Path of Cheapest Resistance
Residents in the Oakhurst neighborhood feel like they’re living a scene out of Cool Hand Luke — “What we’ve got here is a failure...
Keyed Up
Across North America, the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline continues to heat up. Several years after the tar sands line was due to...
Better Schools, No Higher Taxes
Fort Worth school district leaders are asking for public comments on a proposed $749.7 million bond to fund new schools and classrooms and upgrades...
Family Court Feud
A bitter squabble between a family court judge and an associate judge over a candidate for a family court judgeship has wound up in...
Half Full, Half Empty
In the first year after the Fort Worth City Council banned public drinking near homeless shelters and treatment centers, police issued more than 500...
Cigars and Stuff
I’ve never been much of a cigarette smoker, but I will completely forget about everything I was supposed to accomplish on my day off...
House Divided
Angela Smith thought she was doing a pretty good job as the executive director of the Tarrant County Housing Partnership (TCHP), a nonprofit housing...
Sow, Reap
Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources, two major gas drillers that pretty much packed up and left Tarrant County once the Barnett Shale’s best days...
Circular Track
Lyrics to an old Johnny Cash song run through my brain with every trip to my mailbox.
Wanted man in Mississippi / Wanted man in...
Mud Lobbers
Local city council races have generally followed the "Fort Worth Way" as politicos like to call it, with candidates and their handlers playing nice...
