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Upsetting the Apple Cart
Fort Worth school board members currently up for re-election will tell you that after years of struggle and scandal there are now more things...
Save the Economy: Grow Dope
The way Static sees it, the only madness about reefer is the extremes to which the federal government has traditionally gone to police its...
New Melee for Mitchell
Freedom of speech isn’t always free, or so deemed the Texas Ethics Commission after Billy Mitchell ran large ads in several newspapers, including Fort...
Where’s the Racism?
To the editor: Eddie Griffin’s intellectually dishonest piece of propaganda (On Second Thought, March 31, 2010) attempts to portray all Republicans, Tea Partiers, and...
We Are the Beasts
In many ways, Hunter Layland was like any other freshman boy in the Metroplex. He played football, spent time with his friends, and tried...
Young and Hungry
The cars and pickup trucks are lined up for nearly half a mile on the farm-to-market road in Joshua. The first ones arrived at...
Cart Before the Vote
Backroom deals at City Hall? Couldn’t be, right? But Fort Worth City Council member Kathleen Hicks pointed out the evidence — in a document...
The Price of Payday
Having garnered not a single vote on the Fort Worth City Council for her position, District 8 council member Kathleen Hicks is taking her...
Not That Kind of Rest
To the editor: I enjoyed reading Jeff Prince’s interesting profile (“Good Country for an Old Cowboy,” March 17, 2010) of one of my favorite...
Gateway to Violence
In the late ’90s, for a national magazine story on the issue of somehow making marijuana legal, I interviewed then-drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey....
