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Can They Make It Look Like a Giant Drilling Rig?
Rather than hawking home furnishings, Pier 1 Imports should specialize in real estate flipping and taxpayer skinning. The company built its $90-million, 20-story headquarters...
No Accounting for (No) Ethics
I recently had occasion to help a 78-year-old friend attempt to straighten out a problem with one of her credit cards. She lives on...
The East Side Comes Out Swingin’
Towering trees are among the many things that attracted Wanda Conlin to the Meadowbrook neighborhood in East Fort Worth five decades ago.
She adores them,...
Carrying Folks to Care
Things are tough all over for poor people in Arlington - no public transit, city policies seemingly aimed at keeping low-cost housing out of...
Well Connected
Static so likes to see its colleagues succeed - especially when Fort Worth Weekly helped give them a little push along the road. The...
Forgetting his (Geek) Roots
Whenever I think about how technological innovations have changed the journalism business, I think of Moses and the Ten Commandments. When God had Moses...
On the Border of Fear
A major policy shift is under way on the Texas-Mexico border. It's been called the Berlin Wall, the Wall of Shame, and even Wall...
Paying for Abuse
On Oct. 25, 2005, Patsy Keifer, a homemaker from Cleburne, was picked up on suspicion of driving while under the influence and brought to...
No More Pours at the Panther
Over the weekend, the Panther City Coffee shop closed down. Yet another cool, independent coffee shop has fallen prey to the Fort's insatiable need...
Bush-Boarding
So George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would outlaw the practice of waterboarding. Hold that thought for a moment.
Two stories come immediately to...
