Obama’s reelection last year prompted a lot of talk over whether Texas should once again secede from the Union. Except for a few die-hard secessionists, though, few considered it a serious proposal, more like an opportunity to make Texas jokes. So the debate just kind of fizzled out. But the…
SMU agrees with a number of points former professor Patricia Davis made in the rather wild lawsuit she filed last month. Both agree, for example, that Davis is a woman, that SMU has 11,000 students and that Davis worked at the school until she was fired last October from her…
The North Texas Tollway Authority has been taking an increasingly punitive approach to chasing down toll scofflaws. First came the public shaming, then the lawsuits. Now, it could start impounding cars. A bill to give the NTTA the power to block vehicle registrations and ban cars from its tollways (this…
The biggest tip-off that the above picture is a rendering of Victory Park and not a photo isn’t the color saturation or its overall sketchbook quality. It’s the presence of human beings, who have tended to steer clear of the rather forbidding development when there’s not a Mavs game or…
Investigators still haven’t determined the official cause of the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people and injured at least 200 others in West last month, but all signs point to the large quantities of highly explosive ammonium nitrate that were stored there. What’s also become clear is that neighbors…
If you’re not one for delayed gratification, skip to the 2:45 mark. That’ll take you past the jolting takeoff and soaring panoramas of rural North Texas and straight to the money shot, in which you’ll discover what it’s like to be a falcon killing a duck in midair. The video…
The man the FBI has dubbed the “Mesh Mask Bandit” struck first on New Year’s Eve, robbing a Northwest Highway BBVA Compass at gunpoint. Since then, he’s robbed an average of about one bank a week, at first sticking to Dallas proper but eventually working his way out to Garland,…
Burton Knight didn’t set out trying to pick a fight with the city of Dallas. He just wanted a xeriscaped lawn, so he pulled up the green turf in front of his Abrams Road home and put in drought-tolerant cactus, mesquite, yucca, agave and dotted the landscape with large, roughly…
When the New York Jets pushed Tim Tebow overboard sans parachute earlier this week, the quarterback had no shortage of suitors. None of them were with NFL teams, which all seem to have concluded that his miraculous 2011 season was a fluke and that he’s not very good, but they…
The Fundrazr campaign Jason Roberts’ ex-wife launched last month to help pay the mountain of medical bills that accumulated during his battle with cancer has raised $8,530, which is respectable but falls far short of the $40,000 goal. So, Roberts’ supporters are hoping to make up some of the difference…
If you haven’t already, meet Norman. He’s the French herding dog (a Briard to be exact) who’s achieved Internet stardom by riding a scooter, bike, skateboard, surfboard. You may or may not care to know that he’s from Arlington. Norman is now taking his talents to the baseball diamond. The…
The Dallas Voice broke the news Tuesday that Councilman Scott Griggs had won the support from a majority of his colleagues for a resolution supporting marriage equality and would be putting the item on the City Council agenda for a vote. “It’s timely, and it’s relevant,” Griggs later told the…
Ruben Martinez Jiminez wasn’t yelling “Jihad” when police found him Sunday in a secure area of Love Field, as the arrest warrant said. That would have been screaming. What Jiminez was saying was “Jesus.” Federal prosecutors explain why in a criminal complaint filed yesterday afternoon: Jiminez was on a mission…
It’s thirsty work being Rick Perry. You have to stand in the warm May sun outside a gun shop and wax poetic about the virtues of firearms, laissez-faire capitalism and how much California blows. It’s no wonder then that you would promptly hightail it across town to the local brewery…
The Wire, David Simon’s epic examination of power, corruption and narcotics in a major American city, was not set in Texas. It couldn’t have been. Not because cities here don’t have those things (they do) but because local police departments aren’t allowed to go around wiretapping drug dealers. Under current…
On Monday afternoon, two homeowners in the Lower Greenville West Neighborhood Association grew alarmed when they spotted a team of a half dozen or so guys who were snapping pictures and trespassing on private property. The homeowners were suspicious and called 911. Later, they sent out an email blast to…
In the decade since it was founded in Dallas, IP Nav has established itself as a global leader in the increasingly lucrative business of “patent assertion,” offering clients the ability to “maximize the value of their IP assets.” Put more bluntly, it’s a patent troll, shaking down companies by threatening…
The official logo of Gun Barrel City, a small town on the banks of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, is a pair of crossed revolvers. Its slogan is “We Shoot Straight With You.” One of its main drags is Gun Barrel Lane, where you’ll find the Carry Right Gun Shop. Its…
At first glance — and second, and third — Attorney General Greg Abbott’s opinion on Monday that cities, counties, and school districts are barred by the Texas Constitution from offering health benefits to the domestic partners of employees would seem to be a stumbling block on the road toward equal…
We’ve always assumed that The Dallas Morning News’ white-on-rice coverage of the Museum Tower dust-up has been the product of good shoe-leather reporting on the part of Steve Thompson and Gary Jacobson: combing through open records, studying up on the arcane world of public pensions, developing sources on the Dallas…
Mireya Villareal is the junior member of CBS 11’s crack squad of investigative reporters, the I-Team for short. She’s a tough, no-bullshit type, as is clear by the Serious Face she dons in her photo, and she’s dedicated her career to sniffing out government corruption and waste and protecting consumers…
The Dallas Morning News, you may have noticed but probably didn’t, is in the middle of a mammoth, months-long effort to pick the best neighborhoods. First came the safest neighborhoods, then the best schools, then those best suited for empty nesters. It’s all leading up to the June 16 reveal,…
