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Katrina West
Here in Fort Worth, "Where the West Begins," I felt melancholic watching the airlift of New Orleans' mostly poor, mostly black folks to far-flung...
Funny, How Limes Slip Away
Texas icon Willie Nelson recently hosted the 20th annual Farm Aid concert - can you believe two decades have passed since Nelson, Neil Young,...
War of Words
Over the weekend, the folks on both sides of the Iraq War debate gathered in Washington to shout out their pain in mass demonstrations.
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Tragic Loss of Profit
The Trinity River Vision was always portrayed as a flood control project - but with a wink. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had...
Scopes Revisited
I've been listening to the congressional hearings for Supreme Court chief justice nominee John Roberts, and the process fills me with dread. Two down,...
Fruit of the Neo-Cons’ Labor
My childhood memories are dotted with visions of summer days playing on the patio of my grandparents' home, where I climbed pecan trees and...
Sticking It to Us
Across this great and mighty state of Texas, grown men and women are falling to their knees and weeping like babies as they try...
Raining on the Water Board Parade
Was that the sweet fragrance of democracy that Static detected at a recent question-and-answer coffee klatch about the plan to build a half-billion-dollar lake...
he Muddy Waters of Race
The television coverage of Hurricane Katrina began with scenes of black, apparently poor, people lining up outside the New Orleans Superdome for shelter, and...
Fumbling the Duffle
A few determined Fort Worth volunteers are making things happen for about 150 of the Big Easy's refugees over at the Resource Connection.
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