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Jun. 6 Fort Worth voters appear satisfied with the trajectory Mayor Betsy Price established over the past decade as they selected her former chief of staff, Mattie Parker, to lead the city. Parker fought her way out of a crowded 10 candidate field to become the city's next mayor and the youngest of any major American city at 37. In Saturday's runoff election she beat Deborah Peoples, 68, by .
When Rodney McIntosh saw the pistol, his instincts kicked in. He grabbed the armed man’s hand, shoved it down, and pushed him back into his car. It wasn’t McIntosh’s first time in a conflict on the verge of becoming a shooting. It’s his job. “You can’t do this in broad daylight,” McIntosh recalled telling the young man. If he’d pulled the trigger that day, prison wouldn’t be the only concern. “Someone is going to come shoot you, too,” McIntosh told him.
A community activist, pastor, and mentor, McIntosh, 44, leads a small team battling violence in east and south Fort Worth, using his experiences as a former gang member to mentor young men and mediate conflicts before they devolve into gun violence. The fledgling organization, called VIP Fort Worth, is one of a number of programs that could benefit from a new bill that would help grow and support community-based violence prevention and intervention programs in Texas.
Fort Worth Weekly
Four candidates weigh in on their goals for swaths of Fort Worth’s East and South sides.
By Edward Brown
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-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 Ki