U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who coasted unopposed to a 10th term last month, was on Fox News today to discuss the fiscal cliff. Johnson, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention, is a Democrat. Fox News host Neil Cavuto is — well he’s a Fox News host…
Josh Hamilton has been the cornerstone of the Rangers for the past four years, leading them to the first to World Series berths in franchise history. He wormed his way into our hearts with his stellar play and heartwarming triumph over adversity, then immediately tried to worm his way back…
Virgil Slay was at home in Oak Cliff on the afternoon of October 1 when his landlord arrived to kick him out of the room he’d been renting from her. His refusal sent the landlord, 42-year-old Toni Faye Taylor, into a rage. According to a DPD incident report, she first…
Donna Pulkrabek says she was pushed out of her job at UT Southwestern in May after reporting mistreatment of laboratory animals even though, as manager of the school’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), that was her job. According to a lawsuit filed by Pulkrabek, she had raised concerns…
Dallas police were out in force near the Katy Trail earlier this morning, with four squad cars and at least as many officers gathered in the grassy area at Hall Street sandwiched between the trail and Turtle Creek. A few officers were by the brush along the trail, near where…
You can’t buy a gun in Venezuela. It’s illegal, and has been since the government of Hugo Chavez banned the private sale of firearms earlier this year as part of an effort to tackle the country’s sky-high murder rate: 19,336 last year, more than in Mexico, which is in the…
The City Council’s agenda yesterday was chock full of actually interesting stuff. You can relive it any time you want through the city’s database of archived council videos. But just in case you have something better to do, we’ll summarize the high points. It’s Not Raining On Tennell Atkins’ Parade,…
You probably noticed that today is December 12, 2012, or 12/12/12, which depending on who you ask is the Gregorian calendar’s last repeating date this century or the last date. Period. We’ll go ahead and assume Brent Troy Bartel falls into the latter camp. Police were dispatched to Bartel’s Richland…
The last time friends saw Damien Falgoust conscious was about 1:30 a.m. Friday, when he was sharing post-game drinks with his kickball teammates at the Knox Street Pub. He left the bar, got into a taxi and set off for his condo near the intersection of Matilda Street and La…
A garbage truck was making the rounds on Fort Worth’s east side at about 6:30 a.m. today when, after emptying a dumpster behind O’Reilly Auto Parts and turning on the compactor, they heard screams coming from the back of the truck. Matt Zavadsky, a spokesman for MedStar EMS, told CBS…
Yesterday, it would have been hard to imagine the Big Tex saga becoming even more absurd. Just think about it: a 50-foot-tall mechanical cowboy spontaneously bursts into flames and becomes the subject of weepy-eyed morning as if he were a Beatle. Yet today brings evidence that the story actually can…
Cathie Adams served for less than a year as chair of the Texas Republican Party before being unseated in 2010, but she’s long been a fixture on Texas’ right wing, particularly as a leader of the virulently anti-abortion Texas Eagle Forum. It was in that role that Adams spoke alongside…
In an interview with the Morning News over the weekend, Mayor Mike Rawlings qualified some of his previous statements about the potential of AT&T and SMU’s proposed Trinity Forest Golf Course to be an economic game-changer in southern Dallas. The project could spur lots and lots of economic development and…
In November 2011, a 28-year-old woman visited the Irving office of Dr. Hector Oscar Molina for an arm lift and breast implants. Molina, ignoring the fact that he had no formal plastic surgery training, that his patient was a dangerously heavy 300-plus pounds, that his office wasn’t technically sterile, and…
It’s safe to say that Museum Tower is losing its public relations battle against the Nasher Sculpture Center. The Nasher has marshaled support from the city’s business and civic elite, successfully casting its neighbor as some hyper-phallic monstrosity bent on scorching anything in its path, while Museum Tower has a…
In 2002, Arlington voters considered a proposal to establish a public transit system. The system would have been funded through a modest quarter-cent sales-tax increase that had the support of the City Council and every major business group in town but not, as the News reported at the time, the…
Plotting a new course for Dallas ISD was never going to be a quick or easy thing. It’s a huge bureaucracy and one that’s laden with problems, some that are common to all large, diverse urban school districts, some that are DISD-specific, a legacy of administrations passed. So Superintendent MIke…
In the fall of 2009, attorney Patrick Robert Simon was approached by a man who needed some financial planning advice. The man was making a healthy living, by trafficking illegal drugs, but was prepping for an extended stay in prison, for trafficking illegal drugs. Call it an occupational hazard. The…
Late Friday night, Kevin Koudelka arrived home to discover that one of the windows of his Lake Highlands house had been shattered by a brick, and that whoever had thrown the brick had stepped through the broken window, and had done so numerous times en route from the car to…
The West Nile outbreak of 2012 isn’t officially over, at least not according to Dallas County health officials, but it may as well be. There hasn’t been a death reported in more than six weeks, the number of new cases is basically nil, and for most of us, the scenes…
You might have noticed that there was a marathon this weekend, and that two Cowboys were caught up in a deadly car accident before an emotional win on Sunday. You may also have heard that it snowed. There’s probably a reason you didn’t hear about the stuff below, culled from…
Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, the unions-killed-the-Twinkie trope is still very much alive. Never mind that Hostess completely failed to adapt to changing tastes or update its brand, that it went through seven CEOs in a decade, that it had already obtained deep concessions from workers while its top…
