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.
Cynics might look at the hurdles that the Fort Worth public schools continue struggling to overcome and say it's a hopeless task.
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.
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.
You'd think the Texas Railroad Commission would be better attuned to its public image.
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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.
NYC summer internship will be a lesson for one teen -- and her parents
Maybe it just seems like a housing hunt by snail mail and bulletin board postings was easier 33 years ago, before Al Gore envisioned the Internet or Marc Zuckerberg brought social media to the masses.
Texas voter ID case is in no way simple or easy
We've always been more willing to give personal information to a store clerk than to the government.
Star-Telegram newsroom realignment aimed at putting digital first
Technology offers new tools for telling stories and new ways to distribute them to Star-Telegram readers.
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