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White Customer, Black Trespasser
Laws are funny business. What appears like protecting the peace to one person may seem yet another example of institutionalized racism to another. It...
Just Say No
I thought we were good to go. Our third-grader was going to learn online-only for the first semester or until a vaccine is developed.
Then...
Bridging America’s Wealth Divide
The United States accounts for 4.4% of the world’s population but nearly a quarter of COVID-19-related deaths. The fact that the wealthiest country continues...
The Coming Big Chill
Being 63, I just made it under the wire to have “OK, Boomer” shade thrown at me by Gen Zers. In 1969, that hallowed...
Seeing Green
After a several-decade hiatus from the Texas agricultural landscape, hemp is back. Waxahachie-based Texas Botanics is one of a few dozen hemp farms to...
Law Enforcement Reform on the Horizon?
Attempts to reform the Fort Worth police department are nothing new. The too-frequent assault and killing of unarmed Black men and women by white...
Bells Will Be Ringing
At a recent outdoor rally calling for the reopening of Tarrant County classrooms, a mother with children in a private Christian school put it...
High Time for Marijuana Reform?
The recent order from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to hemp retailers was, um, blunt. The retail sale of smokable hemp...
Protesters Call for Compassionate Release of Carswell Prisoners
The all-female Federal Medical Center-Carswell recently received national attention following the COVID-19-related deaths of three inmates. At its peak, more than 500 inmates were stricken with the...
Are We Free Without Justice?
First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,...
