Classrooms in Fort Worth ISD’s lowest-performing schools now have web cameras pointed at students — mirroring takeover changes seen in Houston classrooms. The cameras have alarmed a parent group and teacher association that say families and educators were not notified. District officials said the ca
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photo by Jenna Burress Innovation in business necessarily includes the apprehension that comes with taking risks. Sometimes you feel like you’re strapped to the back of pissed-off animal much larger than you. Sometimes you actually are. Fort Worth has a pretty good history in the...
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Four Fort Worth property owners learned last month what they can and can’t do with their historic properties. The Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission, a city board that reviews changes to historic buildings, ruled on the cases Sept. 14. Documenters empowers people like you...
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Tom Cruise delivers a fascinating performance as Digger Rockwell, an eccentric Texas oil tycoon who causes an environmental catastrophe in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s black satire “Digger.” It echoes shades of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” and Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre J...
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A new ADA transition plan, focused on identifying physical obstacles that make participating in programs inaccessible to residents with disabilities, was presented at the Fort Worth Human Relations Commission’s Sept. 14 meeting. Documenters empowers people like you to help fill t...
government
The Mayor’s Committee on Persons with Disabilities officially met for the first time Sept. 10 following four meetings that were canceled in 2026 for lack of quorum. Documenters empowers people like you to help fill the gaps in reporting on Tarrant County public meetings. Find out...
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Editor’s note: To learn more about how the transcript that informed this report was created, visit Cambridge Artificial Intelligencer. Keller City Council unanimously approved Sept. 15 a 2-cent property tax rate increase alongside a $111.9 million budget. The new tax rate is 30.0...
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By Robyn Canard I grew up in Burleson, just south of Fort Worth, and went to school there from kindergarten through graduation at Burleson High School. Go Elks! As teenagers, if we weren’t at a house party when someone’s parents were out of town — and yes, a lot of times it was m...
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Editor’s note: To learn more about how the transcript that informed this report was created, visit Cambridge Artificial Intelligencer. The Colleyville City Council approved a 2027 spending budget of more than $98.3 million in September. The general fund budget, a major portion of...
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Inside a big stone house with a broad porch in Stephens County, Texas, light glowed from the windows before the sun had fully awakened. Down a long driveway that stretched between the house and the country highway, rabbits darted toward a barbed wire fence dotted with prickly pea...
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Emmanuel Mutebezi, aged 50, departed this world peacefully on Sept. 21, 2026. Born on Dec. 15, 1993, in the picturesque town of Fort Portal, Uganda, he was the beloved son of Mr. Gatsinzi Athanase and Mrs. Gordance Mukankuranga. His passing has created an irreplaceable void in th...
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The irony is, there already has been a documentary about concrete. Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton came out last year, and it was pretty good. However, John Wilson makes his feature filmmaking debut with The History of Concrete, which opens this weekend at Alamo Drafthouse Dento...
