led to a comfortable retirement for Henry Elkouri and his wife, Gertrude. They live in a lovely neighborhood...
Snarled and Snarling
You’re on I-35, headed north out of Fort Worth. You’re trying to get home but it’s 5:30 p.m., so you’re not going anywhere. Again....
Rebooting the Fight
Cindy Crain is determined to learn the name of every homeless veteran in Fort Worth within the next 100 days. And the executive director...
Paved with Delays
Back in the fall of 2009, Steve Bond and Adam Zimmermann were considering moving their business. The owners of Water Wizard Pools were renting...
Standing with Wendy — Again
Diane Viviana couldn’t believe she was having to do this again. But there she was last Tuesday, in the Texas Senate chamber gallery, elbow...
Red Card
In January, five Arlington Heights High School soccer players, all Hispanic, were found smoking marijuana and also had beer in their room in a...
God’s Art
Painting steel beams is nothing new for Jeff Trice, a commercial painter who's done plenty of industrial jobs over the years. But painting a...
