Citizen Drivers
Fort Worth Weekly was scheduled to be a small part of Historic Fort Worth Inc.'s annual awards last week - reporters Dan McGraw and...
Troll-free Tellygram
The racist, name-calling, confrontational, and sensationalistic comments sometimes left by trolls at the bottom of online newspaper stories are no longer welcome at the...
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...
511 Percent — Or Your First-Born
Last week's Weekly cover story, "Wolves in Small Print," focused on predatory housing loans.
But the payday loan business, of course, has always been a...
Marathon Parkathon
The Cowtown Marathon organizers are celebrating last weekend’s event that included a record number of runners over two days (about 24,000) and several new...
A Little Sanity from the IG…
As reported in last week’s cover story (“Range Wars,” Dec. 25, 2013), the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 issued an emergency order to Range...
Final Farewell
The recent memorial service for longtime Fort Worth Weekly writer Betty Brink was impassioned, irreverent, and entertaining, just like the woman herself. Family members...
What’s a Little Hate Among Friends?
Gov. Rick Perry is promoting a prayer assembly on Aug. 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston. How commendable! And pious! Just tell Static where...
Flaw in the Ointment
This rag gave Payton Scarth and his daddy Danny, a three-term city councilman from the East Side, a hard time a few weeks back...
Crucifixion, Indeed
Surprise and disappointment were tempered with hope this week from local environmentalists lamenting the recent resignation of Al Armendariz. The administrator for the Environmental...
