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Writing on the Hall: Forward and sideways

The city is ready to go to bid on redesigning Center Street but not quite ready to take over the former Lynda Lee dress factory.

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City police to hold community meetings

The Rutland City Police Department starts holding “sector meetings” out in the community next week.

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Fort Worth residents protest industrial development near their neighborhoods

More than a dozen people gathered outside mayor’s State of the City address to protest “environmental racism.”

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Is there environmental racism in Fort Worth? This group says, yes, and is fighting back

Some say Fort Worth’s Black and Hispanic neighborhoods bear the brunt of pollution as the city grows.

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Does Fort Worth Have an Environmental Racism Problem?

Echo Heights, one of the city’s predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, is worse than 91 percent of the country for proximity to hazardous waste. The ZIP code’s average life expectancy in 2019 was just 73.4 years, well below the average for the county.

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