Two men were killed by Garland police Sunday night after they opened fire on a Garland ISD security guard outside of a Mohammed caricature contest. The event, held at the Garland ISD event center, was organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which has been classified as an anti-Muslim group…
During a contentious debate last week over handing $3 million to Costco for the retail giant to build a North Dallas store, opponents argued it would get built somewhere in Dallas with or without the money. They lost, but not before wringing a crucial concession. Costco gets its — actually,…
Quick! Somebody tell the mayor! The homeless are being unacceptable again! A month ago Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings toured the “Tent City” homeless encampment beneath a cat’s cradle of freeway overpasses at the intersection of Interstate 30 and I-45, one mile due east from City Hall. He told people living…
Executing more inmates than any other state, Texas has perfected the art of ultimate punishment. Under the watch of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the executioner has employed a number of tactics to punish the innocent and the guilty from a noose around their neck until 1924 to a…
Big announcement from DART: In addition to the ways in which riders can now pay their fares (cash on the bus, DART’s mobile GoPass app and cash or card at light rail station ticket vending machines) DART riders will have a new option early in 2017 — a reloadable card…
In the way of actual action, very little interesting happened at the 2016 Texas Republican Convention, held at the now Exxxotica-free Key Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. The state’s activist GOPers managed to restrain themselves from supporting secession from the United States — yes, it was actually discussed as a potential…
Erika Estrada never quite fit in with the moms of White Rock Valley. “It’s very Stepford,” she says. Estrada got an inkling shortly after she and her husband, Rick, bought a spacious ranch-style house on Highedge Drive in 2004 and they were peppered with invitations to living-room Bible studies. She…
If any organization in baseball is capable of leading Matt Bush by the hand into becoming a productive big league pitcher, it’s the Rangers. For the second time in the last eight years, the team has taken on a former first overall pick with a history of substance abuse and…
I tell myself, if it’s anything to do with how adults feel about kids and education, don’t try to predict it and do try not to be surprised. Dallas School Board member Miguel Solis is arguing for a new policy to reduce the number of very little kids who get…
The Rangers nascent rivalry with the Toronto Blue Jays went full boil Sunday afternoon, when Texas second baseman Rougned Odor landed a clean right hook to Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista’s jaw during the top of the eighth inning of the rubber match of a three-game series. Following being…
Less than a week after Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton insinuated themselves into Fort Worth ISD bathrooms, the duo is set for fight with the Obama administration. Thursday night, the White House announced that any school receiving any federal must allow transgender students at…
I have been reading all of the responses to my column earlier in the week saying the city may need to start shooting stray dogs, including the comments suggesting I’m the one who should be shot, thank you very much. All I can conclude is that a whole lot of people…
Watch the Dallas City Council work itself up over about $1.2 million in cost overruns stemming from the continued effort to build the the streetcar line from Union Station to Oak Cliff, it’s easy to empathize with the vocal minority on the council who are critics. Jennifer Gates’ complaint that…
One of the biggest impediments against the city of Dallas stopping dog attacks like the one that killed Antoinette Brown in South Dallas last week is that the city, no matter how many reports it receives about a bad dog owner or how many dogs it confiscates from that owner,…
Getting tired of people taking Donald Trump to task on his philosophy? Think that’s like criticizing him for not being able to stand on his toes in ballet slippers? Yeah. Me, too. He never promised us a philosophy garden. But the things the man says also do point inevitably to…
Costco is going to get its money and North Dallas is going to get its Costco. Despite an intense, hour-long debate Wednesday, the Dallas City Council approved a $3 million subsidy for the retail giant, which will now move onto what had been state-owned land on Coit Road near North…
The April 17, 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, destroyed more than 500 homes and left a crater 93 feet wide and 12 feet deep was caused by a fire that was intentionally set, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday. “We have…
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick showed up at the Fort Worth ISD school board meeting Tuesday night to stand in the proverbial bathroom door. Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton discovered this week that the district, in a purely administrative move made in April, clarified that students at the…
From last winter’s bizarre fight over having the Texas GOP’s 2016 Convention at Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center comes a more bizarre fight over the fact that it’s still here, beginning in earnest on Thursday. Over the past few days, a mailer has circulated accusing Texas GOP Chairman Tom…
The Reverend Jeff Hood pushes against the yellow caution tape serving as a barrier to hold back the dozen protesters standing outside of the Huntsville prison where Pablo Vasquez, called a “satanist” and a “vampire” by the media, faces execution for a murder he committed nearly 20 years ago. Bald…
Shoot the dogs. And I owe an apology to Dallas City Council member Ricky Callahan for making fun of him a couple weeks ago when he said the same thing. It should not have taken the horrific story of Antoinette Brown to get me up to speed. Brown is the 52-year-old…
According to Dallas Police, the reason the department took so long to publicly announce the fatal mauling of a southern Dallas woman last week was that investigators didn’t want the owner of the dogs that attacked Antoinette Brown to ditch the canines. Five days after the attack, when the department…
