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He Fought the Law, and the Law Waffled
Remember Trevor Goodchild, the young Austin musician who was tasered repeatedly last February for the heinous crime of telling a cop he didn't think...
Tea Time
A couple of hundred years ago, a bunch of colonists - including some of my ancestors - fought a revolution to win freedom from,...
Hear No Evil, See No Money
"It wasn't our fault," the beleaguered president and vice president of the General Employees City of Fort Worth whined, as they tried to explain...
Hey, Homies Front Me Some Ear
I am a white guy - milky white. When I was growing up just outside Fort Worth, there were only four or five African-American...
A Day Without Becky …
Readers rely on Static for their weekly "snark fix," and don't worry, blood flies before this column ends. But first let's talk about Sunshine...
Lassoing Kinky
Back in the 1920s and '30s, Will Rogers had a plan for everything from fixin' the national debt to staying out of whatever war...
Pretty Soon It Adds Up
The $200 million Museum Place development has passed the first test for public funding.
The North Central Texas Council of Governments last week recommended...
Buy This Space
Cowtown boasts what purports to be "the city's magazine" - a publication called Fort Worth, Texas. But rather than reflecting the soul of the...
Send ’Em a Telegram
When a daily paper like the Startlegram gets beat on a story by the piddling underclass (Fort Worth Weekly), the reaction follows a strict...
Hot Dates
When the City of Fort Worth announced that the Fort Worth Flyers minor league basketball team was coming to town, the spin was all...
