To refresh: The local Coalition of Reason is the atheist/agnostic group that bought all those “Good Without God” bus ads in Forth Worth last year, causing quite the stir.Well, they’re back — this time in a slight kerfuffle with The Dallas Morning News’s Texas Faith blog.Zachary Moore, a coordinator for…
This afternoon at the Frank Crowley courts building, Anthony Robinson, a chief investigator at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, announced that 17 people have been indicted for allegedly taking part in a retail theft ring that stole an estimated $400,000 in goods. Police have arrested 14 people and expect…
If you’re planning on doing anything illegal in the next three days (not that you would), may we suggest keeping well away from the Aloft Hotel on Young Street? That place is crawling with cops. This morning marked the start of the SMILE Conference — Social Media Internet Law Enforcement…
It wasn’t always easy to spot the art at the Jason Brooks show over at Dallas Contemporary this weekend. Sometimes the art was chatting with a group of friends, or getting a drink, or popping out back for a quick smoke. But when the models in the legendary Austin tattoo…
As the redistricting process goes on (and on and on), you might expect the public to become less involved, especially when a meeting takes place late on a college-football Saturday afternoon. But, in fact, the opposite seems to be true: Yesterday’s public forum, like the one in August, was packed,…
Did you wake up this morning wondering what all the arguing’s going to be about at Saturday’s redistricting forum with Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council members? Wonder no longer! At a City Hall press conference just now, council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins, backed by former council member…
For those Friends of Unfair Park who don’t have Jewish mothers, I will tell you: They get stuff done. That would probably be their motto, if they ever organized themselves into some kind of union. (Possible sub-motto: “But, Really, Would It Kill You To Call More Often?”)This morning, in front…
Here’s what we know about the Dallas Independent School District’s search for a new superintendent to replace Michael Hinojosa: nothing. Here are the criteria the trustees have agreed on for what they’d like to see in a new superintendent: none yet.Now that I’ve summarized the salient points of last night’s…
The First Unitarian Church of Dallas hosted a special guest last week: Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The CRR, if you recall, is the New York-based organization that recently won a preliminary injunction against Texas’s proposed sonogram law. In the church’s main sanctuary, Northup spoke to…
We briefed you earlier about PARK(ing) Day Dallas, which organizer Noah Jeppson told us was supposed to help Dallasites and visitors “rethink the function of our public spaces … and have fun doing it.” I just got back from checking out the teensy-tiny parks that have taken over 30 or…
Even Rick Perry doesn’t hate science all the time. His uneasy relationship with evolution and global warming notwithstanding, the Man Beneath the Hair understands that sometimes all that brainy shit with the white coats and clipboards can actually benefit him. And that’s exactly what happened in his 2006 bid for…
We began the broadcast day by discussing Sylvan Thirty’s funding; we end it by looking back at last night’s town hall meeting concerning its layout and, more broadly, the future of street and development design in Dallas. And based on the build-up, it was shaping up to be a pretty…
During the morning portion of today’s city council meeting, Mayor Mike Rawlings told his colleagues he’s been “doing some thinking” about redistricting. Lord, haven’t we all. In reviewing what the Redistricting Commission has done, he said, “I believe the transparency was there.” This, of course, despite recent complaints by Ruth…
“Thought-provoking events” — that’s how SMU said it wanted to honor the 10th anniversary of September 11, with a series of “thought-provoking events.” There would be lectures, speeches, prayer services and, tonight, a half-time tribute at Gerald J. Ford during SMU-UTEP — events political and spiritual, a few attended by…
As we noted yesterday, during her presentation of the Redistricting Commission’s proposed map to the city council, chair Ruth Morgan mentioned that one member of the commission, whom she later identified as Domingo Garcia, held “private meetings” with other commissioners in the last month of the redistricting process. The whole…
If your knowledge of Jewish filmmaking only extends as far as nebbishy fellows whose names rhyme with “Schmoody Schmallen,” it’s time to look again. The 15th Annual Jewish Film Festival of Dallas, which runs this year from Saturday through September 25, is a perfect way to start. The nine offerings,…
This morning, the city council got its first formal look at the just-completed redistricting map proposal, Plan 16d, presented by redistricting chair Ruth Morgan and vice chair Billy Ratcliff. And during her presentation, Morgan mentioned something rather interesting: During the final stages of the redistricting process, several private meetings between…
With the decade anniversary of 9/11 almost here, there’s been a run of stories in every media outlet, major and minor, about both the September 11 attacks and the decade that followed. A few of those pieces, including a recent Associated Press report making the rounds, have focused on September…
Two weeks back we talked to Joey Zapata, the interim assistant city manager who deals with code compliance, about the city’s plan to “reorganize” the Dallas Animal Services staff by pink-slipping 53 employees and replacing them with what they’re calling “contract,” or temporary, workers. Yesterday, in a packed, narrow room at…
You want the good news or the bad news? Oh, hell, let me just give you the good stuff first: The enforcement of proposed legislation that would have required Texas women to look at a sonogram, have it described to them “in detail” by their doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat…
You probably noticed: It’s been quite the last few days for the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, what with the board president Lew Blackburn being compared to Idi Amin by a speaker at the last boarding meeting, and trustee Carla Ranger resigning and then, a few days later,…
Ramona Trevino wiped her eyes as she stood at the microphone. She looked out at her audience, a crowd of 50 or so sweating on a narrow patch of grass up in Sherman. “For three years, I managed this Planned Parenthood,” she said. “There was a tugging in my heart,…
