Transfer from If to When
Five years ago, no one in Fort Worth was thinking much about public transportation, particularly an inner-city streetcar system. Real estate developers, assuming that...
Denial and Tragedy
When I heard about the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, I packed my bags for Killeen. As a former military wife, a military...
Spending the Planet
I'm not a big fan of most conservatives. Historically speaking, they are - to put it bluntly - too often on the wrong side...
Plowing in Vain?
To: City Manager Dale Fisseler
Dear Dale, Since my retirement, I have received disturbing information about an initiative we began in the mid-1980s - the...
Back to the Sofa
A few weeks ago, I did something I hadn't done in 25 years. I made my way to a college town to visit someone...
Leasing Our Lives Away
So you've signed a gas lease. Congratulations: You've been taken for a fool. Certain material facts were kept from you that, had you known...
Don’t Tax, We Spend
In some ways, it's reminiscent of the 1980s, when competing black Democrats, some who couldn't stand one another, got in elbowing matches to stand...
Losing (Climate) Control
My youngest daughter is 17, so she will have lived most of her life before the worst of the warming hits. But her later...
Oil to Dry Our Tears?
Someday I'd like to see the Sahara Desert. My Uncle Jimmy made an unscheduled stop there 20 years ago.
On Sept. 19, 1989, he hopped...
Learning to Love Big Gas
In his Aug. 26 Fort Worth Weekly report, "The Big Takeover," Peter Gorman wrote about all the bad publicity that natural gas extractors have...
