For nearly two decades, Reginald Osborne worked for the Dallas County Community College District, first as a teacher at Cedar Valley and then, for the past 17 years, as an administrator and athletic director at Mountain View. He did until last month, at least, when DCCCD fired Osborne for allegedly…
On Saturday, a tad more than 1,400 people are expected to turn out to clean up their local green space for Dallas’ It’s My Park Day. The city launched the annual event last year as a way to give neighbors a sense of ownership of their parks and, one assumes,…
If someone rolled into Unfair Park HQ and pointed an assault rifle at me while they stole my $800 and seven packs of Newports, I’d probably piss my pants and then go become a monk or a farmer, or maybe a farmer-monk. The owner of McGriff’s Beer & Wine are…
Three weeks after the FBI raided the Dallas apartment of Barrett Brown, an affiliate of the hacker group Anonymous, the other shoe has finally dropped. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed an indictment today, charging Brown with Internet threats, conspiracy to make publicly available restricted personal information of a federal employee…
One of the things Obama took pains to highlight during last night’s debate was just how aggressively his administration has gone after Medicare fraudsters. Remember Jacques Roy, the Rockwall physician accused of masterminding a scheme to bilk the government of $375 million? Probably not, since the drubbing Obama received in…
You might not expect the granddaughter of H.L. Hunt, the oil magnate who inspired Larry Hagman’s character on Dallas, to be particularly fond of public radio. But as it turns out, Lyda Hill is very fond indeed of her local NPR affiliate, KERA. The station announced today that Hill’s foundation…
If you happened to pass near the intersection of Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs this morning, you may have wondered why there were a gajillion fire trucks idling around. The answer, to sum it up in three words, is: naked homeless guy. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said a passerby…
The four, soon-to-be five miles of new bike lanes downtown got the front-page treatment this morning in the Morning News (paywall), and deservedly so. Sure, they’re not bike-only lanes, and it’s taken the city a lot longer than it should of to paint stripes and little bicycle-man icons on the…
On September 12, two men entered a Chase Bank on Jupiter Road in Richardson a few minutes apart. The first was tall, about 6-foot-4, and wearing a black doo-rag, later identified as Michael Pringle. He asked for a deposit slip from the teller and then left, pausing on his way…
In July of 2006, Dr. Barry Fenton began treating a woman for depression and anxiety at the office of the Uptown practice of Live Oak Counseling Center. It was 16 months later that the relationship moved outside of his office, not to mention the bounds of the typical relationship between…
Yesterday, a bit after 3 o’clock, police were dispatched to NorthPark Center where employees reported receiving a threatening phone call. Threatening how, the police report didn’t say. One had to assume that some crafty 17-year-old had phoned to say he would be in the mall after the 6 p.m. curfew…
The weather on July 7 quickly turned windy, almost violently so. The sudden gusts, which reached 40 miles per hour, capsized a surfboarding 55-year-old into the waters of White Rock Lake, where he drowned. Even more dramatic was the scene a dozen miles to the north, when a construction crane…
The Church of the IV Majesties imploded two years ago in a very public way. The self-described Satanic church had been planning a staged exorcism at the Oklahoma City Civic Center. Then, a month before the event, the church’s co-founders had a falling out. One of the founders, James Hale,…
This spring, Dallas County Community College District’s audit department began looking into the use of gas credit cards. Specifically, they were curious about record-keeping, the policies and procedures that are in place, and, um, where exactly they all were. According to a report presented to the DCCCD’s board on Tuesday,…
Oh, Mark Cuban. Your Dallas Mavericks brought us an NBA championship. You have the best investment-themed reality show on television. You have billions of dollars. But that’s not why we respect you; we respect you because you’re not afraid to do ridiculous things, like be videotaped clutching a Bud Light…
The ACLU of Texas released its annual compendium of books that school districts have pulled from their shelves for being too coarse, profane, sexual, or otherwise too interesting for our precious children, despite every Mom in America having a copy of 50 Shades of Gray by her nightstand. There’s good…
Bitching about how terrible the roads are in Dallas is a time-honored tradition. It’s also easy. Quantifying just how terrible they are? That’s more difficult. Luckily for you, TRIP, a D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to transportation research, just released its annual “Future Mobility in Texas” report. First, the bad news. Bad…
The city’s Park and Recreation Board is looking for someone to replace Paul Dyer, who is retiring after two decades at the helm of the parks department. Last week, a seven-member search committee, comprised of park board president Max Wells and a half dozen other board members, decided to keep…
It was in 2001 that Christopher Bridges, a.k.a. Ludacris, released “Move Bitch,” a song still considered his masterpiece. (The inimitable chorus: “Move bitch, get out the way/Get out the way bitch/Get out the way.”) It was the third single from the album Word of Mouf, and it helped propel the…
Last month, a report from city auditor Craig Kinton’s office enumerated what it politely termed “deficiencies” in the operation of the city’s McCommas Bluff landfill. There were a lot of them, since the landfill didn’t really have much in the way of procedures to safeguard cash, prevent embezzlement or make…
Phillip Ballard figured he was looking at at least 20 years. He’d already been in the federal lock-up in Fort Worth since July, and things weren’t looking good in his criminal case, which centered on seven counts of tax fraud. For almost a decade he had, according to an indictment…
Last night just before midnight, a security guard watched as a red, 1994 Chevy S10 pickup exited the gated Treymore Eastfield Apartments in Far East Dallas. The driver promptly crashed into into a nearby Ford F150, stepped on the gas to flee the accident, lost control of the truck, jumped…
