During a joint interview with Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price hosted by the Texas Tribune in Austin, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings spoke out candidly against the growing tide in the state Legislature against local control. Rawlings words come in the wake of a start to the 2015 Texas Legislative session…
On paper, the seven plaintiffs suing the NFL for their experiences at 2011’s Jerryworld-hosted Super Bowl won. A Dallas jury agreed with the group — and the NFL — that the leagued breached its contract with the fans when they were either denied seats or switched to different seats at…
In what’s turning out to be a stellar week for tolerance in Dallas, the rabbi of Congregation Toras Chaim, the embattled Orthodox Jewish congregation that meets in a Far North Dallas home, says someone painted a swastika on his car sometime Wednesday. “I feel completely violated. As a Jew, the…
Heading into deliberations, the questions facing the jury in the 2011 Super Bowl seating fiasco trial were pretty simple. The NFL — accused of breach of contract and fraudulent inducement after the plaintiff fans were either relocated or denied seats entirely at the game — has admitted to the breach…
As soon as the now-infamous 9-second video of white college students singing a racist song went viral, the anonymity of those involved, especially those members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity who could be seen, was sure to be short lived. Social media users quickly fingered Parker…
Wednesday is Planned Parenthood lobby day at the state capitol in Austin. As you might expect, it’s brought out the best in our favorite local state rep, fetal gun rights advocate and constitutional scholar Jonathan Stickland. See also: State Rep. Jonathan Stickland Swears He Wasn’t Threatening to Shoot People, Just…
Compared with many of the United States’ other large metro areas, the median home in DFW remains (relatively) cheap, according to new research from HSH, a mortgage information firm. The median Dallas-area home — which costs $189,600 says HSH — is affordable for households making $48,786.53 or more, the 12th…
This all could have been avoided, Jerry Jones said, if he’d just gotten his way. As part of an attempt to break the Super Bowl attendance record — set in 1980 when 103,985 fans watched the Steelers beat the Rams in the Rose Bowl — 13,000 temporary seats were added…
The leader of the racist chanting on a University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity bus trip “appears to be a graduate” of Jesuit College Prep in Dallas, according to the school. “I am appalled by the actions in the video and extremely hurt by the pain this has caused…
Justice Hull never had a chance. The 2-month-old, allegedly intentionally drowned by the child of her CPS-appointed caretaker in January, was born to a mother who was already subject to eight CPS reports before she was born. Keshondria Hull, according a report issued by the Texas Department of Family and…
There was a palpable lethargy around the Observer offices yesterday. Not exactly atypical for Monday, but the fluorescent lights seemed especially harsh because not all quite regained the hour of sleep we lost over the weekend. If state Representative Dan Flynn gets his way, it might be the last time…
Continuing DFW’s storied history of people doing very stupid things in rented exotic cars, a driver abandoned a Lamborghini on the Dallas North Tollway early Sunday morning. See also: A Lamborghini and Ferrari Crashed into Each Other in Fort Worth on Sunday Initially, according to WFAA, police had no idea…
As video released by Dallas police of the suspects confirms, the department has frustratingly little to go on in its search for the killers of Ahmed Al-Jumaili. Al-Jumaili, 36, had recently emigrated to Dallas from Iraq. Wednesday night, he saw snow for the first time; when he, his wife and…
Dallas Police officer Amy Wilburn shot Kelvion Walker — that much is beyond dispute. Believing he was armed and a carjacking suspect, Wilburn rushed the car Walker was sitting in. Despite, according to witnesses, Walker’s hands being up, Wilburn drew her weapon and hit him in the stomach. DPD brass…
A federal magistrate judge has ruled that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is, in fact, indigent enough that taxpayers should pay for a sizable portion of his defense, as faces federal corruption charges for allegedly taking almost $1 million in bribes. Earlier today, Price filed the requested financial disclosure…
Ahmed Al-Jumail was outside with his wife just after midnight Thursday taking pictures of the newly fallen snow when witnesses saw two men walk casually past the couple before turning around and shooting at them, police say. Al-Jumail was hit and transported to the hospital, where he died. He was…
You hear it, or see it if you’re online, every time someone asks what they should do while visiting Dallas. One of the quickest responses is always ‘go check out the Dallas World Aquarium.’ Some mention of penguins or rare birds and how it’s a little expensive ($20.95) but worth…
Not content to let its southern suburban sibling have all the fun, the Dallas Police Department has released a new hopes-to-go viral video of its own. It’s not nearly as good as the Cedar Hill McConaughey spoof…
We’ve been highly critical of DART’s handling of winter weather here at Unfair Park. The agency’s cuts to bus service during inclement weather leave Dallas without adequate public transit at the time when it’s most needed. That being said, the limits Winter Weather Scenario One places on rail service make…
Timothy O’Connell did what anyone would do faced with a bunch of frat bros constantly telling him to “fuck off” and using his fence as a toilet. He got in touch with the local news — WFAA in this case — and let them do the rest…
Yesterday’s Trinity Toll Road debate may have been unscheduled, but it was raucous. After two open-microphone speakers at the scheduled city council meeting spoke in favor of the road, council members Scott Griggs and Philip Kingston lambasted the two-decades planned South-to-North Dallas connector, despite the objections of Dallas City Attorney…
Tuesday, after a couple dozen kids came home sick on Monday, DISD cancelled school at Lakewood Elementary. Areas at the school — specifically an art classroom — contained high levels of carbon monoxide, enough to make kids in the class complain of stomach aches and dizziness. A retired teacher who…
