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Lionizing Lone Star Art
At first glance, it’s simply a painting of a black gardener in overalls and floppy hat, tin cup dangling from his fingers, a gentle...
Loss of (Money) Down
When the We-Love-You-Jerry proponents of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington made their case for sales tax dollars to be used for the...
Sayonara to SAM
When Southside Area Ministries shut down at the end of May, all of the office furniture was donated to Berry Good Buys, where it...
Hold That Call
There is not one ounce of longing for the good old days in my head. Because when I think back to Pacer cars and...
Cell-Blocked
For Tarrant County Commissioner J.D. Johnson, receiving about $15,700 in campaign contributions from one group over the last three and a half years ain’t...
Doggin’ the Cats
Baseball is as American as apple pie, assuming the pie is stuffed with ster-oids, amphetamines, and gold-digging groupies in addition to apples. But how...
An Uncertain Future
For Mahmoud Alafyouny, the North Texas man whom the government branded and jailed as a terrorist, freedom apparently has become just another word for...
Smoke, Mirrors, Votes
Did you know that during the March 7 primaries, a miracle occurred in Tarrant County? A record 158,000-plus citizens voted. Unfortunately, 100,000 of those...
Two Flat Tires
In 1999, Fort Worth city staffers and the North Central Texas Council of Governments put together the Fort Worth Bicycle Blueprint, a 300-mile sprawl...
That’s My Job
For a gringo working in the Fort Worth construction industry, sometimes it's hard not to feel embattled by the legions of Mexican immigrants who...
