Ann and EJ give the people of Fort Worth extended episodes, including spicy takes and intellectual dialogue about the city. The dynamic duo starts with David Cooke retiring and then navigates into transportation, where much progress was made. The big story is about taxes and how lowering them defunds our schools and keeps our potential gridlock by lack of capital.

SHORT STORY #1: Does FW City Manager Position Need A Nationwide Search?

SHORT STORY #2: Transportation gets some momentum
- Texas Will Pour Billions More Into Pointless Freeway Expansions That Just Don't Work
- DFW keeps building roads, but traffic gets worse. Here are Tarrant’s most clogged roads
- Tarrant leaders to discuss growing transit needs as population swells
- For Tarrant County to succeed, leaders say they need cooperation, state funds for transit

SHORT STORY #3: Mayor Parker's Letter to FWISD
- Fort Worth ISD is committed to working with city leaders, school board president says
- Why did Fort Worth’s mayor call FWISD unacceptable? Here’s the data
- Will Fort Worth schools see a Houston ISD-style state takeover? Here’s what the law says
- Americans Are Having Fewer Babies—So Fewer People Get to Be Grandparent

BIG STORY: The impact of lowering taxes on Fort Worth growth and schools
- A shocking lack of understanding.’ TAD deliberately defunded schools, districts say
- Fort Worth mayor, council members unite against raising city’s property tax rate in 2025
- Connect FW

WINS AND LOSSES:

Ann:
👍 Trail Connection
👎 Death on Roads

EJ:
👍 Leon's new album
👎 Mercy Culture Pastor Says Voting Democrat is Demonic
👎 FW Crypto Scam