News
Home News
Banking on the Poor
In the early 1980s, Dallas civil rights attorney Mike Daniel and his law partner Betsy Julian were fighting to desegregate public housing in East...
BLOOD on Whose Hands?
At a time when outrage over the frequency of police shootings is growing regionally and nationally, the killing of Daniel Brumley on a brisk...
Muddy Puddle
In the little southeast Tarrant County town of Dalworthington Gardens, it’s dangerous to take too much for granted. Like whether officials know that a...
Laying Them to Rest
You might say that the sheriff’s office in Anderson County is about to reopen a century-old murder case — or possibly hundreds of murder...
Repubs to the Rescue
Poor gas drillers. All they want to do is drill miles underground to extract natural gas, inject a little dirty wastewater into the ground,...
Hiding History
When Fort Worth writer E.R. Bills began researching a century-old massacre of African-Americans in East Texas a few years back, he found a community...
A Shift in Thinking
One morning in the summer of 2010, Rosemary Reed awoke to her house shaking and the sound of engines screeching so loudly that it...
A History of Violence
The big cardboard box filled with dusty books hypnotized Don Dow.
He’d become temporarily separated from his family on the town square in Santa Fe,...
Dream or Nightmare?
Remember the story about the little boy who cries wolf too many times, even when a wolf is nowhere around? Eventually people ignore his...
Too Much Power?
Oncor, the electric company whose repeated decimations of trees are legendary, has outdone itself this time. The company recently wiped out hundreds of oak...
