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Watch the Shiny Object
When the National Football League tries to sell cities on the concept of public tax money being used to build stadiums, they trot out...
(Not So Lone) Stars Come Home
Stories on topics from prison medical care to Mike Moncrief’s conflicts of interest earned a boxful of journalism awards for Fort Worth Weekly last...
Global Swarming
Last week when I went online, Yahoo had listed, among the day's lead stories, one about a cookbook showing how to change your diet...
Oh, Danny Boy
Fort Worth City Council member Danny Scarth's latest screw-up - running afoul of the Texas Ethics Commission - is yet another stain on his...
Gay Cure
Near the University of Texas at Arlington, in the shadow of a sprawling church, a small sanctuary occupies a suite in a towering office...
Lessons From the Trenches
Hi, students. Welcome to Participatory Democracry 101. Please take a seat - and remember, it's OK to use money, lies, or intimidation to convince...
’Chuting Fish in a Barrel
Surely, surely, his handlers warned that if he did this, hilarity would ensue.
The pictures alone, they must have said, could be grist for...
Spencer’s Last Fling
Over lunch at the Star Café in Fort Worth's Stockyards, Spencer Taylor is in one of his moods. He is upbeat and joking with...
Making Book on Art
Stealing a federal building intended for Dallas and getting it built in Fort Worth instead was a major coup for then-U.S. Rep. Jim Wright...
Big Hat, No Brahmas
When Jerry Jones snagged the 2011 Super Bowl last week for his new stadium in Arlington, the Cowboys' owner and his contingent held a...









