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Spanish Stand-Off
When my daughter was four, her pre-kindergarten class in the Fort Worth public school system taught her in both Spanish and English. The federally...
Natural Man
A teenager was just itching to set fire to Tandy Hills Park. But maybe there were other ways to destroy the trees.
"You think they'd...
Hidden Heritage
When the Fort Worth Parks and Community Services Department closed Heritage Park six months ago, few downtown regulars noticed.
The park that at one...
Into the Valley of Dallas
Some folks use this rag for little more than seeing which bands are playing, which movie's showing, or which big-breasted vixen wants to talk...
Omigod — Obama
Holy crap! We're going to have a black president!
If my dad wasn't already dead, that would kill him. (You guessed it: He was extremely...
Gone to Texas
Steve Hollern and Lon Burnam are about as politically opposite as it gets in Fort Worth
- the first a Ronald Reagan Republican who...
Tolls for Thee
Static suffers acid reflux every time highway planners try to cram mega-toll roads down Texans' throats. Empathy wells up when ranchers and farmers talk...
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...
One Down
The Tarrant County College District crossed a key threshold this week in the lengthy process of getting permission from the federal government to build...
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...
