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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Uphill Banter
Banter begins as soon as Suzie Humphries, Midge Hill, and Jeff Brady walk through the studio door, still 30 minutes before cameras start rolling...
Filming Dirty Air
The short video opens with a shot of a Chesapeake-produced water tank beneath a beautiful blue sky on the near East Side of Fort...


















