Another day, another list dropped unceremoniously into the email account of the artist formerly known as Unfair Park. This time, with summer approaching, it’s WalletHub’s guide to the best cities for your summer vacation. (A sidebar: We get about 300 of these best-whatever lists every month from assorted websites, and curiously, no…
Three weeks ago, we told you that Texas’ almost three years long drought was finally, thankfully, breaking. The latest numbers released by the U.S. Drought Monitor Thursday show that, save for a couple of areas of limited dry areas in West Texas and the Panhandle, Texas isn’t even experiencing any…
Rick Perry officially announced his renewed presidential aspirations Thursday at Addison Airport. Flanked by veterans and Taya Kyle, the window of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, Perry said he would return American exceptionalism, lambasted President Obama and told a cheering throng that “rights come from God, not the government.” “It’s time…
So there’s not much to this one beyond what you can see in the dashcam video. DPD has seen the video but hasn’t yet received a report about the incident. YouTube user Nihilanth posted the video Wednesday afternoon. At first, it features your basic Central Expressway at rush hour with everyone…
A couple of weeks ago, former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, announced that her husband had something very important to tell all of us on June 4 in Dallas: He’s going to run for president, again. (It was a pre-announcement announcement, not an announcement-announcement. Just try to act surprised…
Rangers prospect Joey Gallo played in his first major league game last night. It went very, very well. Facing the expectations that come with being perhaps the Rangers’ most highly touted minor league hitter ever, the third baseman somehow didn’t disappoint. He knocked in two runs with a single in…
At what Dwaine Caraway said would be his last City Council meeting, the term-limited council member put on a vintage performance, fighting against what’s become the bane of his existence: single-use plastic bags. He lost. Single-use plastic bags will be free again on Monday, but he lost fighting the good…
Texas House Bill 225 was not controversial. As written by Rio Grande City state Representative Ryan Guillen, it would have allowed people who call 911 to help a friend who’s overdosed on drugs avoid charges for possessing a small amount of drugs themselves. So-called Good Samaritan provisions already exist in…
Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday whether to replace the nickel charge for disposable grocery bags, which became effective January 1, with an outright ban. “It’s an environmental issue. These bags, because of the physical nature of the bags, they are going to be a permanent litter problem. It doesn’t…
Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that is intended to make cannabis-based oils with low levels of THC legally available to people who suffer from intractable epilepsy.The problem is, no one is likely to be able to get it. State Senator Kevin Eltife announced the plan to legalize…
As is their wont, some open carry activists staged a protest that didn’t make very much sense on Sunday. A version of open carry has passed the Texas Legislature. Governor Greg Abbott has promised to sign it. Many activists are mad because Texas’ new open carry law requires those openly…
Two weeks ago, Eric Williams and Subrina Brenham, two losing candidates who got less than 200 votes each in running for the Dallas City Council District 8 seat soon to be vacated by Tennell Atkins, filed a lawsuit. Williams and Brenham alleged that Dianne Gibson and Erik Williams, the two…
Joe Gonzalez tried to out-OJ OJ Simpson Wednesday afternoon. Driving a white vehicle, Gonzalez, 42, led Fort Worth police on a low-speed chase that included his heading the wrong way down an exit ramp, onlookers stalled in traffic getting out of their cars and taking photos and, finally, a SWAT…
This was bound to happen, Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston says. Kingston has described the runoff for the council’s District 10 seat as a twist on the prisoner’s dilemma — a well worn example of game theory about how people decide whether to cooperate or screw one another over. In fact,…
In attempting to save the vital right of Texas college students to attend classes with a concealed firearm, the Texas House of Representatives may have killed it. Facing a midnight deadline that would have stopped the campus carry bill from proceeding further, House Republicans forced a vote, which they won…
Dallas traffic lights are so long neglected that “it is not practical to upgrade all obsolete signals in a short time,” city staff said Tuesday. Half of all stoplights in the city were installed before 1970, Auro Majumdar, Dallas’ assistant director of street services said; 70 percent were installed before 1980…
All that separates Texas and mandatory in-person visits for most of the state’s county jail inmates is Governor Greg Abbott’s signature. Working through the Memorial Day weekend, the Texas Senate approved a bill requiring county jails in the state to offer inmates at least two 20-minute, in-person visitation opportunities a…
Slowly but surely, the Dallas Police Department is developing a comprehensive policy for the 1,000 body cameras it intends to introduce into the field in the next five years. Tuesday morning, the Dallas City Council Public Safety committee will get its latest peek at new department standards before the full…
Yes, we know. Your dog is a pretty thing. Whoza pretty doggie? Heeza a pretty doggie, isn’t he? Not only that, your best friend’s face is also unique, which means he or she is a perfect subject for facial recognition software. So, next week, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas…
Jonathan Paul died in March, his family says, because officers at Arlington City Jail put him in a chokehold and then failed to act when Paul could no longer breathe. Paul was picked up by Arlington police for outstanding warrants after he created a disturbance at his home in an…
We’re trying. That’s the gist of a letter sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch regarding Texas’ compliance with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) last week. “I cannot yet certify that the state is in full compliance with Prison Rape Elimination Act (“PREA”),…
During what was otherwise a typically boring briefing on the city’s budget process, a mildly interesting discussion about a subject many of us care about actually broke out: What to do about Dallas’ increasingly bad streets. For a brief moment Wednesday, it seemed as if a few members of the…
