Claiming she has a conservative record, outgoing Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price is running to replace retiring Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley. While she didn’t defund the police, taxes have gone up, the city has been identified as a financial...
With a long-running county judge announcing his last term, and more county officials reportedly joining him, Tarrant County citizens will have opportunities to decide what kind of county government they want after suffering government abuses in 2020. On June 8,...
As the campaign for the future of Fort Worth continues, an investigation into the financial ties of local politics involving Panther Island reveals two emerging sides vying for power over the real estate redevelopment project that’s dragged on for years—while draining...
With unemployment more than doubled since last year and homeowners’ tax bills higher than ever, the Fort Worth City Council voted to assign new debt to taxpayers by purchasing a new city hall building. On Tuesday morning, all nine members of council voted to purchase...
Parents and teachers fed up with the Fort Worth school board’s flip-flopping finally got an answer for when families will have a choice to send their kids back to school for in-person learning, after weeks of being limited to online “virtual” instruction due to...
UPDATE 6/25/20 6:18 PM: David McClelland, chief of staff for Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn, tells Texas Scorecard that enforcing Tarrant commissioners’ mask mandate is “a low priority for us because it’s not going to affect the majority of...
Mayors are asking Gov. Greg Abbott for the power to jail people who go about their cities without face coverings. The mayors say the power is needed to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus. In a letter to Gov. Abbott, eight mayors are wanting the authority to...
Two days after Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton issued new orders requiring local governments not to prohibit people of faith from worshipping together, Dallas County and the city of Fort Worth have finally backed down. On April 6, Dallas County Judge...
UPDATE 4/13/20 7:04 PM: “My background in the military tells you that in times of crisis, you need one leader that’s going to be the voice of the organization. Betsy’s been great in leading the city and being the voice of the city, for the 6800...
As the Chinese coronavirus and governmental responses to it decimate the state’s economy, Texans are looking for leadership from their chief elected official to chart a course through the crisis and back to normalcy. So far, they’re not getting it. At a press...
Are Fort Worth officials about to hit citizens with stricter government regulations and higher taxes? According to a recent city survey—unauthorized and removed from their website after just four days—the answer might be yes. Last week, the City of Fort Worth posted a...
Despite citizens’ concerns about open borders, Fort Worth’s mayor joined other mayors across Texas in asking Gov. Greg Abbott to continue allowing refugees into the Lone Star State. On September 26 of this year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order...
Despite being allegedly run by Republican Mayor Betsy Price, the City of Fort Worth is creating an entire left-wing “Diversity and Inclusion Department.” And she’s hiring a staffer from Democrat presidential hopeful Pete Buttigeig to run it. On Thursday, Price was...
Fort Worth’s latest budget proposed under Mayor Betsy Price’s administration is reminiscent of the purple session of the 2019 Texas Legislature, spending taxpayer money on Democrat initiatives while hiking homeowners’ property tax bills. According to data from the...
In the wake of the tragic murders in El Paso and Dayton, Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price has joined other mayors and elected local politicians in calling for stricter gun control measures on law-abiding Americans. “I join Mayor of El Paso – Dee Margo,...
UPDATED July 12, 2019. Previews of a report on downtown Fort Worth’s Panther Island Project reveal “insufficient oversight and transparency” among many problems within the beleaguered billion-dollar development. The report, withheld from the public at the behest of...
Avowed socialist and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has endorsed Deborah Peoples for mayor of Fort Worth. “In Fort Worth on Saturday we can elect a true progressive for mayor,” the Democrat senator and presidential candidate said in a tweet on May 2. The...
In her bid for a fifth straight term as mayor of Fort Worth, Betsy Price is portraying herself as a champion for taxpayers, but data from the Tarrant Appraisal District and the Texas Bond Review Board disagree. On her campaign website and in recent mailers to Fort...
Deborah Peoples, chairwoman of the Tarrant County Democratic Party, announced that she is running for mayor of Fort Worth. “Today’s Fort Worth must move beyond old conventions. The so-called ‘Fort Worth Way’ is not working for our city anymore,” she...
The leftist activist group United Fort Worth, which organized the failed protests to pressure the City of Fort Worth into suing to block Texas’ sanctuary cities law, is making good on their promise to challenge city council members. According to sources, UFW has...
