AltWeeklies Wire
Locking Up Water Rightsnew
In Texas and around the world, corporations are increasingly competing for rights to our most precious liquid asset.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince and Eric Griffey |
02-08-2013 |
Environment
Tags: Corporate Water
Turning Off the Spigotnew
Texas has changed its tune on turning kids into criminals, but Fort Worth may be lagging behind.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
01-16-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Juvenile Offenders
Mimi and the Mannew
Wounded Iraq veteran Steven Woods denies that his pit bull Mimi, who has helped him overcome PTSD problems, bit an elderly man in his neighborhood.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
12-08-2010 |
Animal Issues
Tags: PTSD, Steven Woods
Downwinders on the Risenew
They financed it with baked goods and garage sales, but a North Texas environmental group has pursued its clean-air crusade for more than 20 years -- and won some major victories.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
08-20-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Jim Schermbeck
Baristas Say the Fight for Better Conditions is Uphill but Necessarynew
In December, Starbucks employees blocked the drive-through window at the company's coffee shop at Rosedale Street and 8th Avenue for about 20 minutes, in protest of the rising cost of their healthcare insurance, low wages, and a litany of other issues.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
02-09-2010 |
Business & Labor
Friend and Foes of Illegal Immigrants Deal with the Delugenew
As the number of undocumented immigrants in this country continues to grow, so does the volume of the debate over how to fix the problem. The controversy has no clear end in view, or even likely to come into view for a long time.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
10-10-2008 |
Immigration
Code Red for Fort Worth's Public Hospitalnew
Patients, doctors, and activists say John Peter Smith hospital is failing in its primary job: caring for poor patients.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey and Betty Brink |
03-07-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Barton Scott's Bad Yearnew
The Mansfield, Texas, mayor's sex-offender crusade keeps getting punctured.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
11-09-2007 |
Politics
The Scariest News May be the Stuff You Haven't Seen Yetnew
This year's Project Censored articles cover issues so weighty that many observers wonder how they could have slipped through the cracks. "The civil liberties aspect of this year's list is personally troubling for many people," director Peter Phillips says.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
10-04-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Panther City Bandits Party Like Irishnew
The lively Texas five-piece boasts a unique blend of punk, country, and Irish drinking songs; kind of The Dropkick Murphys-meets-Operation Ivy, with a little "All For Me Grog" mixed in.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
09-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Gay Cure?new
Things are getting even stranger in the right's campaign to counsel people out of their homosexuality.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
06-14-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Texas Episcopalians Struggle to Find a 'Middle Way'new
The American-based Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion of which the church is a part are engaged in a bitter struggle over the roles of homosexuals and women within the church.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
05-03-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Hardball: The Business of Baseballnew
Elitism and money have turned a summer pastime into big business that burns out many kids.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
03-23-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Beans of Wrathnew
The fair-trade movement is having a major effect on the lives of coffee growers, the entire coffee industry and in some cases the economies of countries.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
02-08-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
