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Systemic Indifference

Former Fort Worth City Council member Louis Zapata died on April 4 after a long illness. He was 79.

Cruising Gateway Park

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Tough Route to Medical Care

Christopher Alan Gillette is in a world of hurt. He’s also in a world of trouble. And they both stem from the same place:...

Grass Capitalist

Toward the end of the presidential campaign, I started hearing the Republican rank and file express worries that the election of Barack Obama as...

Defending Hemphill

Last Saturday, residents of the Hemphill neighborhood gathered to raise funds for a scholarship in honor of Patrick Zamarripa, the former Dallas police officer...

A Pretty Penny

On Aug. 29, Tarrant County College’s $192 million Center for Health Care Professions opened its doors to 700 students in downtown Fort Worth. Officially...

How Their Gardens Grow

Third-graders at Fort Worth’s D. McRae Elementary School harvested 1,982 tomatoes last spring. The experience was good for their diets — and their math...

Cracking the Code

You almost have to feel sorry for Fort Worth public school administrators. When they instituted a stricter dress code for high schools this year,...

Coalition of the Unlikely

On July 10, TXU adopted the name "Luminant" for its power-generating and construction operations. Officially, the company said the name change was "a milestone as...

Second Annual Visionary Awards

Here’s a conundrum: How can Fort Worth have such an incredible array of art-related institutions and not be an “art town”? (At least not...

It’s Not a Math Course

Students of city management could learn a lot by observing how this city deals with the Woodhaven neighborhood in East Fort Worth. "OK, class,...

Still Ripped

The battle between a business and a neighborhood continues in Bluebonnet Place near Texas Christian University. The Fort Worth Zoning Commission last week unanimously denied...