Bud Kennedy is a homegrown Fort Worth guy who started out covering high school football here when he was 16. He went away to the Fort Worth Press and newspapers in Austin and Dallas, then came home in 1981. Since 1987, he's written more than 1,000 weekly dining columns and more than 3,000 news and politics columns. If you don't like what he says about politics, read him on barbecue.
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While Dublin, Texas, mourns the Dr, bottling plant is moving on
| |Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012
Pepper is passe; Triple XXX Root Beer is the new thing.Read more
Evangelical real estate developer brought Santorum to North Texas
| |Thursday, Feb. 09, 2012
A Fort Worth visit is said to be in the works.Read more
It's too bad we can't unite against cancer
| |Saturday, Feb. 04, 2012
For four days, friends and supporters have rallied loudly around Planned Parenthood. What they might not know is that for 15 years, the Komen Foundation was bashed just as loudly for being their friend.Read more
Mobs don't lynch people - 'tensions of the times' lynch people
| |Thursday, Feb. 02, 2012
A film set in North Texas is revisionist Civil War history with a vengeance.Read more
Cowgirl made history with first indoor rodeo in 1917
| |Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012
Fort Worth and Wichita, Kan., not only had it wrong but also overlooked a key woman.Read more
TCC wedding gaffe elicits apology from vice chancellor
| |Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012
With a handshake, Reginald Gates began rebuilding the good will that campus police wasted when they told Rosie Enriquez Martinez and her Afghanistan-bound soldier husband to move their vows off the Trinity River Campus.Read more
Wedding banned from Tarrant County College downtown
| |Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
The couple would have been welcomed at other public venues in Fort Worth. (Update: TCC has apologized.)Read more
Two recent reminders that for some Texans, Civil War goes on
| |Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
For Confederate Heroes Day, a speaker called Abraham Lincoln a socialist, and a Confederate heritage society is suspected of hanging nooses from a billboard.Read more
Perry just couldn't crack the stained-glass ceiling
| |Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
The “strategic retreat” note has historical overtones.Read more
Texans have a good idea what Perry's 'strategic retreat' means
| |Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
Every Texan knows what happened after Gen. Sam Houston lured Mexico's army north with his "strategic retreat." He became president of the Republic of Texas.Read more
Most-read stories
- Wal-Mart says it will rehab old Fort Worth building if it loses zoning case
- Two Fort Worth hospitals handle woman's premature births very differently
- Rain with chance of sleet forecast for Monday
- Italian copter maker has plans for Arlington hangar-office
- Sunday will start in 20s and could end with wintry mix of sleet and rain
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Eats Beat: Valentine's Day Edition
Critic Christopher Kelly and Bud Kennedy ferret out the best places to celebrate the occasion - like Buttons, where Bud catches up with chef Keith Hicks.
