Time For Ron Washington to Stop Shilling For Ace Cash Express

If you watch a Rangers game on TV for more than about five minutes, you’re bound to encounter manager Ron Washington telling you wonderful things about Ace Cash Express. If you can ignore the glare from Washington’s shiny pate — he often appears sans baseball cap, even though he is…

Dallas Has Its First Real Bike Lane, and It’s in Oak Cliff

It’s easy to bemoan Dallas’ glacial progress on the bike plan that is supposed to, one day, connect the city with an extensive network of bike lanes, but credit should be given where it’s due. In the spring, it was the shared lane that randomly sprung up on Martin Luther…

Turns Out, Houston Really Does Have Worse Traffic Than Dallas

Over the weekend, the Texas Department of Transportation released its list of the Texas’ 100 most congested roadways, which breaks the news that LBJ, Woodall Rogers, and Central Expressway? All really congested. You knew that already, but did you know that drivers on the stretch of LBJ between Central and…

Waxahachie Man Gets Life Sentence For Driving Drunk. Again.

In 1997, Blas Hernandez was convicted of drunk driving in Ellis County. It was his third DWI, making it a felony and, since he had two previous convictions for assaulting a public servant, they threw the book at him: Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison. Fast-forward to 2012. Hernandez,…