Over the last two years, scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have purchased 63 dogs for use in federally funded experiments that began as far back as 1988. The canines, mostly foxhounds and mongrels, are trained to run on treadmills, and are then anesthetized for…
Rhae Lumpkin’s property is a mess. The house looks to have been built in chunks — one painted white, one painted red, and one rendered in unfinished cedar. On the porch, a large industrial spool serves as a table. An old rusted still, a piece of found art, sits in…
Location, location, location For two years, Amelia Core Jenkins, proprietor of a bed-and-breakfast at the corner of Young and St. Paul streets downtown, dutifully paid her dues to the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau. The money earned her inn, in a converted abandoned warehouse, the right to be listed in…
Eyes wide shut Your article “Impossible dreamer” (March 2) reeks of skepticism. I’m sure you have a duty to explore both sides, but I have discovered that what Bobby Wightman-Cervantes says is true, as I too have been subject to the oppression that is endemic in this Texas system that…
Eddie Deen wants to correct Gov. George W. Bush’s calculations or, short of that, squeeze more money out of him. “Looks like I might need to send his people another bill,” the Dallas caterer says with a laugh. On the campaign trail the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has told audiences…
This blows Federal workers who make charges of waste, fraud, or abuse can be subject to severe reprisal and recrimination for their efforts. I am a federal government employee and a union officer. I want to point out some pitfalls in Mr. Schutze’s comments about whistle-blowing in the federal sector…
“I don’t know if I should say this or not,” she says, her voice shaky, her hands pressed together in front of her mouth. As she sits in her modest Fort Worth home, Lydia Galvan recalls what she found days after her husband, a Dallas police officer, was killed in…
It’s an early Tuesday afternoon at Barbara Jordan Elementary School in South Oak Cliff, and Chet Baker, a tall and cheerful visitor dressed in a dark gray suit, takes off his jacket and makes this straightforward inquiry to Jeff Sughrue’s third-grade class: “What signal would you show if today is…
Like other organs of local government, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department adopted a strict no-smoking policy in 1988. Over the last two decades, such edicts have become routine and largely unquestioned in workplaces, exiling the nicotine-addicted to sidewalks. But Thomas Reilly, a sheriff’s investigator, charges that his department holds itself…
Bark, don’t bite So, how is KTVT-Channel 11’s newscast now that popular anchorman Tracy Rowlett has joined the team? Has Rowlett’s former station, WFAA-Channel 8, suffered noticeably? If you have an opinion, please feel free to voice it, unless you’re Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark. The word from…
Judging John Marshall “Bench press” (March 9) was a great article by Thomas Korosec. I’ve known John Marshall since I was a freshman at Vanderbilt and have always been impressed with his wit and integrity. The citizens of Dallas County can be proud that John has rendered judgments that have…
You were right about God, Marshall. He is a Good God. And you, you there, with imagination in your eyes And hope forever forwards in your soul, you are A Good Person. You are a human being and isn’t it exciting to be one? Isn’t it glorious this life God…
Dallas Community Television’s studios usually don’t get busy until after 5 p.m., when people get off their real jobs and turn to shooting, producing, and editing Dallas’ public access TV fare. On a recent Friday evening, El Centro College student Vernon Hadnot was in one editing room, using computer graphics…
It’s Oscar time. Everyone wants to be a critic. On Thursday evenings at the Starbucks on Northwest Highway near Preston Road, for the price of a cup of java, everyone can do just that: voice their cinematic opinions nonstop for 90 minutes as Gary Cogill, the film critic for WFAA-Channel…
The new Mod Squad Last week, a group of cops went to the city council to ask whether it would please pay Dallas police officers wages competitive with such crime-ridden hot spots as Plano. This week, the cops aren’t playing quite as nice. The Dallas Police Patrolman’s Union has posted…
“He called me a little asshole, a crybaby, and I backed up, and he picked up a table in front of me and moved it and pinned me against the wall and said I was a motherfucker, and I ran, and he hit me in the back of the head…
For the two ex-cons accused of kidnapping and murdering missing atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair and her two children, the “South Pacific getaway” defense may just have been torpedoed by three familiar letters: DNA. In a motion filed recently in Austin, federal authorities say they have genetic evidence to support their…
Walk in my shoes I just got home from a rough day in the classroom. Earlier this morning, I attended a meeting about the tests that we’ll be giving to students in our Pre-K to 3 school. We teachers have been under immense pressure from the district regarding the new…
Nearly a hundred lawyers filled the Routh Street Brewery’s private party room one hot evening last summer. The faux rustic setting — hewn limestone walls, antler-trimmed cabinets, and weathered rafters — echoed with the clink of beer steins, the hum of conversation. In attendance were many of the city’s top…
In Sharon Boyd’s Net world, a scruffy cast of characters mumbles and bumbles its way through every aspect of the city’s affairs. There’s “You Go To Hell” Kirk, “Mayor Pre-Tend” Poss, “Send Me Some Money” Loza, “Princess Velveeta” Lill, “Pretty Barbara” Mallory Caraway, “Brain-Dead” Thornton-Reese. The cartoonish fools act in…
Working homicide for the last 20 years, Dallas Detective Jesse Briseno was all too familiar with the pattern — a dead body, a thorough investigation, and an air-tight case, yet the prime suspect gets away with murder. Too often that murderer was a Mexican national living and killing in Dallas…
Author, author Chris Beamon, the Ponder seventh-grader who landed in the pokey in Denton County last fall after writing a Halloween essay that described shooting a teacher and students, has moved beyond Big Chief notebooks to having his work appear in a tonier rag, Harper’s magazine. (True quote from a…
