Dallas renters rate the city as one of the worst in Texas in which to live, according to a new survey from Apartment List. Among Texas cities, only Houston ranks lower among the 100 cities surveyed. Apartment List talked to a bunch of renters — more than 18,000 nationwide —…
Corey Knowlton, the Royce City man who paid $350,000 for the right to kill a Namibian rhino at a January 2014 Dallas Safari Club auction, has bagged his rhino. As documented by CNN, Knowlton killed the rhino Monday. Presumably, he will now bring his trophy back to the Dallas area…
Allen High School’s $60 million shrine to high school football, shuttered by a structural failure less than two years after it opened, will reopen next month. Despite the recent rain, Eagle Stadium will reopen for June 5’s Allen High School graduation, AISD officials said at Monday’s school board meeting. All…
First, the good news that really isn’t good news at all, but whatever. As of late Monday afternoon’s 96-34 Texas House vote, both chambers of the Legislature have passed medical marijuana reform legalization. Texans who suffer from intractable epilepsy and are able to get their hands on low-THC cannabidiol oil…
The Dallas ISD School Board saved Anna Brining Monday afternoon. Brining, the principal at Rosemont Elementary school in North Oak Cliff, is popular with parents. When Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles said he wasn’t going to renew her contract at the end of the year, parents protested and some even…
Grapevine police Officer Robert Clark was not indicted by a Tarrant County grand jury Monday morning. Clark is the officer who shot Ruben Garcia Villalpando, who was unarmed, during a traffic stop. Villalpando led police on a chase. When he was eventually pulled over, he can be seen on a dashcam…
Something is going to happen to Dallas’ plastic bag fee, one way or another. The minimum 5 cent charge for a carryout plastic bag has already led to the city getting sued, it might be illegal and, at least to certain people in Dallas, is not even close to being an…
Texas State House Democrats did their Republican colleagues a favor Thursday.The minority caucus managed to stave off a vote on a bill that would have banned state employees from issuing same-sex marriage licenses, regardless of any federal action. Any bill that had not been voted on by Thursday night is…
Much to the delight of rabidly conservative faux-hipsters, Anita Perry, erstwhile Texas Governor Rick Perry’s wife, took to Twitter Friday morning to announce that her husband will be announcing that he’s running for president during a June 4 event in Dallas…
An Iraqi-born American citizen living in Mesquite has been charged with lying to federal agents after the FBI connected him to the Islamic State in Syria. Bilal Abood — who became a U.S. citizen in 2009 — was detained at DFW airport after he wasn’t allowed to board an international…
What was already a tough road leading to Blue Bell getting its products back on store shelves just got a lot tougher. Under a voluntary agreement entered into by the creamery and the states of Texas and Oklahoma, Blue Bell must produce trial ice cream before returning to stores, submit…
Thanks to the “large-scale” rains in the last week, the severe drought that’s consumed Texas for the better part of three years has been largely slaked, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Texas no longer has any areas that are classified as “D4” by the monitor. D4 or exceptional drought…
Memo to Dallas ISD teachers: The kids you are teaching have smartphones. They are more than willing to record you. Do not say anything profane or threatening to them when you can’t see their hands. For the second time since the beginning of March, a video of a Dallas instructor…
Already, in the four days or so since Saturday’s Dallas municipal election, a narrative has sprung up. Mike Rawlings, the thinking goes, was given a decisive mandate by Dallas voters, reflected in his 46-point win over attorney Marcos Ronquillo. The mayoral election was a blowout, but trying to draw any…
Three occupants of an SUV died after it flipped into a house in North Oak Cliff. The house’s occupant was unharmed, according to police. As you can see in the photo, there’s a second car lodged in the house. According to various reporters at the scene, that car was parked…
As has happened with regularity over the past couple of years, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is almost out of pentobarbital, it’s drug of choice for killing condemned murderers. According to information released by the TDCJ Monday to the Texas Tribune, it has three pentobarbital doses left. That’s enough…
The state of Texas may soon mandate that prisoners in county custody be given at least two in person visits a week, a sensible move that staves off the prison complex’s ongoing effort to automate and profit from jail visits. The move comes on the heels of a series of…
The city of Dallas and the Dallas Police Department are set to take another swipe at downtown, Deep Ellum and Uptown’s panhandling problem. Over the past decade or so, the city has tried banning panhandling from sunset to sunup, banning it in areas with high pedestrian and tourist traffic and…
Three freshman-level tests are all that stand between Texas high school students and graduation after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill loosening the state’s graduation requirements. Seniors must now have passed only three of the five STAAR exams they were previously required to pass — algebra I, algebra II,…
Assuming the City Council approves, the Dallas Police Department intends to have a body camera at almost every crime scene within five years, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Monday. About half of the city’s 2,200 patrol officers would be equipped with the cameras, 200 at a time, each year…
When considering the Texas Legislature, perhaps it’s just best to embrace the darkness. Because of the overwhelming majorities enjoyed by Republicans who would make Barry Goldwater blush, if you happen to be one of the large number of Texans who exist somewhere to the left of hard right on the…
All that stands between Dallas and a new City Council is 11 or 12 people heading to the polls in Saturday’s potential downpour, so let’s take a look at what to watch for as results come in Saturday night. The Dead Rubber Scott Griggs (District 1), Adam Medrano (District 2),…
