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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Iron Men
When the tower crane's boom came crashing down on him at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's control tower that day in 1972, it sent Rattlesnake...
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...
Fear ’Cross the Mersey
At a soccer game in Liverpool last week, Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks watched his most recent acquisition - the Liverpool...
