Methane High
Remember when natural gas drillers converged on North Texas’ Barnett Shale a dozen years ago with promises that everyone would be living high on...
White Collar Crime Don’t Do Time
Just one week after we credited the Koch brothers for joining a coalition for positive changes to the U.S. criminal justice system (“Not Another...
Clock Kid Strikes
Ahmed Mohamed’s clock wasn’t really a bomb, although the contraption is blowing up in the faces of Irving school administrators and police right about...
Digitally Diving Old Folks
A proposed change to Fort Worth’s charter caught Static’s attention recently. Last July, Fort Worth City Council appointed a task force to recommend possible...
North Texas Beer Week
From Monday, Nov. 9, through Sunday, Nov. 15, is the 3rd Annual North Texas Beer Week, a seven-day celebration of all things craft beer-related...
Eye of the Beholder
There is growing demand for police departments across the country to outfit officers and patrol cars with cameras. Much of this demand is due...
Enbridge End-Around Update
Static loves it when the senators seem to pay attention to us. In a sharply written letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, 11...
Star-Telegram Wrong about Wright
People reading the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Oct. 7, 8, and 9 might believe that Tax Assessor/Collector Ron Wright is a certified nut case....
Gov. Twittergate
In a reckless moment of sports ecstasy (“ecsportsy”?), Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted a congratulatory message in celebration of the Houston Astros’ win over the...
10 Years After: the Barnett Shale
My, oh, my, doesn’t time fly! Seems like only yesterday that landmen began moving in on the homeowners of Fort Worth to talk about...
