Pegasus News content partner West and Clear hangs it up

by Steve Smith of West and Clear

Editor's note: As noted by JW Richard, Pegasus News content partner West and Clear has decided to stop publishing their blog. As Pegasus News is located in Dallas, West and Clear was an invaluable resource for insight into politics, restaurants, the arts, and a multitude of other things in Fort Worth. They will be greatly missed. Below is their final post, and if you want to know a bit more about what they were all about, you can read my interview with contributor Steve Smith.

In the beginning of West and Clear, we invoked the name of the great Texas writer, John Graves. In the end, going back to the words of the grand old man of Texas letters seems like a good idea, too.

A little over a year and a half ago as the five of us wrote the words to describe what the hell a West and Clear was anyway, we reminded the people of Fort Worth that Graves once wrote that a whole river is too much to comprehend, but you can understand a piece of a river. West and Clear was our attempt to understand our little piece of the river here in Fort Worth. Unfortunately, our real-life demands have have left us with too little time to maintain this site in the style to which we hoped you would become accustomed. As a result, this post is West and Clear’s farewell.

We’re proud of the work that we have done here together. We wanted to create an online conversation worthy of the people here in our city. We think we’ve succeeded. More people are online, engaging and the conversation and talking about their city. We ask you to please continue with that, to keep on reading, commenting and supporting all of the other blogs and online conversations in Fort Worth.

To invoke Graves one last time, he wrote at the end of Goodbye To A River: “What is, is. What was, was. If you’re lucky, what was may also be a part of what is.” We’re grateful to have been a part of what was and what is.

Best of luck to all off you, and we hope to see y’all on down the line. Adios, Fort Worth.

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