Starbucks Baristas Get Steamed
Some of the baristas at the 8th and Rosedale Starbucks announced today that some of their employees have unionized, making them the first unionized...
Holy Mischief
Accusations of child sexual abuse against Catholic priests are so unsurprising, they barely blip on the media radar, as when seven Tarrant County women...
Mayor (Not Named Mike) Gets Tough On Polluters
Texas Monthly’s glowing, in-depth feature story on outgoing Houston Mayor Bill White ("The Great White Hope," December 2009) describes a hard-working, go-getting, populist politician...
Trinity Visions
Tree huggers, owl savers and local historians, take note – tonight (Monday) at 9pm is when KERA TV Channel 13 airs its original documentary...
Today’s Most Gruesome Story
Times are tough here, but in some parts of the world they're considerably tougher.
Today's most gruesome story comes out of the Guardian, a British...
The Sky isn’t Falling
I had to double-check the sky last night. There were no fiery horses stampeding from above. No dragons spewing pestilence. This dude gave nary...
We Can be Heroes
Most of us love a story about an unlikely hero (male or female) who steps up to confront a horrifying crisis, neutralizes the situation,...
FW’s Trannie Budget Crisis
Lots of people are preening with moral outrage that FW city leaders will consider covering gender reassignment surgery in the employee health plans. That’s...
Smokers, Dippers, Chewers Unite!
When the state and federal governments started hiking tobacco taxes – a so-called sin tax -- and driving the cost of cigarettes above $5...
Hypocricy Thy Name Is Rick Perry
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram article on the 11 propositions passed by voters yesterday contained a quote that...
