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Twilight
The 112th session of the United States Congress doesn’t convene until January, but the GOP is already flexing its ignorance.
Last week Republicans announced they...
Film Fare
Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term “MacGuffin” to mean a plot device that engages the viewer’s attention. It makes sense, then, that MacGuffin’s is the...
On the Green Prairie
The cowboy life means long hours in the sun. And even after cowboys hang up their spurs and get enshrined in the Texas Cowboy...
High-Level Worries
By the fall of 2011, if the courts or legislators don’t act to stop it, Texas could become the “nuclear waste dump for the...
Fumes
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...
