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The Grass Is Always Taller …
To some people, the front yard at Eastside activist Don Young's house looks like an overgrown bunch of weeds badly in need of a...
Fuming Over the Frogs
Gary Patterson wants to play the guitar, you can tell. The Texas Christian University head football coach has been sitting in his living room...
Tree by Chainsaw
Anyone who’s ever had it happen to them knows the pain. You’re at work or out shopping, and you return home to find that...
Is Our Children Getting Screwed
If it weren't so dreadful for the nation's schools, Static would crow over the recently released audit of the billion-dollar Reading First initiative, part...
Water, Water … Where?
The worst drought on record in these parts lasted for much of the 1950s. While city folks were discovering tv and cars with fins,...
Governor Take All
The fractured nature of the race for Texas governor has some candidates for other offices a bit nervous and off-balance. Unless they are in...
You Read It … Where?
Feeling a little sticky from all the sweetness and light in last week's Best Of 2006 edition? A little sour that your name wasn't...
Annexing Trouble
Cindy Owens remembers the night in chilling detail. Her daughter had been struck by a car. She’d called an ambulance and waited 45 minutes...
Bad for Your Health
When I talked to Fort Worth City Council member Kathleen Hicks a few weeks ago, she was ticking off a list of problems in...
Evangelizing for the Earth
Look around you, the physician told the group at the Texas Christian University student center. Half of the two dozen or so folks in...
