Striking in the Right Direction?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had yet to take office when heads started rolling. (That’s different from eyes rolling, which has been happening for a...
Futsal Coming
The Fort Worth Cats minor league baseball team is struggling to find a new home and might be unable to field a team at...
Lives and Love on the Line
Fort Worth cops are getting national notice for a public service announcement in which they, as TIME put it, “argue in favor of same-sex...
He’s Looking for Loopholes
Static thought it was reading The Onion last week instead of My San Antonio. The item said Governor-elect Greg Abbott had held a private...
Smoke Signals
The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill Congress recently passed is loaded with so many Wall Street giveaways that it’s sick-making — like eating an...
Believe What We Tell You, Not What You See
Static was pretty impressed when Denton decided to ban hydraulic gas fracking within its city limits in early November. Naturally, the gas industry is...
TEXpress Yourself
Motorists driving along NE Loop 820 have plenty to think about, what with all the construction, barricades, heavy equipment, temporary entrances and exits, and...
End of an Era
At the annual holiday party at his Fort Worth office this week, outgoing nine-term State Rep. Lon Burnam was opening bottles of wine and...
A Smelly Win for the U.S.
Static was ecstatic that the Senate voted “no” on the Keystone Pipeline last week. But the 59-41 margin was far closer than would have...
WTF Avenue
An engineer must have confused his street designs with a tangled ball of yarn. What else would explain the confounding twists and turns that...
