Snarls In Cat Land?
Fort Worth Cats fans raised a collective eyebrow after General Manager Chris Hart resigned last week. Hart was considered a sales wunderkind and effective...
Getting Past the Buggy Stage
When the Fort Worth Streetcar Study Committee started meeting a few months ago, the panel members often acted like they were Amish folks being...
She Can See His Hair From There
It's hard to imagine who would be a worse governor, incumbent Republican Rick Perry or Republican challenger U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Unless, gosh...
They Know Nah-tink
Natural gas is a hot topic these days. Just ask the folks in Palo Pinto County, where fires burned for days after a drilling...
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...
Credit, Due
All those kudos for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's recent six-part series on the county's only charity hospital, John Peter Smith, and its multiple failures...
Dividing Fort Worth
Representative government should (in theory) be just that — a governing body that proportionately reflects the race, gender, and beliefs of constituents. Three-fifths of...
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...
County Joins Guv in Reopening Plan
Visitors to the fifth floor of the Tarrant County Administration Building were checked for cold and flu symptoms before being admitted to the Commissioners...
A Lonesome Dove Probably Has a Bigger Brain
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities sure get annoying with all their talk about saving rain forests and Darfur and Katrina victims and protecting the planet from...
