Dirty Air
Who’s number-one in Texas for ozone air pollution? Hint: It ain’t Houston anymore. Yes, folks, Dallas/Fort Worth has unseated the Bayou City to become...
Conserving Compassion
Back in the 1990s when George W. Bush was governor, he made “faith-based initiatives” and “compassionate conservatism” his buzzwords for welfare reform. The buzzwords...
Who Shot B.S.?
Someone tell J.R. Ewing that the Texas city he helped make famous is being knocked off the marquee for an even better soap opera....
A Thousand Times No (Or at Least Twice)
The poor old Texas Constitution - it's got more holes in it than Rush Limbaugh's logic. But the idea of replacing it with an...
Hypocrisy in the Air
Static is underwhelmed with the news, reported last Friday on WFAA-TV/Channel 8, that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has discovered elevated levels of...
Fox-TV — Trigger-Happy?
A judge might have to decide whether former Fox 4-TV news reporter Rebecca Aguilar is a martyr, fired for standing up for Hispanics in...
What Will It Take?
Sometimes, surely, opponents of Tasers must feel like they are in a nightmare, where they are screaming but no sound comes out. Especially in...
No … Again
Tarrant County commissioners gave another spanking to the county’s information technology (IT) program this week and then refused to award a $3.4 million contract...
We’ve been FEMA’d – Again
Put it down for posterity: Static agrees with Gov. Rick Perry - and is even applauding him. In print. The momentous occasion for this...
Failing Dignity 101
June is graduation season, and Static, as recipient of a fair share of invitations and writer of resulting checks, figures it gets to make...
