The City Council created the Fort Worth Employees' Retirement Fund in September 1945. Council action and inaction since then have put current elected officials in a struggle to pay for accrued pension obligations while maintaining a competitive retirement plan, attracting a talented workforce while steadily reducing the unfunded liability for which taxpayers are ultimately responsible.Read more

Cynics might look at the hurdles that the Fort Worth public schools continue struggling to overcome and say it's a hopeless task.Read more

Editorial: Another desperate cry was heard this week for the adoption of more pets from Fort Worth's animal shelter after an influx of more than 500 critters within a week's time.Read more

• Story | Fort Worth's animal shelter overcrowding crisis is averted for now

Judging by vote totals nearing the end of in-person early voting for Tuesday's party primary elections, the hottest local races are on Northeast Tarrant County Republican ballots.Read more

You'd think the Texas Railroad Commission would be better attuned to its public image.Read more

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If all you read about the GOP primary race for Texas House District 97 was the slick, colorful flyers clogging mailboxes in southwest Fort Worth, you'd think a "dishonest," conniving Washington lobbyist who floats around by parachute was running against an Obamacare-loving BFF of lefty U.S. Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Eddie Bernice Johnson.Read more

After decades of legal motions challenging two murder convictions, it appears that Billy Frederick Allen will receive $2 million from the state of Texas for wrongfully imprisoning him for almost 26 years.Read more

Now comes the tough part of redistricting for the Fort Worth City Council.Read more

Sales tax revenue makes up 19 percent of Fort Worth's general fund budget, so folks at City Hall pay particular attention when the Texas comptroller's office releases sales tax collection numbers.Read more