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Ricky Bobby’s Guide to Life (Or At Least the Movies)
One of the things that makes movie-going such an enjoyably unpredictable business is that every once in a while, a lowbrow comedy tells us...
An Open Letter to Mistletoe Heights
I live in West Meadowbrook, not Mistletoe Heights, but I am certain that we share many of the same values and concerns for our...
No Buck Left Behind
All kinds of government workers get refresher courses and mid-career training from time to time, via in-house classes or professional seminars.
But a new...
Christmas at Carswell
Kathleen Rumpf is back, fasting, praying, and generally making herself a pain in the rump once again for the folks who run the Carswell...
Como’s Cookin’
Back in 1978, Louise King looked out the window of her Como home and noticed some city workers doing repairs on her street. It...
A Como Farewell
And so, after all these years, it's my last Christmas in Como.
This 100-year-old neighborhood, built as a servant city on the virgin prairie back...
Guilt by Disassociation
Tarrant County Judge Tom Vandergriff's decision to move out of his landmark house at 1216 W. Park Row in Arlington after 38 years sparked...
Troubled Waters
When U.S Rep. Kay Granger pushed funding through Congress for the Trinity River Vision project — anointed as flood control, but really an economic...
Taking Lumps over Coal
Environmentalists protesting the pollution potential of industrial plants — electric generating stations, cement kilns, whatever — aren't that unusual these days.
So when several...
Losing Our (American) Way
The other day I heard on the radio an industrial-edged remake (by a band called Dissturbed) of the 1986 Genesis pop hit, "Land of...
