Back in the olden days, before I chose to become a middle-aged man, my associates and I would enjoy time in Downtown Fort Worth, which can be accurately summed up by modern philosopher Toby Keith. Us hotheads even appeared in one of Brian Luenser’s pictures. For non-Texas Scaiaholics: appearing in one of Brian’s pictures is how…
One Scaiaholic tweets incessantly about hashtag: transit alternatives. I’m sure he’s a thorn in the side of the T, but listen, I’m sure I’m a thorn in their side, too, because I still call them, “The T.”In my defense, “Trinity Metro” does contain three Ts, and calling them the T reminds me of the family…
This week, Fort Worth started moving into a new city hall.I bring this up because I can now boast that I have rappelled down the side of the center of government of America’s 13th largest city.https://twitter.com/scaia/status/1356654284167913479I might look terrified in that picture, and perhaps rappelling down a 20 story building was…
This weekend, the Bell Fort Worth Alliance Air Show is taking place, giving us all a chance to stop posting diatribes about politics online for a few minutes and watch some airplanes.The Air Force Thunderbirds showed up last night. Two of the pilots and several of the crew are from Texas because only Texas rocks hard enough to put…
Loyal Scaiaholics know one of my favorite activities is covering events with the Fort Worth Sister Cities program.This dates back to pre-alanscaia.com. A group of kids had come from Iraq. I asked several children what they thought of Fort Worth. They all were having a good time, saying we had so much food and fun things to…
A delegation from Fort Worth’s newest sister city has wrapped up a ten day stay in town. Nimes, France is Fort Worth’s 9th sister city.A Scaiaholic has been advocating the blog take on podcast form, and I did record an audio version of this story because I work at a radio station and also realized I may…
Part of my job involves eating lunch. It’s not a major part of my job, but I do it, like, every day.The mayor of Fort Worth recently delivered her “State of the City” address. Spoilers: The State of Fort Worth is very, very strong.Frankly, that doesn’t seem newsworthy to me. Every mayor says that. What would…