Fort Worth school trustees broached the t-word Tuesday night, but there's sure to be much agonizing before they decide it's time to ask voters to dig deeper to help fund public schools for 80,000 students.Read more

Smoking at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington could soon be called out. Puffing on a cigarette at Cowboys Stadium could draw a penalty.Read more

Looking at the case of Steven Kenneth Staley in its starkest terms, surely it's wrong for the state of Texas to medicate a man simply to execute him.Read more

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The taxpayers of Fort Worth and Tarrant County are taking a $13.7 million stake in a $110 million, three-building downtown office development that will include a 55,450-square-foot public plaza at its center straddling Main Street.Read more

Today, at long last, voters get to start having their say about their political party nominees in the Nov. 6 general election. The party primary elections, originally scheduled March 6, were delayed because of court battles over election district maps drawn last year by the Texas Legislature. On March 1, a federal court in San Antonio set the primaries for May 29 under interim, court-drawn maps.Read more

Kay Bailey Hutchison's decision not to seek re-election created an all-too-rare situation -- an open U.S. Senate seat representing Texas.Read more

Three years ago, in an attempt to combat dropout rates, poor math and science scores and a lack of motivation among urban youths, Tarrant County and community leaders announced the Generation Hope Laptop Program.Read more

Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today throughout North Texas as voters decide various municipal and school board elections.Read more

North Texas has one of four new congressional districts drawn as a result of the state's explosive population growth in the last decade. District 33 -- heavily Democratic and majority-minority -- straddles the Dallas and Tarrant county line, stretching from the Fort Worth Stockyards through parts of Arlington and Grand Prairie to West Dallas and Oak Cliff. Although 61 percent Hispanic, the district's Latino population eligible to vote is 39 percent while blacks of voting age make up about 25 percent.Read more