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An All–Star Journey
The baseball gods may have had me in mind when they made the 2018 baseball schedule. While I had planned to be in the...
Searching for Heroes
Four years since forming the grassroots group Comunidad 27, Northside resident Arnoldo Hurtado believes the crime that had long plagued his neighborhood — gun...
Deflection
The federal government didn’t discriminate against a same-sex married couple. Instead, the feds only funded the bigotry that blocked Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin...
Gone Dog
A German shepherd pup that was fatally shot by an Arlington police officer might still be alive today if not for the city’s policy...
Return to Sender
I happily departed England in July 2014, bound for Fort Worth. My wife and I moved with 30 boxes of books, three overweight suitcases,...
Safe at Home
Her nightmares are less like dreams, more like memories of things that actually occurred, terrible recollections conjured in the wee hours while she sleeps.
Karen...
No Time for Silence
I find myself at this moment pondering Benjamin Franklin and his printing press and Thomas Paine, the radical patriot pamphleteer of the American Revolution....
Not so Supreme Court
Not much to report. Just another Racism Week in America, this time thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court. A day before the highest judges...
Wag! the Dog
Shawn Hughes was already having suspicions about the Wag! dog-walking service, sometimes referred to as Uber for mutts. The company is based in Los...
Fenced In
Near Southside-based attorney Sean Lynch had recently returned from downtown’s Family Law Center to his Rosedale Street office and its familiar west-facing mural. Painted...
