Surprised by the Kindness of Strangers
Just outside Lake City, Colorado, my daughter and I came upon an Alpine pond ringed with October snow, thin layers of ice on its...
News Roundup
Texas and Tarrant County are in election season, with the governor’s race topping a long list of political contests that will see a slate...
Political Blowback?
Today, Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson announced that she will not seek reelection in 2022. The unexpected news from the six-year incumbent comes...
Poor Judgment
If one thread ties together most government malfeasance stories that we’ve published, it’s the utter lack of accountability that public officials face after betraying...
Textbook Examples of Racism
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts,” Kurt Vonnegut once wrote. “What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way...
Suppressing the Vote from the Inside
John Scott, a Texas lawyer who briefly worked on a Donald Trump campaign challenge to the 2020 elections, is Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick for...
Gen X-ed
Big hair, turned-up collars, Members Only jackets, Swatches, New Kids on the Block. There were gobs of ridiculousness in the 1980s. Too much to...
Red Flags
Indictments make for great headlines, and district attorneys know it. When a grand jury found grounds for indicting two Carroll school board members in...
Ladies and Germs, it’s Greg “Big COVID” Abbott!
The big news locally is still the coronavirus. The Texas health department says that we averaged about 260 COVID-19 deaths per day over the last...
Greg Abbott: Bootlicker in Chief
When Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, the press told her to go away. When Donald Trump lost reelection last year, the mainstream media scrambled...
