All of the pundits and all of the cues and signals are telling me I’m supposed to be angry and suicidal right now. Even though that seems like a conflict in and of itself, I still want to do what’s expected of me, but it’s really hard because I live…
Last spring, Skip Bayless took NFL cornerback Darrelle Revis to task. Fresh off a win in the Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, Revis jumped ship and headed to the New York Jets for a $70 million contract that included $39 million in guaranteed money. Bayless was mad, as…
Tuesday, Ted Cruz will face the biggest, and perhaps last, hurdle in his campaign for the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. If manages to knock off Donald Trump in Indiana, he’ll have something approaching a 30 percent shot at keeping Trump for gathering the 1,237 delegates the New York real…
Tracy Murphree, Republican candidate for Denton County sheriff, announced he had said all he needed to say in regard to his Facebook post claiming he’d beat a transgender woman if he caught her in the bathroom with his daughter. “This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen.” he…
The way things are headed, with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick setting the state’s legislative agenda, Texas may very well have its own crack squad bathroom police. In the meantime, it’s up to self-appointed enforcers of traditional gender norms to adjudicate which bathrooms strangers should use. Case in point: the man who,…
Balance. That is the best I can offer. I can’t tell you if the people whom The Dallas Morning News describes as vile malevolent slumlords are what they say they are or if they are legitimate honorable business persons targeted by forces that just want their land. But I can…
They aren’t NERF guns, but the “sponge guns” the Dallas Police Department will get aren’t lethal either — or mostly not lethal, rather. DPD Deputy Chief Jeff Cotner introduced the guns Thursday at the Safer Dallas Better Dallas meeting a police headquarters. They’ve got a 14-inch barrel, shoot 40 mm…
Thursday, Dr. Raymond Greenberg, the executive vice chancellor for health affairs for the University of Texas System, made it clear why fetal tissue research is so important. Despite all the knashing of teeth from the state of Texas’ Republican leadership, the research is absolutely vital to studying early human development and fighting…
Blackie Sherrod, revered former sports columnist at the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News died Thursday. He was 96. Sherrod, voted Texas Sportswriter of the Year a record 16 times, left the Times Herald in 1985 for the Morning News, building a loyal following through what he called his…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown is on the ropes. Thanks to an increase in violent crime over the first third of 2016, discontented police unions and a City Council that’s seemingly grown weary of his days as chief seem numbered. The media, the Observer included, has been all over crime…
For the first time in eight years, the Dallas Stars won a playoff series, defeating the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Sunday night in St. Paul to wrap up their best-of-seven series 4-2. On paper, the Western Conference leading Stars should have easily dispatched the Wild, who had lost five straight…
Andy Seremetis likes to meditate. You might even say he needs to meditate. Too many days without meditating and his mood sours and days he would typically sail through become a slog. “It creates a feeling of being present,” he says. “I notice things around me more. I’m not thinking about…
Seeking to build a bulkhead against Donald Trump’s orange-hued rising tied, Ted Cruz took the unusual step of naming a running mate without being within even sniffing distance of the Republican presidential nomination. Trump won five primaries Tuesday night, edging closer to claiming the title of presumptive GOP nominee. Cruz…
The Dallas Morning News ran a big editorial yesterday vowing to hold the city’s feet to the fire on a new campaign to curb stray dogs. Yeah, I get all that, but the problem isn’t the stray dogs. It’s the damn stray people. Not homeless people. Not talking about that…
Friday morning, four days after the murder of his daughter-in-law, Missy Bevers, Randy Bevers, her father-in-law, brought a bloody shirt into Midlothian’s Dry Clean Super Center. He told the clerk taking his clothes that blood on the white shirt was animal blood. Later that afternoon, according to a search warrant…
Let’s say, just for grins, they don’t wind up building that six-lane expressway along the Trinity River in downtown Dallas. Guess what. All of a sudden we’re looking at an adventure that could put Dallas at the global forefront of the most crucial issue facing mankind in the 21st century…
Most of Dallas major hospitals look pretty good in the Hospital Safety Score Survey released this week by the Leapfrog Group, a patient safety watchdog organization. Methodist Charlton Medical Center, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and UT Southwestern University Hospital all got A’s on their report cards…
Thanks to one of the many quirks of Texas law, facilities across Texas industry aren’t heavily penalized for otherwise illegal pollution when that pollution happens because of anything classified as an accident or maintenance. In 2015, that meant 68 million pounds of air pollution, stemming from 3,421 breakdown and maintenance incidents,…
Anyone who’s passed the intersection of Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane (and who hasn’t been reading the Lake Highlands Advocate for the past dozen years) has probably wondered about the shockingly large prairie at the intersection’s southeast corner and the pseudo-urban apartment complex/parking garage that’s been weirdly deposited in the…
Tracy Murphree, GOP candidate for Denton County Sheriff, apologized for his Facebook post, claiming he’d beat a transgender woman for pissing in a restroom where his daughter was peeing. “It was a mistake for me to post that,” he told Channel 8 WFAA news in Dallas by phone. Murphree told…
Former Texas A&M quarterback and 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel has been indicted by a Dallas County Grand Jury. He is charged with assault causing a bodily injury to a member of his household, a misdemeanor. Manziel faces up to a year in Dallas County Jail and a $4,000…
Along the green, tree-lined country road, four large metal tanks tower on a gravel field, clean and tan-colored against a cloudless blue sky. But the breeze brings an odd metallic tang to the back of one’s throat, and the view changes through an infrared camera’s viewfinder. When the lens zooms in…
