Last month it came to light that the Regional Transportation Council was mulling requiring three, rather than two, people per vehicle in order to use the region’s HOV lanes. You could still use the special lanes driving solo, but you’d have to pay a toll that would vary based on…
ATI Career Training Center is the type of school you see advertised on daytime TV. It prepares its graduates for “rewarding careers” in “fields such as health care, personal fitness and wellness, business technology, information technology, automotive repair, air conditioning and refrigeration repair, and welding,” per its website. Three years…
Miller Lite announced yesterday that, for the second year in a row, it will partner with the Dallas Cowboys and a nonprofit called Adelante U.S. Educational Leadership Fund “to support educational programming and resources for Hispanics through the ‘Scoring for Education’ campaign.” In layman’s terms, that means that between September…
In 2009, Rolanda Dickerson went to Forest Park Medical Center for a tummy tuck. Instead, according to a lawsuit first reported by Courthouse News, Dr. John Alexander gave her a gastric bypass. That was a problem both because the procedure wasn’t what she had agreed to and because Dickerson had…
I’ve never played fantasy football. I like to catch a Cowboys game from time to time, but actually joining a league and drafting players and obsessively tracking them throughout the season seems like a lot of work and not a lot of fun. So I’d never really wondered or cared…
Over the last several years, California has basically existed as a tutorial for how not to run a state government. It’s faced years of crippling budget deficits, has had several of its cities declare bankruptcy, and has been hit especially hard by the recession, all with help from one of…
The Flashback, alas, is not long for this world. In less than a week, the iconic Six Flags roller coaster will take its last passengers backward and forward through its loop before being dismantled. The same fate will befall the parachute ride. Ah, well. Progress marches on. The rides will…
For the second time in three days, a federal court has called a Texas voting measure as discriminatory. Earlier today, a three-judge panel in D.C. issued an opinion striking down the state’s voter ID law, passed by the legislature last year. The law would require voters to present a valid…
Early this morning at about 3 a.m., passersby in a Main Street parking garage became concerned when they spotted a young man walking about, allegedly waving an AK-47 in the air. They called police who, as first reported by the Morning News, confirmed that, yes, there was indeed a man…
Randy Best found his way into the pages of the Observer in the mid-’90s, when a company he founded, Voyager Expanded Learning Inc., landed some plum DISD contracts and, just after he left the district, Superintendent Chad Woolery. He gained national attention a decade later when he was criticized for…
Texas’ delegation at the Republican National Convention seems to have mostly behaved itself in Tampa this week. Soon-to-be Senator Ted Cruz lobbed overblown rhetoric at the Obama administration, and Rick Perry said he’d “absolutely” consider running again, but that’s standard fare. At least no one tossed peanuts and racial insults…
It seems that a lot of electric vehicle charging stations have been popping up in Dallas of late — at gas stations, grocery stores, possibly soon at City Hall — and now we know that yes, there are a lot. Xatori, an app-maker, released a list yesterday of the cities…
Last I checked, Domingo Garcia lost his bid for Congress. Marc Veasey got about 53 percent of the vote in last month’s Democratic primary runoff, which is more than half, which is what it takes to win an election. Except Garcia doesn’t see it that way. “While it may appear…
If you missed season one of Most Eligible Dallas, Bravo’s glimpse at what life is like for those Dallasites who are young, rich and telegenic enough to star in a Bravo reality show, never fear. Mixmaster can fill you in on all the juicy details, episode-by-episode. Start reading now if…
Every year, Allstate crunches its claims data from the country’s 200 largest municipalities, does a little arithmetic, then releases a ranked list showing which cities have the best drivers and, by extension, which have the worse. The insurance company just released its report for 2012, and the answer to your…
The Dallas Morning News’ Tumblr page is “hand-picked from among our most fascinating, interesting news and photography.” I’ll say. The photo you see here was posted there this morning, twice, along with the original poster’s description: “beautiful and classy.” The photo was reblogged from a Tumblr user named “washrangers,” whose…
After a veritable avalanche of public comments on Twitter and in 18 town hall meetings, DART’s board of directors voted yesterday to hike — er, “streamline” — its fares. The changes go into effect on December 3. The cost of a local ride jumps up from $1.75 to $2.50, with…
Prime Prep Academy opened the doors of its Oak Cliff campus on Monday as promised. Students went to class, teachers taught, Deion Sanders tweeted inane things. Prime Time delivers again. There are, however, some unresolved issues, and not just with the athletic program, which has been banned from district play…
Glenn Beck when he parted ways with Fox News last year and moved the seat of his forum for rational political discourse from New York to Irving. According to Forbes, Beck managed to pull in $80 million without the imprimatur of cable’s oh-so-fair-and-balanced news network. That puts him at No…
The fight to close down Dallas Crown, the infamous horse slaughterhouse in Kaufman, was a knock-down drag-out type of thing. Residents and city officials, tired of the stench and the horse blood that known to overwhelm the sewer system and back up into bath tubs, began fighting to have the…
When the Texas legislature passed new redistricting maps in 2011, it sure seemed that the lines had been drawn to dilute the power of Democratic-leaning Hispanic voters in favor of Republicans. State leaders swore that wasn’t the case, but, rather than taking them to an unfriendly Justice Department for a…
Libraries, as we already know, have not been spared City Manager Mary Suhm’s budget cleaver in recent years. The library budget has been chopped and quartered like perhaps no other city department, having been sliced in half since peaking at $36 million peak in 2007. That’s decimated staffing levels, hours…
