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Curse of the TIF
Fort Worth should create a tax-increment financing district — a.k.a. TIF — for insufferable pop poser Justin Bieber. While we’re at it, give another...
Not So Revolutionary
Grant Wood’s most famous painting features an iconic farmer, his prim daughter and a pitchfork. His most satiric painting is “Daughters of Revolution.” Three...
Good Hands, Bad News
The Fort Worth school district and the Rev. Kyev Tatum are blaming each other for a gutted summer work program that left 100 teens...
Occupied Lives
From her home in East Jerusalem, Tanya Habjouqa occasionally hears warning sirens wailing. The Jordanian-born photographer and writer with strong Fort Worth roots is...
Hip Pocket Change
Hip Pocket Theatre owners and operators Johnny and Diane Simons lived for years at a log cabin near Weatherford, making weekend commutes to West...
It’s Not Rocket Science
Which is more challenging: performing a liver transplant on a small child or navigating the political rapids of public higher education during the reign...
Flow Chart
A long-running battle over a proposed reservoir in Northeast Texas that is part of Fort Worth’s future water supply may be resolved by the...
Burning Passion
A mammoth slab of concrete known as the Chisholm Trail Parkway runs toward the horizon on her right. A colossal, rolling pasture wishfully known...
Did Putin Poison Our Water, Too?
Austin wants desperately to be weird, but the line between weird and delusional gets blurry when politicians are involved.
First, Gov. Rick Perry practically accuses...
The Spies Who Wouldn’t Stop
The question to bear in mind, in reading this sorry tale, is: If Americans are, on average, no stupider than Germans, then why are...
