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Your School Tax Dollars at Work
Ann Sutherland has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Fort Worth school board: She don’t get no respect. Last year she was censured and...
Latina Dreamer
She’s been jeered, arrested, beaten, smeared. She’s on just about every website devoted to ferreting out socialists and Communists in our midst. She’s also...
Compressing Agony
Charles Morgan chose his home in Buffalo, a little town 70 miles southeast of Fort Worth, for its serene surroundings and solitude. That was...
Why He’s Running
Why did the Texas Legislature in 2011 cut $5.4 billion from school funding even though property tax revenues went up?
That’s what Mike Collier, a...
The Whole Ball of (Melting) Wax
Static’s boss asked for a little research help: Is this the earliest that watering restrictions have ever been instituted in Fort Worth?
Well, um, yes,...
Casino Dreams
Noel Nelson and girlfriend Madelyn Walsh walked their dogs along the Lake Worth shore on a recent morning, enjoying the breeze, the green grass,...
Godmother to Rock ‘n’ Roll
The phone rings. A woman wearing a flowered blouse and black slacks rolls her office chair across the room and snatches up the receiver.
“Ema’s...
NORML-izing Drug Laws
If there’s any doubt that the landscape of marijuana laws is changing in Texas, as it is in the rest of the country, look...
Home to Roost
In the three years since a Wise County couple sued Aruba Petroleum for the severe health problems and lost property value that they charge...
One Less Worry?
With apologies to God, Voltaire, and the Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to...
