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A Monumental Undertaking
The party Demetria McFarland’s family throws every Juneteenth is so big they usually need at least three trailer-size smokers to cook enough food for...
Song and Dance
Everyone’s a little bit / Racist sometimes. / Doesn’t mean we go around committing / Hate crimes. / Look around and / You will...
Progress Coming to Panther Island?
Ask any number of Tarrant County folks what the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) does, and you’ll see at least a few quizzical faces....
Gang Life
Recently, while attending a housing meeting on the East Side, I overheard a conversation between two residents, one of whom appeared to be a...
COVID at Carswell
Dressed in all black, her hair in long, meticulous braids, Shenita Cleveland stood outside the gates of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) South...
Serving Up Safety
Felipe Armenta is fighting the pandemic in more ways than one. On the food front, the chef behind Press Café, The Tavern, Pacific Table,...
Willful Neglect or Voter Suppression?
The botched federal response to COVID-19 and diehard anti-maskers have all but ensured that voters will have to cast their November 3 presidential ballots in...
Panther Island Crawling Back?
The past few years have been unforgiving for Panther Island, the $1.17 billion flood control project and upscale development headed by the Tarrant Regional...
Blacklisted
The return to school has morphed into a season of unrest unto itself. The “COVID question” is still very much unanswered, but one group...
Rule of Law, Good for Business
Speaking in Fort Worth last week, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a stern warning to state elected officials: Hands off police budgets or else the...
