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No Pass/No Job
Advocates for the homeless are upset over a proposal to end free bus passes.ERIC GRIFFEY
On weekday mornings Lou Friese takes an hour-long bus ride to work from his West Fort Worth apartment near Las Vegas Trail. Before he found a job at First Street Methodist Mission in June, Friese had been homeless for more thre...
A Crisis in Care
Profound changes may be coming for Texas’ mental health services and its whole healthcare bureaucracy.EDWARD BROWN
Texas’ massive health services agency, which oversees the state’s psychiatric hospitals and many other aspects of healthcare, is failing to do its job. Its aging hospitals are in crisis and short of staff, and patients ar...
Bad Air Day
Around North Texas parks and playgrounds, children are breathing dangerous doses of toxic fumes from gas industry sites.PETER GORMAN W/ PHOTOS BY LEE CHASTAIN
On a crisp Saturday morning, Delga Park, just north of downtown Fort Worth, was beautiful. The deep blue sky was spattered with cumulus clouds, and birds flitted among shade trees at one end of the park, sandwiched between I-35...
A Game of Creepfrog
STATICResidents of the University West neighborhood just can’t get a break from the “TCU creep.” No, that’s not some weirdo performing lewd acts in public, but the nickname locals have given to the double whammy of steady enc...
How to Vote
Remember the rules for getting registered, getting ballots, and getting your vote to count.DAVE McNEELY
There is a certain irony in the fact that while the Texas Photo Voter ID law is under court challenge by Democrats and the U.S. Department of Justice as being cumbersome and discriminatory, you can vote by mail without the need...
Better Hens and Gardens
For fresh-egg fans, a new option: rent-a-chickens.JEFF PRINCE
Cowtown might become known as Chicken Town if Beverly Thomas keeps working at her current pace. Her Weatherford-based business, 2 Buck Cluck, is gaining in popularity after a slow start, and most of her new customers live in Fo...
Welcome to Best Of 2014
GAYLE REAVES-KINGThis, our Best Of 2014 issue, is like a telethon for a good cause, except that you don’t have to listen to people in tuxedos and ruffled shirts begging for your money. And you can read it at your leisure (please do), and it d...
Best Of Getting & Spending 2014
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFFCustomer Service Readers’ choice: Junker Val’s, 3458 Bluebonnet Circle Critic’s choice: Glen Keely, Poag Mahone’s Irish Pub, 700 Carroll St Businesses make mistakes. But how a place recovers from a mistake speaks volume...
While There’s Still Hope
STATICIn case somebody didn’t notice it because we had such beautifully mild conditions here for once, August around the world was the hottest since such record-keeping began in 1881. May was also the hottest May on record. Stati...
A Script For Texas
An investment banker assembles money, talent, and backing to shoot Windsor in North Texas.STORY AND PHOTOS BY JEFF PRINCE
The upstairs dining room buzzed with hungry patrons at Amelia’s Attic, an antique store on the Gainesville town square. The customers were drenched in sweat and a bit smelly. Some wore prison uniforms marred by dirt and grass...