Union Busting, Shadow PACs, and ICE Protestors on Trial: Speaking Truth to Power.

SHORT STORY 1: Union busting at Fort Worth Report

Fort Worth Reporter's Guild response to union busting

SHORT STORY 2: PACs funding Republican precinct chairs

Newly formed Tarrant shadow PACs turbocharge hyperlocal GOP precinct chair races

SHORT STORY 3: Prairieland Defendant updates

• Alvarado ICE facility ambush trial: Jurors view evidence, deputy body camera footage
• Surveillance video and cell phone evidence, day three of ICE Prairieland shooting trial continues

WINS:

Arts Forward

Long-awaited Palo Pinto Mountains State Park opens

Panther Island gets taxing district to pay for improvements, services

Construction for $63M Historic Southside urban village could start in summer

North Texas Community Foundation Awards $250K to Historic North Side Main Street Pilot

FWISD votes no to school prayer period

Black Women Lawyers Association honors Mary Ellen Hicks

Mosier Valley Park transformation will commemorate one of Texas’ first all-Black communities

LOSSES:

Oversight of Tarrant County purchasing questioned as lead role shifts

Digital checkouts at Fort Worth Public Library exceed those of physical materials for first time

ACTIONS:

Tarrant County seeks 200 more election clerks to staff March 3 primary polls

TXDOT Master Plan Survey

March 3 - Election day for Primaries

March 4 - 817 Gather at the Table

March 10 - Data center vote at Fort Worth City Council

March 15 - 817 Gather (Join us)

March 21 - FWAAMFEST (Get tickets)

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