• Is Fort Worth Ready to Surpass Austin? Challenges growing a world-class city

  • May 20 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
  • Podcast

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Is Fort Worth Ready to Surpass Austin? Challenges growing a world-class city

  • Summary

  • SHORT STORY #1: Tarrant County Jail Deaths. TAKE ACTION NOW!

    - WATCH: Video shows knee on Johnson’s back before death
    - Silence from the sheriff
    - Tarrant commissioner supports calls for sheriff’s resignation
    - Jailer’s attorney joins those calling for the release of the full video

    SHORT STORY #2: FWISD 3Bs

    -FWISD proposes first balanced budget in 7 years
    - TX schools struggling Dems say to Abbott
    - FWISD school closures would mean bigger campuses
    - FWISD returns most banned books to shelves

    SHORT STORY #3: FW Infrastructure

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    FW plans to move around millions of federal dollars
    - Fort Worth removes minority business requirement for $479M trash contract
    - Fort Worth’s Panther Island gets more federal funding

    BIG STORY: FW 12th Biggest City. Is that a good thing?

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    FW jumps to No. 12 in population
    - Population boom in TX suburbs
    - Ramifications of Growth

    • FW kills proposed street maintenance fee
    • FW streets identified as dangerous years ago are still among the most deadly
    • TX surpasses California for food insecurity

    WINS AND LOSSES

    Ann:
    👍 Awesome local events happening
    👎 Unable to attend them this weekend

    EJ:
    👍 FW's phenomenal journalist and our commited listeners!
    👎 Abbott Pardon Daniel Perry
    👎 State helps Gillespie County
    👎 NRA gets Visit Dallas Dollars















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