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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An election when candidates' ethnicity became a liability
| |Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010
A Tea Party Republican with a Hispanic surname runs headlong into discrimination at the GOP primary.Read more
A tale of two cities -- and a 'cultural battle'
| |Sunday, Mar. 07, 2010
The continued joking between Fort Worth and Dallas is all in good fun. Isn’t it?Read more
Watauga has some odd ideas about free speech
| |Thursday, Mar. 04, 2010
What matters is that an American city has put a man in jail for free speech.Read more
Primary results expose Tea Parties as all steam, no drink
| |Tuesday, Mar. 02, 2010
When the Weatherford Tea Party conducted a noisy straw poll and rally last week, U.S. Rep. Kay Granger drew only 2.7 percent of the vote.Read more
Precinct politics may reach a boil for Republicans
| |Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
With Tea Party groups in the "Texas two-step," is a new revolution brewing?Read more
In tiny Saint Jo, an echo from a loathsome era
| |Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010
A racial epithet surfaces in the weekly Just Ads, and leaders recoil.Read more
Dallas-Fort Worth conservative groups reach a fork in the road
| |Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010
Local Tea Party leaders disagree on whether to stay out of the candidate endorsement business.Read more
On the campaign trail, a blizzard of foolishness
| |Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010
Candidates have some explaining to do after 9-11 and secession comments.Read more
White skips primary talk and guns straight for Perry
| |Monday, Feb. 08, 2010
Meanwhile, Shami seemed to launch his campaign against himself.Read more
Well, one team in Super Bowl has Dallas ties
| |Saturday, Feb. 06, 2010
The hapless, bankrupt, short-lived 1952 Dallas Texans went on to find success elsewhere.Read more
Cheap & Chic: Find beauty bargins at discount stores
Cheap & Chic: Mom2Mom beauty blogger scores favorite beauty brand at local discount store.
Eats Beat: St. Patrick's Day
Dining guy Bud Kennedy has some great suggestions for St. Patrick’s Day dining, including the newly famous J. Gilligans.
