Death or taxes?

Jeers in the Fort Worth Star Telegram:

To U.S. Reps. Joe Barton and Kay Granger, who are fighting the EPA on regulations that would curb mercury and other toxic pollutants being emitted from power plants and cement kilns. They profess that any increased regulation would kill jobs, apparently not caring that those same toxins can kill people.

-- Sharon Austry, Fort Worth

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Have you guessed

WHO will be bailing out the Fort Worth Cats yet?

YOU will.

Read Bud Kennedy's take about the Cats and the election...

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Under Pressure

Dear Neighbor,

At the risk of being repetitive, Cheaspeake Energy Corporation wants to bring unreliable noise control, uncertain air borne emissions systems, a track-record of inconsistent maintenance and event-response systems, and likely real estate value losses, to our backyard.  They want us to let them trade our former equestrian center for north Texas' (and maybe the nation's) largest, loudest, smelliest and ugliest "enclosed gas compressor station."  Imagine 15 of these massive engines sitting side by side and running 24/7/365 and you've got it!

Your neighborhood committee and many others are fighting this proposal with all of the resources at our disposal.

WITH SINCERE THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE, A BIT MORE OF YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED RIGHT NOW! So, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...

CALL 817-392-8028 Monday or Tuesday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm..  TELL the Zoning Department you DO NOT WANT Chesapeake's request for a continuance approved and you do not want case #ZC-11-098 approved.

E-MAIL zoninglanduse@fortworthtexas.org no later than noon this Tuesday. TELL the Zoning Department you DO NOT want Chesapeake's request for a continuance approved and you DO NOT want case #ZC-11-098 approved (mention a COUPLE of reasons including finding a more appropriate location).

ATTEND the Wednesday, November 9th, Zoning Commission meeting at 10am at City Hall. (Be there early as parking can be difficult.)

The more we put the pressure on the City, the less likely it is that Chesapeake will succeed in their unreasonable, inappropriate request.  But, just remember...

YOU Are The Pressure! 

No One else Can Be The Pressure FOR YOU! 

Call!   -  E-mail!   -  Attend!

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Earthquake in Fort Worth????

The massive number of earthquakes in Oklahoma have TX Sharon's email inbox overflowing with earthquake notice from Oklahoma.

Read all about it on TX Sharon Bluedaze Drilling Reform.

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Yeah, we felt it too

There was an earthquake in Fort Worth tonight.  Well, we don't know where it was centered but we have reports coming in from North Fort Worth of a lot of shaking going on. And Google has lit up like a Christmas tree.  And, we felt the earth shaking.

Last night there was an earthquake in Oklahoma City.  Tonight an earthquake in Fort Worth.  What does Fort Worth and Oklahoma City have in common? Aside from gas drillers? 

Just saying.  And shaking.  On Saturday night in Texas.

Incoming update - 
Word is it was a 5.6 earthquake in Sparks, Oklahoma.  Like they say, what happens in Oklahoma, doesn't stay in Oklahoma...

What happens to water mains and gas pipelines when the ground moves?

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Whats in the Trinity River, again?

Kudos to WFAA for finally testing the water in the Trinity River and calling attention to it.

Mind you the numbers they will be posting are from City of FW and TRWD.  The same who weren't  testing the water while promoting the summer tubing series.  Oh and their spokesman says 'you still would not be able to tell the public it's safe'

Feel better?

Thanks to Chris Hawes and Libby Willis for finally getting it done.  Citizens getting it done.  We like it.

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How much Love?

People just keep asking about the Woodshed.  In a recent Fort Worth, Texas Magazine article Tim Love says he's going to write an open letter to the state about the bureaucracy of opening restaurants.  He says it's more difficult now and "To open a restaurant now is a minimum half-million dollars, probably $1.5 million. In my opinion, that isn't fair."

Probably?  He's not sure?  Isn't he opening the Woodshed?  People keep asking about the price tag of it, since it sits on Tarrant Regional Water District property.

And if you were wondering, yes, he plugged the Trinity River Vision.

He notes Angelo's Bar-B-Que gets it right and isn't going anywhere.  Too bad all their neighbors are being acquired by eminent domain.  He also mentions Railhead, which happens to be Charlie Geren's restaurant.

In Texas, we keep it in the "family".

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