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Auctioning Off a Dream
Furniture movers were supposed to show up on a recent morning and haul off Lynda Farr Arnold’s remaining possessions, but the guys never arrived....
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...
All the Fluff That Fits
Perhaps you heard a few weeks ago that more than 100 journalists accepted buyout offers from The Dallas Morning News. Maybe you said, gee,...
The Voltage Toll
Deaths in Texas following the use of Tasers by police are continuing to mount — and so are the legal, medical, and citizen-group challenges...
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...
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...
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...
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...
