Growing Community
The idea of turning a city’s unused green space into urban gardens has been slow in coming to Fort Worth compared to the rest...
Direction Home: Up
Larry Andrews had been homeless for almost 15 years, most of that time spent down in the East Lancaster Avenue area, near the shelters...
Bruce Rogers’ treatment in jail: rushed or right?
It’s hard to feel much sympathy for Bruce Terrell Rogers. The young Crowley man tried to poison his parents in 2005, served five years...
Fort Worth Misplaces its Streetcar Money.
Two years ago, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief, along with city council members and dozens of business leaders, traveled to the Pacific Northwest to...
Phone Records Raise Questions About Tarleton Being Pressured to Cancel “Gay...
Since last month’s cancellation of a controversial play depicting a gay Christlike character, Tarleton State University has maintained that the production was stopped because...
Between a Rock and a Hot Place
Having U.S. immigration officials after you is a bad thing. Running from Mexican drug cartels is much worse. But as a former Fort Worth...
New Melee for Mitchell
Freedom of speech isn’t always free, or so deemed the Texas Ethics Commission after Billy Mitchell ran large ads in several newspapers, including Fort...
The Price of Payday
Having garnered not a single vote on the Fort Worth City Council for her position, District 8 council member Kathleen Hicks is taking her...
Courthouse Gusher
In August 2008, the Southwest Fort Worth Alliance, a collection of homeowners associations representing about 25,000 property owners, approved a natural gas leasing deal...
Housing the Homeless
Homelessness is a big problem in Fort Worth, said Mike Wallace, a retired homebuilder who grew up here and still lives here. “And I...
