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A Little Sanity from the IG…
As reported in last week’s cover story (“Range Wars,” Dec. 25, 2013), the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 issued an emergency order to Range...
Hard to Help
Marty Wilson’s friends would never have known what happened to him except for Driss Siyas.
Siyas, owner of the Casablanca Coffee shop, counted himself as...
A Pocketful of History
The storage unit door rolled upward with a screech to reveal stacks of cardboard boxes and plastic bins filled with hundreds of videos. Most...
What Peace?
Justice of the Peace Jacquelyn Wright can’t seem to find any. She’s handled small-claims cases in her Precinct 4 courtroom for many years and...
Texting While the Planet Burns
Lately, I’ve noticed the silence around a growing cataclysm — the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. There’s a China syndrome, ongoing,...
Not Your Older Brother’s K2
In 2011, Fort Worth Weekly ran a story about K2, the common name of a type of designer drug marketed by head shops as...
Range Wars
When Ron Gulla, a heavy-machinery salesman, leased the mineral rights on his Pennsylvania property in 2002, he said, he was told that standard vertical...
Grease Those Wheels
City leaders are a bit schizophrenic when it comes to the cluster of homeless shelters on East Lancaster Avenue. They created the centralized complex...
Keystone Election Kops
The new Texas voter ID law had one effect with which neither side can quibble. It got Fort Worth in the national news for...
ShaleTest Is Cruising
It felt like being a witness to history: watching Sharon Wilson learn how to use a FLIR camera to detect otherwise-invisible streams of toxic...