Time Warp at Arlington School District
In the past few years, the Arlington Independent School District has fired a number of security personnel for what amounts to petty theft: one...
Bringing School Bullies to Account
Judy Luttrell, associate director of the United Educators Association, said last week that she has been stunned at the extent of the workplace bullying...
Auctioning Off a Dream
Furniture movers were supposed to show up on a recent morning and haul off Lynda Farr Arnold’s remaining possessions, but the guys never arrived....
Better on Bullying
Without public discussion or argument, the Fort Worth school board took action two weeks ago to give the district one of the most comprehensive...
A Longer Leash
Hundreds of students in the Birdville school district are enrolled in summer school — but not necessarily in school so much. Most kids aren’t...
Not So United
Fort Worth is in the running for the 2010 national convention for the League of United Latin American Citizens — a meeting that could...
Cash-Trapped
Fort Worth City Council member Kathleen Hicks believes that her Eastside constituency is under assault from a powerful and virtually unregulated coalition of payday...
Playing Defense
The argument of defense companies like Lockheed Martin, which employs thousands at its Fort Worth plant, is simple: Don’t force us to lay off...
Compressed Anger
A minor change in a Fort Worth zoning regulation could have major repercussions.
The Fort Worth City Council a few weeks ago made what looked...
Tearing up the Track
Three weeks ago, a city-hired engineering firm released its first study on modern streetcars, identifying six possible routes that Fort Worth should consider. These...
