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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...
A Maze of Pain
Last April, Sergeant Chip Gillette, a 27-year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department, was coming to a stop at a red light when...
The Music Man Makes Another Sale
Well, here we are in River City, folks. Don’t mind those little quakes — that’s just the Earth’s way of showing how much it...
Working for Judges They Work With
The March 14 primary elections for Tarrant County criminal court judges are months away, but they’re creating a buzz in courtroom hallways as two...
