Déjà Nuke
The ink was barely dry on Luminant Energy's application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to add two 1,700 megawatt reactors...
Abuse of Plain English
A Nov. 14 "pre-council" meeting at Fort Worth city hall would make an interesting case study for a semantics class.
Assistant City Manager Joe...
Hocus SCOTUS
While we send our sincere condolences to the large family and numerous friends of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died — peacefully and...
Mess (for the) Ages
Maybe Antonio Martinez has a good reason for prohibiting certain students from decorating their graduation caps. Maybe the North Side High School principal is...
What Peace?
Justice of the Peace Jacquelyn Wright can’t seem to find any. She’s handled small-claims cases in her Precinct 4 courtroom for many years and...
Heart in the Balance
The Texas Second Court of Appeals recently granted an emergency motion to “stay a ruling that had permitted a Fort worth hospital to disconnect...
A Win with Asterisks
In state district court last week, an attorney for the Fort Worth school district called former assistant principal Joe Palazzolo a liar, a bully,...
If It Drives Like a Duck …
Sigh. The spin industry and its forebear, the marketing behemoth, think we are all such simps. "Used" cars seem low-class, so they became "pre-owned."...
School Board Candidates Will Answer Voter’s Questions – at Church.
If last week’s cover story (“Upsetting the Apple Cart,” April 21, 2010) fired your interest in this spring’s hotter-than-usual races for the Fort Worth...
Tough on (Not Reporting) Crime
Tarleton State University administrators thought they were getting a good deal when an administrative law judge let them off with the equivalent of one...
