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License to Loan
To the editor: The Aug. 1 Metropolis story, “High Interest in the ’Burbs,” about payday loans in the less affluent towns and suburbs, really...
Is a Parkway a Park?
The request seemed simple. A Fort Worth couple’s backyard pool had been partially built on city property years ago, long before the couple bought...
City Life Is a Good Life, Once Again
Night Riders regulars are easy to spot. They’re the ones who get to the Chat Room by 7 p.m., early enough to drink a...
Snarls In Cat Land?
Fort Worth Cats fans raised a collective eyebrow after General Manager Chris Hart resigned last week. Hart was considered a sales wunderkind and effective...
Leaving Heights
The first to go was Tommy Elliott, the winning head baseball coach at Arlington Heights High School for the last 30 years. This year...
Chipping Away
Two years ago, members of the city’s little known and little used Ethics Review Committee found out what happened when you pissed off Mike...
Protecting Whom?
This is one of those weeks when it seems like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should remove “environmental” from its name and simply call...
Screwed at the Pump
Editor’s note: Village Voice staffer Pete Kotz, who wrote our July 18 cover story (“Robber Barons at the Pump”), passed along this letter:
To the...
English for the Test
Lots of folks in North Texas want to become U.S. citizens these days: Federal agency records show that the rate of applications for naturalization...
Nuclear Threats
About 9:30 a.m. on June 7 last year, workers at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant near Omaha, Neb., raised the alarm.
Some minutes earlier,...
