Halfway Scared
When Brian and Lori Aitken went house-hunting about seven years ago, they settled on the circa-1925 house on Scott Avenue in the West Meadowbrook...
Too Imminent
The Legislature’s latest attempt at passing an eminent domain reform bill looks like it might actually make it to the finish line and end...
Paved with Delays
Back in the fall of 2009, Steve Bond and Adam Zimmermann were considering moving their business. The owners of Water Wizard Pools were renting...
Behind ESPN in Sundance Square
ESPN coordinating director Mike Feinberg is sitting in his temporary office on the 31st floor of the D.R. Horton Tower in downtown Fort Worth,...
Treading on Trouble
A long career managing liquor stores led to a comfortable retirement for Henry Elkouri and his wife, Gertrude. They live in a lovely neighborhood...
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...
Flourishes for the Flea
The name Pequeño Mexico (“Little Mexico”) might not ring a bell with most local folks. But if you say “the little Mexican flea market...
A History of Delay
It’s been more than three years since Heritage Plaza in downtown Fort Worth was unceremoniously fenced off from the public due to safety concerns...
Museum-Quality Trees
When the Kimbell Art Museum announced plans two years ago to build a new wing on the block-long stretch of grass and trees outside...
High-Level Worries
By the fall of 2011, if the courts or legislators don’t act to stop it, Texas could become the “nuclear waste dump for the...
