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Big D’s Big Plan
Dallas doesn’t generally follow in Cowtown’s hoofprints. When it comes to gas drilling, the city’s Plan Commission was smart enough to look our way...
Tasers Off
Four Tarrant County cities temporarily suspended their police departments’ use of Taser electronic devices in late September, based on what their attorneys said were...
Slimmer Streets
In the fall of 2009, Mistletoe Heights resident Susan Pressley was waiting at the intersection of Park Place Avenue and Forest Park Boulevard with...
Best Of Getting & Spending 2013
Customer Service
Readers’ choice: Spec’s, 2750 S Hulen St, FW
Critic’s choice: Marquita Sims, Whole Foods Market, 801 E Lamar Blvd, Arl
In the rare instances when...
Best Of People & Politics 2013
Thing Tarrant County Needs
Critic’s choice: Endowment fund for the Arts Council of Fort Worth
Two years of budget battle losses have left local arts groups...
Keep a Firm Grip on Your Gimme Cap
Pink tennis shoes or combat boots? It’s been that kind of in-the-trenches year in our fair burg and, really, the rest of the state....
Separation of Church and Trail
A granite monument sporting an engraved Bible scripture was recently installed on public property near Fort Worth’s Trinity Trails, and some folks aren’t happy...
Protecting Industry
A natural gas compressor ordinance passed by the Fort Worth City Council last week has closed a several-years-old loophole favoring drillers but simultaneously expanded...
Egg on the Edge
I’m on my back in a dimly lit room on the seventh floor of a Dallas research hospital. Though I can’t see it, a...
Troll-free Tellygram
The racist, name-calling, confrontational, and sensationalistic comments sometimes left by trolls at the bottom of online newspaper stories are no longer welcome at the...
