{"id":256753,"date":"2026-04-19T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:26:07","slug":"jack-mccarty-almost-made-us-leave-north-richland-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256753\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack McCarty almost made us leave North Richland Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack McCarty\u2019s plan to bring a big-name retailer to land owned by Tarrant County College would have made the area miserable.<\/p>\n

Facebook\/Jack McCarty NRH Mayor<\/p>\n

We\u2019d have left<\/p>\n

I have lived in North Richland Hills my whole life. My wife and I bought our first house here. But when Jack McCarty became mayor, we joked about moving. If the deal to bring a big-name retailer to land owned by Tarrant County College<\/a> had gone through, we definitely would have left the city. It would have made the area miserable. (April 12, 10A, \u201cNorth Texas city and TCC squabble over land, as possible development looms\u201d)<\/p>\n

I hope McCarty is one-and-done as mayor.<\/p>\n

– Noah Martin, North Richland Hills<\/p>\n

Commandments<\/p>\n

As a professor of ethics and religion at TCU, I find the actions of Donald Trump deeply troubling<\/a>, not merely politically, but morally and theologically. For many who claim Christian identity, the first four of the Ten Commandments are foundational: fidelity to God, rejection of idolatry, reverence for the divine name and sanctity of worship. Yet these principles are too often ignored when they prove inconvenient.<\/p>\n

What is most striking is the silence. Those who advocate for the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms and civic spaces have little to say. If these commandments are to shape public life, then they must do so consistently, not selectively.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, they risk becoming little more than symbolic gestures that obscure a deeper truth: that authenticity, integrity and the ethical demands of the Gospel are secondary to power.<\/p>\n

– Dr. Santiago Pi\u00f1\u00f3n, Crowley<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n\u2019s playbook<\/p>\n

American conservatives\u2019 Project 2025<\/a> sought to copy the playbook of Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n: Stack courts with loyalists, weaken independent media and redistrict to favor one party. But Orb\u00e1n\u2019s unpopularity grew even more when Vice President JD Vance campaigned for him, and his party has been voted out.<\/p>\n

That leaves reactionary Republicans with only one option to keep it from happening here: voter suppression, something President Donald Trump and clones such as Gov. Greg Abbott and Tarrant County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare will desperately double down on.<\/p>\n

– Jack Bowen, Fort Worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack McCarty\u2019s plan to bring a big-name retailer to land owned by Tarrant County College would have made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-256753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}