A U-Turn on Beautiful Highways
Lady Bird Johnson was barely cold in her coffin before federal highway administrators began gutting her heralded beautification efforts.
Back in the 1960s, the former...
Cats on a Mild May Night
The Fort Worth Cats spent much of last year tiptoeing on a hot tin roof, mired in money woes and inundated with uncertainty. Fans...
Turn on the Lights …
The voice coming from the tall man with the oft-broken nose was unmistakable to anyone who watched Monday Night Football during the 1970s: "I'm...
E-Clean
St. Patrick's Day was almost two weeks ago, but Tarrant County commissioners just got around to flashing their green - this week they passed...
Fashion Forward – and Westward
Shhhhh! Top-secret stuff is happening in Weatherford. But Static isn’t afraid to dig up confidential info on the down low if it pleases regular...
Rocking Their World
Jeana Cole’s mother-in-law thought an earthquake had struck their family home in south Arlington on Monday. Wrong — the window-rattling tremors and noise were...
Divisive Diversity
John Peter Smith Health Network officials didn’t take kindly to being characterized as ho-hum on minority hiring (“JPS Under Microscope,” Nov. 13, 2013).
“JPS …...
Commuting One Sentence …
You've seen the old movies. The hands of the clock move slowly toward the appointed time. The warden eyes the phone - will there...
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...
The Emperor Has No Water
It was almost 10 years ago that Static’s colleague Jeff Prince wrote one of the first stories published in these parts about the toll...
