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Guilt by Disassociation
Tarrant County Judge Tom Vandergriff's decision to move out of his landmark house at 1216 W. Park Row in Arlington after 38 years sparked...
Troubled Waters
When U.S Rep. Kay Granger pushed funding through Congress for the Trinity River Vision project — anointed as flood control, but really an economic...
Taking Lumps over Coal
Environmentalists protesting the pollution potential of industrial plants — electric generating stations, cement kilns, whatever — aren't that unusual these days.
So when several...
Losing Our (American) Way
The other day I heard on the radio an industrial-edged remake (by a band called Dissturbed) of the 1986 Genesis pop hit, "Land of...
Ahead of the (Criminal) Curve
The modesty of Tarrant County residents is known far and wide, but gosh, sometimes you just have to toot your own horn - especially...
The Dems Dig Out
It may still be too early to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” but some Tarrant County Democrats are daring to hum it under...
The Tempest and the Teapot
A series of incendiary e-mail letters written by Tarrant County District Clerk Tom Wilder to longtime criminal District Court Judge Sharen Wilson last month...
The Narrow News of Sports
The wide world of sports is more diverse and less overwhelmingly male than ever, but you wouldn't know it from reading the sports sections...
Abuse of Plain English
A Nov. 14 "pre-council" meeting at Fort Worth city hall would make an interesting case study for a semantics class.
Assistant City Manager Joe...
Drilling Through Peace and Property
Carl Fors wanted out. The noise and vibration from the gas well behind his house were enough to make the plates in his cupboard...
