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Monday, December 8, 2025

Saving Hope

Gratitude on the Ground

Health Insurance Gets Pricier

Where Independence Begins

Major Diss

Metro

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A grant will finance a study of whether payday loan burdens eat up money for healthcare. Sarah Angle

Financial/Health

Rachel was talking to her Sunday school class in Haltom City a few weeks before Christmas. Her voice broke, and she started crying. “We have...

Trap, No Shoot

Three weeks after a new “trap, neuter, return” city ordinance took effect on Jan. 1 in response to an out-of-control feral cat population in...
Power: “... one thing everyone agrees on is to not let the lights go out.” Courtesy Public Citizen

Short on Electricity

The old adage is that you should never watch laws or sausages getting made. But this spring the question may be who is watching...
Fletcher: “It seems to me they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.” Jeff Prince

Cats, Balls, and Clocks

Nine lives? The Fort Worth Cats must be on 11 or 12 by now, particularly after former owner Carl Bell ran out of money...
Ashford: “... Putting them behind closed doors would have been disastrous.” Jeff Prince

Trusting City Hall

When the Fort Worth City Council approved major changes in the city’s ethics ordinance recently, it put the city in a different camp than...
Bishop (center): “If you let me get in front of a jury, I think this pipeline would be stopped in its tracks.” Courtesy Tar Sands Blockade

Down But Not Out

The last of the Tar Sands Blockade tree-sitters voluntarily climbed down from their perches in Winnsboro just before Christmas, after maintaining their post in...

Animal Behavior

There were so many cats in the Parker County trailer home –– 91, to be exact –– that Humane Society investigator Shelly Meeks said...

Concrete Limbo

Their names don’t sound like jails — “detention facility” and “processing center” — but according to a watchdog coalition, they are de facto prisons...
A total of 43 employees of Haltom High School left their jobs after the new principal took over. Sarah Angle

Harassment at Haltom?

Last March, Faith Ayala, a teacher of 32 years, stood up at a Birdville school district board meeting and said something so radical that...
Bonilla: “They keep on trying to take away the character and history. They’re tearing it apart.” Tony Robles

Looming Over Linwood

The latest evidence of pressure on Fort Worth’s Linwood enclave is a project that will cast a long shadow on the park named for...