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Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency C O M P I L E D B Y T H E E L E C T R O N I C F R O N T I E R F O U N D A T I O N A N D M U C K R O C K N E W S

years’ dubious winners (many of whom are repeat offenders), check out our archive at EFF.org/issues/foilies.

The Most Secretive Dog’s Bollocks — Conan the Belgian Malinois

Back in 2019, what should have been a fluff story (or scruff story) about Conan, the Delta Force K9 that was injured while assisting in the raid that took out an Islamic State leader, became yet another instance of the Trump administration tripping over itself with the facts. Was Conan a very good boy or a very good girl? Various White House and federal officials contradicted themselves, and the mystery remained. Transparency advocate and journalist Freddy Martinez wouldn’t let the sleeping dog lie. He filed a FOIA request with the U.S. Special Operations Command, a.k.a. SOCOM, but rather than release the records, officials claimed they could “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records,” the much dreaded “Glomar response” usually reserved for sensitive national security secrets. (The USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer was a secret CIA ship that the agency didn’t want to acknowledge existed.) Never one to roll over, Martinez filed a lawsuit against SOCOM and the Defense Department in June 2020. Just in time for Sunshine Week, Martinez received his records — a single page of a veterinary examination, almost completely redacted except for the dog’s

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he day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare, “Biden is making transparency cool again.” This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information — the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people — has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? If you need more proof, there was an Australian comic book series called Southern Squadron: Freedom of Information Act; the classic anime Evangelion has a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cameo; and the Leeds-based post-punk band Mush received 7.4 stars from Pitchfork for its latest album, Lines Redacted. OK, now that we’ve put that down in writing, we realize that the line between “cool” and “nerdy” might be a little blurry, but you know what definitely is not cool? Denying the public’s right to know. In fact, it sucks. Since 2015, The Foilies have served as an annual opportunity to name and shame the uncoolest government agencies and officials who have stood in the way of public access. We collect the most outrageous and ridiculous stories from around the country from journalists, activists, academics, and everyday folk who have filed public records requests and experienced retaliation, overredactions, exorbitant fees, and other transparency malpractice. We publish this rogues’ gallery as a faux awards program during Sunshine Week (March 14-20, 2021), the annual celebration of open government organized by the News Leaders Association. This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is publishing The Foilies in partnership with MuckRock News, a nonprofit dedicated to building a community of cool kids who file FOIA and local public records requests. For previous

name and the single letter “M” for gender. Conan’s breed and color were even blacked out, despite the fact that photos of the dog had already been tweeted by Trump.

retaliation we’ve seen in the history of the Foilies. Fagan has since rebounded, turning his email newsletter into a “law enforcement restricted site.”

The Pharaoh Prize for Deadline Extensions — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois

The Redaction Most Likely to Make Your Bubbe Weep — Federal Aviation Administration

With COVID-19 affecting all levels of government operations, many transparency advocates and journalists were willing to accept some delays in responding to public records requests. However, some government officials were quick to use the pandemic as an excuse to ignore transparency laws altogether. Taking the prize this year is Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, who invoked the Old Testament to lobby the Illinois Attorney General to suspend FOIA deadlines altogether. “I want to ask the average Chicagoan: Would you like them to do their job, or would you like them to be pulled off to do FOIA requests?” Lightfoot said in April 2020, according to the Chicago Tribune, implying that epidemiologists and physicians are also the same people processing public records. (They’re not.) She continued, “I think for those people who are scared to death about this virus, who are worried every single day that it’s going to come to their doorstep, and I’m mindful of the fact that we’re in the Pesach season, the angel of death that we all talk about in the Passover story, that angel of death is right here in our midst every single day.” We’d just note that transparency is crucial to ensuring that the government’s response to COVID is both effective and equitable. And if ancient Egyptians had the power to FOIA the Pharaoh for communications with Moses and Aaron, perhaps they would have avoided all 10 plagues — blood, frogs, and all.

The Doxxer Prize — Forensic Examiner Colin Fagan

In July 2020, surveillance researcher and Princeton Ph.D. student Shreyas Gandlur sued the Chicago Police Department for copies of an electronic guide on police technology regularly received via email by law enforcement officers around the country. The author of the guide, Colin Fagan, a retired cop from Oregon, did not agree that the public has a right to know how cops are being trained, and he decided to make it personal. In a final message to his subscribers announcing he was discontinuing the “Law Enforcement Technology Investigations Resource Guide,” Fagan ranted about Gandlur for “attacking the best efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement to use effective legal processes to save innocent victims of horrible crimes and hold their perpetrators accountable.” Fagan included a photo of Gandlur and his email addresses and urged his readers to recruit crime victims to contact him “and let him know how he could better apply his talents” — one of the most blatant cases of

When General Atomics proposed flying a new class of drone over the San Diego region to demonstrate its domestic surveillance capabilities, Voice of San Diego reporter Jesse Marx obviously wanted to learn how it possibly could have been approved. He filed a FOIA request with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ultimately a lawsuit to liberate documentation. Among the records he received was an email containing a “little vent” from an FAA worker that began with “Oy vey,” and then virtually everything else, including the employee’s four bulletpointed “genuinely constructive thoughts,” were redacted.

The Government Retribution Award — City of Portland, Oregon

People seeking public records all too often have to sue the government for a response to their records requests, but in an unusual turn-around, when attorney and activist Alan Kessler requested records from the City of Portland related to text messages on government phones, the government retaliated by suing him and demanding that he turn over copies of his own phone messages. Among other things, the City specifically demanded that Kessler hand over all Signal, WhatsApp, email, and text messages having to do with Portland police violence, the Portland police in general, and the Portland protests. Runner up: Reporter CJ Ciaramella requested records from the Washington State Department of Corrections about Michael Forest Reinoehl, who was killed by a joint U.S. Marshals task force. The Washington DOC apparently planned to produce the records, but before it could, the Thurston County Sheriff ’s Department sued Ciaramella and the agency to stop the records from being disclosed.

Seeking a better understanding of the toll of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, journalists in North Carolina requested copies of death certificates from local county health departments. Within days, officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reached out to county offices with guidance not to provide the requested records — without citing any legal justification whatsoever. DHHS did not respond to reporters’ questions about why it issued that guidance or how it was justified. Some local agencies followed the guidance and withheld records, some responded speedily, and some turned them over begrudgingly — emphasis on the grudge. “I will be making everyone in Iredell County aware through various means available that you are wanting all these death records with their loved ones’ private information!” one county official wrote to The News and Review reporters in an email. “As an elected official, it is relevant the public be aware of how you are trying to bully the county into just giving you info from private citizens because you think you deserve it.”

The Cat Face Filter Award — Federal Bureau of Prisons

Kids these days — overlaying cat faces on their videos and showing the BOP how it should redact media sought by FOIA

requesters. That was the message from an incredulous federal appeals court in March 2020 after the BOP claimed it lacked the ability to blur out or otherwise redact faces (such as those of prisoners and guards) from surveillance videos sought through FOIA by an inmate who was stabbed with a screwdriver in a prison dining hall. The court wrote: “The same teenagers who regale each other with screenshots are commonly known to revise those missives by such techniques as inserting cat faces over the visages of humans.” The judge made clear that although “we do not necessarily advocate that specific technique,” the BOP’s learned helplessness to . redact video footage is completely

The Juking the FOIA Stats Award — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Wire, the classic HBO police drama, laid bare how police departments across the country manipulate data to present trends about crime being down. As ex-detective Roland Pryzbylewski put it, “Juking the stats ... . Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) seems to love to juke its FOIA stats. As the nonprofit advocacy organization American Oversight alleged in a lawsuit last year, the CDC has been systematically rejecting FOIA requests

by claiming they are overly broad or burdensome, despite years of court decisions requiring agencies to work in good faith with requesters to try to help them find records or narrow their request. The CDC then categorizes those supposedly overbroad requests as “withdrawn” by the requester and closes the file without having to provide any records, so those FOIAs disappear, much like the violent crime reports in The Wire. The CDC’s annual FOIA reports show that the agency’s two-step juke move is a favorite. According to American Oversight, between 2016 and 2019, CDC closed between 21 and 31% of all FOIA requests it received as “withdrawn.” CDC’s closure rate during that period was roughly three times that of its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, which on average closed only 6 to 10% of its FOIAs as withdrawn. After American Oversight sued, the CDC began releasing documents.

The Save the Children (in a Hidden Folder) Award — Louisville Metropolitan Police Department, Kentucky

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s Explorer Scouts program was supposed to give teenagers a chance to learn more about careers in law enforcement. For two LMPD officers, though, it became an opportunity for sexual abuse. When reporters asked for more information on the perpetrators, the city chose to respond with further absurdity — by destroying its records.

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The Secret COVID Statistics — North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

The case against the city and the Boy Scouts of America is scheduled to begin in April. The Courier-Journal in Louisville first asked LMPD in mid-2019 for all records regarding the two officers’ sexual abuse of minors. Louisville claimed it didn’t have any. They had been turned over to the FBI. Then the Courier-Journal appealed, and the city eventually determined that — well, what do you know — they’d found a “hidden folder” still containing the responsive records — 738,000 of them, actually. Not for long, though. Less than a month later, they’d all been deleted, despite the ongoing request, a casualty of the city’s automated backup and deletion system, according to Louisville. At the end of 2020, the Courier-Journal was still fighting the city’s failure to comply with the Kentucky Public Records Act. “I have practiced open records law since the law was enacted 45 years ago, and I have never seen anything so brazen,” said Courier-

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The Most Expensive Cover-Up Award — Small Business Administration

In the early weeks of the pandemic, the Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded millions of dollars to small businesses through new COVID-related relief programs but didn’t make the names of recipients public. When major news organizations including ProPublica, the Washington Post, and The New York Times filed public records requests to learn exactly where that money had gone, the SBA dragged its feet, and then — after the news organizations sued — tried to withhold the information under FOIA Exemptions 4 and 6, for confidential and private information. A court rejected both claims and also forced the government to cough up more than $120,000 in fees to the news organizations’ lawyers.

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are always overzealous in claims that disclosing information will harm national security, but officials with the Minnesota Fusion Center took this paranoia to new heights when they claimed a state law protecting “security information” required them to redact everything — including bullet points — in documents provided to journalist Ken Klippenstein. And we quite literally mean the bullets themselves. Fusion centers are part of a controversial program coordinated by the U.S. Department of Security to facilitate the flow of homeland security intelligence among agencies. Each fusion center is maintained by a state or regional agency. In this case, it was the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Klippenstein tweeted that the agency wouldn’t provide document titles or any other information, all the while adding the dreaded black redaction bars to bulleted lists throughout the records, but if officials redacted the bullet points in earnest, we wonder: What is the security risk if the public learns whether Minnesota homeland security officials use the default bullet points or some more exotic style or font? Will the terrorists win if we know they used Wingdings?

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The It’s So Secret, Even the Bullet Points Are Classified Award — Minnesota Fusion Center

The Eric Cartman Respect My Authoritah Award — Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas

When Jared Nally, editor-in-chief of The Indian Leader, the student newspaper at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, started putting questions to his school’s administration and sending records requests to the local police department, he got a lot more than he expected: a directive from his school’s president demanding he cease his requests in

the name of the student paper and henceforth treat officials with proper respect, lest he face disciplinary action. “Your behavior has discredited you and this university,” wrote Haskell Indian Nations University President Ronald Graham. “You have compromised your credibility within the community, and, more importantly, you have brought yourself, The Indian Leader, Haskell, and me unwarranted attention.” Graham’s aggressive tactics against the college junior quickly rallied support for the student journalist, with the Native American Journalists Association, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and Student Press Law Center all calling for the formal directive to be rescinded. The school ultimately did back down, but the efforts left Nally shocked. “As a student journalist, I’d only been doing it for a year,” he told Poynter in an interview. “When somebody in authority says things like that about you, it really does take a hit. … I’d say I’m recovering from the gaslighting effects and feeling like what I’m doing really is every bit a part of journalism.”

The 30 Days of Night Award — Hamilton County, Tennessee

It’s hard to imagine a more benign request than asking for copies of other public records requests, but that’s exactly what got Hamilton County officials in Tennessee so spooked that they started a mass purge of documents. The shred-a-thon started after Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Sarah Grace Taylor requested to examine the requests to see if the county’s policies for releasing materials were arbitrary. Originally, the county asked for $717 for about 1,500 pages of records, which Taylor declined to pay in favor of inspecting the records herself. But as negotiations to view the records commenced, records coordinator Dana Beltramo requested and received permission to update their retention policy to just 30 days for records requests. After Taylor’s continued reporting on the issue sparked an outcry, the county revised its policy once again and promised to do better. “What we did today was basically try to prevent the confusion of mistakes that have happened from happening again,” said Hamilton County mayor Jim Coppinger. In other words, it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

The Handcuffs and Prior Restraints Award — Chicago Police Department and City of Chicago, Illinois

The Power of the Tweet Award — Donald J. Trump

Secrecy nerds know that classification authority — the power to essentially mark some documents as secrets exempt from disclosure — resides with and is largely at the discretion of the president, who can then designate that authority as needed to agency personnel, so one expected upside of a loose-lipped president with an undisciplined social media habit was the ability to use the Tweeter-in-Chief ’s posts to target otherwise inaccessible FOIA requests. Case in point: Trump’s October 6, 2020, tweet: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” Hard to argue there’s ambiguity there, but when BuzzFeed News’ Jason Leopold flagged that order in his ongoing lawsuit for the materials, that’s exactly what the Department of Justice did. Based on their investigations, DOJ lawyers told the court, the posts “were not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification of any particular documents.” The court ultimately bought the argument that you can’t take what the thenpresident tweets too seriously, but Trump declassified other materials related to the FBI’s investigation ... on his last day in office.

In February 2019, a swarm of Chicago police officers raided the wrong apartment with their guns drawn. They handcuffed the resident, Anjanette Young, who was completely undressed, and they refused to let her put on clothes as she pleaded with them dozens of times that they had the wrong house. Young sued the city in federal court and filed a request for body camera footage of the officers who invaded her home. The local CBS affiliate, CBS 2, also requested the body camera footage. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) denied both requests, despite a binding ruling just months earlier that CPD was required to turn over body camera footage to people like Young, who were involved in the recorded events. Young ultimately obtained the footage as part of her lawsuit, and her attorney provided them to the media. The city’s lawyers then took the extraordinary step of asking the court to order CBS 2 not to air the video, a demand to censor speech before it occurs called a “prior restraint.” The judge denied the city’s request. The city also sought sanctions against Young’s attorney, but the city withdrew its motion and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the request “ill-advised” in a letter to the court. The judge decided not to sanction Young’s attorney.

The Thin Crust, Wood-Fired Redactions Award — U.S. State Department

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosted plenty of controversial meals during his three-year tenure. There was the indoor holiday party last December and those

bizarre, lavish “Madison Dinners” that cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, including more than $10K for embossed pens alone. And while we know the full menu of Pompeo’s high-class North Korea summit in 2018 in Manhattan — filet mignon with corn purée was the centerpiece — the public may never find out two searing culinary questions about Mikey: What are his pizza toppings of choice, and what’s his go-to sandwich? On the pizza angle, the State Department let slip that Pompeo likes it thin and woodfired, in emails released to NBC correspondent Josh Lederman, but the list of toppings was far too saucy for public consumption, apparently, and redacted on privacy grounds. Same for Pompeo’s sandwich of choice, which the State Department redacted from emails released to American Oversight, but we still know “plenty of dry snacks and diet coke” were on offer.

The Self-Serving Secrecy Award — Niagara County, New York

Money talks. The New York legislature knew this when it passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1987, which required, among other public transparency measures, elected officials in 50,000 person-plus municipalities to complete financial disclosure forms each year. The public should be allowed to see who our leaders may be particularly keen to hear. Sixty-one of New York’s 62 counties generally accepted that the disclosure forms, created for public use in the first place, were meant to be disclosed, according to the New York Coalition for Open Government (NYCOG). Back in 1996, though, while everyone was presumably distracted watching the Yankees or Independence Day, Niagara County found a quick trick to keep from sharing its officials’ finances: They made it illegal. By local ordinance, the records were made secret, and the county proceeded to reject any requests for access by claiming that releasing the information would be a violation of the law. This local law prohibiting access was itself, of course, a violation of the law, but Niagara County managed to keep it on the books for more than two decades, and it may have gotten away with it had it not been for the work of the Coalition for Open Government. In February 2020, the NYCOG, represented by the University of Buffalo School of Law Civil Rights & Transparency Clinic, sued Niagara County, alleging its ordinance was unlawful (because it was). This past fall, a court agreed. Five months later, in January 2021, the county began releasing records, ones that should have been available for the last 30-plus years. The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Investigations Dave Maass, Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, and Frank Stanton Fellow Naomi Gilens, and MuckRock News Co-Founder Michael Morisy and Senior Reporter and Projects Editor Beryl Lipton, with further writing and editing by Shawn Musgrave. Illustrations are by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites.

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All cats and dogs are welcome to strike a pose at Easter Pet Photo Night Monday from 5pm to 9pm tonight (and again on Mon, Mar 29) at The Parks at Arlington Mall (3811 S Cooper St, 817-467-6496) on the lower level in front of Dick’s Sporting Goods. You are welcome to walk in, but reservations are encouraged at CherryHillPrograms.com. The photography packages are $20-45.

Shooter Jennings’ old bandmate and contemporary Kevin Thursday “Frenchie” Sciou — his nickname a nod to his roots in France before transplanting to America — and his band, Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers, are kicking off this season’s Masterworks Concert Series in Saginaw. Hear them at 7pm at the Saginaw Farmers Market (752 Knowles Dr, 817-847-4554).

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event from noon to 4pm at the Wellman Project (3950 W Vickery Blvd, 817924-4000). The projects to choose from include a sock gnome, fairy wand and potion, or a whisked-away dragonfly. The cost is $10 per person, and no appointment is needed. On the third Sat of each month, Turquoise Skies & White Sands (Facebook.com/ Saturday

TurquoiseSkiesAndWhiteSands) — a fine purveyor of vintage Native American and Southwestern sterling silver jewelry

adorned with coral, onyx, turquoise, and other stones — hosts an indoor flea market at Whiskey Garden (2800 Bledsoe St, Ste 150, 682-312-7708). From noon to 6pm, shop from tons of vendors, enjoy food, and imbibe some adult beverages. This event is free to attend.

Rock N Roll Rummage Sale is always the third Sunday of the month at Sunday Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100) from noon to 6pm. More than 40 local vendors will be selling their wares, including antiques, art, books, collectibles, jewelry, oddities,

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The Race for District 8

Static Fort Worth’s deep-pocketed police union recently threw its support behind Mattie Parker, former chief of staff for soonto-be-outgoing Mayor Betsy Price and current candidate for mayor. Manny Ramirez, head of the Fort Worth Police Officers’ Association, used the announcement to remind locals about recent “radical attempts” to add controls and oversight to local police spending. Parker “has stood shoulder to shoulder with us in the battle to defeat radical attempts to ‘defund’ the Fort Worth Police Department,” Ramirez said. Thousands of Fort Worthians of all political persuasions joined together last summer to vote against renewing the Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD), which uses a half-cent tax to raise about $80 million in discretionary funds for the police budget every year (“Reining in Police Spending,” June 2020). The mayor and city council oversee the CCPD, meaning there is currently no independent oversight of the tax-funded district. A majority of Fort Worthians voted to renew the district, and the next renewal vote is now a decade away.

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Radical Police Union Posturing

Christopher Johnson: We should “build mini clinics in the local community centers where a medical doctor can see neighborhood residents.”

term and non-recurring. Candidate Christopher Johnson is a lifelong resident of Fort Worth, entrepreneur, neighborhood association president, and community advocate. Fort Worth native Tyrone King Ramirez’ posturing is a rebuke of the nonviolent protests that occupied Fort Worth’s downtown and West 7th corridor for several weeks last summer and the types of societal changes that are sweeping the country. Less than a quarter of 18- to 23-year-olds approved of Donald Trump’s presidency and his disdain for the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the Pew Center, a nonpartisan American think tank. An endorsement from the Fort Worth Police Officers Association is undoubtedly a political boost in a city that historically places the status quo over progress when it comes to mayoral races. Beyond campaign contributions, Fort Worth police officers vote, and vote as a bloc. With meaningful reforms and improved citizen oversight, one day, an endorsement by the FWPOA may be seen as an endorsement by the broader community. Given the Fort Worth police departments’ documented decades of racial profiling practices during vehicle stops and penchant for cramming police cameras into Black neighborhoods, many in Fort Worth will be looking to vote against the police union’s chosen few come May 1.

Defending Hemphill

Last Saturday, residents of the Hemphill neighborhood gathered to raise funds for

Christopher Johnson: People living in District 8 are faced with two large issues concerning life. The ZIP code 76104, which is in District 8, has the highest infant mortality rate in the city. If you are fortunate enough not to die at birth, you are likely not to live past your 67th birthday. This has been a known problem for years and is a tragedy. The area is also a food desert. A high number of people who live in this area develop life-threatening issues,

Chris Nettles: “District 8 is in desperate need of better political representation and advocation.”

a scholarship in honor of Patrick Zamarripa, the former Dallas police officer who was one of five officers killed in 2016 in a sniper attack. Members of the grassroots group Hemphill No Se Vende (Hemphill Is Not for Sale) helped organize the event that featured music, dancers, speakers, and food trucks. Hemphill No Se Vende’s co-founder, Ricardo Avitia, told us that his group plans to hold community events throughout the year to support resident-driven initiatives and to build solidarity against unwanted development (“Hemphill for

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Describe the unique needs of District 8 and what you would like to see the city do for your district and the city as a whole.

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District 8, which includes much of Fort Worth east of I-35 and south of I-30, is one of eight districts up for grabs come May 1. The ethnically diverse district includes the East Lancaster corridor and its homeless shelters, the historically Black Polytechnic Heights neighborhood, and a couple of ethnically mixed neighborhoods in south Fort Worth. Councilmember Kelly Allen Gray has represented the district since 2012. Gray’s self-described focus as councilmember has been to improve the quality and availability of affordable housing across the city while actively seeking ways to develop permanent supportive housing to assist in making homelessness short-

We sent all five candidates the same question. Candidate Millennium Woods Jr. did not respond by our requested deadline.

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Four candidates weigh in on their goals for swaths of Fort Worth’s East and South sides.

is a small business owner who has spent more than a decade as an actor, director, and stage and production manager at Jubilee Theatre. Chris Nettles is a husband, father, pastor, small business owner, and lifelong resident of District 8. He was the first Black male to run for mayor of Fort Worth in 2017.

Chris Nettles: “District 8 is in desperate need of better political representation and advocation.”

including obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and kidney disease that requires dialysis. The death of Atatiana Jefferson highlights the need for justice, resolution, and conversation with the Jefferson family on what they expect concerning this unreSale?,” Dec 2020). “Due to our efforts, we were able to take the zoning changes off the table,” Avitia said, referring to proposals that the city developed in conjunction with certain neighborhood groups over the last few years. Fearing that the zoning proposals would turn the Hemphill neighborhood into an extension of the nearby Near Southside, Avitia and other longtime area residents began organizing community events and speaking during city zoning commission meetings. “It’s more than just zoning issues that we are talking about here,” Avitia continued. “We want to talk about health, wealth, and education as well. This is going to be an all-out movement, and this is just one of the few events that we have planned for the future.” Valerie Zamarripa, Patrick’s mother, said her son was raised on the South Side of Fort Worth. Patrick “always wanted to be a police officer,” Valerie told us. “Unfortunately, on July 7, 2016, he was killed in a massacre. My dream is to try to help other kids who want to reach for their dreams like he did. He did get out of the barrio, so to speak. My vision is to help one or two students with scholarships” and hopefully others. Contributions to the Patrick Zamarripa scholarship can be made through Cash App via $PatrickEZamarripa01.

Kelly Allen Gray: “I look forward to continuing to serve the residents of District 8 and the citizens of Fort Worth.”

be equitably built across the city and not one area for homebuyers and renters. Through a public-private partnership, we installed advanced lighting technology across Southeast and East Fort Worth as a pilot project while identifying additional areas in need of infrastructure improvements. To address predatory lending and the concentration of dollartype stores, I helped to shape the ordinance that limits these businesses and their reach into the community.

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Tyrone King: “District 8 needs an improved focus on safety through community policing.”

Tyrone King: District 8 needs an improved focus on safety through community policing. I also believe that the district would benefit from an arts/entertainment venue such as a refurbished Grand Theater. Furthermore, there needs to be a focus on youth outreach/mentoring opportunities because, for the most part, our youth in grades 6 through 12 don’t have many viable options to keep them busy and out of trouble. I see this happening through a STEAM [Science Technology Engineering Arts Math] program. I’d like to see the city invest in a viable plan to reach more of our at-risk youth through a STEAM program. l

To All Interested Persons And Parties: Osburn Contractors, LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 117661L026, which would authorize construction of a temporary concrete batch plant located at the northeast quadrant of the North Sylvania Avenue and Northeast 33rd Street intersection, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76111. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. Additional information concerning this application is contained in the public notice section of this newspaper

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Osburn Contractors, LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 119615L029, which would authorize construction of a temporaryconcrete batch plant located in the northeast quadrant of the Oak Grove Road and East Enon Road intersection, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76140. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. Additional information concerning this application is contained in the public notice section of this newspaper.

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Kelly Allen Gray: District 8 is home to a very diverse group of residents. Since 2016, we created four mixed-income/multifamily housing developments and three senior living complexes along with several housing developments and scattered new homes for homebuyers and renters while assisting with the housing-first model to transition persons out of homelessness. Moving forward, we will continue to focus on infrastructure improvements that include street repairs and reconstruction, intersection and traffic signal improvements, sidewalk installation and repair, smart city lighting with technology for Wi-Fi capabilities, and alleyway mowing to promote safety within our neighborhoods and across the city. Using the availability of land in the central [parts of the] city and outside the loop, we will continue to create and expand large and small economic development projects that foster a sense of community while providing a better quality of life financially. During my tenure on council, I actively promoted mixed-income housing choices to

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Chris Nettles: District 8 is in desperate need of better political representation and advocation. Our communities continue to deteriorate economically as many small businesses shut down and as properties are condemned. As a city councilmember, I will advocate for the people of District 8 [and will ensure that] their concerns aren’t simply turned away. The lack of grocery stores, public transportation, and economic security plague our district due to high poverty and unemployment rates. Policecommunity relations only worsen as more and more innocent District 8 residents have to deal with the costs of high crime rates and police neglect and abuse. Enough is enough. I am determined to change the narrative within our district and to bring more economic development, better transportation, better police-community relations, and better affordable housing. The homelessness rate continues to climb. The Fort Worth City Council has turned their backs on the homelessness issue, specifically the one in District 8. The tent populations on Lancaster cast a shadow of failure and apathy onto the city council. As city councilmember, I will bring these issues to the spotlight along with the many other issues that have been ignored long enough by the council. The city of Fort Worth should be a safe, green, sustainable, healthy community with opportunities for all.

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solved personal issue. There needs to be an equitable distribution of resources for all of District 8 and areas that house the poor and disenfranchised in Fort Worth. Our elected officials have known this to be a real and tragic issue, and, because of this neglect, the community has suffered. All these topics would fall into my platforms of economic development, public safety, and city resources platforms. Often, cops are not equipped to deal with mental health situations. [We should] build mini clinics in the local community centers where a medical doctor can see neighborhood residents.

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Important Facts About DOVATO

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. This is only a brief summary of important information about DOVATO and Some medicines interact with DOVATO. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to does not replace talking to your healthcare provider about your condition your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. and treatment. • You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that What is the most important information I should know about DOVATO? interact with DOVATO. If you have both human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B • Do not start taking a new medicine without telling your healthcare virus (HBV) infection, DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: provider. Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take DOVATO with • Resistant HBV infection. Your healthcare provider will test you for HBV other medicines. infection before you start treatment with DOVATO. If you have HIV-1 and What are possible side effects of DOVATO? hepatitis B, the hepatitis B virus can change (mutate) during your treatment with DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: DOVATO and become harder to treat (resistant). It is not known if DOVATO is • Those in the “What is the most important information I should know safe and effective in people who have HIV-1 and HBV infection. about DOVATO?” section. • Worsening of HBV infection. If you have HIV-1 and HBV infection, your HBV • Allergic reactions. Call your healthcare provider right away if you may get worse (flare-up) if you stop taking DOVATO. A “flare-up” is when your develop a rash with DOVATO. Stop taking DOVATO and get medical HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. Worsening liver help right away if you develop a rash with any of the following signs or disease can be serious and may lead to death. symptoms: fever; generally ill feeling; tiredness; muscle or joint aches; blisters ° Do not run out of DOVATO. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare or sores in mouth; blisters or peeling of the skin; redness or swelling of the eyes; provider before your DOVATO is all gone. swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; problems breathing. ° Do not stop DOVATO without first talking to your healthcare provider. • Liver problems. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus may have an If you stop taking DOVATO, your healthcare provider will need to check your increased risk of developing new or worsening changes in certain liver tests health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your liver. during treatment with DOVATO. Liver problems, including liver failure, have also What is DOVATO? happened in people without a history of liver disease or other risk factors. Your DOVATO is a prescription medicine that is used without other HIV-1 medicines to healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your liver. treat human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection in adults: who have not Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following received HIV-1 medicines in the past, or to replace their current HIV-1 medicines signs or symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your when their healthcare provider determines that they meet certain requirements. HIV-1 eyes turns yellow (jaundice); dark or “tea-colored” urine; light-colored stools is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is not (bowel movements); nausea or vomiting; loss of appetite; and/or pain, aching, or known if DOVATO is safe and effective in children. tenderness on the right side of your stomach area. • Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis is Who should not take DOVATO? a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare Do not take DOVATO if you: provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms that could • have ever had an allergic reaction to a medicine that contains dolutegravir be signs of lactic acidosis: feel very weak or tired; unusual (not normal) or lamivudine. muscle pain; trouble breathing; stomach pain with nausea and vomiting; feel • take dofetilide. cold, especially in your arms and legs; feel dizzy or lightheaded; and/or a fast or What should I tell my healthcare provider before using DOVATO? irregular heartbeat. Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including • Lactic acidosis can also lead to severe liver problems, which can lead to if you: death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in • have or have had liver problems, including hepatitis B or C infection. your liver (steatosis). Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any • have kidney problems. of the signs or symptoms of liver problems which are listed above under • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. One of the medicines in DOVATO “Liver problems.” You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe (dolutegravir) may harm your unborn baby. liver problems if you are female or very overweight (obese). ° Your healthcare provider may prescribe a different medicine than DOVATO if • Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) you are planning to become pregnant or if pregnancy is confirmed during the can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may first 12 weeks of pregnancy. get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body ° If you can become pregnant, your healthcare provider will perform a pregnancy for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having new test before you start treatment with DOVATO. symptoms after you start taking DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, you should consistently use effective birth control • The most common side effects of DOVATO include: headache; nausea; (contraception) during treatment with DOVATO. diarrhea; trouble sleeping; tiredness; and anxiety. ° Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are planning to become pregnant, These are not all the possible side effects of DOVATO. Call your doctor for medical you become pregnant, or think you may be pregnant during treatment advice about side effects. with DOVATO. • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take DOVATO. ° You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of passing HIV-1 to your baby. ° One of the medicines in DOVATO (lamivudine) passes into your breastmilk. ° Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

SO MUCH GOES INTO WHO I AM HIV MEDICINE IS ONE PART OF IT. Why could DOVATO be right for you? DOVATO is proven to help control HIV with just 2 medicines in 1 pill. That means fewer medicines* in your body while taking DOVATO. It’s proven as effective as an HIV treatment with 3 or 4 medicines. Learn more about fewer medicines at DOVATO.com DOVATO is a complete prescription regimen to treat HIV-1 in adults who have not received HIV-1 medicines in the past or to replace their current HIV-1 medicines when their doctor determines they meet certain requirements. Results may vary. *As compared with 3- or 4-drug regimens.

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You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Where can I find more information? • Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist. • Go to DOVATO.com or call 1-877-844-8872, where you can also get FDA-approved labeling.

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Generally, this feature runs well before the Oscar nominations are announced, but not this year, as the news was revealed this past Monday. Thus, I’ve embedded my comments on the Oscar nods in the list. Let’s go.

2. David Byrne’s American Utopia. Does anybody do concert films better than Spike Lee? Sure, it helps that he’s working with a musician with a strong visual sense (and who starred in another great concert film, Stop Making Sense). Yet in Lee’s treatment of Byrne’s Broadway show, his camera seems to have a mystical knack for being in the right place at the right time, focusing on Byrne’s 11 indefatigable backing musicians/dancers and giving you views that even the ticket buyers in the seats didn’t have. This was ruled ineligible for the Oscars, so there’s at least an excuse for snubbing this. Between the nifty stage show designed by Annie-B Parsons and Lee’s feel for the music, even “Once in a Lifetime” and “Everybody’s Coming to My House” sound like you’re hearing them for the first time. Amid the joy, Byrne calls out Atatiana Jefferson’s name from the stage. Say her name.

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1. Dick Johnson Is Dead. Kristen Johnson’s 86-year-old father was diagnosed with dementia and not given long to live, so they coped with the news by filming his death over and over in gruesome accidents. In doing so, they made the most imaginative documentary of 2020, with retired psychiatrist Dick Johnson conducting his own interviews of the professionals he met during the stagings and imagining an afterlife where he is with his deceased wife and his genetically deformed feet are made normal. Here’s a movie about dementia that manages to be celebratory and funny without condescending to the afflicted person. You guessed it — it went unnoticed by the Academy.

3. The Donut King. If you want a documentary companion to Minari, you may enjoy this film even more. Alice Gu profiles Bun Tek “Ted” Ngoy and how he and his fellow Cambodian immigrants built a chain of West Coast donut shops so powerful that they kept Dunkin’ Donuts out of California. The story isn’t without a tragic element, as Ted eventually lost the business to his gambling addiction. However, Ted himself has perspective on his life and career, and his Donut King shops continue to operate in the Golden State. His descendants, biological and otherwise, have pioneered the upscaling of donuts,

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SCREEN Dick Johnson is killed by an air conditioner falling on his head in Dick Johnson Is Dead.

too, and this movie will make you want to raise a $5 maple bacon cruller to a man who made an extraordinary American life, one batch of fried dough at a time. 4. Crip Camp. While Donald Trump spends his postpresidency life trying to stay out of jail, Barack and Michelle Obama are executive producing good movies like James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham’s Oscarnominated account of the summer camp for disabled kids that started in upstate New York in the early 1970s and grew into a political movement for the rights of disabled people. It’s great to give children a sense of purpose when the world might be telling them that they’re a liability, but it’s even better to give them an outlet for that purpose. There have been a ton of documentaries about the civil rights movement, but here’s one that tells a story about it that you likely don’t know. 5. Time. Garrett Bradley’s film runs only 81 minutes, yet it makes you feel the passage of the 20 years that Fox Rich spent trying to free her husband from the prison industrial complex’s clutches. Rob Rich is not innocent: He and Fox did commit an armed robbery in 1997 because of his family’s dire financial straits, and he received a draconian 60-year sentence as a result. After her own release from prison, Fox documented the intervening decades as her sons grew from small boys into men and she dealt endlessly with the heartless Kafkaesque system that keeps people locked up for unconscionable lengths of time. This Oscar nominee looks to be an early favorite for the statuette. 6. The Truffle Hunters. Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s documentary comes to our theaters in the very near future, and it’s one that needs to be seen on the big screen because the photography is so damn beautiful. The film takes in the old men and their dogs who make their living foraging for white truffles in the Piedmont region of Italy. I’ll have more to say when I review the film, but the mountain and forest scenery in the northern part of the country is reason enough to watch this. 7. Welcome to Chechnya. Being gay in Russia is even worse than you think. David France (who previously did How to Survive a Plague) documents the plight of LGBT people in Chechnya, where they suffer the double whammy of being persecuted by both the Russian government and by the Muslim population who live there. Using hidden recorders and spycams to track people as they attempt to flee this place for more enlightened corners of Europe, France turns this into a sleek Cold War thriller.

8. Be Water. When it aired on ESPN this past summer, Bao Nguyen’s documentary scraped away all the myth and legend that was obscuring the life of Bruce Lee and located the man in his context, the Asian-American communities in Seattle and San Francisco where he grew up and the hard-to-imagine levels of racism in Hollywood and Hong Kong that he overcame to become a global martial arts star at a time when that didn’t exist. His family and the people who studied kung fu alongside him use their words to bring to life this man, without whom large chunks of cinema today would not exist. 9. The Dissident. Now that the Biden administration has let the Saudi monarchy off the hook for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, it’s time to see Bryan Fogel’s procedural detailing the journalist’s yeoman work trying to bring freedom and truth to the Middle East and how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman organized his assassination in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. Khashoggi’s wife and his friend Omar Abdulaziz give us personal insight into the man, while Fogel (who won an Oscar for Icarus but won’t for this) examines the Saudis’ online army of trolls and hackers who tracked his movements so he could be killed. Consider this film the blow against them that our government won’t strike. 10. Miss Americana. Lana Wilson’s profile of Taylor Swift came out way back in January 2020, before the pandemic hit and Swift canceled her tour, tossed off two acoustic albums, and won great reviews and another Grammy. (Gotta admire her work ethic and adaptability.) Still, this film is less about her music and even less about her love life than it is about her evolving political consciousness in the face of the last four years and the lawsuit over a Denver DJ groping her. How does a superstar stand in for all the young women who have also become newly politically aware during the Trump years? Somehow, she does it. Honorable mention: Matt Wolf ’s Spaceship Earth … Benjamin Ree’s The Painter and the Thief … Alexander Nanau’s Collective … James Reed and Pippa Ehrlich’s My Octopus Teacher … Thomas Kail’s Hamilton … Rachel Mason’s Circus of Books … Kareem Tabsch and Cristian Constantini’s Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado … Naoki Higashida’s The Reason I Jump … Tania Cypriano’s Born to Be … Viktor Kossakovsky’s Gunda … Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss’ Boys State … R.J. Cutler’s Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry. l

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For a set price ($21.95 per adult), Delucca customers enjoy appetizers and the option of sampling from 20 pies, including five dessert pizzas.

experience by continually serving bitesized slivers of the popular dish. The restaurant’s similarity with Texas de Brazil was obvious on a recent visit — not least because Evan Caregnato, the former culinary director of Texas de Brazil, was on hand to greet visitors to his new establishment. The space looks effortlessly posh. Black and white tiles, wide minimalist

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chandeliers, circular booths, and an open kitchen make Delucca one of the trendier restaurants in the area just west of the Tanglewood neighborhood. Our waiter gave my guests and me a primer on the Delucca concept, which he described as a “continuous Brazilian gaucho pizzeria.” For the Brazilian culture unwashed, gauchos are South American cowboys, and their love of cooking meats over an open fire inspired Texas de Brazil’s approach to continuously serving roasted, skewered meats. For a set price ($21.95 per adult), Delucca customers enjoy appetizers and the option of sampling from 20 pies, including five dessert pizzas. A plastic token with alternate green and red sides informs the wait staff whether to stop at a table or do a flyby. Out first was a platter of arugula salad, meatballs, and sliced baguettes served family style. The salad was light and refreshing. The lemon vinaigrette balanced the mildly bitter arugula, which was as crisp as it was fresh. The juicy and soft meatballs — made from Kobe beef — were topped with fragrant Parmesan cheese and drenched in a San Marzano sauce that was rich in tomato, garlic, and onion flavors. A cup of lobster bisque, intended to be sipped sans utensils, was thick, slightly spicy, and tinged with brandy. I passed on the bread

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to save room for the pending carb-loading experience. The sauteed shrimp and fontina pie put ample morsels of shellfish, which were firm but not tough, front and center. The mild and buttery fontina cheese enriched the dish without covering the lightly spiced cuts of crustacean. The brie cut through the four-cheese and truffle pizza and left the dish nutty and delicious, while the Portuguese pizza (sliced boiled egg, ham, black olives, red onion) was a textural delight. One slice of the Mexican elote pie blended savory cream sauce, piquant paprika, and slightly sweet roasted corn for a Latin-tinged experience. The hearts of palm option (Brazilian palmitos, sundried tomatoes, Mozzarella, oregano) was almost a bit too salty due to the generous use of olives. The chicken tikka masala was the night’s winner. The spicy curry sauce made the dish the most creative take on pizza that we tried that evening. In between rounds of thin-crust slices, I sipped Delucca’s signature cocktail, a caipirinha. The lime-forward drink, made with cachaça liquor, was light, mildly sweet, and refreshing. Delucca offers several dessert pizzas, which I would have tried if I had paced myself better — a rookie mistake that I’ll avoid on my next go-round at Fort Worth’s newest pizzeria. l

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Going Out in Style for St. Pat’s How do you turn a party green? Walk into a bar, play “Come on Eileen” on the jukebox followed by anything from The Pogues or Dropkick Murphys (who are releasing a new album in April), order an Irish Car Bomb, and away you go. For those who feel cooped up and ready for some shenanigans, Going Out in Style isn’t just an album title but an anthem. St. Paddy’s Day is being celebrated near and far this week in bars, breweries, restaurants, and more. Here’s where to start.

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1.) Both Buffalo Bros locations (3015 S University Dr, 817-386-9601; 415 Throckmorton St, 817-887-9533) have a special on corned beef thru St. Patrick’s Day (Wednesday), including a whole corned beef sub sandwich for $14.99 (or half for $8.99) and a corned beef plate for $11.99. Then on Thu, March Madness takes over with all the games all the time. Attendance is free.

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2.) If it’s the green beer you seek, Cowtown Brewing (1301 E Belknap St, 817-489-5800) is serving it all day on Wed. Texas Flood will be on hand playing Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan songs. Attendance is free.

5.) Dress up in your finest green outfit for a night o’ fun at the St. Paddy’s Day Bash at Sam’s Saloon (2456 N Houston St, 817378-8956) from 11am to 11pm. There will be karaoke, contests, and prizes. It’s also worth noting that they have a huge patio. 6.) The famous Irish burgers are back at Shaw’s Patio Bar & Grill (1051 W Magnolia Av, 817-926-2116) for a limited time in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, along with cocktail specials, green beer, and Guinness. Celebrate with Shaw’s thru Sun, Mar 21. 7.) St. Patrick’s Day coincides with Stockyards Spring Break going on thru Sun, Mar 21. Head to Mule Alley (122 E Exchange Av, MuleAlleyFortWorth.com) on Wed for the Luck O’ the Stockyards party featuring $2 green Shiner drafts, lawn games, and live music by Ginny Mac from 4:30pm to 7:30pm. 8.) Happy Hour All Day is how the folks at the Yucatan Tequila Bar & Grill (909 W Magnolia Av, 682-385-9395) are celebrating the day on Wed. The green beer and green drinks will be flowing, and the full food menu will be available. I recommend the diablo shrimp quesadillas and a green margarita.

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4.) From 5pm until the crawfish are gone on Wed, Rock & Brews (5351 Nebraska Furniture Mart Dr, The Colony, 972-5841670) — famously co-owned by Gene Simmons — is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a Crawfish Boil as a Fat Tuesday Redo. The crawfish are 3 lbs for $30 or 1.5 lbs for $15.

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THURSDAY 3/18: Blue Water Highway with Jakcob Robertson at MASS (Fort Worth). Blues Jam with Playtown and special guest at Lola's Trailer Park (Fort Worth). Deviator with Asphalt, As Trust Kills, and The Devil's Goodside at Haltom Theater (Haltom City). Flipside at Scat's Jazz Lounge (Fort Worth). King George: A Tribute to George Straight at Fat Daddy's (Mansfield). The Steel Woods at Billy Bob's Texas (Fort Worth). FRIDAY 3/19: Blaze of Glory with Crued &

Tattood at Fat Daddy's (Mansfield), plus DJ Trainwreck on the patio. Hip Hop United showcase featuring Blacc Majicc, Craziac, HadEnough, Krazy, Opie Halogen, Pac Mansion, RCX, and ZO 817 at Haltom Theater (Haltom City). Late Night Cruise with CJ Topoff, Aric Evans, D'Money Turn Up and more at MASS (Fort Worth). Spring On The Green featuring Sara Hickman at The Kessler (Dallas). Stoney Larue at Billy Bob's Texas (Fort Worth). SATURDAY 3/20: American by Levi and Gerald Ray with Mike Morgan & The Crawl at Lola's Trailer Park (Fort Worth). Earthgazer with Dela Rosa, Eva Kora, Inherit Death, and Nameless at Haltom Theater (Haltom City). Groundkeeper with Local Peak at MASS (Fort Worth). Johnny Solinger with Bull By The Horn, InnrCor,

Lowside, Mile Zero at Trees (Dallas). Spring On The Green featuring Doug Burr at The Kessler (Dallas). Velvet Love Box at Fat Daddy's (Mansfield). Easten Corbin at Billy Bob's Texas (Fort Worth). SUNDAY 3/21: Desperado: Eagle's Tribute at the Tate Ballroom at Gaylord Texan (Grapevine). Double Vision: Foreigner Tribute at Chop Shop Live (Roanoake). Hightower at Gemelle Sunday Brunch (Fort Worth). Mirari with Devolver, The Great Hanging, Hand Over Fist, Labellist, and Omnic at Haltom Theater (Haltom City). Mitchel Ferguson at Cowtown Brewing Company (Fort Worth).

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Dustin Massey: Pretty OK

After taking a very circuitous route to becoming a musician, the country singer-songwriter overcame his insecurities with the help of mentors to release his first single.

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To a degree, all novice artists struggle with dreaded “imposter syndrome” — the feeling that you’re pulling one over on everyone by describing yourself as the musician, the writer, or the painter that you desire to be, the nagging insecurity that your work isn’t worthy enough to earn those coveted titles, especially when compared to those you hope to consider your peers. For those that have spent their whole lives in pursuit of a dream, the affliction might be milder, but if the idea of becoming an artist always seemed so impossible you barely ever really tried, so-called imposter syndrome can be a very difficult thing to overcome. After an early adulthood living a completely different life professionally and two or three years of giving it his best shot, singer-songwriter Dustin Massey feels like he just might have it licked. “I’m a confident guy, but I’m not going to wave a banner for myself,” he said. “I

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Leroy the Prophet Frontman Arrested for Sexual Assault, Abuse

Gabriel Gomez, frontman for long-time local hard-rockers Leroy the Prophet, was arrested earlier this month and charged with sexual assault of a child under the age of 17 and sexual abuse of a child under 14, according to Fort Worth police. Gomez is being held in the Tarrant County Jail with a bond of $200,000 for the first offense and $60,000 for the second. He is being

represented by Dallas attorney Clark Birdsall. Part of the band’s marketing involved placing “Leroy the Prophet” bumper stickers on venues and bars throughout North Texas. Many of them are reportedly being torn down in light of the charges. A local musician who has known Gomez for “close to 20 years” and who did not want his name used to protect his privacy is shocked and appalled. “He’s dead to me,” the musician said. “Man, it’s pissed me off something fierce. … To think he was doing this right underneath all our noses is fucked up. I’m just blown away, man.”

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used to play these open-mics, and people would have this very positive reaction, but I was Mr. Imposter Syndrome. I guess I had a really terrible attitude about it. I would be like, ‘What is it you want from me? Why are you lying? I can’t do anything for you, so you don’t have to blow smoke.’ ” It took a while, but after some mentorship from a few Texas country luminaries, Massey has finally gotten over it enough to release his own music for the first time. He realized a dream he barely knew he had when he debuted his first single, “Pretty OK,” last Saturday at a packed show at his favorite local venue, Magnolia Motor Lounge. Massey’s path toward this release was far from linear. The Granbury native grew up a rabid fan of the regional Red Dirt country sound. Going to shows at venues like the aforementioned MML and the old Live Oak was a revelation for him. Seeing bands like Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights somehow brought professional musicians closer to him and other “mere mortals” from his previous concept of the rock star selling out stadiums. “There was something really cool about getting out to Fort Worth and seeing live music that made it somehow seem not so out of reach,” he said. “Something about seeing these badass musicians didn’t seem otherworldly. You’re never gonna be John Mayer, but in the back of my mind — not that I ever told anyone — I thought, ‘Maybe I could do this.’ ” Once Massey graduated college, he worked in the oil and gas industry for a number of years. After a crosscountry road trip, he realized his growing disillusionment with the job and quit and packed up and moved to Colorado. There he would spend his afternoons showing buddies how to play a few notes to back him singing his favorite Texas country artists. After prodding from those friends, he began to do the occasional open-mic and songwriter’s circles. But it was an advisership with one of his heroes that really set him down his path. A chance opportunity at a songwriter’s workshop with Luke Wade was the first of a series of occasions that solidified his direction toward professional

Massey: “It’s like being on a basketball team and they’re all looking at you to take the final shot.”

musicianship. Through Wade’s mentorship, Massey finally hit on a song that he felt was worthy of a true artist to sing. “I had been struggling with my songwriting with Luke [Wade], and he was very constructive and objective with me and really pushed me when I wrote a very honest truthful song called ‘Run,’ ” Massey recalled. “And Luke was like, ‘That’s it. That one’s done. You’ve got yourself a song.’ It made me feel like a real artist.” The next occasion came after moving back to Texas in the form of a recording session with acclaimed producer Beau Bedford (The Texas Gentlemen, Quaker City Night Hawks) that came by way of another mentor of sorts in fellow singersongwriter Phil Hamilton. “He asked me to play him something, and I got through the first chorus when he started laughing at me,” Massey described. “He said, ‘Man, you’re goofy. You’re so goofy it’s almost cool.’ And I was like, ‘What? Man, I’m really nervous right now.’ And he said, ‘No, I mean, you can do this. You can play guitar really well. You’ve got a great voice. You can make a decent

living at this if you want. You’ve just got to decide if you want it.’ ” Those sessions produced the new single “Pretty OK” — a tender and sentimental ode to making the most of things — as well as Massey’s forthcoming debut album due out later this summer. Now armed with his own band rostered with premier players from the Texas country scene, a first legitimate single, and an album in the can, Massey is ready to accept himself as a true artist, and he looks forward to others seeing him the same way. “To have this great producer tell you, ‘Yeah, man, you can do this,’ to look around the rehearsal room and see all these amazing musicians, it’s like being on a basketball team and they’re all looking at you to take the final shot,” Massey said. “You’re like, ‘I don’t know if I can take it,’ and you’ve got four or five other people saying, ‘Dude, we’re giving you the ball! Take the shot!’ So it’s like, you have to have confidence because all these people I look up to and admire have that confidence in me. So, yes, I am a musician. I am an artist. I’m really doing this.” l

A phone call to Gomez’ attorney was “We are working hard to make sure not returned by press time. that NIVA members receive the help they need via this program,” NIVA said. Waiting for Save Our Stages “We seek to ensure the emergency relief Now that the stimulus package has been is dispersed as Congress intended [and] passed (“Way to go, Grandpa Joe”), that the instructions and process to venues are eagerly anticipating receiving apply for grants ensure that the process monies as part of the Save Our Stages is implemented accurately, fairly, and as Act. The brainchild of the National expediently as possible.” The funding may take weeks, “even Independent Venue Association (NIVA), the $19 billion set aside for independent months,” NIVA says, to start flowing. To venues throughout the country will be help in the meantime, please consider administered by NIVA’s Implementation contributing to a NIVA nonprofit, The Task Force in conjunction with the Giving Back Fund, via SaveOurStages.com. federal government’s Small Business Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com. Administration (SBA).

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TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Consolidated Notice of Receipt of Application and Intent to Obtain Permit and Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants Proposed Registration No.117661L026

Application. Osburn Contractors, LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 117661L026, which would authorize construction of a temporary concrete batch plant located at the northeast quadrant of the North Sylvania Avenue and Northeast 33rd Street intersection, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76111. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility's general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application.http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.803583&lng=-97.306388&zoom=13&type=r. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less. This application was submitted to the TCEQ on March 3, 2021.The executive director has completed the administrative and technical reviews of the application and determined that the application meets all of the requirements of a standard permit authorized by 30 TAC § 116.611, which would establish the conditions under which the plant must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the registration because it meets all applicable rules. The application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and standard permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and Fort Worth Public Library Diamond Hill / Jarvis, 1300 Northeast 35th Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. Visit www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cbp to review the standard permit. Public Comment/Public Meeting. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting. See Contacts section. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments or meeting requests is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If a public meeting is held, the deadline to submit public comments is extended to the end of the public meeting. Contested Case Hearing. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 30 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application.

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TCEQ Action. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The executive director’s decision on the application, and any response to comments, will be mailed to all persons on the mailing list. If no timely contested case hearing requests are received, or if all hearing requests are withdrawn, the executive director may issue final approval of the application. If all timely hearing requests are not withdrawn, the executive directorwill not issue final approval of the permit and will forward the application and requests to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding. Mailing List. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive additional information on this specific application. See Contacts section. Information Available Online. For details about the status of the application, visit the Commissioners’Integrated Database (CID) at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the link, enter the registration numberat the top of this notice. Contacts. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/ eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this application or the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040. Further information may also be obtained from Osburn Contractors, LLC, 2333 South Jupiter Road, Garland, Texas 75041-6007 or by calling Ms. Ida Rodriquez, Quality Control Director at (972) 670-3036. Notice Issuance Date: March 16, 2021

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A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. To request a hearing, a person must actually reside in a permanent residence within 440 yards of the proposed plant. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2)applicant’s name and registration number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;”(4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must be identified. You may submit your proposed adjustments to the application which would satisfy your concerns. See Contacts section

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Reinhausen Manufacturing, a world leader the Electrical Power Engineering industry has several openings for Transformer Field Service Technicians in the Arlington, TX, Charlotte, NC, Mesa, AZ, Manchester, NJ and Humboldt, TN areas. This is a remote position. The technician will be responsible for servicing transformers for Reinhausen clients located primarily throughout the US. Some of our transformer clients are located in Canada, Mexico and Europe.

Consolidated Notice of Receipt of Application and Intent to Obtain Permit and Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision

Summary/ Objective: The Transformer Field Service Technician – is responsible for preparing equipment and job sites as well as perform installation, maintenance, trouble-shooting, testing & repairs with minimum direction. Essential Functions: • Close collaboration with and technical support of the Transformer Field Service Team • Basic assembly of transformer and components • Assist in all craft classifications • Set-up / operation of Processing Trailer • Compilation of periodic reports (i.e. timesheets, expense reports, job information, customer information, KPI’s, etc.) • Responsible for personal development to advance knowledge and experience of the Transformer Service Field • Other tasks as assigned by Supervisor • Computer skills including Word and Excel • This position is 95% % travel with overnight travel expected. • Must be able to obtain necessary clearances to perform essential functions including background testing, random drug testing and customer requested testing * Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This role is primarily a traveling outside maintenance position. Off-site work at customer sites will be required causing exposure to extreme environment elements & conditions such as heat, cold, rain, snow, etc. This is largely a physical role with frequent need for handling and lifting of equipment to repair, test, & assemble. Climbing, walking, kneeling, bending, and lifting is necessary. Ability to lift a minimum of 35 – 60 lbs is required.

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Reinhausen expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Reinhausen’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. Reinhausen has a very competitive total rewards package including a generous 410k plan, PTO, a PPO medical plan with a generous Health Savings Account, Health Reimbursement Account, Dental, Vision and Life Please send your resume to Jaime Vega at j.vega@us.reinhausen.com. or go to indeed.com to apply No Phone Calls Please

Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants Proposed Registration No.119615L029 Application. Osburn Contractors, LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit,Registration No. 119615L029, which would authorize construction of a temporary concrete batch plant located in the northeast quadrant of the Oak Grove Road and East Enon Road intersection, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76140.This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility's general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application.http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.634833&lng=-97.300083&zoom=13&type=r. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less. This application was submitted to the TCEQ on March 3, 2021.The executive director has completed the administrative and technical reviews of the application and determined that the application meets all of the requirements of a standard permit authorized by 30 TAC § 116.611, which would establish the conditions under which the plant must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the registration because it meets all applicable rules. The application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and standard permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Forest Hill Public Library, 6962 Forest Hill Drive, Forest Hill, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. Visit www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cbp to review the standard permit. Public Comment/Public Meeting. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting. See Contacts section. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments or meeting requests is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If a public meeting is held, the deadline to submit public comments is extended to the end of the public meeting. Contested Case Hearing. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 30 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application. A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. To request a hearing, a person must actually reside in a permanent residence within 440 yards of the proposed plant. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2)applicant’s name and registration number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;”(4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must be identified. You may submit your proposed adjustments to the application which would satisfy your concerns. See Contacts section. TCEQ Action. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The executive director’s decision on the application, and any response to comments, will be mailed to all persons on the mailing list. If no timely contested case hearing requests are received, or if all hearing requests are withdrawn, the executive director may issue final approval of the application. 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