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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...
Who’s Listening at City Hall?
The Fort Worth City Council meeting on May 4 was an evening session, and council chambers were packed, mostly with residents who had come...
A Classic Rolls into History
Over the weekend the last of the inventory of the Pate Museum of Transportation went under the gavel. Amid the sounds of live music...
DISH Water
Clogged filters, low water pressure, and test results alternately confirming and disproving the presence of harmful chemicals in their private water well have led...
It’s Beautiful, Man
Editor’s note: This week’s letters aged a bit in our inbox but were too interesting to keep to ourselves any longer.
To the editor: So...
There’ll BePeace in Texas
Rita Marie Johnson is arguably one of the most successful peace advocates in the world. But you won’t see her marching in the street...
Fashion Forward – and Westward
Shhhhh! Top-secret stuff is happening in Weatherford. But Static isn’t afraid to dig up confidential info on the down low if it pleases regular...
Finish Line for the Pate
It’s been part of the landscape on State Highway 377 for more than 40 years. Each time I drove past the Pate museum and...
Afghanistan: Back to the front for the Weekly
expectation ek-spek-tay'-shun noun. A strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future : Reality had not lived up to...
The U.S. Economy: Still a House of Cards
So, jobless numbers are beginning to look a little better, housing foreclosures are leveling off, financial reforms are battling their way through Congress, and...
