Given Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne’s political proclivities, it’s no surprise that she headed over to Glenn Beck’s studio at The Blaze to participate in an extended discussion about Irving’s clock kid, Ahmed Mohamed, less than a week after he was arrested for bringing what he described as a homemade…
A Dallas County grand jury has decided not indict Scott Griggs based on allegations that he threatened to “break the fucking fingers” of a member of the city secretary’s office because of documents Griggs felt were being improperly handled. In the run-up to April 16’s all Trinity toll road City…
It only took Dallas’ UberBlack drivers a long weekend to get back their right to pick up only passengers willing to pay for their more expensive service. Late Monday night, following four days of protests and calls for strikes, Uber informed drivers through an email that they could opt out…
Putting a list together of Dallas most psychically painful sports injuries was no easy task. For injuries to matter to fans — let’s stipulate that every injury matters to the player to whom it happens, especially in the NFL, where contracts aren’t guaranteed — the team being affected needs to…
Before it was consumed by Ahmed Mohamed’s clock, Dallas’ broadcast media’s late summer obsession was listening to people complain about their water bills. “Four times higher,” The Colony’s Jim Budney told KXAS at the end of August. “Hasn’t been that much hotter, we’ve been watering the lawn with the same…
2014 was a good year for LGBTQ rights in Dallas. The city added limited insurance benefits for transgender city employees, made it possible for city employees to use the Family Medical Leave Act to take care of their same-sex partners and started on a path toward getting retirement benefits for the…
Until Friday, Uber in Dallas was essentially two different services. There was UberBlack — and its cousins UberSUV and UberSelect — the service that started everything for Uber. UberBlack began as a way to keep town car drivers who weren’t busy, busy. Drivers between gigs could switch the app on…
College football players get scrutinized on social media. That’s one of the anti-perks of taking the world’s highest-profile unpaid internship. Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones, perhaps the 2015 Heisman Trophy front-runner, is probably most famous for his brutally honest 2012 tweet about not being at Ohio State to “play school.”…
Dallas barbecue institutions, apparently, are not safe from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, even when they’re located in Deep Ellum, one of the most liberal parts of one of Texas’ most Democratic cities. “Texas is what America is supposed to be,” Abbott said in front of a packed house. “America needs…
Texans, a lot of them, are getting medical insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Some 700,000 in 2014, according to numbers released by the Census Bureau and collated by the left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities. That’s good. Three percent more Texans had insurance in 2014 than 2013. That’s…
Ted Cruz continues, as Dan Rather told us when he stopped by the office last month, to be a desperado waiting for a train. Throughout Wednesday night’s second Republican debate, Cruz leaned on the ropes, stressing his extreme right-wing bona fides but refraining from attacking Donald Trump or any of…
Ahmed Mohamed is, it seems, going to fine. The Irving 14-year-old, arrested earlier this week after bringing a homemade clock to school, received a worldwide outpouring of support Wednesday, a day Mohamed concluded with a smiling, confident press conference. Monday morning, Mohamed brought the clock to school. He was hoping,…
Tuesday, Schutze told you all about why we should be scared because Dallas is taking $1 million in rich-people money from the Trinity Trust to pay for yet another “charrette” to come up with a plan for a park between the Trinity River levees. Letting rich people fund park planning…
If one member of the City Council gets his way, you may not have to head downtown to fight a traffic ticket next year. You might be able to do it in front of your closest justice of the peace. The problem, if you ask critics of Dallas’ municipal courts,…
Stressing the need for stability, the Dallas ISD board of trustees voted 8-1 Tuesday to name former Superintendent Michael Hinojosa as the sole finalist for the district’s vacant superintendent job. Hinojosa previously served as superintendent from 2005 to 2011 and will become the first person to have been hired for…
Donald Trump With Robert Jeffress, Katrina Peirson and Scottie Nell Hughes American Airlines Center, Dallas Monday, September 14, 2015 Attending one of Donald Trump’s events is like stepping into an alternate-reality where the United States has reaped the whirlwind of years of nativism and indulging its worst impulses. He offers…
Dallas, according to the city, the Morning News and the eyes and bitten faces of residents, has a stray dog problem, especially in southern Dallas. The City Council, especially southern sector reps Scott Griggs, Erik Wilson and Rickey Callahan are fed up. Two weeks ago, they summoned members of Dallas Animal…
North Texas is a fantastic place. Dallas is a real city, with a comparatively low cost of living along with all of the benefits you’d expect from a city its size. If cities aren’t your thing, we have every kind of suburb you can imagine — inner suburbs, normal suburbs,…
Rick Perry is quitting the 2016 presidential race. The former four-term Texas governor, who also ran in 2011 for the 2012 nomination, never saw his campaign get off the ground this cycle. He performed better on the trail than he did in 2011, but wasn’t able to overcome the taint…
Want to actually, you know, drive on LBJ rather than just sitting on it? Now you can, but it’ll cost you. The TEXpress lanes are open. The new sunken pay lanes on Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway — we’ll begrudgingly admit — are a civil engineering marvel. They’ll also generate quite…
The road is filled with hazards. The Cowboys, having won the NFC East last year, have been gifted with a first-place schedule. They play the two defending conference champions (Seattle and New England), the team that knocked them out of last season’s playoffs (Green Bay) and face a trip to…
If the city gets its way, the second light rail line through downtown will traverse what’s become known as the Jackson Street alternative. With DART facing a deadline for applying for a federal grant it says is essential to the project, the Dallas City Council voted 13-1 Wednesday to endorse…
