In 2015, Tarrant County had 1,563 primary care physicians and a population of 1,973,526, according to state data. A decade later, the number of primary care physicians had risen to 1,967 — a 26% increase. In tandem, the county boasted 2,322,418 residents last year, an 18% increase in that same timef
government
By Andrew Piel I was born at Arlington Memorial Hospital in 1972, right when the Texas Rangers got here, and first lived for a few years on an Arlington street called Larkspur. In 1977, when I was 5, Mom and Dad decided they needed more room, so we moved a few miles west to Littl...
western
Some interesting items going on in the world of sports this week appear interconnected to me, two in soccer and one each in baseball and basketball: St. Louis SC won the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the first silverware in franchise history The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyri...
government
Ezra Ochieng Owenga, aged 72, passed away on Oct. 14, 2026. Born on Jan. 1, 1954, in Kendu Bay, Kenya, he was the cherished son of the late Mr. Philemon Osumba Owenga and Mrs. Claris Auma Oreny. The loss of Ezra creates a profound emptiness for his family and friends, who will ho...
safety
A North Texas community will come together Saturday to remember 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, whose disappearance and death touched the hearts of residents across the region. The city of Everman will host a public candlelight vigil in Noel's memory on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 6...
schools
Donna Kay Klutts-Vick was born on April 28, 1941, in Bisbee, Arizona. She graduated at the top of her class from Hamilton High School in 1959, the same year she married Chester Otis Vick. Donna lived in Houston until 1996, when she moved to Benbrook. She retired from Allstate Ins...
government
In July, Lisa Dixon returned to her classroom at Keller ISD’s Hillwood Middle School to prepare for the new school year and found that the temperature inside was 87 degrees. For several months before then, the eighth-grade history teacher and her students dealt with a failing air...
arts
Nashville, Tennessee-based Hamilton Development plans to construct a $57.7-million warehouse and office project in the Walsh development. In its first Texas project, Hamilton is building an approximately 1 million-square-foot warehouse that will include 6,000 square feet of offic...
tcu
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has elected Heidi C. Knowles, MD, FACEP, as president-elect. Dr. Knowles will serve a one-year term as president beginning October 2027. Dr. Knowles identified three priorities for her upcoming term: safety, support, and stabili...
government
The money is real. That needs saying first, because digital income doesn't look real-it looks like a notification saying $4.17, arriving six weeks after the thing happened, from a platform whose name is a noun pretending to be a company. But add up the $4.17s and the sync fee and...
arts
Irma Griffith takes care of a colony of about 30 cats in her Haltom City backyard. They started showing up after her dog passed away a few years ago. “Of course, me being the animal lover that I am, I started feeding them, and I had no idea about the whole process,” she said. “I ...
arts
Closing a business can look simple from the outside, but an LLC does not disappear when sales stop. An owner can shut the storefront and tell customers the business is finished while the legal entity still exists. The company may still have filings, taxes, contracts, or debts to ...
tcu
College students may have their class schedules figured out, but what happens when they need groceries, a ride to the store or a little guidance navigating life away from home? One North Texas entrepreneur is stepping in to help, offering a service that gives students something t...
