Today, I was covering the annual Martin Luther King Jr. parade through Downtown Ft. Worth.This year’s parade had added significance because of the officer who was suspended for arresting a woman who had originally called for help last month.I started sidling up to people along the parade route. We’d talk about how that case shows the…
The Texas legislature started its biennial session this week.I’ve interviewed just about everyone in Texas about the “bathroom bill” (If you haven’t heard from me yet, expect a call sometime this week), and the budget is taking a hit because the price of oil is down.Those are issues that are stealing the show, but what…
I spent part of December at home in Ohio, where my mother likes to remind guests, when they look at the family Christmas tree, that I had a rich, full head of hair when I was in kindergarten.Then I tell people, “Oh, you should have seen me in first grade, though! It was like a ghost town up there…
A few years ago, a major in the Texas National Guard offered to fly me to Ft. Hood while the Army trained for its surge in manpower along the Rio Grande.Loyal Scaiaholics know I’m a little afraid of heights, so flying to Ft. Hood in a Blackhawk Helicopter may have seemed slightly out of character. But he…
At the beginning of this week, I covered the hard-hitting story about the Capitol telling Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert to stop cookin’ ribs on the balcony of his office.Gohmert, in what I would imagine was an effort to build coalitions, would apparently cook ribs for his fellow Congressmen every few months. I would imagine. In his speech, Gohmert…
We have much to be thankful for this week.I, for instance, went to AT&T Stadium to see how the Cowboys were getting ready for Thursday’s game.They’re getting ready by doing a lot of cooking, but it left me with a lot of questions:Where’s the extra turkey legs? Where’s the extra turkey…
Earlier this week, I pledged to stop blogging incessantly about my car crash. But that blog did include the rider that I would only abide by that if you people [really hit “you people” as you read this] stopped demanding $21,000.The most recent demand was for $36,000, so I probably should have been more clear.Yesterday, I…