Capitol Contentions
Did State Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat, insult two Fort Worth-area black ministers last week? That's what the ministers are saying, while Whitmire's...
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...
Ding, Dong, the Bell is Dead
The Texas Rangers' three-year tradition (which is long for them) of ringing a 15-foot-high bell whenever a home run is hit has come to...
Flattened by a (Two-Party) Mack Truck
As if our governor wasn't already having a bad hair day last week, just as the Weekly was putting to bed its latest story...
His Trousers Should Have Been Toast
Debbie Russell, who runs the ACLU's Texas hotline for Taser victims, was shocked - no pun intended - to receive an e-mail from TASER...
Will the Water Be Unnaturally Blue?
A dirty wind was blowing in from the west last Saturday, but many of those listening to proposals for Gateway Park flood control at...
They Get Us Coming and Going
Exciting news, folks - Interstate 69, a proposed Texas-to-Michigan road that's part of the Trans-Texas Corridor, may get built even quicker than expected! Well,...
Did He Interview Himself?
Some of you are probably weary of Static continuously lobbing snark grenades at the Fort Worth Star-What-the-Hellagram and tv news crews, but somebody's got...
We Hardly Knew Ye
Texas governors have been buried from the staid old building of the First United Methodist Church in Austin across the street from the Texas...
Free Press on the Block
Surely Fort Worth Weekly publisher Lee Newquist's phone will be ringing any second now with a call from Australia and an offer of millions...
