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One of Lockheed’s F-35s takes off from a New Jersey military base. Courtesy Lockheed Martin

Playing Defense

The argument of defense companies like Lockheed Martin, which employs thousands at its Fort Worth plant, is simple: Don’t force us to lay off...

BREAKING NEWS: Grand jury indicts SMU student on rape charge

Editor’s note: Fort Worth Weekly has reported several times over the last several years about controversies regarding the reporting and handling of crime on...
Women golfers tee off in River Crest’s inaugural year, 1911. Gretchen Brants Barrett/RCCC Centennial Book

On the Green

It started out as a vanity book celebrating a historic country club, but River Crest Country Club: the First 100 Years evolved into something...
Furman (at lecturn) defends herself at last week’s Kennedale school board meeting. Courtesy Kennedale ISD

Elementary Ethics

A handful of pissed-off parents are shaking things up in the Kennedale school district, where a private daycare business run by two district administrators...
Kelleher: “I hope the council will stand up for us.” Naomi Vaughan

End Run for Chesapeake

A company that failed to get a zoning change on a piece of Eastside land last year — which would have permitted Chesapeake Energy...
Bason: “... there is more than adequate proof that this is park property.” Jeff Prince

Is a Parkway a Park?

The request seemed simple. A Fort Worth couple’s backyard pool had been partially built on city property years ago, long before the couple bought...
Shaw: The number of teachers leaving Heights is only “a little more than usual.” Jeff Prince

Leaving Heights

The first to go was Tommy Elliott, the winning head baseball coach at Arlington Heights High School for the last 30 years. This year...
Weiss-Armush: “It is very sad that many classes only accept students who know English.” Lisa Maria Garza

English for the Test

Lots of folks in North Texas want to become U.S. citizens these days: Federal agency records show that the rate of applications for naturalization...
Haltom City has 16 payday lender storefronts — Colleyville and Southlake not a single one. Sarah Angle

High Interest in the ’Burbs

Driving along Denton Highway, the main thoroughfare of Haltom City, you pass churches, fast-food restaurants, and automotive repair shops. Here and there amid the...
Amendola: “Every last dime I have has gone into this.” Lisa Maria Garza

Dammed

Mary Kelleher and her neighbors on Randol Mill Road in East Fort Worth thought they had discovered the causes behind the severe flooding problems...