Unless they happen to be the city of Dallas’ paid defense attorneys, it’s hard to find a lawyer who thinks the city of Dallas has a shot at winning the lawsuit brought by Three Expo Events following the City Council decision to ban the Three Expo’s Exxxotica sex show from…
Andy Beal, amateur mathematician, noted high-stakes poker player, failed space entrepreneur and Dallas richest human, made a big splash in January when he bought Tom Hicks’ former estate — listed for $100 million, the highest price in Texas history — in Preston Hollow. He wasn’t done shopping. Last week, as…
Monday, Dallas police Chief David Brown had a plan to stem Dallas’ ongoing spike in violent crime. He told the City Council’s public safety committee he would shuffle hundreds of officers’ beats and schedules to deal with a 75 percent jump in murders so far in 2016 over the same…
So, Wrestlemania, the WWE’s Super Bowl, is coming to Jerryworld this weekend. That means that Dallas will have a few visitors, who will spend a little money and probably have a pretty good time. As is customary with these sort of events at Arlington’s crown jewel, it also means that…
Just looking at the map is striking. According to new data released by the U.S. Geological Survey, human activity is causing earthquake risk in areas that previously had basically no risk for seismic activity. The survey’s new 2016 map shows natural risk, which for the most part cuts off just…
The NFL Draft begins one month from today. As Roger Goodell announces the results of the first round on April 28, the Cowboys, assuming they won’t trade down, pick fourth. That’s the highest they’ve stood in the draft in more than 20 years, thanks to 2015’s abysmal 4-12 record. Considering…
Pasties, whipped cream and an oversized dildo, not the First Amendment, are the real issues at the heart of the Dallas City Council’s decision to ban the Exxxotica sex-expo from the city-owned convention center, according to the city’s response to a lawsuit filed by Three Expo events, the company that puts…
Ted Cruz has officially lost it with Donald Trump. Texas’ Canadian-born junior senator went after the GOP’s presidential front-runner Thursday afternoon with all the bluster he could find, putting an end to any hope the two candidates could revive the congenial relationship they had earlier in the campaign. “It’s not…
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, a Texas-based affiliate of the women’s health organization, has joined a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood branches across the country against the Center for Medical Progress and the people behind it. Posing as tissue researchers, Center for Medical Progress employees — they fancy themselves investigative journalists —…
Dallas’ quest to keep Exxxotica out of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center will keep its puritanical legal eagle on the job, thanks to the majority of the Dallas City Council that voted to keep Scott Bergthold on the team defending the city against the porn convention’s lawsuit. Bergthold, a…
The city of Dallas will not be piloting a cite-and-release program for marijuana possession after all. Wednesday morning, the Dallas City Council shot down a long-in-the-works proposal that would’ve required Dallas police officers to issue tickets, rather than making arrests, when they discovered Dallas residents with less than four ounces…
So far, no one has caught the Zika virus in Texas from a mosquito. The virus has only been transmitted once in the state, and that happened when a man returning to the Lone Star State from a trip to South America had sex with an uninfected woman. As mosquito…
According to the first reports out of Brussels, one of the two explosions that shook Zaventem airport Tuesday went off near the check-in counter of Fort Worth-based American Airlines. Despite many outlets still reporting that version of events, a statement issued by the airline says that no explosion took place near…
Nothing about Donald Trump is new. In any major American city, no one need dig far to find people who exhibited the traits that make Trump so appealing to the Republican electorate, and Dallas is no different. None of its residents may have had all of Trumps’ charms rolled into…
The lack of hard data available to help predict the effects of Texas’ anti-abortion House Bill 2 came up again and again earlier this month when the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether to strike down portions of the law. The most contentious regulation, the one that requires any abortion…
Presented (mostly) without comment, here’s Dallas City Council member Rickey Callahan bringing in St. Patrick’s Day, and his birthday, with a lovely, lilting brogue and a song. Thanks, Rickey, and District 8 council member Erik Wilson, who brought our attention to this video…
In any other political environment, Merrick Garland, the man nominated by President Obama to take Antonin Scalia’s spot on the Supreme Court, wouldn’t be particularly controversial choice. He’s got impeccable credentials, has been a justice on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in D.C. for nearly 20 years and has…
Ted Cruz is in trouble. He didn’t have the worst night of the four remaining GOP presidential candidates — that honor belongs to Marco Rubio, who got walloped by front-runner Donald Trump in Rubio’s home state, Florida — but he didn’t do anything to derail Trump’s anger-powered locomotive of a…
Buying into a Texas wind farm sounds like a good idea. Texas investors have dumped more than $7 billion into the technology and the state’s wind farms generate more than 12,000 megawatts of electricity per year. Texas has the highest wind power capacity in the country, so it makes sense…
Sixty-five Texas water systems serving 82,000 people have tested positive for levels of arsenic higher, and sometimes much higher, than what’s considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Integrity Project says. The authors of the report say the state of Texas hasn’t done a good enough job of…
Chase Stone and his friends were out Sunday, he says, to enjoy to beautiful weather and the start of riding season with a group motorcycle ride. As the riders traveled through Fort Worth, one of the group’s support vehicles, traveling with the caravan of motorcycles to help out in case…
Slowly, but surely under the leadership of new executive director Kelly Gottschalk, the moribund Dallas Police and Fire Pension System seems to be digging itself out of the chasm dug during the leadership of former director Richard Tettamant. According to new data released by the pension fund on Thursday and…
