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...
Say Their Names
I watched Jordan Peele’s Candyman the other night, and it freaked me out.
Especially as a Texan.
Can acts of injustice curse a place? Can acts of...
COVID in the House
My oldest is down with COVID. When he first got sick and took the test, he didn’t feel well. That has changed. Despite having...
Skirting the State Constitution?
For more than 30 years, most of west and northwest Tarrant County — including White Settlement, the reserve base, and Lake Worth — have...
