Well, then again, it is Fort Worth. What did you expect?Do something already, before it's done to Y...
No Take Back's
Thứ Hai, 31 tháng 10, 2011
Just say NO
Many people have been asking about voting on the amendments in Texas. Here's an interesting read we were forwarded. WHY would some of these be coming right out of Tarrant County? Where's that Attorney General when you need him?This amendment will allow bonds to be sold to be used for...
Are Smart Meters mandatory?
We received an invitation and were asked to pass it along, be there November 5th. And check out their website below. Power to the people!I have become aware of the Electrical Smart Meter (and on the water too!), deployment in parts of Texas (I live in NRHills), as well as other parts of...
Dear Texas Attorney General
It seems some in Tarrant County might need to be taken out behind the Woodshed...The citizens have taken a special interest in the new Tim Love restaurant on the banks of the Trinity River. They seem to have issue with WHERE all this public money for private profit is coming from. THEM.Check out...
Chủ Nhật, 30 tháng 10, 2011
Jeers to you know WHO
A jeer in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram caught our eye this weekend. We hear there's more to this jeer...stay tuned.Jeers: To the people who encourage us to tube, swim, wakeboard and otherwise recreate in a river that is known to have contaminated fish and fecal matter in it, as shown on WFAA last month....
Thứ Năm, 27 tháng 10, 2011
Proposition 2 - Texas Water
Our first sign something was wrong was the commercial on the radio. A commercial about saving tax payers money. It sounds like a joke. It is. Read the $6 billion dollar fine print.The second sign was the email from Lon where the Proposition numbers were wrong.We have to agree...
Drilling Down
Contrary to what the industry says, there are down sides to drilling... and if you can believe this, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram mentions some. Of course the article came from the Associated Press.One of our regular contributors told us of a recent family trip out of state. They stopped...
Another flood "study"...
This one in Arlington concerning Rush Creek Watershed.Once it's completed FEMA and the Corp will get involved. YOU know what that means. Cha-ching.Read about it in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Then watch the Arlington flooding that happened Wednesday, though no one is sure the cause...
Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 10, 2011
YOUR kids will want to know
WHY you let them sell off our state and what Texas pride was...WHAT will you tell them?An excerpt from an article in this week's FW Weekly titled "What Will the Kids Get?"....There are now billboards all around town that herald the notion that the resultant natural gas harvest will last 100 years,...
Hitting the nail on the head
Is what the New York Times keeps doing.(This story, "As Thailand Floods Spread, Experts Blame Officials, Not Rains", originally appeared in The New York Times.)On the other side of the world, yet it sounds so familiar...As some of Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century bears down on Bangkok — submerging...
Thứ Ba, 25 tháng 10, 2011
WHO to the rescue?
A letter to the editor in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram tells you how things are run in Tarrant County. Don't be mistaken, it ain't just Richland Hills.If a Texes hero shows up, they are going to be busy. Rescue Richland HillsRichland Hills has ceased to function as a city, and there's no...
Thứ Hai, 24 tháng 10, 2011
Meanwhile, back on the ranch
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram sticks with the usual spin. Don't worry, your local "news" knows "what's good for you". Remember, THEY also tell you WHO to vote for. How's all that working out for ya?And how has this worked out in the past? WHY would a local politician and backers "scratch...
Chủ Nhật, 23 tháng 10, 2011
WHO owns YOUR news?
The fracing war is being waged from Texas to New York.Read about the fracing war the New York Times is facing. WHAT happened to "news"? Oh yeah, most sold out. Read about it on ReaderSupportedNews.org. Bravo, NYT.Superb investigative journalism by the New York Times has brought...
Thứ Bảy, 22 tháng 10, 2011
THEY "found" some money...
Yeah, it's YOURS too.Another $15 million, that will keep the Trinity River Vision afloat, for now. They needed to do something, people are starting to ask questions and put 2 and 2 together. Sometimes that adds up to a billion. But that's ok, it's YOUR money.Read along with us about...
Thứ Sáu, 21 tháng 10, 2011
Did we read that right??
Did Railroad Commissioners just stand up for THE PEOPLE and their property?Against the industry? Against their money??Read the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. YOU won't believe it.The Railroad Commission has shown some spine.Last week, on Chesapeake Energy's request to "force pool" some residential...
Thứ Năm, 20 tháng 10, 2011
WHO thought that was a good idea?
WHO is the genius that thought drilling next to the Comanche Power Plant was a good idea? Read about it in the Fort Worth Weekly.All the same players and issues. Texas is starting to sound like a broken record. Gas drilling, water, dams, fracing, earthquakes...the list goes on.Too bad you...
Look what THEY did...
This woman is unstoppable. We like her.Teri Hall just held TURF's Stars of Texas Awards, they were given to State Rep's & a Commissioner that actually did their jobs and protected THE PEOPLE of Texas. Want to know what THEY had to say?Kolkhorst teared up as she listened to Hall recount the stories...
Thứ Tư, 19 tháng 10, 2011
Same song and dance
Any of this starting to sound familiar, yet?Texas in the New York Times...again. Eminent Domain Fight Has a Canadian Twist Randy Thompson, a Nebraska landowner, is challenging the assumption by TransCanada that it can seize land for an oil pipeline. By LESLIE KAUFMAN and DAN...
No more Toal
Well, the name anyway. Gideon Toal has changed names, again. It's a brand new day at Bennett Benner Pettit.WHY?Read about one reason in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Fort Worth's Gideon Toal architecture and planning firm has changed its name to Bennett Benner Pettit to reflect the firm's...
Nothing ever happens...
Till it happens to you.Guess WHAT? It's happening. All around you. Pay attention.Read the letter to the Editor in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.It was only a matter of time until the ugly side of natural gas finally reared its head in my neighborhood. Just when I was getting used to the natural...
Thứ Ba, 18 tháng 10, 2011
Different Texas agency, same Texas corruption?
The North Texas Tollway Authority keeps making the "news". WHY? Because they've been through 5 guys in 5 years. WHY did the latest head resign? Because he was going to be fired.WHY? Because he thinks some of the million(s) of tax dollar relationships with some of the same companies since the 1950s are too cozy. And maybe all those connections the board members have with...
They forgot to buy the doctors
More than 250 pediatricians, family practitioners, otolaryngologists, endocrinologists, oncologists and other doctors, along with the Medical Societies of at least seven upstate counties and the regional office of the American Academy of Pediatricians, wrote to Governor Cuomo today, warning that the...
Thứ Hai, 17 tháng 10, 2011
Where can you get the real local news?
Good letter from Clyde Picht in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram regarding last Wednesday's Trinity River Vision Discussion Forum at the Botanic Garden...Real local newsOn Wednesday night, 125 people attended a panel discussion of the Trinity River Vision and regional water issues at the Botanic Garden...
Fort Worth League of Neighborhood's Changes Proposed for Gas Drilling Ordinance
Fort Worth League of NeighborhoodsNewsletter - October 17, 2011IMPORTANT CHANGES PROPOSED FOR GAS DRILLING ORDINANCEThe League has submitted comments to the City Council on the proposed revisions to the gas drilling ordinance. The Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed revisions at...
Same story
Another story from Texas with all the same factors - gas drilling, floods, politicians, tributaries, FEMA, mortgage, insurance...Any of this sound familiar?Read about it in the Fort Worth Weekly. WHO's next?The first change occurred just four months after they moved in, when Devon Energy built...
Chủ Nhật, 16 tháng 10, 2011
Tight in Tarrant County
5 years, 5 Directors...WHY?Seems some think it would be a good idea to bring in new firms instead of the ones who have been given the contracts since the 1950s. You read that right.Another North Texas Tollway Authority Director is out, if he didn't resign, he was going to be fired for not going...
Mallard Cove Update
The compressor stations on Randol Mill have been generating a lot of noise and they aren't even there yet. People are waking up. What happens when sheep get pissed?The Fort Worth Weekly and the citizens that comment, give you the update. YOU can't afford to miss it.The Fort Worth League...
Arlington pay out
Roger Summers writes another gem to the Letters to the Editor in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Courting in ArlingtonWhen Arlington's city manager, with scant explanation, was invited to leave the building, his billfold was stuffed with about $140,000 of taxpayer money. If his performance was such that...
Thứ Bảy, 15 tháng 10, 2011
There's a change...
Seems someone swiped money from a politician. Talk about a switch.Read about Betsy Price's missing campaign money in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram."Evidently, someone stole the account information and then created their own debit cards and a check," she said.One debit card transaction was for $346.37...
REVOKED
Arlington has revoked a Chesapeake gas well permit. WHY would such a pro gas city do such a thing? Again, it all comes back to WATER.If anyone is taking notes, be sure and note for once, Chesapeake declined to comment. Don't miss the article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.One of...
WHAT water?
The Trinity River Vision (Distraction) has the Tarrant Regional Water District all tied up in Fort Worth. Watch a couple of minutes of video from the Trinity River Talk that TRIP held this week. John Basham explains that Region C (that's us) is out of water. What happens to a city that runs...
Coming Soon...
Earthquakes in Fort Worth.What are some of the causes of earthquakes? Yeah, we got them all. We're about to get some more.Where was the most recent earthquake felt in Fort Worth? Oh yes,Waxahachie. Read about it on FWCAN...
More Cheers
Seems some are paying attention, read the Cheer in the Fort Worth Star-TelegramCheers: To Layla Caraway, Bob Lukeman and TRIP for winning the Conservation Award at the Glen Rose Film Festival! If you are concerned about out-of-control spending by your government or what's happening with your...
Thứ Sáu, 14 tháng 10, 2011
One question leads to another
From a concerned observer....I have a few questions about Tim Love's new restaurant and how it relates to the TRV. I attempted to get some info from TAD. The business is listed as 3201 Riverfront Dr., but that address is not listed with TAD. Numerous properties in that area show to be owned by the water...
Thứ Năm, 13 tháng 10, 2011
Class Act
Kudos to TRIP for putting on another stellar event. In spite of an 'unnamed troublemaker' trying to get their event derailed for the past week, despite the City of Fort Worth backing out and JD Granger being a no show, this group still managed to pull off a very classy, educational evening. The...
Thứ Tư, 12 tháng 10, 2011
Tonight is the Night for some Open Discussion About the Trinity River Vision
Tonight's the night of the Trinity River Vision Open Discussion in Fort Worth's Botanic Gardens Conservatory Lecture Hall.6:30 pm.Click for details..........
Thứ Ba, 11 tháng 10, 2011
Perry picks WHO?
>> Perry picks crony, Phil Wilson, as new TxDOT Exec DirRead Terri's article here. >> Perry taps Ted Houghton to Chair Commission--The one who calls himself "the most arrogant commissioner of the most arrogant state agency in the history of the state of Texas" Read more he...
Thứ Hai, 10 tháng 10, 2011
Texas running out of water
You can attend a meeting sponsored by Freese and Nichols for $65 or you can attend the TRIP forum Wednesday. In Fort Worth for free.WHO are Freese and Nichols? The ones that that designed the Trinity River Vision signature bridges, WHO else.Wasn't Keffler here last year to support using OUR water...
Thứ Sáu, 7 tháng 10, 2011
When NEWS goes bad...
What happens when the newspaper of record in your town gets its marching orders from the downtown money crowd? They forget WHY they are there in the first place. This is an exchange between a Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist and a local citizen. Other citizens copied in responded too. This is just...
