While There’s Still Hope
In case somebody didn’t notice it because we had such beautifully mild conditions here for once, August around the world was the hottest since...
Hire CCA, See No Evil
Immigration policies, the drug war, and lobbyists are keeping the private prison industry humming. No matter what sins a private prison company has committed,...
Davis Gets Help
Not many people gave Democratic candidate Ann Richards a prayer of winning the Texas gubernatorial race in 1990 against the deep-pocketed Republican rancher Clayton...
Blue Zone blues
Blue Zones Project spokesperson Julie Wilson addressed the Fort Worth City Council last week, and Static kept waiting for Foghorn Leghorn to pop up...
Ads Don’t Add Up
Fort Worth resident Rodney Hill was listening to Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket the other day when an announcer said the news program was sponsored...
Doggies in the Window
It’s bad enough that Static wants another dog every time it hears a Sarah McLachlan song. But on Saturday, animal shelters around town are...
Curse of the TIF
Fort Worth should create a tax-increment financing district — a.k.a. TIF — for insufferable pop poser Justin Bieber. While we’re at it, give another...
Hip Pocket Change
Hip Pocket Theatre owners and operators Johnny and Diane Simons lived for years at a log cabin near Weatherford, making weekend commutes to West...
Did Putin Poison Our Water, Too?
Austin wants desperately to be weird, but the line between weird and delusional gets blurry when politicians are involved.
First, Gov. Rick Perry practically accuses...
It’s a New Day …
Is there anything worse than someone coming in on the tail end of a conversation, then trying to add their two cents as if...
