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The Emperor Has No Water
It was almost 10 years ago that Static’s colleague Jeff Prince wrote one of the first stories published in these parts about the toll...
New Lives, New Site?
The Fort Worth school district’s campus for students who either have a child or are expecting one has moved twice in the last three...
The Two Faces of E-(Cigs)
Clyde, a longtime Fort Worth resident, enjoys smoking a little weed, but he’s certainly not one to spark up a fatty in public. So...
Not So Crazy
Mark Cuban is a lightning rod who isn’t afraid to give his opinion on anything from the state of journalism to politics. But he’s...
Raunchy, yes. Funny, no.
Movie critics are hailing Neighbors as this season’s best comedy. A bunch of college kids move into a neighborhood next to regular folks, and...
Leaving Islam
Keys to freedom can take many forms. Samya’s was an iPod, a Twitter account, and a group of North Texas atheists.
Samya is not her...
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...
