Shaky History
Downtown Fort Worth is partially ringed by close-in residential neighborhoods where many older homes are charming, some dilapidated, and some potentially historic.
In such neighborhoods,...
Schooled in Green
From Highway 377, Benbrook Middle School looks out of place. The modern-looking, brown-and-cream-colored structure stands in stark contrast to the cattle pasture across the...
Bluebonnet Brouhaha
In March, Mike Banta, head of Blue-bonnet Place Neighborhood Association, received what seemed to him a curious e-mail. It came from someone named Kyle...
Dodging an Ethical Dilemma
Buddy, can you spare a million? You can?
Oh, well, never mind. Don’t need it after all.
That’s essentially what happened when a $3 billion-a-year company...
Bad Call
A called third strike on José Canseco earlier this summer prompted a Fort Worth Cats official to charge onto LaGrave Field, argue the call,...
Awash in an Epidemic
Last summer Pamela Cannell read about two local drownings of children in one day. Not long after that, a 4-year-old boy jumped into the...
A Problem with Permits
The diesel truck traffic along Oakland Boulevard and Old Randol Mill Road on Fort Worth’s East Side increased dramatically after Chesapeake Energy Corp. established...
Paved Over Again
Brian Bentley has been sparring with Fort Worth officials for months over a mammoth elm tree that was cut down in his yard without...
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...
Pipe Work: “Shoddy”
TransCanada, the giant energy company building the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline from Cushing, Okla., to Port Arthur, claims its pipeline will...
