Opposition — like the Tar Sands — Runneth Over
As the tar sands spill in Arkansas — brought to you by Exxon — continues to poison the neighborhood, wetlands and now parts of...
Keeping the Light On
Static is glad to see that Attorney General Greg Abbott is back in court defending the Texas Open Meetings Act. The law, which essentially...
Journalism 101:
Kiss No Butts Rumors that their newspaper might be for sale usually strike fear into the hearts of journalists. At the Fort Worth Business...
Guns, Shields, Pigs
Laura Elizabeth Morales, writing recently for the Texas Insider political web site, bemoaned the fact that a bill that would allow concealed weapons on...
Toll-Track Mindset
Terri Hall, founder and director of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, just keeps on working to stop toll roads. The issue she's hot...
Send the Board Back to School
Education has long been one of the places where the radical right in this country tends to reveal its true colors.
Many of them...
Fairness in Print
A recent ruling by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission might finally signal the beginning of the end of the struggle for a former...
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...
Remedial Reading for Mayors
Last week, Fort Worth fired its man in charge of handling funds for inner-city housing - mostly money from the U.S. Department of Housing...
At Least in the Movie, the Chief Got Away
The city's dogged efforts to cram gas wells down everyone's throats reminds Static of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The movie's sympathetic characters...
