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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....
Shea Seger Redux
In 1998, Shea Seger was 18 and living in Virginia when she was approached by a British music producer who invited her to England...
Rocking Their World
Jeana Cole’s mother-in-law thought an earthquake had struck their family home in south Arlington on Monday. Wrong — the window-rattling tremors and noise were...
Courthouse Gusher
In August 2008, the Southwest Fort Worth Alliance, a collection of homeowners associations representing about 25,000 property owners, approved a natural gas leasing deal...
Unhealthy Rhetoric
When the healthcare reform bill passed the U.S. House last week by a vote of 220 to 211, it wasn’t hard to find things...
Hailing a Problem
When veteran cab driver Robert Spence stepped into his bright yellow taxicab on a summer morning a little more than a year ago, it...
Heart-Stopping Humor
It had to be the best quote of the last week, perhaps of the year thus far. The occasion was the annual dinner of...
