Dividing Fort Worth
Representative government should (in theory) be just that — a governing body that proportionately reflects the race, gender, and beliefs of constituents. Three-fifths of...
City Spokesperson Talks Open Records on the Record
Last week’s Metro (“Open Government or Legal Loopholes?” Nov. 24) detailed how an ever-increasing number of open records requests (which are used to access...
We Still Like Beer
Let me get this out of the way first by saying that bars should remain open at limited capacity, especially if they have outdoor...
Restoring Accountability
Leaders from the city and Fort Worth police department recently took steps to present a friendlier, less militarized-looking budget for the Crime Control and...
No Justice, No Peace
Police shootings of unarmed civilians leave a trail of victims. Atatiana Jefferson’s older sister Amber Carr recently described the feelings that result from the loss...
Vote Blue All the Way
Pay us to stay home, pay us parents to do what we signed up to do when we had kids in the first place...
Bridging the Gap
Try to strike up a conversation about Fort Worth public school reopenings, and you’re likely to be booed out of the room. Many parents...
“Race-Baiting” to the Max
There’s a petition to remove a TCU professor from Fort Worth ISD's Racial Equity Committee for a recent column he wrote for us. In “If They...
Science Shmience. Reopen Schools Now.
Leave it to ’Murica to politicize the debate over schools reopening. As a vast majority of physicians say to limit social gatherings, some parents think...
Happy Observations of a Census Doorknocker
As campaign rhetoric ramps up and subsequent images of dueling parties dominate the public imagination, I thought it might be nice to share something...