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Bad Boys of Summer
It's September and the Texas Rangers are once again circling the drain, so it must be time for my annual column on why this...
Collaring Dollars
Fort Worth taxpayers have been digging deep in their pockets for 11 years to pay for crime control above and beyond what’s financed by...
Hooray for Us, Dammit
Did you see that report by Men's Health magazine that made friendly ol' Fort Worth look like some crazed city filled with kitty stranglers?...
An Unnatural Disaster
Katrina’s winds shredded through cities and towns like a giant scythe, but the Gulf Coast had seen major hurricane winds before.
It wasn’t the...
The Manipulated Mob
Goethe used to say that whenever he heard the word "democracy," he reached for his revolver. When I was a younger idealist, I couldn't...
No Soliciting
A Saginaw businessman who police say spent time talking dirty online to someone he thought was a young teenager has been charged with criminal...
Crispy City
When I moved into the Monticello neighborhood about five years ago, I asked one of my neighbors why there were no Fort Worth public...
Decision: Deported
When he finally returned home, Mahmoud Alafyouny's life fell into a predictable routine. During the days, he held down a job at a North...
Blue-Sky Dreamin’
Environmental activist Jarid Manos comes across as naïve at times, with pie-in-the-sky ideas about saving thousands of acres of Fort Worth prairie in an...
Rollin’ on the River
The travel and expense policy for the Tarrant Regional Water District is simple. It says that the district will pay for business-related meals only...
