Wild About Fees
Say you’re a mom with two kids, scraping by while working a minimum wage job. A letter shows up in your mailbox one day...
Fair Wages For All
Betsy Price took a $100,000 pay cut when she decided to become mayor in 2011. She had earned more than $1 million during her...
Trumped Up on Magnolia
Over the weekend, social media boiled over after a few Donald Trump supporters barhopped along West Magnolia Avenue, starting fights, getting kicked out of...
Right Turn, Clyde
What do you call someone who stands on the side of a highway and blasts pepper spray at a group of passing bikers? Around...
Covering Man Holes
The manner in which we normally read the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s “Cheers & Jeers” section probably says a lot about our psychological makeup. What...
Achilles Heals
How’s this for a pick-up line: “I’ll tell you a secret. Something they don’t teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They...
There’s Something about Mary Lou
Mary Lou Bruner seems harmless enough. The gray-haired, bespectacled grandmother running for one of 15 seats on the Texas Board of Education could have...
Hocus SCOTUS
While we send our sincere condolences to the large family and numerous friends of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died — peacefully and...
Coughing Between the Lines
In last week’s Metropolis story (“Big Brown, Big Bad,” Feb. 3), we described how local residents attended a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality public...
Chest Having Fun
Static has a snarky good time examining the doings of residents, government officials, and various power players in this fair city of ours. Despite...
