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A School for Peace
Military schools have studied the science of war for hundreds if not thousands of years. Serious scholarship on how to stop wars or avoid...
Kinky on the Farm
With Houston Mayor Bill White in the Democratic race for governor, humorist/author Kinky Friedman has shifted his attentions to the race for agriculture commissioner.
And...
Weapons of Choice
Just outside the wrestling ring, eight eager people - men, women, and a kid - are cracking leather belts loudly against the mat, impatient...
Autopsies in Wonderland
Tarrant County Auditor Renee Tidwell recently released the results of an audit of the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office, and while no skeletons were...
Shift in the Shale
As avenues go, Carter Avenue, on Fort Worth's East Side, is pretty modest. But a lot of North Texas gas drilling activists are hoping...
Payday Blues
To the editor: In her Dec. 9 article "Cash-Trapped," reporter Betty Brink quoted State Sen. Wendy Davis as saying that the payday lending...
The Opacity of Hope
The 120 or so people gathered at J. Gilligan's Bar and Grill in Arlington recently were celebrating an early Christmas present. The party was...
Challenging the Big Dogs
To the editor: The Nov. 11 Static column, "What Will it Take?," continues the saga of Taser guns and the dangerous, sometimes lethal ramifications...
Cash-Trapped
Fort Worth City Council member Kathleen Hicks believes that her Eastside constituency is under assault from a powerful and virtually unregulated coalition of payday...
A Gem in Southeast
As board chairman of the Near Southeast Community Development Corporation, I appreciated Fort Worth Weekly's recent article about the city housing department ("Falling Down,...
