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To the editor: As I gaze from my sixth-floor window and watch automobiles zipping east and west, north and south, free as the breeze,...
Derailed
Just about a year ago, a modern streetcar system in Fort Worth seemed likely, even imminent. The city had been studying streetcars for 15...
Flaw in the Ointment
This rag gave Payton Scarth and his daddy Danny, a three-term city councilman from the East Side, a hard time a few weeks back...
Inherited Agony
Ten years ago, when he was 28, Juan Wertz, who was waiting tables at the time, began experiencing swelling in his hands and feet....
Green Salvation?
The United Nations climate summit in Cancun ended on an upbeat note last week. Once again there was no global deal reached on cutting...
Caught in the Dragnet
On the night that Shahed Hossain left his family’s house in Haltom City to drive to Laredo, his mother, Habiba, cooked dinner — chicken...
Forget “Don’t Drink the Water.”
Sometimes Static’s editor feels like it’s dangerous to open her e-mail inbox on Tuesdays, deadline day at your beloved Fort Worth Weekly. You never...
Mimi and the Man
Last July, an elderly man was sitting on his front porch on Fort Worth’s Near East Side when two pit bulls attacked him, knocking...
Wary Christmas
OK, I get it: It’s Christmas, and you want to celebrate the birth of your savior. You want to decorate the trees and break...
Aggie Secrets
The gently rolling ranchland around Stephenville provides a natural backdrop for Tarleton State University and its emphasis on agricultural studies. But it’s more than...
