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Open Season
Incumbents in Fort Worth political races rarely lose. That’s why Fort Worth City Council members largely go unopposed (three races this year fall into...
Piano in the Park
What had been rumored for months is now official: The new addition to the Kimbell Art Museum will be done on the big west...
No Accounting for (No) Ethics
I recently had occasion to help a 78-year-old friend attempt to straighten out a problem with one of her credit cards. She lives on...
Together They Win
When Fort Worth Weekly's Best of 2008 issue came out on Sept. 28, I was surprised to find that the Brentwood-Oak Hills Neighborhood Association,...
Don’t Waste the Boom
Think whatever you will about the Barnett Shale natural gas boom - whether you're getting eye-popping mailbox money or watching your neighborhood peace being...
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...
A Broad Heart
On a warm Sunday in December, in a closed-door special business meeting, the congregants and elected deacons of Broadway Baptist Church staved off potential...
2nd Time as Farce
This is not the Crash of 1929, and we are not heading into a second Great Depression. No developed country this time around is...
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...
Emptying the Trough
I know a lot of people in this country who are struggling. Good, hardworking people who believe in the system despite the fact that...
