Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles must face a performance review by school board members before the May 9 board elections, Dallas County District Judge Carl Ginsburg ruled Tuesday. In a case filed by three school trustees against board President Miguel Solis, Ginsburg said Solis’ decision to push the meeting about…
A week after a sizable group of veterans descended on the state capitol to demand access to medical marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions, the Texas House’s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday finally held a hearing on a cannabis-based treatment bill. Don’t expect the veterans…
DFW home prices are almost 9 percent higher than this time last year, Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That’s more than double the average 4.2 percent growth across the country. Dallas is one of just two metro areas where home buyers face prices higher than they were in 2006…
Monday afternoon, the Army Corps of Engineers concluded the decades-long approval process for the Trinity River project. Dallas can begin building a park between the Trinity River levees in addition to the Trinity toll road in whatever guise it may take. That is, the city can start on the portion…
Three Dallas ISD trustees asked separately in February that school board President Miguel Solis schedule a meeting for the board to discuss Superintendent Mike Miles’ performance. Dallas ISD board policy required that Solis honor such a request by placing the item on an agenda within 60 days. Solis interpreted that…
The Texas Railroad Commission has ordered companies running two wastewater disposal wells near Azle to prove that the wells should remain open. The decision comes on the heels of a team of SMU researchers saying last week that Azle’s 2013 earthquake swarm was likely caused by oil and gas drilling…
Calling the transaction that was ironed out over the weekend between the Los Angeles Angels and the Rangers a trade is misleading. The Angels are just giving Josh Hamilton to the Rangers, in addition to paying the vast majority of the $80 million left on Hamilton’s contract. No players are…
As of 2:10 p.m., it’s officially springtime in North Texas. The National Weather Service has issued its first 2015 tornado watch for Dallas County…
Earlier this week, Blue Bell promised to launch an extensive cleaning process at each of its plants, attempting to combat the public health and public relations disasters that have accompanied 10 people being hospitalized after eating the company’s listeria-tainted ice cream. “We’ve always worked to make the very highest quality…
On the same day that a Dallas County grand jury refused to indict two Dallas police officers for the shooting of Jason Harrison, a shooting that was captured on one of the officer’s body cameras, the Texas State Senate approved a program that would allow cops around the state to…
DFW is one of 17 areas identified in a United States Geological Survey report released today as having a high risk for “induced seismicity.” That means we’re doing something that’s making the ground shake, namely injecting wastewater byproducts from energy gathering activities back into the ground. “This new report describes…
The Dallas Police Department’s explorer program, a partnership with the Boys Scouts, offers young people with a “sincere interest in law enforcement” the chance to do things like ride-alongs and paint over graffiti with cops. But according to the department, one veteran officer recently took an alarming interest in his…
Texas might be about to make it a lot easier to graduate from its public high schools, but three Dallas ISD schools have been ranked among the 15 most challenging in the country by The Washington Post. See also: Graduating from Texas High Schools Is about to Get a Lot…
Greg Hardy, pass rusher and asshole extraordinaire, will miss the first 10 games of the NFL season. The former Carolina Panthers defensive end was signed by the Cowboys in March after a 2014 season that saw him miss 15 games. Hardy was placed on the commissioner’s exempt list — read:…
Two Colombian nationals are sitting in Collin County Detention Center after being arrested for multiple home invasion robberies that allegedly targeted individuals of Asian descent. Pier Alexander Pelaez, 44, was arrested Friday in Dallas. Edwin Riascos Romero, 32, was arrested Tuesday in Plano. Plano police say they starting receiving reports…
In 2013, Texas lawmakers made it a lot easier for high school seniors to graduate. This year, the legislature is set to do it again. Before the 2013 changes, seniors would have had to pass 15 end-of-course exams to graduate. That was too much, the House and Senate decided, so…
The 2013 earthquake swarm that centered around the town of Azle in Tarrant County was likely the result of natural gas drilling and wastewater injection, according to a report published Tuesday in the Nature Communications journal. According to Matthew Hornbach, an SMU associate professor of geophysics and lead author of…
Sixty-three percent of Dallas residents who’ve made up their mind about whether or not a toll road should be built between the Trinity River levees oppose the project, according to extensive polling done by The Dallas Morning News between April 10 and April 17. Among registered voters who’ve made up…
Put down the spoon. Blue Bell has ordered all of its products taken off Texas stores shelves after finding even more listeria in a half-gallon of chocolate chip cookie dough at its flagship Brenham facility. The full recall comes after Blue Bell issued the first partial recall in the company’s…
A dramatic scene unfolded on the I-30 service road in Mesquite early Sunday morning as a Mesquite Police dash cam captured two officers hauling an apparently unconscious man from a burning SUV. As the police car approaches the wrecked vehicle, you can hear a bystander saying that the man inside…
Soso Jamabo is a funny kid. His viral stunt, the one where the 28th-ranked football recruit in the country told WFAA that he’d narrowed his decision about where to play running back to ITT Tech and the University of Phoenix, showed a self-awareness that was refreshing in the absurd recruiting…
Texas’ unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since July 2007, according to the state. Only 4.2 percent of Texans who were active participants in the workforce in March did not have jobs, down from 4.3 percent in February. March’s state jobs report, issued Friday, was not all good news,…
