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Hungering for Change
Going on a water-only hunger strike for 32 days made Ted Glick, co-founder of the Climate Crisis Council, feel extremely weak - but nowhere...
Yelling about the Quiet Zone
To the editor: I want to thank Jeff Prince for his story ("Cross about the Crossing," June 17, 2009) about the very contentious meeting...
Not So Healthy
According to the latest government estimates, nearly 50 million Americans don't have health insurance. These days, I'm one of them. How did I get...
Did Fort Worth blow it?
Some people think so. They say the 817 scene now isn't what it was as few as a couple of years ago, when Flickerstick,...
A Texan Walks into a Bar … (Coughing)
Sometimes it seems like the only reason to keep living in Texas is that it's so exciting to think about how we could improve...
Cross about the Crossing
Most folks who live near railroad tracks grow weary of getting blasted by train horns day and night. So when Fort Worth's railroad projects...
Under the Weekly Microscope
To the editor: The May 27 cover story on the funding of the medical examiner's office ("Dissecting the Evidence"), by Peter Gorman, was a...
You Are There
A few weeks ago, my oldest son told me that Afghanistan is probably in his immediate future. It was only a little over a...
Live from the Stockyards
It was 1998, and Tom "Buffalo" Kinzer, a Texas rodeo cowboy by way of California, was in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on business.
Kinzer, who lives...
After the Shrub is Gone
Remember when war protests down in Crawford were as common as George W. Bush mispronouncing words like "nucular" and "subliminibal?" Now two of those...
