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E-headache
Fort Worth attorney Jason Smith had been screaming at his computer for an hour, over complications in using the state’s new electronic filing system,...
Adding Angst to Tragedy
Down the road from my office, at John Peter Smith Hospital, Marlise Muñoz, 33, is brain-dead. She is a continued patient at JPS because...
Finding Home
Sunlight through a stained-glass window cast a glow around Dorothy Blackman, who sat primly on a wooden pew, hands folded in her lap, hair...
Shaking Things Up
The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry in this state, is looking to add an in-house seismologist to its staff....
The Other Obamacare Embarrassment
There is broad agreement that the glitch-filled rollout of Affordable Care Act enrollment was awful. Some have compared it to the botched response to...
Toxic Torts
Texas property owners can post their land against trespassers. But what do you do when the interloper is toxic liquid spreading far beneath the...
Still Stirrin’ It Up
The man pulled an old brown book out of a denim satchel with care, cradling it like a newborn. As he slowly turned the...
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...
