Last Friday, The New York Times, hit the NFL hard, reporting that the NFL’s research into player concussions was “was deeply flawed and incomplete” and that the league hired attorneys and other personnel affiliated with the tobacco industry to help oversee that research. The implication made by the Times was clear,…
Hopefully, this won’t happen again for a long time. It would be nice if, following picking fourth and 34th in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys didn’t have two picks that high for the foreseeable future. If the teams’ front office — led, as ever, by Jerry Jones —…
Needs shutterstock: 312342893 Wednesday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Leander Johns, the head of Uber Dallas announced a plan to add 2,500 new drivers for the app-based ride hailing service in southern Dallas. On the surface it looks like an easy win. Dallas south of I-30 needs jobs and is under…
Merrick Garland is getting all the attention. President Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia seems just as unlikely to receive a confirmation vote as he did the day he was nominated, March 16. Both of Texas’ senators, John Cornyn and…
It’s almost enough to make you think we had racial segregation in this town. First, three years ago, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a finding that Dallas was violating federal law by using desegregation money to promote segregation. The city denied it, of course, but…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to update the recommended dosage for women taking the abortion drug mifepristone may give Texas women easier access to abortions in the state. The FDA changed the label on the drug, bringing it in line with the way doctors in other states have…
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…
The other day, Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, which is really good at this sort of thing, published an interactive collection of online maps tracking how the city has changed over the past four decades. The whole thing is worth exploring; the way the maps distill a messy and complex…
Sorry, but maybe the dumbest line to come out of a very dumb season is the suggestion that the media is to blame for Donald Trump. First of all, if we in the media were even remotely capable of thinking Trump up, don’t you think we would have thought him…
Dalton Sherman is a legend. Eight years ago, at the age of 9, he stood before some 17,000 Dallas ISD teachers and staff members packed into the American Airlines Center and delivered a piece of oratory so precocious and so trenchant that, once the speech was posted to YouTube, he…
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…
With its monolithic columns at the entrance and pictorial windows of art glass, The First Presbyterian Church of Dallas in the 1800 block of Young Street is a cultural and visual landmark. One of its early homes was the first brick church in Dallas, and it grew from a single…
The Dallas Police/Fire Pension Fund, still trying to dig itself out of the billion-dollar financial hole it dug for itself by making stupid investments, is going to meet Friday to consider “censuring” board member Philip Kingston for speaking candidly and intelligently to the public about the pension fund’s problems. And,…
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…
On a sunny Easter Sunday, to the music of kids chasing across a lakeside expanse of brilliant green, I spoke with a smart young lawyer, a commercial litigator with a big firm, who was telling me why she might vote for Donald Trump. She said she was sick of government…
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 after midnight on March 2, Alvin Jerome Joseph Jr. was walking his dog through the sea of apartments in Northeast Dallas where Skillman Street and Audelia Road briefly join when, for no reason police have been able to discern, a gunman shot him in the face. He died the…
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…
All through last week’s City Council briefing on the city’s ancient and unresolved Trinity toll road controversy, I kept thinking I sniffed the unpleasant scent of burning human hair that you get when someone is being thrown under a bus. Kept looking around the council chamber, sniffing. Couldn’t find it…
Some day, when chronic water shortages cause green lawns to shrivel to dust, or when transportation planners find themselves unable to extend their sprawling highway network any further, or when an unbroken veneer of concrete has finally covered every square inch of land between here and Sherman, North Texas’ exurban…
