Cathedral of Hope on Cedar Springs has been doing what you might call God’s work for 40 years now, ministering to the spiritual needs of LGBT Christians who have historically been shunned by mainstream churches. In 1993, CoH cobbled together a makeshift TV studio and eventually began broadcasting the sermons…
So it’s been easy to get bogged down in the last few days with questions like “Holy shit! Jennifer Sprague is making how much?” and “Wait, you think us media types are blowing this salary thing out of proportion because Jennifer Sprague is young and blond and has boobs?” But,…
Back before I posted this piece about how DeVry — yes, that DeVry — wanted to train students from one of its Caribbean medical schools in Texas hospitals, I reached out to the for-profit university for a more detailed explanation of their plans and, perhaps, a comment. None came. But…
Last night at the Turner House, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League unveiled its 2012 Architecture at Risk List, its annual enumeration of properties in danger of being demolished, neglected, and otherwise relegated to the dust bin of history. They offered a sneak peek of the first item on their…
Back in 2006, Mayor Laura Miller joined with her colleagues across the country to sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, a promise to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012, It was just Dallas doing in its part to chip…
There was some good news in the crime statistics presented to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee a few moments ago. Burglaries, the bane of the Dallas Police Department in recent years, are down by double-digits thanks to ongoing efforts to shut down fencing operations through which thieves turn their…
Back in July, Benino Perez was working at a cement plant on Corinth Street in Dallas when he lost his balance. He fell from a height of several feet and was knocked unconscious from the impact. And according to a lawsuit filed in Dallas County District Court by his family…
Back in December, the city of Dallas opened its Community Baby Cafe, which provides resources not for eating young children, as the easily confused might be led to believe, but for nursing them. Research has made the benefits of breastfeeding increasingly undeniable, so the city decided to launch CBC as…
Incoming DISD superintendent Mike Miles called Saturday’s sit-down with the board a retreat, but that’s probably a misnomer. The meeting was long and took place on a weekend, and there was a platter full of bacon, but Miles didn’t give an inch. In a Q&A session with media beforehand, Miles…
The federal government has already accused Sam Hurd, a Dallas Cowboys receiver until a year ago, of being caught with a kilo of cocaine while trying to buy a lot more in an attempt drug-dealing network. Because a man’s got to live, right? How can a guy feed his family…
The A.P. is reporting that Heritage Auctions, the purveyor of valuable and collectible arcana, is hawking the hat and guns of Annie Oakley, the famed sharpshooter who could split a playing card, edge-on, with a bullet. The items, which are being put up for sale by some of Oakley’s California-based…
As the district announced yesterday, and the DMN reported over the weekend (paywall), DISD is accusing five private tutoring companies of more $500,000 in fraud. That’s on top of more than $140,000 the district accused two other companies of illegally taking in April after an external audit. The companies deny…
If you’re like me, you associate DeVry with grainy daytime TV advertisements from the mid-1990s hawking cut-rate degrees in things like medial records and mechanical drafting. But the for-profit college has apparently been moving up in the world, now training not only your stenographer but your doctor. DeVry entered the…
It’s been almost a month since renowned car maker Carroll Shelby died in Dallas at the age of 89, but he’s not exactly at rest. According to TMZ, his body remains on ice in the medical examiner’s office while his estranged wife and children fight over who has control of…
Until recently, if you walked along the eastern wall of the Dallas Public Library, you would have to weave your way through a gathering of homeless people idling there. Never gave me much of a problem, but apparently something went down because, as Rudy Bush noted yesterday, Downtown Dallas, Inc…
Going in, I was assuming the Pride Month event at City Hall was for celebrating the previous days’ revelation that the Green Lantern is gay. It’s not Batman or Superman, but baby steps, right? But no one — not Councilwoman Delia Jasso, not any of the half dozen speakers, not…
Councilman Dwaine Caraway announced this morning at the City Council briefing that despite his half-decade long effort to get young men to pull ’em up, Dallas’ sagging epidemic is only getting worse. “It’s a doggone shame,” he said. Seems that Caraway recently spotted two young men strolling through the meat…
When Joseph Drake, a fourth grade teacher at Central Elementary School, fired off a testy email to DISD Trustee Edwin Flores (Sample line: “People like you destroy morale, beat us down into the ground, and make us wish we had been greedy enough to go into the business world as…
The Dallas Voice has been on this for a while now, but it deserves a belated mention. According to the Plano Police Department, two women were holding hands as they walked with an teenage friend through the parking lot of the Plano Sports Authority (a rec center) at about 2…
Please. Put away your hose, uproot your automatic sprinkler system, and watch sadly as your patch of St. Augustine scorches and shrivels until it’s a dusty brown wasteland, because it’s better than the alternative. Dallas Water Utilities and the Tarrant Regional Water District announced this morning that they are bringing…
Most Tuesdays when the Dallas County Commissioners Court ends, reporters throng the dais to pepper the commissioners with questions. The question that was on the tip of everyone’s tongue this morning was “Hey John Wiley Price. Did you really embezzle and launder all that money like the FBI guy said?”…
Two years ago, when George Clayton announced that he was seeking to represent Dallas and Collin countie on the State Board of Education, the first question was, “Who?” It soon became clear that Clayton was, on the surface at least, a mild-mannered administrator at North Dallas High School who believes…
