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A Tribe at the Track
Those who have never been to a stock car race perceive NASCAR fans as rednecks with mullets and toothless grins — big southern...
What Will It Take?
Sometimes, surely, opponents of Tasers must feel like they are in a nightmare, where they are screaming but no sound comes out. Especially in...
A Fine Education
Tarleton State University officials learned recently that underreporting campus crime could be expensive. The ultimate source of that lesson? Their own journalism students, who...
Spending the Planet
I'm not a big fan of most conservatives. Historically speaking, they are - to put it bluntly - too often on the wrong side...
Hypocrisy in the Air
Static is underwhelmed with the news, reported last Friday on WFAA-TV/Channel 8, that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has discovered elevated levels of...
Wheel Right
Four years ago, Amber Herndon was volunteering at a banquet being held at her church. The event was a fund-raiser for a new program...
Read with Gloves On
To the editor: Peter Gorman's well-documented article ("Sacrificed to Shale," Oct. 14, 2009) is a jaw-dropping report. You need a pair of asbestos gloves...
Plowing in Vain?
To: City Manager Dale Fisseler
Dear Dale, Since my retirement, I have received disturbing information about an initiative we began in the mid-1980s - the...
Home Sweet Studio
"I would love to record my album in a million-dollar studio," said local musician and music producer Zaq Bell. "But why? I can do...
Dirty Dish
In the last few years, since gas compressor stations arrived in the Denton County town of DISH, Jim Caplinger, 61, has developed a nervous...
