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A U-Turn on Beautiful Highways
Lady Bird Johnson was barely cold in her coffin before federal highway administrators began gutting her heralded beautification efforts.
Back in the 1960s, the former...
Offensive Lines
After a concert at The Moon, a bar and music venue on Berry Street near Texas Christian University, last July, Jordan Roberts and Greg...
A New Kind of Wage Slave
Unless she's dying or recovering from surgery, a patient at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell must work.
The hospital out on the banks of Lake...
Proud Again?
A couple of months ago, I vacationed in Colorado. I loved the drive from Fort Worth to Denver. Leaving Cowtown, the sky gets expansive,...
Lost (or Tarnished) Gold
The bizarre news a few days ago that Newsday had, um, lost three of its storied Pulitzer gold medals for public service, reminded Static...
Inspection Lite
The grades are in on the first year of a plan to send Fort Worth construction inspectors to school for a mandatory certification program,...
Viva Mariachi!
Eighth-grade lunch period meant most students were eating in the cafeteria or just chillin' outside.
The hallway was quiet, except for the muffled sound of...
Down with Baggy Pants
Someday, when they are 10 or 15 years older, the boys who are teenagers in Dallas now should erect a statue of Ron Price....
Mad Boy, Mad Boy
Static has no excuse for waiting weeks to look at its Tivo-recorded premiere of Jail, except maybe that it seemed like duty rather than...
I Can Hear That Train …
As any survivor of a 12-step program knows, you have to admit you have a problem before you can attack it.
In Fort Worth’s case,...
