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Suppressing the Vote from the Inside
John Scott, a Texas lawyer who briefly worked on a Donald Trump campaign challenge to the 2020 elections, is Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick for...
Redistricting Rumpus
Just trying to watch some hockey on the tube, and now I’m in a flamewar with my family.
Somehow, the subject of politics has come...
Redistricting Fort Worth
Drafting new city districts for voting is akin to a high-stakes game of Whac-A-Mole. Moving the boundary lines in one district could leave a...
Gen X-ed
Big hair, turned-up collars, Members Only jackets, Swatches, New Kids on the Block. There were gobs of ridiculousness in the 1980s. Too much to...
Red Flags
Indictments make for great headlines, and district attorneys know it. When a grand jury found grounds for indicting two Carroll school board members in...
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough
When news spread about the shooting at Timberview High School, I held my breath like many other parents in Texas. It was even harder...
Tarantula Tiki Lounge
Walk into any tiki cocktail lounge in the United States, and the drinks and decor will likely whisk you away to the shores of...
Ladies and Germs, it’s Greg “Big COVID” Abbott!
The big news locally is still the coronavirus. The Texas health department says that we averaged about 260 COVID-19 deaths per day over the last...
Rising Partisanship
Examples of Tarrant County judges putting ethics above politics are not hard to find.
In 2008, a Republican judge ruled that Democratic Fort Worth City...
An Unnatural Death
News reports about the 2020 death of Andrew “Andre” Wilson provided little information about the 34-year-old Black man other than his supposed cause of...
