The news, at least as tweeted by the Dallas Police Department, is good. Of the more than 113,000 traffic stops performed by the department in 2014, only five resulted in racial profiling complaints being filed with DPD’s Internal Affairs Division. The raw data paints a murkier picture. Of those 113,000…
Ted Cruz confirmed what was inevitable early Monday morning on Twitter. The Texas senator, sworn in just 26 months ago, is running for president. I’m running for President and I hope to earn your support! pic.twitter.com/0UTqaIoytP— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2015 Monday morning, Cruz formally confirmed his candidacy at…
Texas High School athletes shouldn’t be tested for steroids any more, the state’s Sunset Commission says, because the state’s “steroid testing program is no longer effective.” Since 2008, the year the program started, it has confirmed 40 positive tests — less than one-half of 1 percent of all students tested…
Since we last left Faux Mayor Mike, his still criminally underfollowed Twitter has more than tripled its constituency. Faux Mike himself has continued to rampage around Dallas’ favorite Internet haunts as well, dropping f-bombs, extolling the virtues of pizza and decrying all the “jihadist anti-toll road goofballs.” Amid the profanity…
Update March 23: Villalba unblocked Rhoads on Saturday and promised her an exclusive after the bill gets its committee hearing on March 26. Jason Villalba’s taken a lot of heat for HB 2918. Some of it’s been deserved — even Villalba himself admitted to The Dallas Morning News that the…
On March 26, the U.S. Department of Labor will change the definition of the word “spouse” as it’s used in the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Any person legally married to another person in any state will become eligible for the spousal benefits provided for in the act. The…
Mayor Mike Rawlings is not happy with Dallas City Council member Scott Griggs. Two weeks ago, in response to a series of pro-Trinity toll road open-microphone speakers, Griggs tore into the road at a council meeting. “This is the worst boondoggle imaginable, and it’s time to get serious about developing…
SMU is out of the NCAA Tournament. After trailing by as many as 10 in the second half, the Ponies led by two in the final minute against UCLA. The Bruins Bryce Alford chucked up an off-balance three that had no chance. As it approached the plane of the front…
Nothing, it seems, trumps property rights. Not even the God-given right to carry a handgun anywhere you goddamn please that Republicans repeatedly cite. The Texas Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to approve so-called “campus carry” the second piece of major gun legislation the body has given the go-ahead this week. In…
Warrants have been issued for two women running a Deep Ellum black-market butt-injection boutique. They are accused practicing medicine without a license. Denise Ross, known as “Wee Wee,” and Jimmy Joe Clarke, known as “Alicia,” agreed to give a woman her first session of butt-enhancing injections for $520, Dallas Police…
The Dallas Cowboys have signed free agent defensive lineman Greg Hardy to a one-year contract, the team announced on Twitter today. He’s just what the Cowboys need. The 2010 sixth-round pick from Ole Miss is a big, rangy outside speed rusher. He’s tallied 26 sacks in his last two full…
It’s not about the road. It’s about the park. So says the American Institute of Architects Dallas chapter, which released a statement Wednesday condemning the long-planned, under-funded Trinity toll road. AIA Dallas supports a great Trinity Park as essential to the future health and prosperity of Dallas. Any highway similar…
CORRECTION: I mistakenly wrote that James Parker, who filed the ethics complaint against council candidate Sam Merten, said he wasn’t told a hearing on his complaint was scheduled. He was, and the corrected sentence is marked in bold below. The first ethics complaint to make it to a formal hearing…
The killer of two Henderson County law enforcement officers will not be executed by Texas as scheduled on Wednesday. Randall Wayne Mays, 55, was set to die by lethal injection before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals gave him a stay of execution, agreeing with Mays’ attorneys that more time…
Kory Watkins is like the kid who got a Zune instead of an iPod for Christmas. The Open Carry Tarrant County leader is upset — very, very upset — that the Texas Senate passed a bill yesterday that would legalize the open carrying of handguns in the state. Watkins is…
We’re not going to take the time to fully debunk Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ column defending the Trinity Toll Road. Wylie H, Dallas’ preeminent City Hall gadfly and Internet commenter, has already — a day in advance no less — done that work on D Magazine’s Front Burner blog. Still,…
Friday, Unfair Park’s love/hate feelings about state Representative Jonathan Stickland took another turn. The Bedford Republican introduced a couple of bills on the last day of filing, one to cut off utilities to any National Security Agency facility in Texas and another, to make so-called “no knock” warrants illegal in…
In what’s just the latest evidence that Ted Cruz’s inevitable presidential campaign is going to be the best, the junior senator from Texas scared the bejeezus out of a 3-year-old girl in New Hampshire. “The whole world’s on fire,” Cruz says, while doing his requisite yammering about President Obama’s bringing…
Almost as soon as state Senator Kevin Eltife and Representative Stephanie Klick, both Republicans, introduced their plan to make a very limited subset of cannibis-infused oils available to an even smaller subset of those patients who would benefit from medical marijuana therapy, the push-back started. Shaun McAlister, the executive director…
Rafael Anchia has backed up claims that he would listen to his Texas House district when it comes to the Trinity toll road. Early Friday, Anchia filed legislation that would prevent the Texas Department of Transportation from providing funding for the Trinity roll road and require the road proposal to…
There’s all sorts of problems with pre-election candidate surveys. They’re high risk/low reward for participants, can be boring and suffer from a self-selection problem. That’s especially true when the survey is conducted by an interest-fueled PAC like the Dallas Green Alliance, one of two political action committees trying to fighting…
Nykerion Nealon has been arrested for killing Ahmed Al-Jumaili, the Iraqi immigrant shot as he, his wife and his brother took pictures in the snow on March 5. Nealon, 17, told police he took to the streets near Al-Jumaili’s apartment in far northeast Dallas after someone shot into his girlfriend’s…
