Timber!
Only a few people heard the sound of workers knocking over huge old-growth trees along East 1st Street a few weeks ago. Not many...
Sucking Gas and Blowing It
Gas companies routinely tout their abilities to drill near homes and schools without major incidents. Never mind the poisonous air quality produced by the...
Vouching for the Wealthy
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been putting his years at KSEV talk radio to good use lately: Take a bad idea, dress it up...
Gotta Love Love
At least Fort Worth’s biggest celebrity chef is learning the art of a graceful exit (or, more likely, the importance of hiring a public...
Bad Romance
The oil and gas folks talk a big game about having bromances. They promise big royalty checks to communities and in return give money...
Up Next: That Senator with the Snowball
Apparently the CEO of British Petroleum and the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker weren’t available. Too bad. Those two would have fit...
How Long in Attorneys’ Years?
It seems like 2010 was an eternity ago. A devastating earthquake rocked Haiti. The Hurt Locker won an Oscar. The controversial “don’t ask /...
Eminent — But Not So Imminent
On Feb. 26, a district judge in York County, Neb., gave landowners on the intended path of the Keystone Pipeline a reason to smile:...
Laying Them to Rest
You might say that the sheriff’s office in Anderson County is about to reopen a century-old murder case — or possibly hundreds of murder...
Repubs to the Rescue
Poor gas drillers. All they want to do is drill miles underground to extract natural gas, inject a little dirty wastewater into the ground,...
