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Don’t Waste the Boom
Think whatever you will about the Barnett Shale natural gas boom - whether you're getting eye-popping mailbox money or watching your neighborhood peace being...
Turn on the Lights …
The voice coming from the tall man with the oft-broken nose was unmistakable to anyone who watched Monday Night Football during the 1970s: "I'm...
UTA
A small plaque hangs inconspicuously on the wall of Nedderman Hall, one of the University of Texas at Arlington’s engineering buildings. “An international tribute...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
