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Marking This Place
Last week, as the Weekly was putting its "Best of 2007" issue to bed (a chore not unlike getting an 800-lb. gorilla to brush...
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David Phinney thought he'd struck journalistic gold. The veteran reporter, who has done freelance work for PBS, ABC, The New York Times, and other...
No Flood of Money
A few weeks ago, President Bush made a speech in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, an area particularly hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. Bush said New...
Found: Too Many Signs
The bright and colorful signs hammered into the grass in the public right-of-way or stapled onto utility poles promote everything from diet formulas to...
Bullies With Badges
When Patsy Keifer got busted for DWI while sitting at the side of a country road in her broken-down Chevy pickup, it didn't surprise...
The Money Shuffle
Gov. Perry's web site touts his commitment to public education. So why is the governor considering, for the top spot in the Texas Education...
Too Little, Too Late
Two years ago, in a story about the impending home foreclosure crisis caused by widespread predatory lending practices (“Wolves in Small Print,” Aug. 10,...
Rolaids and the River
Juan Rangel, the maverick Fort Worth schools trustee who gave former school superintendent Tom Tocco heartburn and helped usher him out the door in...
Fighting Back
Cows grudgingly rise from mid-morning naps as Billy Mitchell's Ford F-250 jostles down a dirt road past the oak trees he climbed as a...
Don’t Ban the Bomb-Words
Last week NBC presented a special that chronicled the first five years of Saturday Night Live. For many of us, the mid-70s doesn't seem...
