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Cash-Trapped
Fort Worth City Council member Kathleen Hicks believes that her Eastside constituency is under assault from a powerful and virtually unregulated coalition of payday...
Lost (or Tarnished) Gold
The bizarre news a few days ago that Newsday had, um, lost three of its storied Pulitzer gold medals for public service, reminded Static...
Playing Defense
The argument of defense companies like Lockheed Martin, which employs thousands at its Fort Worth plant, is simple: Don’t force us to lay off...
Paging, Harris Methodist Hospital (UPDATED)
UPDATED: Aug. 27, 2015: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Not So Bad After All
Fort Worth Weekly’s Static column on Aug. 19 reported findings from...
Neglected Heritage
Heritage counts for a lot in Fort Worth, a town where the Stockyards and the Chisholm Trail, Sundance Square, cowboying, and a Western tradition...
Reining in Tasers
If State Rep. Lon Burnam has his way, beginning next September, police across the state are going to have to think twice about pulling...
A Texan Walks into a Bar … (Coughing)
Sometimes it seems like the only reason to keep living in Texas is that it's so exciting to think about how we could improve...
Keeping the Light On
Static is glad to see that Attorney General Greg Abbott is back in court defending the Texas Open Meetings Act. The law, which essentially...
Two Men Enter …
An ocean of blood has been spilled in the name of Christianity over the ages, so it makes sense that two maintenance workers at...
Copping a Comfy Retirement
W.B. "Zim" Zimmerman didn't have much money in his war chest when he ran for Fort Worth City Council last spring. And he might...
