Nightmare on Elm’s Street
Nobody knows how old the American elm at the corner of Murphy Street and Cleckler Avenue was, but it was mammoth and regal. The...
Steel on Magnolia
On a recent gusty but sunny Saturday afternoon, Magnolia Avenue was teeming with pedestrians. Parents were pushing strollers, dogs were pulling owners along on...
Disabled and Discarded?
Inside a two-story house in the Ryan Place neighborhood on the South Side, Danny Swanson slowly wheeled himself into his den. Awaiting his arrival...
Watching the Door
It’s a truism of the Texas Legislature that killing “bad” legislation is as important as passing the “good” kind. Under that theory, it would...
Home, Home on the Landfill
Westbound motorists on I-30 enjoy a lovely view near the Linkcrest Drive exit in far west Fort Worth.
No, not the honkytonks, boarded-up liquor store,...
Persevering for Prairie
Teenagers from a Fort Worth homeless shelter climbed out of a van and looked across what seemed a vast prairie to their urban eyes.
They...
Sand in the Wind
A proposal by oil and gas giant EOG Resources to open a sand mine in North Texas’ Cooke County has a small group of...
Fort Worth Way Out
Considering the Fort Worth school board’s penchant for melodrama, it’s no surprise that the race for the District 1 seat, representing the North Side,...
Liquid Power
On May 11, three of the five directors’ positions are up for election on the board of the Tarrant Regional Water District, one of...
A Thorn for Trans-Canada
TransCanada, the giant energy firm building a pipeline from Oklahoma to the Texas coast as part of a project that would carry tar sands...
