My car (in Dallas) doens't have the front plate. It never got put on after a wreck. Nobody has pulled me over for it yet, though I haven't driven it much lately, either.
Back home in south TX, though, I've gone for probably years without a front license plate. But down there everything seems to be a bit more relaxed. I've never heard of anybody down there getting pulled over for a noise violation (like if your stereo is too loud), either, but I hear it happens in other places.