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Paying the Price for Free Speech
It was 2:30 a.m. when a guard woke her up and told her to pack her belongings. By 5 a.m., Karen Lucchesi Lewis was...
Let There Be Light — and Heat
When former Fort Worth City Council member Clyde Picht was running against incumbent Jungus Jordan, the voters in District 6 got a mailing from...
How Their Gardens Grow
Third-graders at Fort Worth’s D. McRae Elementary School harvested 1,982 tomatoes last spring. The experience was good for their diets — and their math...
Real Star Wars
In the depths of the Cold War, as the arms race between the United States and Soviet Union escalated, the terrible benchmarks were recorded...
What’s it Worth to Save the Fort?
The three swords once belonged to a U.S. Army officer of dragoons, back in the era when swords were serious weapons of war and...
Building for the Rich
No one can accuse the Dallas Cowboys' Jerry Jones of being a bad businessman. On the contrary, he is quite a genius.
Some years...
Hot Water
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...
Big Hat, More Closet
In their ongoing obsession with Dallas, Cowtonians love to play it up big any time we beat the Beast to the East. But a...
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...
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...
