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The Price of Cake
The only good urban gas well is one that doesn't get drilled.
By GRAYSON HARPER
There's something a bit sad and desperate about this gas drilling...
Buy Me Some Peanuts and Two Six-Packs
Six old friends decided to get together last week and attend a Texas Rangers game. They'd all grown up in Arlington in the 1970s...
Subsidizing Child Care
Burnam wants some TIF money for downtown worker bees and their kids.
By DAN MCGRAW
Two months ago, Downtown Fort Worth Inc., the nonprofit that works...
Devolution in Education
The fight is on over teaching "intelligent design" in Texas schools.
By Laurie Barker James
Regularly updating the subject matter taught in public schools would seem...
The Binge Conundrum
When I started college, I was 17 - had to wait three months before I could drink in bars near our campus in Chicago....
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...
Parking Perils
A disagreement between a valet attendant and Fort Worth police has escalated to feud status, prompting a flurry of citations, an arrest, accusations of...
Canary in the Coal Mine Gas Field
Richard Wilkinson spent his early years wildcatting all over Texas in search of oil. During a stint in the Army in the '50s, he...
The Binge Conundrum
When I started college, I was 17 - had to wait three months before I could drink in bars near our campus in Chicago....
Parking Perils
A downtown valet says Fort Worth police are harassing him because he's cut them out of the towing process.
By JEFF PRINCE
A disagreement between a...
