Shaking Things Up
The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry in this state, is looking to add an in-house seismologist to its staff....
A Little Sanity from the IG…
As reported in last week’s cover story (“Range Wars,” Dec. 25, 2013), the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 issued an emergency order to Range...
What Peace?
Justice of the Peace Jacquelyn Wright can’t seem to find any. She’s handled small-claims cases in her Precinct 4 courtroom for many years and...
Grease Those Wheels
City leaders are a bit schizophrenic when it comes to the cluster of homeless shelters on East Lancaster Avenue. They created the centralized complex...
The Music Man Makes Another Sale
Well, here we are in River City, folks. Don’t mind those little quakes — that’s just the Earth’s way of showing how much it...
Divisive Diversity
John Peter Smith Health Network officials didn’t take kindly to being characterized as ho-hum on minority hiring (“JPS Under Microscope,” Nov. 13, 2013).
“JPS …...
An Impressive Record
TransCanada, the Canadian energy giant running the Keystone XL pipeline from Oklahoma to Port Arthur, has impressed Static several times over the last few...
This Promise Unbroken
Last month, Static told you about how the long-running play The Promise was in danger of being shut down after 25 years. Somervell County...
JPS Under Microscope
Some local business owners are saying that JPS Health Network doesn’t want to work with minority-owned businesses.
“JPS spends millions of dollars monthly on all...
Conserving Compassion
Back in the 1990s when George W. Bush was governor, he made “faith-based initiatives” and “compassionate conservatism” his buzzwords for welfare reform. The buzzwords...
