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Lives and Love on the Line
Fort Worth cops are getting national notice for a public service announcement in which they, as TIME put it, “argue in favor of same-sex...
Fees Kill the Flea Market
For four decades, visitors to Fort Worth’s longest-running flea market could find baseball cards, straight razors, Beanie Babies, 45-rpm records, and a thousand other...
Opening the Door to Polluters
In 2007, Texas regulators quietly relaxed the state’s long-term air-pollution guideline for benzene, one of the world’s most toxic and thoroughly studied chemicals. The...
Frost Bite
Outgoing Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s consistent response to calls to raise the state’s gas tax has truly been, “My way or the highway.” And...
Retro Rocket
The recording studio looks like a shantytown, with its walls made of blankets and sheets held together by bungee cords and plastic clips. It...
He’s Looking for Loopholes
Static thought it was reading The Onion last week instead of My San Antonio. The item said Governor-elect Greg Abbott had held a private...
Send Us Your Dangerous Waste
A controversial storage facility in West Texas for low-level nuclear waste could become the repository for much more hazardous forms of radioactive waste in...
Smoke Signals
The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill Congress recently passed is loaded with so many Wall Street giveaways that it’s sick-making — like eating an...
Owning Up
I’ll always love my Great Aunt Flossie. As a youngster, rocking on her front porch in Galveston, I sat enthralled, listening to her yarns...
Music on the Edge
The artist named Vincent couldn’t have had a good Christmas Eve. His head was bandaged, he’d been in a fight that day, and the...
