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Man in the Middle
In an increasingly partisan state, it’s increasingly hard to be the man in the middle. That’s the tightrope that Texas House Speaker Joe Straus...
Keyboard Commandos
The photo pages are filled with shots of masked men holding large guns, some with the U.S. flag tied around their lower faces. There...
Bringing the Heat
Yes, it’s a long hot summer already, even if you don’t live along the Gulf Coast. Some of the heat is welcome, some not...
Carswell Loses in Court
When inmate Linda D’Antuono Fenton died in 2004, eight days after she was moved from the Federal Medical Center-Carswell to a local hospital, her...
Breaking Families, Hearts
To the editor: I feel compelled to write to you on behalf of the parents whose parental rights have been removed (“Rethinking Guardianship,” May...
Of Bongs and BP
These days it seems like you can’t throw a rock in Aledo without hitting a proponent of free markets, laissez faire, and the notion...
2010 Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards
In terms of sheer productivity, the past 12 months will be remembered as a pivotal moment in Fort Worth music. Everybody and their dog...
Time to “Give it” to TCEQ
If you think it’s time for the Fort Worth-Arlington-Dallas Metromess (a word Static unblushingly borrows from clean-air activist Jim Schermbeck) to finally clean up...
Sewage Plant for Mary’s Creek?
Although Fort Worth water officials are considering putting a new sewage treatment plant near homes on the West Side of Fort Worth, residents aren’t...
Why So Serious?
Surely there can be few things less useful than a World Map of Happiness. If you live in one of the unhappy places, there...
