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The Barnett Keeps Bubbling
The ink was barely dry on a recent industry-financed study showing healthy air around local gas industry sites when activists and independent scientists started...
Recess Recedes
A local elementary is giving short shrift to P.E. - and might be violating state law.
By ERIC GRIFFEY
Last fall, the principal of Clifford Davis...
Got Gas?
A year and a half ago, around the time four gas wells were being drilled in my Southside neighborhood, I was driving down Berry...
‘Tis of Us
If you are reading this on the Fourth of July, rest easy in the knowledge that, somewhere in North Texas, Static, like normal people,...
To the Quick
In about six weeks, The Dallas Morning News is expected to announce that its free weekday paper, Quick, will change formats and switch to...
Canary in the Coal Mine Gas Field
Denton County residents worry as a drillers' maze advances on towns and sucks up water.
By PABLO LASTRA
Richard Wilkinson spent his early years wildcatting all...
Same (Smelly) Song
When Bill Cole saw a "haz-mat" team in front of his Riverside-area auto repair shop last month, it brought back some pretty bad memories....
Tea Bags, Tobacco, and Revolution
To the editor: If I'm going to join the "revolution" that Gayle Reaves so eloquently described in the opener to your Best of 2009...
Voter Up
Static loves the smell of democracy in the morning. On Nov. 5, Texas will be holding elections on nine proposed constitutional amendments. For the...
A Prairie Mis-Fire
Nobody can accuse Jarid Manos of dreaming small.
When he and his Great Plains Restoration Council found out about the 2,000 acres of prairie near...
