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The two neighborhood activists were worried that high-speed truck traffic and spilled sand from a gas well were creating dangerous conditions along East First...
Counting Craddick’s Woes
While Gov. Rick Perry was off stumping in Iowa on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, district-by-district political skirmishes were going on at...
Who Shot B.S.?
Someone tell J.R. Ewing that the Texas city he helped make famous is being knocked off the marquee for an even better soap opera....
Mud Lobbers
Local city council races have generally followed the "Fort Worth Way" as politicos like to call it, with candidates and their handlers playing nice...
Son of Garp
On Oct. 4, 1992, an 18-year-old dental assistant named Marion Ploch was driving to work near the German city of Erlangen. She lost control...
Dump the Dumping
It's tough being an environmentalist in Texas - not as bad as being a snowball in hell, but perhaps akin to rolling a very...
The 2007 Turkey AwardsThe 2007 Turkey Awards
Right about this time of year, our e-mail box fills up with all sort of holiday advice.
How to cook the turkey. How to serve...
Digging Deeper
When a bonus-money war broke out between major Barnett Shale players XTO Energy and Chesapeake Energy Corporation for the rights to drill for natural...
Barton’s Bad Year
Fort Worth's suburban cities seem to have a real penchant for wacky political melodrama — dirty movie wars in Kennedale, endless infighting in White...
Rendering Unto Jerry
Recently, a crowd of hardhat-clad dignitaries gathered in Arlington to watch the largest, heaviest girder being placed in the roof of the latest, greatest...
