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Air Apparent
Sometimes you can look at an unpopular law and say, OK, I disagree with that, but I understand why it was passed.
Some statutes...
Circular Track
Lyrics to an old Johnny Cash song run through my brain with every trip to my mailbox.
Wanted man in Mississippi / Wanted man in...
This Ain’t Their Best Rodeo
About an hour and a half before he is to pop his light frame onto the back of a 1,500-pound bull, Kyle Miller stretches...
The Pros of Parking
The Weekly's Jan. 9 cover story ("What 'Free' Parking?") on the downtown parking additions made possible with tax-increment financing almost entirely dismissed what that...
Big Rig, No Cattle
Anyone who does big bidness in Cowtown knows two important rules: Stick your hand out when the city council is writing tax-break checks, and...
Downwind of a Windfall
Generally speaking, when small environmental groups take on gigantic corporations, it usually doesn't end well for the little guy - or the environment, for...
Master’s Degree of a Mess
In October 2004, when Tarrant County College District officials posed at a ceremonial groundbreaking for their downtown campus along the Trinity River bluff just...
UFO U-Turn
Before Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out in 1977, Steven Spielberg & Co. sponsored an art contest for kids across the country....
Bully-Goat Bluff
Fear is a great way to control folks. Scare the bejeebers out of 'em and they'll do anything you ask. As a powermonger's ploy,...
No Names, Just Burritos
Southeast of downtown, in the rundown neighborhoods where Fort Worth's homeless shelters are hidden safely out of view of the Sundance crowd, Steve and...
