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,...
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...
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...
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.
The...
A Thin Inky Line
Static frequently feels like this rag is part of a very thin line of soldiers guarding a frontier against threats that many of its...
It’s Not a Math Course
Students of city management could learn a lot by observing how this city deals with the Woodhaven neighborhood in East Fort Worth.
"OK, class,...
It’s Not a Math Course
Students of city management could learn a lot by observing how this city deals with the Woodhaven neighborhood in East Fort Worth.
"OK, class, this...
511 Percent — Or Your First-Born
Last week's Weekly cover story, "Wolves in Small Print," focused on predatory housing loans.
But the payday loan business, of course, has always been a...