Philip Kingston says that despite what you may have heard, he really does care about his fellow city employees. So much so, in fact, that he’s been crowd-sourcing — with the help of white board put up at City Hall — a list of things city of Dallas workers want from…
As you’re reading this, Texas, thanks to the leadership of our governor, Greg Abbott, and the intrepid work of Texas Guard soldiers, our fair state has survived the first 48 hours of Jade Helm 15, U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s highly publicized covert takeover of Texas. So far, martial law has…
First, a few stipulations: Planned Parenthood offers abortions at many of its healthcare clinics. The tissue that results from those procedures is medically valuable. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and his predecessor, Rick Perry, have a deep-seated interest in making abortion illegal or as close to illegal as possible, as evidenced…
Dozens of people have been arrested by the FBI on drug-related charges after a North Texas-based investigation featuring the Dallas Police Department and an alphabet soup of federal agencies. Some of the drug conspiracy, feds say, ran through DFW Airport. Four of the people arrested — Molitoni Katoa, Janelle Isaacs,…
It’s one of the essential tenants of making local news: If you hear about a drug that you hadn’t previously, you need to freak out about it. Monday night, WFAA led its 5 p.m. newscast with a story that purports to be about flakka, a synthetic drug. There is very…
In Texas, at least, only two real skirmishes left in the battle to actually get the state’s recalcitrant state officials and county bureaucracies to acknowledge the United States’ new reality and issue marriage licenses to any couple who wants to get married. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, after initially feeling…
There was another earthquake near the former site of Texas Stadium Monday morning. It wasn’t a big one, just 2.4 magnitude on the Richter scale, but it was the first in about two weeks. That North Texas being tremor-free for 15 days is news would’ve been unfathomable before 2008, but…
Ostensibly, Texas justices of the peace can do two things now that same-sex marriage is legal in the state: They can either stop performing marriages entirely — they aren’t legally required to officiate ceremonies — or they can marry anyone who wants who wishes to get married in their courts…
Sometimes, you don’t realize what you had until it’s gone. Amid what’s been a downright depressing stretch for newly minted Texas Governor Greg Abbott — on gay marriage, guns, military exercises, etc — our former governor, the immaculately bespectacled Rick Perry, has gone out and started sounding like a centrist,…
Twenty-one. That’s the number of times the state of Texas has sued the Environmental Protection Agency since President Obama took office in 2009. No one is going to tell us what we can and can’t do to our planet, especially not the federal government. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken…
Forest City is not happy about Tim Headington’s plan to install luxury goods purveyor Forty Five Ten on Main Street downtown. The apartment management company — which owns the Wilson Building next door, as well as the Mercantile, Continental and Element buildings nearby — says it was misled about the height…
When we first heard that Jade Helm 15, the upcoming large-scale U.S. military exercise, was in fact a plot to impose martial law on the southwestern United States, we were both a skeptical and ambivalent. On the one hand, given the Texas’ current administration and its drive to turn the…
Good news for those of us who prefer our late night breakfast taquitos without a side of Sig Sauer: Whataburger has confirmed it will not allow the open carrying of handguns in its restaurants after the practice becomes legal in Texas on January 1. “We’ve had many customers and employees…
You can almost hear the echo of John C. Calhoun, Ross Barnett or George Wallace reading Molly Crimer’s statement. The county clerk of Irion County, smack dab in the middle of the middle of nowhere in West Texas said late Monday that she will not be issuing same-sex marriage licenses…
Coppell police arrested a suspect Monday afternoon following the Sunday evening shooting of former Coppell High School running back Charles West. West graduated this spring and signed a football letter of intent with BYU. The alleged shooter was identified in a photo lineup by West, according to police. The suspect’s…
Johnathan Turner, a former Madison High School basketball player, pleaded guilty to beating his housemate Troy Causey to death Monday. He’s been given seven years probation for killing Causey, who played hoops for Wilmer-Hutchins. If he completes his probation successfully, the case against him will be dismissed. Causey died after…
Katie (not k.d.) Lang made sure she was going to get sued last week. Flouting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, but backed by a legally dubious opinion from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Hood County Clerk decided initially that her office just wasn’t going to issue…
Last week was not good for John Wiley Price. Christian Campbell and Karen Manning, charged in connection with Price’s federal corruption case, pleaded guilty to single counts and agreed to testify against Price. Campbell admitted funneling cash to Price’s political consultant Kathy Nealy. Manning admitted to filing a false income tax…
If the city of McKinney is to be believed, the $79,229.09 bill it sent Gawker was a mistake. The bill came in response to a request from Gawker for records and emails related to Eric Casebolt, the former McKinney police officer who resigned after he was caught on video earlier this…
Texas, or at least tiny, tiny part of it named Attorney General Ken Paxton and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, responded to last Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country with bluster and defiance. Patrick spurted out that he didn’t care if he was on the…
The federal bribery and tax evasion case against John Wiley Price got a human face Wednesday. Christian Campbell, one of the Dallas County commissioner’s co-defendants, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit bribery concerning a local government receiving federal benefits. Put simply: Campbell admits he funneled money to…
Former Cowboys safety CJ Spillman turned himself in Wednesday morning on a sexual assault charge stemming from an alleged September 2014 attack at the Gaylord Texan resort in Grapevine. The arrest follows a Tarrant County grand jury’s decision to issue an indictment of Spillman on Monday. The alleged assault was…
