Joel Burns (politician)
Joel Burns (born February 4, 1969) is an American politician. A city councilman for District 9 in Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, he received extensive press attention in October 2010 after speaking at a council meeting about the issue of Suicide among LGBT youth, suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, as part of Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign."Councilman spoke out for gay teens 'who might be holding gun tonight'"
CNN, October 15, 2010. Burns announced on February 11, 2014, that he was resigning his seat on Fort Worth City Council to pursue a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2010, Burns completed Harvard University's Harvard Kennedy School, John ...
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Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to a 2022 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 958,692. Fort Worth is the city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. The city of Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Fort Worth has historically been a center of the Texas Longhorn cattle trade. It still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design. is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city. Nearby Dallas has held a population majority as long as records have been kept, yet Fort Worth has become one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States at the begin ...
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