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Is Our Children Getting Screwed
If it weren't so dreadful for the nation's schools, Static would crow over the recently released audit of the billion-dollar Reading First initiative, part...
Water, Water … Where?
The worst drought on record in these parts lasted for much of the 1950s. While city folks were discovering tv and cars with fins,...
Bad for Your Health
When I talked to Fort Worth City Council member Kathleen Hicks a few weeks ago, she was ticking off a list of problems in...
Evangelizing for the Earth
Look around you, the physician told the group at the Texas Christian University student center. Half of the two dozen or so folks in...
You Read It … Where?
Feeling a little sticky from all the sweetness and light in last week's Best Of 2006 edition? A little sour that your name wasn't...
Annexing Trouble
Cindy Owens remembers the night in chilling detail. Her daughter had been struck by a car. She’d called an ambulance and waited 45 minutes...
Prison Bound
Ryan Peucker is nobody’s idea of an angel. He started smoking pot as a young teenager living in Joshua and Cleburne, dipped into cocaine...
Paper Chase
The going’s been rough for journalists in the last few years. Daily newspapers that worried about losing readers to network tv discovered that tv...
Sand for the Cat Box
You'd think reporters would have been welcomed at LaGrave Field on Monday afternoon. After all, the Knot Hole Gang fan club was there to...
Hotseat for Hicks
The Fort Worth City Council meeting two weeks ago was an important one for Kathleen Hicks. Up for a vote were zoning changes on...
