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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Prison Bound
Ryan Peucker is nobody’s idea of an angel. He started smoking pot as a young teenager living in Joshua and Cleburne, dipped into cocaine...
Hotseat for Hicks
The Fort Worth City Council meeting two weeks ago was an important one for Kathleen Hicks. Up for a vote were zoning changes on...
