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Best Table in Town
"Food insecurity" is bureaucratese for "hungry." Not the "Oh, it's 1 p.m. and I haven't had lunch yet" hungry, or the "Damn, I'm on...
Risky Nuke Business
Luminant Energy, the new owner of the old TXU, came to town promising not only to go green (it's the largest producer of wind...
Prairie Fest in Peril
Fort Worth’s one-of-a-kind Prairie Fest might soon be none-of-a-kind. The city’s unique festival, approaching its sixth anniversary, is tottering on the brink of extinction...
Hearing? What Hearing?
Monday night's hearing before the city's gas drilling task force turned out more than 100 people, and turned the flame even higher on all...
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...
Tree Fight Resprouts
When trees along the Trinity River across from Colonial Country Club fell to gas drillers' saws last month, many who had fought to save...
Parsing the Record
The Texas Railroad Commission didn't respond in time to get their comments in last week's cover story on environmental threats and strategies in shale...
Guns, Shields, Pigs
Laura Elizabeth Morales, writing recently for the Texas Insider political web site, bemoaned the fact that a bill that would allow concealed weapons on...
Our Land
Local teacher and writer Kendall McCook went to Washington, D.C., for Barack Obama's inauguration, with sons Jake and Clayton. The following is excerpted from...
Together They Win
Eastside neighbors locked arms last year to deal with crises in common.
By RITA VINSON
When Fort Worth Weekly's Best of 2008 issue came out on...
