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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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| |Thursday, Feb. 02, 2012
A film set in North Texas is revisionist Civil War history with a vengeance.Read more
| |Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012
Fort Worth and Wichita, Kan., not only had it wrong but also overlooked a key woman.Read more
| |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
| |Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
The couple would have been welcomed at other public venues in Fort Worth. (Update: TCC has apologized.)Read more
| |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
| |Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
The strategic retreat note has historical overtones.Read more
| |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
| |Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012
For Walter Dansby, the Fort Worth school district's interim superintendent, the dominoes started falling his way a half-century ago.Read more
| |Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012
A former New Mexico governor is running for president on the Libertarian line.Read more
| |Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012
Tim Tebow's string of 316s is earning him attention.Read more