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Jennifer Olson brought a valuable person with her to meet me at a grocery store café for this interview –– her 6-year-old son. The...
Learning to Love Big Gas
In his Aug. 26 Fort Worth Weekly report, "The Big Takeover," Peter Gorman wrote about all the bad publicity that natural gas extractors have...
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...
Behind on the Bills
Fort Worth City Council member Frank Moss and city housing official Donald Cager were taken to the woodshed twice last week — in both...
Betty Brink
You couldn’t call Betty Brink the face of Fort Worth Weekly because reporters seldom get their mugs in the paper. Most readers had no...
Wild About Fees
Say you’re a mom with two kids, scraping by while working a minimum wage job. A letter shows up in your mailbox one day...
How Vernon Fisher Came to K-Mart Conceptualism
Fort Worth artist Vernon Fisher figures he escaped the bland certainties of a traditional rural Texas life through a crack in the façade between...
Sucking Gas and Blowing It
Gas companies routinely tout their abilities to drill near homes and schools without major incidents. Never mind the poisonous air quality produced by the...
Prescription for Care
Maria is 47 years old. She’s a diabetic whose kidneys are shutting down. She needs renal dialysis at least three times a week. She...
What Media Bias?
Fake news! Enemy of the people!
We’ve heard these claims against the mainstream media a thousand times from the current occupant of the Oval Office,...
