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METROPOLIS Hispanic residents are resisting Hemphill redevelopment. BY EDWARD BROWN

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Representative government should (in theory) be just that — a governing body that proportionately reflects the race, gender, and beliefs of constituents. Three-fifths of the Tarrant County Commissioners Court are white men. Only one commissioner, Devan Allen, is female, and not one commissioner represents the Latinx community. Fort Worth does marginally better. Three of eight city councilmembers (plus the mayor, who is a voting member of the city council) are female, but Fort Worth leadership remains decidedly white with one Hispanic and two Black councilmembers, even though the non-Hispanic white population in Cowtown accounts for only 39.4% of the total local population, according to the city. The lopsided overrepresentation of white elected officials in local government is due in no small part to the lucrative campaign donations afforded conservative candidates in Texas and the ability of wealthy white men and women to

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Rudy Avitia swept locks of hair off the floor of his barbershop as he recounted his recent experience with Near Southside developers. After managing a successful barbershop on West Magnolia Avenue for 10 years, a Near Southside property owner forced him out in 2016, Avitia said. The space was subsequently occupied by two now-shuttered restaurants, La Zona and Southside Rambler. Avitia moved his business south to the northeast corner of the intersection of Hemphill and West Berry streets. The move brought him closer to the neighborhood where he grew up and the predominantly Hispanic community that lives along Hemphill Street.

When Avitia recently received a notice of proposed zoning changes for the Hemphill area, he was reminded of his experience being priced out of the Near Southside. The city’s proposal, he said, will bring corporate development that will replace locally owned businesses and mega-apartments that will price out locals. The rezoning proposal, which will be discussed at a Fort Worth Zoning Commission meeting on Wednesday afternoon, affects the Hemphill Corridor, 313 acres of largely residential neighborhoods on either side of Hemphill Street from West Allen Avenue (to the north) to West Felix Street (to the south). The proposal sets a uniform zoning designation called “Near Southside General Urban Hemphill Neighborhood.” Rezoning the corridor is “intended to extend the urban design principles that have been so successful in the revitalization within the Near Southside,” the documents state. The rezoning will pave the way for the “adaptive re-use” of older buildings, new commercial development, and pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods. Rudy Avitia and brother Ricardo Avitia are pushing back. With the help of local residents and business owners, the brothers formed the grassroots group Hemphill No Se Vende (Hemphill Is Not for Sale) that organizes community meetings to discuss the zoning changes and promotes civic engagement in the city’s rezoning process. Volunteers with Hemphill No Se Vende regularly canvass homes and businesses around Hemphill Street to raise awareness of the zoning proposal. use these monies to gain seats of power. Those realities are not changing anytime soon, but the playing field can be somewhat evened when city, county, and state districts allow historically marginalized voting blocs (Hispanic, Black) to elect officials who represent the interests of those communities. Democrats and Republicans have long used gerrymandering to isolate or break up pockets of political opposition. The idea is to dilute the political influence of your opponents by redistricting electoral lines to ensure that those in power carry a majority of votes. Texas has been found in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act every decade since the enactment of that law, and those violations have served the interests of white candidates. A whopping 95% of Republican state legislators identify as white/non-Latino, according to the Texas Observer. Given Texas’ penchant for whitewashing elections, Fort Worth’s ongoing redistricting efforts have been met with both skepticism and cautious optimism. The redrawing of city council districts will coincide with an expansion of Fort Worth City Council from nine to 11 mem-

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Volunteers with Hemphill No Se Vende regularly canvass homes and businesses around Hemphill Street to raise awareness of the zoning proposal.

“They are saying these changes are for us, but I believe it’s for [enriching] the developers,” Rudy said. “We don’t need it to look the same as the Near Southside. Why would we want it to look the same if we are not the same? This area has been predominantly Hispanic for generations. If [developers] come, we will never be able to generate wealth by owning property.” In the United States, wealth is closely tied to the ability to own land and property. A 2019 survey by the Federal Reserve

found that white families average $983,400 in wealth while Hispanic families average $165,500 in accrued assets. The families who have called the Hemphill area home for three generations are just now paying off mortgages that will allow grandparents to pass down an inheritance to better the lives of their children and grandchildren, Ricardo said. The brothers said the city did not properly notify Hemphill residents of the proposed changes, although a city spokes-

bers (including the mayor). Locals approved the expansion when they voted for an amendment to the city charter in 2016. A growing population requires an expanded city council, voters were told at the time. The additional city council seats and revamped district will be enacted once the 2020 Census figures are known, according to the city. Last week, the city council-appointed 11-member Redistricting Task Force released its interim report. As the process moves forward, the task force said its top priorities will be to create districts of “approximately equal size” that “should be no more than 10% greater than the population of the smallest district.” The redistricting efforts should be completed in compliance with the Voting Rights Act and with “no packing of minority voters, no fragmentation of minority communities, and no retrogression in the ability of minorities to participate in the electoral process.” The task force said it will work to ensure that districts represent “communities of interest.” Groups like Citizens for Independent Redistricting (CitizensMapFW.org) would like to see locals given the power to

draw their own future. “Do you believe elected leaders can draw the boundaries of our municipal districts free from any temptation to gerrymander safe seats for themselves?” the group posits on its website. Fort Worth took significant steps toward transparency and open government when city leaders created a participatory budgeting process this year that included virtual town halls and meaningful opportunities for locals to voice their views on how tax dollars are spent. For the final recommendations of the Redistricting Task Force to be seen as legitimate, locals need to know that their input was incorporated — not simply listened to. A “virtual redistricting 101 seminar” will be led by the task force on Mon, Jan 4. For details on how to participate, email city secretary Mary Kayser at mary.kayser@fortworthtexas.gov or call 817-392-6150. The final report will be presented to city council on Tue, Mar 2. The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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could force out homeowners if the properties are not bought outright by developers. “All their dreams that people in this community have worked so hard for is going to go away if this happens. People want to be here because we take care of our own. This plan doesn’t involve us. “The city is saying, ‘The way we thought of it is better,’ ” Ricardo continued. “This is a community that has been the most affected by this pandemic. For [the city] to try to rush this during a pandemic is a slap in the face. We are mourning right now. We don’t have time to think about the rezoning. We can’t even go to the hospital to visit” sick or dying relatives. A spokesperson for the city development services department said notice signs were placed throughout the affected areas of Hemphill. Notices were also mailed to “everyone in the boundary of district expansion plus all properties 300 feet from the boundary.” Email notices were also sent, the spokesperson said. A total of 15 in-person and Zoom meetings have been held on the proposal since the idea first gained traction in October. Zadeh said wording in the zoning language that includes “Near Southside” has been misconstrued as a sign that the Near Southside district is expanding or taking over Hemphill. “Instead of starting from a blank piece of paper, the [zoning staff] realized there was a zoning category that exists that has components that would be desirable and beneficial for” the Hemphill area, Zadeh said. “The boundaries of the Near Southside are not expanding. The Near Southside will not have purview over what occurs.” Rudy said his community will be able to thrive only when Hemphill residents are able to own property. Those efforts take decades, and he worries that an influx of development will force out working-class members of his community. “If the city didn’t want us at our worst, they don’t deserve to develop us at our best,” he said. Zadeh said that Fort Worth has historically allotted revitalization funds to vocal and connected residents and groups, but that system has changed. City staffers are now working in a “data-driven” fashion to determine where infrastructure improvements are prioritized, meaning underserved communities are more likely to be first in line for street repairs and other upgrades. Members of the Hemphill Corridor Task Force did not respond to requests for an interview. The Wednesday Zoning Commission meeting will be held 1 p.m. at City Hall (200 Texas St.) via FortWorthTexas. gov/departments/communications/fwtv. A city official said the earliest the proposal could go to city council is Tuesday, Jan. 12, but a delay in the vote now looks likely. “The desire to engage and to have everyone at the table has been our desire from the beginning,” Zadeh said. “Now that people are speaking up, we absolutely want everyone to hear the information, express concerns, and have their concerns addressed. I would like to pause, slow down, and allow for further engagement to occur.” l

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person said signs, emails, and meetings over the past two months were used to alert residents about the city plans. The zoning proposal should not be pushed through during a pandemic, Ricardo said. Residents along Hemphill Street saw part of the fruits of what has been a 20year effort to modernize and develop the area. That effort has been largely led by the Hemphill Corridor Task Force. Formed by the city more than 20 years ago, the task force involves members who own property inside the corridor or live in or near the area. The effort resulted in a complete overhaul of four miles of Hemphill Street earlier this year. The results of the so-called road diet reduced four lanes of traffic to two (one each way) while adding side-street parking and bike lanes. Proponents of road diets, which have reshaped much of Fort Worth’s core in recent years, say the resulting slower pace of traffic is safer for pedestrians and bicyclists and better for businesses that are more likely to be noticed by drivers who aren’t pushing 50 miles per hour. Councilmember Ann Zadeh, whose district includes the Hemphill area, said the proposed zoning changes are being driven by volunteers who live and work in the affected area and not by outside developers. She acknowledged that the public education component of the rezoning effort may have fallen short in some areas. Zadeh, who volunteered as an appointee for the city zoning commission before being elected to city council, understands the sometimes real, sometimes perceived connection between development and displacement. “I think there is a difference between revitalization and gentrification,” she said. “They are often mistaken for each other. Revitalization happens when we are trying to enhance the physical, commercial, and social components of a neighborhood, and that’s done through private and public efforts. Gentrification is when higherincome households come in and displace lower-income households and change the character of the neighborhood. That’s not something anyone is trying to do here, but it can be an unintended consequence. I don’t think that it is a reason to stop trying to improve an area. We need to be aware of it and acknowledge that it exists and address it through other private-public efforts that can address that problem.” The zoning changes, which would replace the current hodgepodge of zoning designations in lieu of a more uniform mixed-use designation, would allow greater flexibility for future development while protecting homeowners from watching their lots wither beneath tall apartment buildings next door. The councilmember said potential new business owners would find the mixed-use zoning appealing, partly because the designation prohibits incompatible uses (like stockpiles of raw materials) in neighboring lots. Current businesses and street vendors would not be pushed out by the proposals, she added. “Yes, we welcome economic development, but we shouldn’t have to lose our properties,” Ricardo said, referring to concerns that steeply rising property taxes

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1. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

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very year since 1976, Project Censored has performed an invaluable service — shedding light on the most significant news that’s somehow not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it, and the lines are clearly drawn. That’s not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day, such as stories about violence against Native American women and girls, even though four out of five of them experience violence at some point in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of non-Native perpetrators. “I wouldn’t say that we’re more vulnerable,” a Southern Cheyenne descendant and executive director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute told The Guardian. “I’d say that we’re targeted. It’s not about us being vulnerable victims. It’s about the system being designed to target and marginalize our women.” And the media erasure of their stories is part of that same system of targeting and marginalization. While journalists work hard every day to expose injustices, they work within a system where some injustices are so deeply baked in that stories exposing them are rarely told and even more rarely expanded upon to give them their proper due. That’s where Project Censored comes in. “The primary purpose of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of news censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware but is not for a variety of reasons,” wrote Project Censored founder Carl Jensen on its 20th anniversary. Thus, the list of censored stories that’s the centerpiece of its annual book, State of the Free Press | 2021, doesn’t just help us to see individual stories we might otherwise have missed. It helps us see patterns — patterns of censorship, of stories suppressed, and patterns of how those stories fit together. This year, for example, among its Top 10 stories are two stories about violence and victimization of women of color, including the role of media neglect. There are similarities as well as differences between them, and being able to see them both together in Project Censored’s list helps us see them both more fully as distinct yet connected stories. If the Top 10 stories summarized here leave you hungry for more,

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“In June 2019, the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report, which received widespread news coverage in the United States,” Project Censored notes. “U.S. corporate news outlets have provided nearly nothing in the way of reporting on missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.” This is despite a problem of similar dimensions, and complexity, along with the election of the first two Native American congresswomen, Deb Holland and Sharice Davids, who, Ms. Magazine reported, “are supporting two bills that would address the federal government’s failure to track and respond to violence against indigenous women [and] are supported by a mass movement in the U.S. and Canada raising an alarm about missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).” Four in five Native women experience violence at some time in their lives, according to a 2016 survey by the National Institute of Justice, cited in an August 2019 Think Progress report. “About nine in 10 Native American rape or sexual-assault victims had assailants who were white or Black,” according to a 1999 Justice Department report. Think Progress noted, “Although the number of Native Americans murdered or missing in 2016 exceeded 3,000 — roughly the number of people who died during the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack — the Justice Department’s missing persons database logged only 116 cases that year. The sheer scale of the violence against Native women and the abysmal failure by the government to adequately address it explain why the issue was given such prominence during this week’s presidential candidates’ forum in Sioux City — the first to focus entirely on Native American issues.” But even that didn’t grab media attention. There are multiple complicating factors in reporting, tracking, investigating, and prosecuting, which were explored in coverage by The Guardian and YES! magazine, as well as Ms. and Think Progress. “Campaigners, including the Sovereign Bodies Institute, the Brave Heart Society, and the Urban Indian Health Institute, identify aspects of systemic racism — including the indelible legacies of settler colonialism, issues with law enforcement, a lack of reliable and comprehensive data, and flawed policymaking — as deep-rooted sources of the crisis,” Project Censored summed up. “As YES! magazine reported, tribal communities in the United States often lack jurisdiction to respond to crimes.” This was partially remedied in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, known as VAWA, but Project Censored said “it left sex trafficking and other forms of sexual violence outside tribal jurisdiction, YES! magazine reported.” The House voted to expand tribal jurisdiction in such cases in its 2019 VAWA reauthorization, but, as Ms. reported, “The bill is now languishing

in the Senate, where Republicans have so far blocked a vote.” Another facet of the problem explored by YES! is the connection between the extractive fossil fuel industry and violence against Native women. The Canadian report “showed a strong link between extraction zones on the missing and murdered women crisis in Canada,” YES! noted. “It specifically cited rotational shift work, sexual harassment in the workplace, substance abuse, economic insecurity, and a largely transient workforce as contributing to increased violence against Native women in communities near fossil fuel infrastructure.” This environment, said Annita Lucchesi, executive director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute, “creates this culture of using and abuse. If you can use and abuse the water and land, you can use and abuse the people around you, too.” Project Censored concluded, “As a result of limited news coverage, the United States is far from a national reckoning on its crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.”

2. Monsanto “Intelligence Center” Targeted Journalists and Activists

In its fight to avoid liability for causing cancer, the agricultural giant Monsanto (now owned by Bayer) created an “intelligence fusion center” to “monitor and discredit” journalists and activists, Sam Levin reported for The Guardian in August 2019. “More than 18,000 people have filed suit against Monsanto, alleging that exposure to Roundup [weedkiller] caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and that Monsanto covered up the risks by manipulating scientific data and silencing critics,” The Hill summarized. “The company has lost three high-profile cases in the past year, and Bayer is reportedly offering $8 billion to settle all outstanding claims.” The Guardian said that Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company’s weedkiller. This took place while also targeting Neil Young (who released the 2015 record The Monsanto Years) and creating a massive multimillion dollar spying and disinformation campaign targeting journalists writing about it, as well as scientists and advocates exposing the risks its product posed. Creating a covert army of seemingly neutral allies to attack its critics was central to Monsanto’s strategy. The Guardian’s report was based on internal documents (primarily from 2015 to 2017) released during trial. They showed that “Monsanto planned a series of ‘actions’ to attack a book authored by Gillam prior to its release, including writing ‘talking points’ for ‘third parties’ to criticize the book and directing ‘industry and farmer customers’ on how to post negative reviews.” In addition, Monsanto paid Google to skew search results promoting criticism of Gilliam’s work on Monsanto, and they discussed strategies for pressuring Reuters with the goal of getting her reassigned. The company “had a ‘Carey Gillam Book’ spreadsheet, with more than 20 actions dedicated to opposing her book before its publication.” They also “wrote a lengthy report

about singer Neil Young’s anti-Monsanto advocacy, monitoring his impact on social media, and at one point considering ‘legal action.’ ” The entire pool of journalists covering the third trial was also targeted in a covert influence operation, Paul Thacker reported for The Huffington Post. A purported “freelancer for the BBC” schmoozed other reporters, trying to steer them toward writing stories critical of the plaintiffs suing Monsanto. Their curiosity aroused, the other reporters discovered that “her LinkedIn account said she worked for FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm that Monsanto and Bayer, Monsanto’s parent company, had engaged for consulting,” and she subsequently went into a digital disappearing act. “FTI staff have previously attempted to obtain information under the guise of journalism,” Thacker added. “In January, two FTI consultants working for Western Wire — a ‘news and analysis’ website backed by the oil and gas trade group Western Energy Alliance — attempted to question an attorney who represents communities suing Exxon over climate change.” Nor was FTI alone. “Monsanto has also previously employed shadowy networks of consultants, PR firms, and front groups to spy on and influence reporters,” Thacker wrote. “And all of it appears to be part of a pattern at the company of using a variety of tactics to intimidate, mislead, and discredit journalists and critics.” The Guardian noted that “Monsanto officials were repeatedly worried about the release of documents on their financial relationships with scientists that could support the allegations they were covering up unflattering research.” At the same time, Monsanto officials tried to attack critics as anti-science. “The internal communications add fuel to the ongoing claims in court that Monsanto has ‘bullied’ critics and scientists and worked to conceal the dangers of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide,” The Guardian summed up. Project Censored noted that “Monsanto’s campaign to monitor and discredit journalists and other critics has received almost no corporate news coverage.” A rare exception was a June 2019 ABC News report that nonetheless “consistently emphasized the perspective of Monsanto and Bayer.”

3. U.S. Military — A Massive, Hidden Contributor to Climate Crisis

It’s said that an army travels on its stomach, but the Army itself has said, “Fuel is the ‘blood of the military,’ ” as quoted in a study, Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war” by Oliver Belcher, Patrick Bigger, Ben Neimark, and Cara Kennelly, who subsequently summarized their findings for The Conversation in June 2019. The U.S. military is “one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries,” the authors wrote. If it were a country, it would rank as “the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.” Studies of greenhouse gas emissions usually focus on civilian use, but the U.S. military

Exposition, political corruption, and conflicts of interest are age-old staples of journalism, so it’s notable that two of the most glaring, far-reaching

than $731 million in assets, almost two-thirds of which were in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other instruments” that benefitted handsomely as a result of Republican votes that “doled out nearly $150 billion in corporate tax savings in 2018 alone,” Cary noted. “All but one of the 47 Republicans who sat on the three key committees overseeing the drafting of the tax bill own stocks and stock mutual funds.” Democrats also stood to gain from the tax bill, he wrote, “though not one voted for it. All but 12 Republicans voted for the tax bill.” Two special features deserve notice. First is a newly created 20% deduction for income from “pass-through” businesses, or smaller, singleowner corporations. “At least 22 of the 47 members of the House and Senate tax-writing committees have investments in pass-through businesses,” Project Censored noted. Second was a provision allowing real estate companies with relatively few employees — like the Trump organization — to take a 20% deduction usually reserved for larger businesses with sizable payrolls. “Out of the 47 Republicans responsible for drafting the bill, at least 29 held real estate interests at the time of its passage,” Project Censored pointed out. As to the second major conflict, “Members of the U.S. Senate are heavily invested in the fossil fuel companies that drive the current climate crisis, creating a conflict between those senators’ financial interests as investors and their responsibilities as elected representatives,”

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4. Congressional Investments and Conflicts of Interest

examples of Congressional conflicts of interest in the Trump era have been virtually ignored by corporate media: Republicans’ support for the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and bipartisan failure to act on catastrophic climate change. “The cuts likely saved members of Congress hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes collectively, while the corporate tax cut hiked the value of their holdings,” Vox wrote in January 2020. It was sold as a middle-class tax cut that would benefit everyone. “Promises that the tax act would boost investment have not panned out,” noted Vox author Peter Cary of the Center for Public Integrity. “Corporate investment is now at lower levels than before the act passed, according to the Commerce Department.” Once again, “trickle-down tax cuts” didn’t trickle down. “The tax law’s centerpiece is its record cut in the corporate tax rate, from 35% to 21%,” Cary wrote. “At the time of its passage, most of the bill’s Republican supporters said the cut would result in higher wages, factory expansions, and more jobs. Instead, it was mainly exploited by corporations, which bought back stock and raised dividends.” Buybacks exceeded $1 trillion for the first time ever, the year after the cuts were passed, and dividends topped a record $1.3 trillion high. The benefits to Congressional Republicans were enormous. “The 10 richest Republicans in Congress in 2017 who voted for the tax bill held more

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possible,” the study stated. “We show several ‘path dependencies’ — warfighting paradigms, weapons systems, bureaucratic requirements, and waste — that are put in place by military supply chains and undergird a heavy reliance on carbon‐based fuels by the U.S. military for years to come.” Data for the study was difficult to obtain. “A loophole in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol exempted the United States from reporting military emissions,” Project Censored explained. “Although the Paris Accord closed this loophole, Belcher et al. noted that ‘with the Trump administration due to withdraw from the accord in 2020, this gap … will return.’ ” They obtained fuel purchase data only through multiple Freedom of Information Act requests. Noting that “action on climate change demands shuttering vast sections of the military machine,” Project Censored said, the study’s authors recommended that “money spent procuring and distributing fuel across the U.S. empire” be reinvested as “a peace dividend, helping to fund a Green New Deal in whatever form it might take.” Not surprisingly, the report had received “little to no corporate news coverage” as of May 2020, beyond scattered republication of the Conversation piece.

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has a larger carbon footprint than any civilian corporation in the world. “The U.S. military’s climate policy remains fundamentally contradictory,” the study said. On the one hand, “The U.S. military sees climate change as a ‘threat multiplier,’ or a condition that will exacerbate other threats, and is fast becoming one of the leading federal agencies in the United States to invest in research and adoption of renewable energy, [but] it remains the largest single institutional consumer of hydrocarbons in the world, [and] this dependence on fossil fuels is unlikely to change as the USA continues to pursue open‐ended operations around the globe.” While the military has invested in developing biofuels, “the entire point of these fuels is that they are ‘drop‐in’ — they can be used in existing military kit — which means that, whenever convenient or cheaper, the infrastructure is already in place to undo whatever marginal gains have been made in decarbonisation.” Things will only get worse. “There is no shortage of evidence that the climate is on the brink of irreversible tipping points,” the study noted. “Once past those tipping points, the impacts of climate change will continue to be more intense, prolonged, and widespread, giving cover to even more extensive U.S. military interventions.” Understanding the military’s climate impact requires a systems approach. “We argue that to account for the U.S. military as a major climate actor, one must understand the logistical supply chain that makes its acquisition and consumption of hydrocarbon‐based fuels

5. Inequality Kills: Gap between Richest and Poorest Americans Largest in 50 Years

“In public health, decades of research are coming to a consensus: Inequality kills,” wrote DePaul University sociologist Fernando De Maio for Truthout in December 2019. Even before COVID-19, his research added fine-grained evidence of broad trends highlighted in three prominent governmental reports: The gap between rich and poor Americans had grown larger than ever in half a century, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 annual survey, with dramatic evidence of its lethal impact. People in the poorest quintile die at twice the rate as those in the richest quintile, according to a report by the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO). And this is partly because job-related deaths are increasingly rooted in the physical and psychological toll of low-wage work, as opposed to on-the-job accidents, as documented by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO). All of these conditions were made worse by

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Project Censored wrote. Twenty-nine U.S. senators and their spouses own “between $3.5 million and $13.9 million worth of stock in companies that extract, transport, or burn fossil fuels or provide services to fossil fuel companies,” Donald Shaw reported for Sludge in September 2019. While unsurprising on the Republican side, this also includes two key Democrats. Sen. Tom Carper, of Delaware, is the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee. He has “up to $310,000 invested in more than a dozen oil, gas, and utility companies, as well as mutual funds with holdings in the fossil fuel industry,” Shaw reported. But his record is not nearly as questionable as Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who “owns between $1 million and $5 million worth of non-public stock in a family coal business, Enersystems” and who reported earning “between $100,001 and $1 million” in reported dividends and interest in 2018, plus $470,000 in “ordinary business income,” Shaw reported. His support for the industry was significant: Manchin was the only Democrat to vote against an amendment to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling in 2017, and he was one of just three Democrats to vote against an amendment to phase out taxpayer subsidies for coal, oil, and gas producers in 2016. Manchin has also voted to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, expedite the approval process for natural gas pipelines, and override an Obama administration rule requiring coal companies to protect groundwater from toxic coal-mining waste. While there has been critical coverage of 2017 tax cuts, this has not included coverage of lawmakers personal profiting, Project Censored noted. “In addition, despite the significant conflicts of interest exposed by Donald Shaw’s reporting for Sludge, the alarming facts about U.S. senators’ massive investments in the fossil fuel industry appear to have gone completely unreported in the corporate press.”

COVID-19, but they could have been seen before the pandemic struck — if only the information hadn’t been censored by the corporate media, as Project Censored noted. As of May 2020, Project Censored has not been able to identify any corporate news coverage on the GAO or Census Bureau reports on inequality and premature mortality or on the ILO report about work-related illnesses, accidents, and deaths that take place when workers are off-duty. The August 2019 GAO report was based on health and retirement surveys conducted by the Social Security Administration in 1992 and 2014, looking at those between 51 and 61 years old in 1992 and dividing them into five wealth quintiles. The GAO, explained Patrick Martin in the World Socialist Web Site, “found that nearly half of those (48%) in the poorest quintile died before 2014, when they would have been between 73 and 83 years old. Of the wealthiest quintile, only a quarter (26 percent) died.” Death rates increased for each quintile as the level of wealth declined. It’s at the level of cities and communities “that the most striking links between inequality and health can be detected,” De Maio wrote. “At the city level, life expectancy varies from a low of 71.4 years in Gary, Indiana, to a high of 84.7 in Newton, Massachusetts — a gap of more than 13 years.” And at the community level, it’s almost as bad. “In Chicago,” he continued, “there is a 9-year gap between the life expectancy for Black and white people. This gap amounts to more than 3,000 ‘excess deaths’ ” among Black Chicagoans due to “heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and kidney disease. All of these are conditions that an equitable health care system would address.” The poorest Americans, Project Censored noted, are “also more likely than their rich counterparts to face illness or premature death due to the inherent dangers of low-wage work.” In 2019, María José Carmona wrote for Inequality.org, “you no longer have to hang from scaffolding to risk your life on the job. Precariousness, stress, and overwork can also make you sick, and even kill you, at a much higher rate than accidents.” She reported on an ILO story that found that less than 14% of the 7,500 people who die “due to unsafe and unhealthy working conditions every day” die from workplace accidents. The greatest risk comes from “increasing pressure, precarious contracts, and working hours incompatible with life, which, bit by bit, continue to feed the invisible accident rate that does not appear in the news,” Carmona wrote. “The most vulnerable workers are those employed on a temporary or casual basis, those subcontracted through agencies and the false self-employed. ILO data shows the rate of accidents for these employees to be much higher than for any others.” As of May 2020, Project Censored has not been able to identify any corporate news coverage on the GAO or Census Bureau reports on inequality and premature mortality or on the ILO report about work-related illnesses, accidents, and deaths that take place when workers are off-duty.

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In late October 2019, Carol Thompson reported in the Lansing State Journal that “dozens of websites branded as local news outlets launched throughout Michigan this fall … [promise] local news [while] also offering political messaging.” The websites’ “About us” sections “say they are published by Metric Media LLC, a company that aims to fill the ‘growing void in local and community news after years of steady disinvestment in local reporting by legacy media,’ ” Thompson wrote. However, it soon emerged that they weren’t filling that void with locally generated news, and the 40 or so sites Thompson found in Michigan were just the beginning. A follow-up investigation by The Michigan Daily reported that “just this past week, additional statewide networks of these websites have sprung up in Montana and Iowa,” which was followed by a December 2019 report by the Columbia Journalism Review, revealing a network of 450 websites run by five corporate organizations in 12 states that “mimic the appearance and output of traditional news organizations” to “manipulate public opinion by exploiting faith in local media.” All were associated with conservative businessman Brian Timpone. “In 2012, Timpone’s company Journatic, an outlet known for its low-cost automated story generation, which became known as ‘pink slime journalism,’ attracted national attention and outrage for faking bylines and quotes and for plagiarism,” CJR’s Priyanjana Bengani reported. Journatic was later rebranded as Locality Labs, whose content ran on the Metric Media websites. “The different websites are nearly indistinguishable, sharing identical stories and using regional titles,” Michigan Daily reported. “The only articles with named authors contain politically skewed content. The rest of the articles on the sites are primarily composed of press releases from local organizations and articles written by the Local Labs News Service.” Despite the different organization and network names, Bengani wrote, “it is evident these sites are connected. Other than simply sharing network metadata as described above, they also share bylines (including ‘Metric Media News Service’ and ‘Local Labs News Service’ for templated stories), servers, layouts, and templates.” Using a suite of investigative tools, CJR was able to identify at least 189 sites in 10 states run by Metric Media — all created in 2019 — along with 179 run by Franklin Archer (with Timpone’s brother Michael as CEO). “We tapped into the RSS feeds of these 189 Metric Media sites” over a period of two weeks, Bengani wrote, “and found over 15,000 unique stories had been published (over 50,000 when aggregated across the sites) but only about 100 titles had the bylines of human reporters.” That’s well below 1% with a byline — much less being local. “The rest cited automated services or press releases.” Their architecture and strategy are “useful to understand the way they co-opt the language, design, and structure of news organizations,” Bengani explained. Automation can make them seem far more

prolific than they really are and can help build credibility. “Potentially adding to the credibility of these sites is their Google search ranking: In the case of some of the websites set up in 2015-2016, we observed that once sites had gained ample authority, they appeared on the first page of Google Search results just below the official government and social media pages.” So the sites aim to fool people locally about the source of their “news,” and Google helps fool the world. Although The New York Times did publish an article in October 2019 that credited the Lansing State Journal with breaking the story about pseudolocal news organizations, Project Censored noted that “corporate coverage has been lacking. … The Columbia Journalism Review’s piece expands on the breadth and scope of previous coverage, but its findings do not appear to have been reported by any of the major establishment news outlets.”

7. Underreporting of Missing and Victimized Black Women and Girls

Black women and girls go missing in the United States at a higher rate than that of their white counterparts. And that very fact goes missing, too. “A 2010 study about the media coverage of missing children in the United States discovered that only 20% of reported stories focused on missing Black children despite it corresponding to 33% of the overall missing children cases,” Carma Henry reported for The Westside Gazette in February 2019. But it’s only getting worse. “A 2015 study discussed in the William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice found that the disparity listed in the 2010 study between the reportage and the reality of missing Black children had increased substantially,” Project Censored noted. The numbers shake out to be 35% of missing children cases versus just 7% of media stories. That discussion appeared in a paper that made two other pertinent points. First, that Black criminal perpetrators are over-represented in the media while Black victims are underrepresented, and second, that “because racial minorities are identified as criminals more often than not, nonminorities develop limited empathy toward racial minorities who are often perceived as offenders.” Non-minorities in the media are obviously not exempt. “Media coverage is often vital in missing person cases because it raises community awareness and can drive funding and search efforts that support finding those missing persons,” Project Censored noted. It went on to cite an illustrative extreme case: In October 2019, “The Atlanta Black Star shed light on perhaps the most prolific offender against Black women and girls in recent history, Jason Roger Pope, who has been indicted on charges relating to human trafficking and child sex crimes. Pope, a white South Carolina promoter and popular disc jockey better known as DJ Kid, has made claims suggesting he may have participated in the trafficking, assault, and/or rapes of nearly 700 Black girls — primarily underaged — right up until his arrest in August 2019.”

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As early as 2003, 30 nuclear units were either shut down or forced to reduce power output during a deadly European summer heatwave in Europe, but almost two decades later, the corporate media has yet to grasp that “nuclear power plants are unprepared for climate change,” as Project Censored noted. “Rising sea levels and warmer waters will impact power plants’ infrastructure, posing increased risks of nuclear disasters, according to reports from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Truthout from September 2019,” they explain. Yet “tracking back to 2013, corporate news media have only sporadically addressed the potential for climate change to impact nuclear power plants.” Writing for the NRDC, Christina Chen said, “Nuclear power is uniquely vulnerable to increasing temperatures because of its reliance on cooling water to ensure operational safety within the core and spent fuel storage.” In addition, Karen Charman, reporting for Truthout, noted that “nuclear reactors need an uninterrupted electricity supply to run the cooling systems that keep the reactors from melting down,” but this will be “increasingly difficult to guarantee in a world of climate-fueled megastorms and other disasters.” Rising sea levels — combined with storm surges — represent the most serious threat. That was the focus of a 2018 report by John Vidal from

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The year 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States’ first publicly owned state bank, the Bank of North Dakota (BND), and, in October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Public Banking Act, authorizing up to 10 similar such banks to be created by California’s city and county governments. In response, the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles both announced plans to do so. It was the culmination of a decade-long effort that began in the wake of the Great Recession which has also been taken up in nearly two dozen other states. Beyond the benefits North Dakota has reaped in the past, such

“There are two ways in which a state bank can fund state investment for a greener future. First, the bank can provide loans, bonds, and other forms of financing for investments to the state government and private organizations on better terms than those available in regular markets.” Some such projects might not even be considered. This is not because green investments are unprofitable “but because their profits slowly accumulate and are widely shared across a community,” Heath explained. “Second, a public bank will improve a state’s fiscal health. By holding state deposits as assets, the bank’s profits can be returned to state coffers to fund direct state investment. Additionally, the activity of the state bank — which will prioritize investing state assets and extending credit within the state for the benefit of the state — will improve the state economy,” just as has happened in North Dakota. A new surge of interest in public banking came out of the Standing Rock movement’s protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline. While individuals could easily withdraw from doing business with fossil fuel-financing banks — Wells Fargo, in this case — governments have no such similar options to meet all their banking needs. In short, “From efforts to divest public employee pension funds from the fossil fuel industry and private prisons, to funding the proposed Green New Deal and counteracting the massive, rapid shutdown of the economy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, public banking has never seemed more relevant,” Project Censored wrote.

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banks could have greatly assisted in responding to COVID-19’s economic devastation and could yet help fund a just transition to a decarbonized future, along the lines of a Green New Deal. Yet, despite California’s agenda-setting reputation, Project Censored noted that “no major corporate media outlets appear to have devoted recent coverage to this important and timely topic.” The BND, wrote Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Institute, for Common Dreams, “was founded in 1919 in response to a farmers’ revolt against out-of-state banks that were foreclosing unfairly on their farms. Since then, it has evolved into a $7.4 billion bank that is reported to be even more profitable than JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, although its mandate is not actually to make a profit but simply to serve the interests of local North Dakota communities.” Sushil Jacob, an attorney who works with the California Public Banking Alliance, told The Guardian that “the state of North Dakota has six times as many financial institutions per capita as the rest of the country, and it’s because they have the Bank of North Dakota. When the Great Recession hit, the Bank of North Dakota stepped in and provided loans and allowed local banks to thrive.” As a result, “North Dakota was the only state that escaped the credit crisis,” Brown told Ananya Garg, reporting for YES! magazine. “It never went in the red, [had] the lowest unemployment rate in the country, the lowest foreclosure rate at that time.” In an op-ed in The Hill, Eric Heath wrote,

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The arrest didn’t come out of the blue. “Pope has police records going as far back as 2011 relating to sexual misconduct with minors. Yet outside of a few local news outlets, the corporate media has been silent on Pope’s crimes.” Blacks are also over-represented as victims of sex trafficking, according to statistics from Human Trafficking Search: They account for more than 40% of confirmed victims compared to 13.1% of the population. While there is some coverage from small independent sources, “this gap in coverage of missing Black women and girls has gone widely underreported,” Project Censored noted. It cited two exceptions, one from ABC News, another from CNN. “But, broadly, U.S. corporate media are not willing to discuss their own shortcomings or to acknowledge the responsibilities they neglect by failing to provide coverage on the search for missing and victimized Black women and girls.”

Ensia, a solutions-focused media outlet, which found that “at least 100 U.S., European, and Asian nuclear power stations built just a few meters above sea level could be threatened by serious flooding caused by accelerating sea-level rise and more frequent storm surges.” There have been more than 20 incidents of flooding at U.S. nuclear plants, according to David Lochbaum, a former nuclear engineer and director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “The most likely [cause of flooding] is the increasing frequency of extreme events,” he told Vidal. Yet in January 2019, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) decided to weaken staff recommendations to reassess the adequacy of hazard preparations. In dissent, Commissioner Jeff Baran wrote that NRC would allow power plants “to be prepared only for the old, outdated hazards typically calculated decades ago, when the science of seismology and hydrology was far less advanced.” Charman reported that “as of September 2019, 444 nuclear reactors are operating in the world, with 54 under construction, 111 planned, and 330 more proposed. Vidal wrote, “Many of the world’s new nuclear plants are being built on the coasts of Asian countries, which face floods, sea-level rise, and typhoons. At least 15 of China’s 39 reactors in operation, and many of the plants it has under construction, are on the coast.” Leading climate scientist Michael Mann told Vidal that “nuclear stations are on the front line of climate change impacts both figuratively and quite literally. We are likely profoundly underestimating climate change risk and damages in coastal areas.”

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In late March, Congress passed and Donald Trump signed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, including direct payments of $1,200 per adult and more than $500 billion for large corporations. Before passage, Craig Aaron, the president of Free Press, argued in the Columbia Journalism Review that a stimulus package for journalism was also urgently needed. “In the face of this pandemic, the public needs good, economically secure journalists more than ever,” separating fact from fiction and holding politicians and powerful institutions accountable. Aaron’s organization, Free Press, placed journalism’s needs at $5 billion in immediate emergency funds, “less than half of 1% of a trillion-dollar recovery package” and asked that “Congress put a foundation in place to help sustain journalism over the long term.” Aaron presented a three-pronged plan. First: “doubling federal funds for public media,” not for Downton Abbey reruns but “earmarked specifically for emergency support, education, and especially local journalism.” For example, “The Los Angeles Unified School District teamed up with PBS SoCal/KCET to offer instruction over the airwaves while kids are out of school, with separate channels focused on different ages.” Second: “direct support for daily and

weekly newsrooms,” which have lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past three decades. “Direct, emergency subsidies of, say, $25,000 per newsgathering position could make sure reporters everywhere stay on the local COVID beat,” he wrote. “Just $625 million would help retain 25,000 newsroom jobs.” Third: “new investments in the news we need … for a major investment in services that provide community information [and] to support new positions, outlets, and approaches to newsgathering, [which could] prioritize places and populations that the mainstream outlets have never served well.” Arguing that a “resilient and communitycentered media system” is necessary to get through the pandemic, Aaron concluded, “Now is the time to act. We need significant public investments in all corners of the economy, and journalism is no exception.” In an article in Jacobin, media scholar Victor Pickard advanced a more robust proposal, for $30 billion annually (less than 1.4 % of the coronavirus stimulus package, Project Censored noted). “On the question of cost, we must first remind ourselves that a viable press system isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity,” he wrote. “Similar to a classic ‘merit good,’ journalism isn’t a ‘want’ but a ‘need.’ … Democratic nations around the globe heavily subsidize the media while enjoying democratic benefits that put the U.S. to shame.” Writing for The Guardian, just after the McClatchy newspaper chain bankruptcy was announced, Pickard noted that “for many areas across the U.S., there’s simply no commercial option. The market has failed us.” And thus, “With market failure, journalism’s survival requires public options.” The need was fundamental. “All foundational democratic theories — including the First Amendment itself — assume a functional press system. The fourth estate’s current collapse is a profound social problem.” And he suggested a broad range of funding possibilities: We could raise funds from taxing platforms like Facebook and Google, placing levees on communication devices, and repurposing international broadcasting subsidies. Other sources include spectrum sales and individual tax vouchers. We could leverage already-existing public infrastructures such as post offices, libraries, and public broadcasting stations to provide spaces for local news production. “While corporate news outlets have reported the ongoing demise of newspapers and especially local news sources, they have rarely covered proposals such as Aaron’s and Pickard’s to revitalize journalism through public funding,” Project Censored wrote. l Paul Rosenberg is an activist turned journalist who has written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post, Al Jazeera English, Salon.com, and numerous other periodicals. He has also written more than 300 book reviews. He has worked as an editor at Random Lengths News since 2002.

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Le Hong of Le Hong’s Flowers on the Near Southside would have Saturday turned 81 years old this week, so, in her honor, from 5pm to 7pm Fri, The Table (120 St Louis Av, Ste 103B, 682703-1092) is hosting Poinsettia & Holiday Floral Pop-Up. Garlands, lavender, pine trees, poinsettias, rosemary, roses, and live wreaths are available for purchase in person or at TheTableMarket.com. Plus, there will be free poinsettia champagne cocktails to toast to Hong’s memory.

Head outdoors to Holiday in the Garden at the Botanical Research Institute Sunday of Texas (BRIT) and the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160). This six-event collaboration includes two shopping opportunities, three free events, and one event requiring paid tickets. Shop early at the Christmas Tree Farm (8am to 5pm) and the Holiday Sip & Shop (10am to 4pm), and enjoy free entertainment at Opera in the Garden with the Fort Worth Opera (11am to 2:30pm), Santa in the Garden (1am to 2pm, free but photos are extra), and Afternoon in the Garden (3pm to 5pm). Holiday Tea is 1pm to 3pm, and tickets are $35-45 at FWBG.org/ Events/Holiday.

It’s time to have some holiday fun at the Bearded Lady (300 S Main St, 817Friday 349-9832), a tavern in South Main Village featuring pub food, cocktails, wine, and a rotating selection of local craft beers. From noon to 3pm, head there for the resto’s annual Christmas Brunch & Market. You can shop locally made goods at the Holiday Market and choose from various grown-up drinks and brunch items from a special Christmas brunch menu.

At 6pm, take a virtual Christmas-themed charcuterie board class Monday through Board + Brie (400 N Oak St, Roanoke, 602-377-4161) with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the North Texas Food Bank. The event is free to attend, but you’ll need a charcuterie kit, which is $55 without the board or $75 with. (Kits will be available for pick up from 11am to 6pm.) You can also buy the shopping list for $15 and gather supplies yourself. Once you purchase your kit (or list) at BoardBrie.com, the class’ login instructions will be emailed to you.

From 5pm to 8pm, the team from WFAA will be stationed at Montgomery Tuesday Plaza Residences (2600 W 7th St, 817-733-4869) collecting toys for Santa’s Helpers, a charitable cause in its 51st year helping children ages infant to teen throughout Texas. To participate in this drivethru event, bring a new, unwrapped toy on Tue evening or see other ways to donate at WFAA. com/SantasHelpers.

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Sometime between 8am and 10am, this year’s school of rainbow trout arrives at Thursday Trinity Trails River Park Trailhead (3100 Bryant Irvin Rd, 817-3352491) for Trinity River Water District’s 34th Annual Trout Season. This event is free to the public, but those 17 and older must have a current fishing license. (See where to get one at TPWD.Texas.gov.) The riverbank is spacious, so social distancing is not a concern.

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At 11:30am and 4pm daily — plus 2pm to 2:15pm daily Wednesday thru Sat (for the NFR) — see The Herd at the Fort Worth Herd Observation Deck (129 E Exchange Av, 817-336-4373). The Herd Experience gives visitors a first-hand view of the steers and drovers and a history lesson about cattle drives. This event is free to attend, but donations to Friends of the Fort Worth Herd are welcome. To donate, text HERD2020 to 41444.

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I will freely admit I was underdressed when I saw Stage West’s production of The Naughty List. The show takes place on the mall of Texas Wesleyan University, and even though I’d been advised that the temperature would be 48 degrees on the night in question, I was stupidly wearing just a hoodie for protection when I should have bundled up in something heavier. It was agony every time a gust of wind cut through me, and the hot chocolate I bought from the concession stand (while delicious) didn’t help much. Yet even while I was losing the feeling in my fingers, I recognized that this is close to the best live theater show we’re going to get in our present circumstances. This silent dance show tells an origin story for Krampus, the demon out of Central European folklore who punishes naughty children on Christmas. The performers are wearing masks (the kind you and I wear to

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the supermarket, not the theatrical kind), the lawn seats are placed at a comfortable remove from one another, and the lack of dialogue means that you don’t have to worry about voices carrying in the open air. Plus, if you don’t feel like braving the December cold, Stage West is now offering the play on their streaming platform, so you can take in the holiday show in the heated comfort of your own home. The story begins with St. Nicholas (Canali Miller) and Krampus (Brayden Raqueño) conceived at opposite ends of

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the earth as essential parts of each other, but the residents of the village where this takes place love Nick, who brings toys and good cheer, while they shun the strange demon with the horns. The narration by Stage West mainstay Garret Storms is written in Seussian rhyming couplets, and I’m afraid the writing is repetitive and the reading over the PA system is indifferent. (You really need a drummer’s sense of rhythm to stay on point with couplets.) Nor does the choreography by Danielle Georgiou, who conceived the show along

with Storms, do a great deal to advance the story in terms of incident or character motivation. As a musical show, however, I can’t find a weak link among the five dancers in the cast. (The others are Rai Barnard, Amber Marie Flores, and Lauren Kravitz.) The numbers are tightly choreographed in themselves and well use the space on the steps in front of the campus library. Best of all, the songs that they’re set to mostly avoid the chestnuts that batter our ears every Yuletide season. They are mostly taken from the big band and early rock eras, though some newer ones like JD McPherson’s “Holly, Carol, Candy & Joy” are mixed in. I much appreciated hearing a bunch of Christmas songs that I hadn’t heard before, like Frankie Carle and Marjorie Hughes’ “Little Jack Frost Get Lost” and Glenn Crytzer’s “The Krampus.” My Brightest Diamond’s version of “Nature Boy” is a nonChristmas song that works quite well in this setting, and Tom Lehrer’s sour “A Christmas Carol” is always welcome. Even the music playing before the show contains Coral Bells’ “Krampus,” which is now on my Spotify rotation. It does help fight the cold when you’re rocking back in your seat to the music. I’d happily sit through this again rather than another production of The Nutcracker. In response to the hostile conditions for live theater, Stage West has responded by staging something new that would not work as well in a regular auditorium. If other theater troupes can respond as creatively to the pandemic, live theater will truly live again in our parts. l

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I remember having a great urge to eat Korean fried chicken after I watched Extreme Job while also knowing that there wasn’t any place for me to go to nab that tasty treat. It’s puzzling: Even though our area has a sizable population of Korean émigrés and their descendants, we haven’t had a place that really serves this dish, despite the vogue that it has enjoyed elsewhere. You’d think someone would have set up a spot, especially since friedchicken joints are relatively easy to handle compared with other types of restaurants. (In South Korea proper, most such establishments are owned by retirees.) Instead, most of the Korean restaurants here are barbecue places, which makes sense, since Koreans and Texans share a love of the slow-grilled meat. For chicken, you used to have to go to Denton or the far side of Dallas to find anything. No more, though, because Mighty Chick DFW recently opened in Watauga in a strip mall on Rufe Snow Drive. It has tremendous wings, which

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would be enough of a recommendation. If their Korean fried chicken wouldn’t pass muster with a purist from Seoul or Busan, it’s still the best we have. I drove up to this place expecting a bare-bones establishment with a few tables like other fried-chicken joints. Nope, this is a full-service sports bar with TVs, outdoor seating, and a decent selection of rotating seasonal craft beers on tap. If you’re unsure which beer to drink with Mighty’s seven different flavors of chicken, pairings are written in big letters on one of the walls inside. (It would be nice if the bar served soju, which is what Koreans typically drink with their fried bird, but no Korean will turn up their nose at a beer.) The food is only chicken, with no burgers, pizza, or non-chicken entrees to distract the kitchen — if you’re vegan, you’ll need to stick to the sides. Speaking of which, appetizers come in categories of sides (which come free with some main dishes) and bites (which need to be ordered separately). I ordered the Cheesy Snowflake fries, which are dusted in a cheese powder that had a hint of sweetness that I couldn’t identify the source of. (My server was no help with this.) Whatever it was, I found myself unable to stop eating the potato sticks. Better news: The cheesy snowflake flavor can also be applied to your chicken. Among the bites, The Seoul Hot and Sweet N Spicy wings take starring roles at Mighty Chick DFW. my onion rings were sliced thick enough to yield a substantial crunch and didn’t give me the downer of onions sliding out No, the reason to come to this place and it’s why I prefer the Korean stuff to of the rings when I bit into them. I was a bit underwhelmed by the is the wings. First of all, they’re huge — the Nashville and Buffalo styles of hot Crispy Wave chicken, which is the I’m used to ordering 15 for a meal at Wing chicken. Just be advised: Either of these kitchen’s version of extra crispy chicken. Stop or such places, but I found myself full styles makes for a sticky eating experience, While the bird was reasonably juicy and after eating just eight of Mighty Chick’s and you will go through napkins. The kitchen offers only one dessert flavored with paprika underneath the wings. They are not double-fried the way coating, that coating wasn’t the torrent of authentic Korean fried chicken is, but option, so it’s well that it’s a good one. crunchiness that I’ve had from the extra even so, the kitchen kept them crunchy The deep-fried apple pie, which is called crispy options at KFC or Popeye’s. I had even underneath the coating of sauce. the Mighty Sweet Club, came in elegant the Nashville Hot chicken on top of a The Sweet N Spicy sauce was reminiscent little diamonds and with a lightly crispy of chile jam and exterior that brought my meal to a nice salad, and it must be quite good. Beside and not overpoweringly sweet end. tuned to the lowest Mighty Chick DFW Too many chain restaurants treat the level when it comes Onion rings................................................... $4.49 it, the Seoul Hot Wings (6)...................................................... $8.99 that way, because I Hot chicken salad........................................ $8.99 sauce was the real humble chicken wing as mystery meat on a bringing stick. By placing this part front and center, could taste the tang Mighty Sweet Club....................................... $3.99 deal, the familiar taste Mighty Chick DFW gives you a wing of the buttermilk marinade underneath the spice. I and sting of gochujang to my lips. The experience that you won’t get anywhere appreciated that, but the romaine, cherry fermented bean paste adds funky and else. l tomatoes, and cheddar underneath the earthy notes to all the spice (which was on a level high enough to make me sweat), chicken were pretty boring stuff.

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musicians have had experience with each of these processes in some capacity. Singer/ guitarist Jeff Helland had certainly had his turns with all of these methods except one. Used to mostly joint compositional strategies, he’d never attempted to be a band’s sole principal creative force. That is, until he started Hoaries. “I’ve been playing in bands for more than 20 years,” Helland said, “and for whatever reason, those were what you might call ‘somebody else’s band,’ or maybe they were even good true collaborative bands. But at a certain point, every one of them stopped. Maybe somebody moved out of town, or maybe I got flat-out replaced. They always seemed to end prematurely. With Hoaries, I wanted a band that I could control my own destiny — a band that, no matter how many people filtered in and out, at the end of the day, it was up to me to continue producing. It was ultimately my responsibility to keep it going.” Under Helland’s direction, Hoaries, a bellicose noise-rock quartet, has just released Rocker Shocker, a nine-song collection of cantankerous punk at its finest. With brittle, angular guitars, blitzkrieg, asymmetrical rhythms, and Helland’s indignant barking, the tight 25-minute blast is an exorcism of pent-up frustration ideal for the COVIDera. With the Weltschmerz cranked to 11, the sonic onslaught is a cleansing. You can practically feel your black bile humour running out of your ears like a mockup of a sweating, conspiracy-drunk Rudy Giuliani press conference. They said the Trump era

would be good for punk music. With Rocker Shocker, local punk seems to be peaking just as he’s headed out the door. Helland, who started Hoaries a little more than three years ago, is perhaps best known from his time co-fronting Denton aggro slop-rockers White Drugs. That band, despite few releases and rare shows, found a fairly devoted fanbase among the somewhat obsessive disciples of underground noise rock. A particularly ravenous subspecies of the obscure music collector, noise rock junkies are constantly seeking any new music in the genre (if only to one-up their fellow enthusiasts by being able to claim to be the first to have heard of something). In this circle, the link to White Drugs certainly had a part in helping Hoaries’ first few releases — a three-volume series of EPs called Crudforms released over the last couple of years — sell out of their limited runs almost immediately upon release. Helland is hoping this same buzz can help Rocker Shocker, the band’s first full-length — as well as their debut release on Reptilian Records (Faking, BULLS) — to continue that trend. The album was begun in the spring of last year at Dallas’ Consolvo Studios. Finishing touches were finished at guitarist Christian Belt’s home studio over the lockdown. Rocker Shocker was mastered by Matt Barnhart (METZ, Superchunk). Helland said he enjoys being responsible for the core of the content, but it’s not without its pressures. “It’s a big deal,” he said. “It’s on me. If that record label puts [this album] out, and it doesn’t sell anything — if that guy pays

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for those records, and he’s sitting on them for 10 years, he’s looking at those records, and he’s seeing me. I can’t just step away from it.” He’s not without help, however. After early iterations featured an assortment of players such as John Newberry (Deep Snapper), Britt Robisheaux (Drug Mountain, Most Efficient Women), and Helland’s brother Tom Helland on guitar, Helland feels the current lineup is here to stay. Notable Dallas artist Clay Stinnett (Boom Boom Box, Ghost Car) has retained his founding position behind the drumkit while Belt, an old cohort of Helland’s from White Drugs, has slid into a comfortable role playing second guitar opposite him. The latest member to join brings with him an enviable noise rock pedigree. New bassist Bobby Weaver was a founding member of the now legendary local post-punk pioneers the pAper chAse. “As soon as Chris [Belt] took a stab” at playing guitar, Helland said, “it was instantly like, ‘Yeah, that’s it.’ He and I just know [each other’s] guitar playing so well. As soon as Bobby [Weaver] agreed to join up, that first practice you just realized it was a perfect fit. That guy does stuff with the bass you’re just not supposed to do. Just wild, leftfield stuff.” Though not interested in “taking up space” from musicians trying to eke out a living during the pandemic, Helland said he looks forward to taking the new lineup out on the road once he feels comfortable. Rocker Shocker is available on vinyl from Reptilian Records and also available to stream on Hoaries’ Bandcamp page. l

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2811 W Division St, 817-275-3231 New Year's Eve Party featuring 3 Day Bender is happening at Stumpy’s. In addition to having the best live music in Arlington, we also offer a full bar, flat-screen TV's, pool tables, soft tip and steel tip darts, group seating for the live shows, as well as an expansive outdoor area.

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1581 SW Wilshire Blvd, 817-447-7232 NYE with Blacklist. Full food menu. Drink specials. Live music by Blackout. Doors 7pm. Cover $10.

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10261 Technology Blvd E, 214-350-1904 GMBG New Years Eve Tribute Extravaganza features Blizzard Of Ozz (Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath), Crued & Tattooed (Motley Crue), and Infestation (Ratt). Doors 8 pm. Show 9pm. Tickets are $20-40 at GasMonkeyBarNGrill.com

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112 St Louis Av, 817-247-2518 Tulip’s is excited to celebrate its very first New Year's Eve with two shows by Grady Spencer & the Work. Doors 6pm. Show One 7pm. Show Two 10:30pm. Tickets are $3575 at TuplipsFTW.com/Calendar.

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5601 Belknap, 682-250-5678 Death to 2020 NYE Rock & Metal Party featuring Alcohol Proof, Beneath the Veils, Coilback, Eva Kora, Hillbilly Orchestra, Raid, and Waja. Doors 6pm. Cover $10.

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2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117 Time Marches On NYE Bash featuring the Tracy Lawrence: Made in America Tour hits Billy Bob’s for NYE. A nonprofit called Mission Impossible to receive $1 from each ticket sold. Doors 6pm. Show 10 pm (house band 8 pm). Tickets are $80 at BillyBobsTexas.com.

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Either way, we’re screwed. We’re either going to die from COVID-19 or die from starvation because we’re broke. After the stark, intentional lack of national leadership forced us into this mess, we have been left devoting #thoughtsandprayers to a vaccine. Until it’s readily available to everyone, we’re going to be stuck in a holding pattern. The best way moving forward will be to stick together — as long as we’re 6 feet apart. A few local bar owners do not give af. In some spots in the West 7th corridor, large groups of chiefly college-age people (and, c’mon, underagers) are getting sweaty together and swapping spit despite the global warnings. “The recovery rate is so high!” these youngsters argue, never thinking that while it may be fine for them to get and get over the COVID, their grandparents might not be as #blessed. Once again, the #mefirst community — the same folks who think wearing a mask is a form of government control but who believe telling women what to do with their bodies isn’t — endangers us all. For every Varsity Tavern in this town, though, there are dozens of responsible drinking establishments, and this needs to be remembered if Gov. Greg Abbott goes against his current stance and orders another lockdown. One place taking the pandemic ultraseriously is Lola’s Trailer Park. Mostly outdoors and with strict safety protocols enforced, the West

7th-area venue/bar is doing it right. I stopped by for a few happy-hour fancy macrobrews a couple of weeks ago, and I never felt like I was going to catch anything other than the vapors (so many damn Cowboys fans). My response was based in respect. Everyone I had run into had tacitly and precognitively agreed to keep their distance and not exchange physical greetings. No hugs, no handshakes, an elbow pound at most. There’s no reason why Lola’s should have to lock down if the owners keep enforcing the rules. Other, less outdoorsy, less strict, more wheels-off places should be the first to close. Trailer Park manager Blake Parish says that while they’re doing OK at the statewide 50% capacity, “attendance is down, but that’s to be expected.” One thing he feels will help is the proposed Congressional stimulus package. As part of the bipartisan campaign Save Our Stages, stimulus monies could go toward venues like Lola’s Trailer Park. “We’re just crossing our fingers that we get that Save our Stages money,” Parish said. “That will go a long way toward keeping us afloat during what is traditionally our slowest season even before a pandemic.” MASS, Fort Worth’s only other pure original indie-rock venue now that Shipping & Receiving remains voluntarily closed, is also surviving. Co-owner Ryan Higgs is also hoping Save Our Stages comes through, saying that the biggest hurdle has been filling the calendar, which is important since in-person rocking and

rolling onstage is what drives people to MASS in the first and only place. “Many bands are wanting to wait it out,” he said, “which I do completely understand. Most bars are OK to run at 50% capacity, but as for venues or dance clubs, we budget to try and fill the room during the show. It is difficult for sure, but most people in our industry have these same issues. Safety is extremely important, and we would probably shutter until it calms down if we didn’t have a lease and other bills to try and pay.” Both Lola’s and MASS say their landlords have been sympathetic. Lola’s owner Brian Forella says that without their landlord, the Trailer Park would be done. “They really have helped tremendously.” As the right complains that the safety measures are too draconian, some on the left say they don’t go far enough. Based on chatter in the Texas twittersphere, I’m seeing arguments for another lockdown, which is why I’m saying locking down should be determined on a case-bycase basis by the same TABC/Code Compliance folks stalking the city to spy for breeches in protocol now. It’s not that I don’t care about everyone’s health. Of course I do. I proudly voted for Biden/Harris. It’s also not because bars/venues subsidize my paycheck. They kind of do (ain’t gonna lie). It’s because responsible bar owners should not be punished for the misbehavior of others. And, I admit, it’s also because if you’re going to close bars, you should also close churches and gyms, two types of establishments that Abbott permitted to remain

open while bars suffered closures and two kinds of places that are just as infective as bars if not more so. Though I haven’t been to church since a wedding two years ago, I distinctly remember a lot of singing and recitation going on in front of the altar, and unless the priest is the only one talking/singing these days, I wouldn’t want to be trapped in the pews amid all of that super-spray. As for gyms, they’re bacteria havens anyway. Add a deadly virus to them, and you might as well be dancing the night away maskless and/or topless in West 7th. In Tarrant County, social gatherings are the “biggest factor” driving the surge in COVID cases, Tarrant County Public Health told the Star-Telegram recently. The county actually went as far as suggesting that the parents of local school district teens rein in their party time to keep them from catching or passing the virus. If Abbott changes his mind, even a little, there’s a chance he will order lockdowns of parts of the state where COVID hospitalizations are skyrocketing, like Tarrant County. By placing the decision with local officials, the ones who are listening to the data and not the soon-to-be-former “president” of this once-great nation, the governor can ensure places like Lola’s Trailer Park and MASS — and the Boiled Owl Tavern and Buffalo Bros and Liberty Lounge and Thompson’s and all of the other responsible watering holes in this hamlet — can hang on until that vaccine comes along “like a miracle.” — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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PROJECT Transformer Service MANAGER Project Manager Reinhausen Manufacturing, a world leader in the Electrical Power Engineering Industry has

Reinhausen Manufacturing, a world leader in the Electrical Power Engineering Industry has an opening for 1 Project an opening for 1 Project Manager for one of our Facilities in Chandler, AZ. Manager for our Arlington, TX facility.

The Project Manager will be directly responsible for our transformer clients throughout the U.S.

This position is responsible for the Sales & Service activities of both the German & USA LTC service projects including profitability and customer satisfaction for all turn-key and T&M related projects within the appropriate region. This position will act as the technical lead and actively quote service projects while assisting the Service and Parts • inCustomer visits astransformer related torelated increased service sales activity per quotations Targets outside the Coordinators quotations involving tap changer work including turnkey realm of normal tap changermultiple maintenance. Additionally, the Project manage select projects aftermanagorder • Managers concurrent projects, and Manager provideswillguidance to other project inception and service execution through the invoicing stage while ensuring overall operational excellence and ers drives and service coordinators service growth. • Develops project plan to establish scope/deliverables, schedule, budget, and allotment

Essential Functions:

of available resources to various phases of project

Essential •Functions: Develops the project proposal during business development phase, including technical

approach, scope/assumptions, schedule, cost, staffing

• Customer visits as related to increased Service sales activity as per Targets • Confers with project staff to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and • Manages multiple concurrent projects, and provides guidance to other project managers and service coordinators scope of plan authority • Develops project to establish scope/deliverables, schedule, budget, and, and allotment of available resources Maintains accountability of project success and quality assurance. Directs and coordito various• phases of project nates activities of project to ensurephase, project progresses onapproach, schedulescope/assumpand within • Develops the project proposal during personnel business development including technical prescribed budget, and informs project personnel and senior management in a timely mantions, schedule, cost, staffing. • Consults managers andplan. project staff to establish work and staffing plans for each phase of project, and nerwith ofother variances from arranges• for recruitment assignment of project personnel the MR Change Order Process Develops,orcreates, owns and manages • Confers• withReviews project staff to outline work plan and by to assign responsibilities, and scope of authority deliverables prepared projectduties, personnel and modifies schedules or plans • Maintains as accountability required of project success and quality assurance. Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel project and progresses on schedule within prescribed budget,tools and informs project personnel • to ensure Establishes maintains projectand filing systems, tracking and databases and senior management in a timely manner of variances from plan. • Tracks and analyzes project financial results including revenue and cost data and • Develops, creates, owns and manages the MR Change Order Process projections. Prepares project reports and presents results to management. Confers with • Reviews deliverables prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required project andproject other filing management personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve • Establishes andteam maintains systems, tracking tools and databases • Tracks problems and analyzes project financial results including revenue and cost data and projections. Prepares project reProactively manages clientConfers expectations within of established scope, schedule, and ports and• presents results to management. with project teamlimits and other management personnel to provide negotiates technicalcost. adviceEffectively and to resolve problemschange orders and builds client relationships to achieve growth. • Proactively within limits ofrelationships. established scope, schedule, and cost. orders Effectively • manages Managesclient anyexpectations project subcontractor Initiates purchases andnegotiapates change orders and builds client relationships to achieve growth. with Accounts Payable proves vendor invoices, and coordinates payments • Manages project subcontractor relationships. Initiates purchase ordersReceivable and approves vendor invoices; and • anyPrepares invoice requests for issuance by Accounts coordinates Accounts Payableand Performance Incentive Reports • payments Prepareswith project closeout • Prepares for issuance Accounts Receivable • invoice Otherrequests tasks as assignedbyby Supervisor • Prepares project closeout and Performance Incentive reports • Must be able to travel up to 50% domestically. Travel may vary depending on location • Other tasks as assigned by Supervisor of clients and which home office is assigned upon hiring. • Frequent overnight travel is required for this position; approximately 25% travel required

* Reasonable accommodations be made to enable disabilities to * Reasonable accommodations may be mademay to enable individuals with individuals disabilities towith perform the essential functions.perform the essential functions.

Education:

Education: • Bachelor’s in Engineering work history in line with Business and/or suitable combi• degree Bachelor’s degree orinspecific Engineering or specific work historyNeeds in line withaBusiness Needs nation ofand/or years ofaexperience plus education of in transformers, power plantplus maintenance andinservice business area suitable combination years of experience education transformers, power required plant maintenance and service business area required • 3+ years’ in Project Management • experience 3 + years’ experience in Project Management leading a team of transformer technicians • 5+ years’ experience in technical engineering preferred • 5+ years’ experience in technical engineering and in large Power Transformer installa• 5+ years’ experience in large Power Transformer installation, maintenance & testing preferred tions, maintenance & testing preferred • 3+ years’ experience wiring of electrical systems preferred • 3+ years’ experience • Metal Fabrication experience a plus wiring of electrical systems preferred • Metal Fabrication • PMP Certification strongly desiredexperience a plus

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PMP Certification strongly desired

Competencies: Benefits: Execution Reinhausen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and 401(k) matching Decision Making Dental/Vision applicants for employment without regard insurance to race, color, religion, sex, national Communication insurance origin, age, disability or genetics. Disability In addition to federal law requirements, ReinhauStrategy Development Employee assistance program sen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in Team Management employment in every location Flexible inschedule which the company has facilities. Business Acumen Health insurance Technical Competence Life insurance Reinhausen Manufacturing enforces the Drug-Free Workplace Act; hence drug testCritical Thinking Paid time off ing will be conducted as a condition of employment. Inassistance addition- random drug tests Leadership Professional development

are performed in accordance with our policy.

Reinhausen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, Please national send origin,your age,resume disability,to:or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Reinhausen complies with applicable state and local lawsatgoverning nondiscrimination in Mr. Ric Bates r.bates@us.reinhausen.com or Jaime Vega j.vega@us.reinhausen.com employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reinhausen Manufacturing enforcesNo thePhone Drug-Free Act; hence testing will be conducted as a callsWorkplace and no third partiesdrug please. condition of employment. In addition- random drug tests are performed in accordance with our policy. Please sendPlease resume visit to: Mr.our Ric web Batessite, r.bates@us.reinhausen.com or Jaimeplease Vega j.vega@us.reinhausen.com if you apply at our website do not enter any perNo Phone calls and no third parties please. sonal information such as Date of Birth, age, upload a picture or nationality. Please apply on indeed.com and do not enter any personal information such as Date of Birth, age, upload a These questions are for our EU partners. picture or nationality. These questions are for our EU partners.

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