At 10 a.m. Friday, Dallas police Assistant Chief Gary Tittle briefed the media on the results of the department’s 12-day-old downtown panhandling crackdown. As of Thursday, cops had made 128 arrests as part of the initiative, which downtown inhabitants say has already had a dramatic impact: On Wednesday, commercial real…
Starting Monday, the waiting will no longer be the hardest part. Thanks in part to lab equipment installed during the fall 2014 Ebola scare, Dallas County will be able to test for the Zika virus at its facilities. Results will be available in as little as 24 hours, rather than…
I don’t know about you, but I want to personally extend my own heartfelt thanks to Dallas city councilpersons Monica Alonzo, Mark Clayton, Sandy Greyson, Scott Griggs, Philip Kingston, Lee Kleinman and Adam Medrano for voting this week to defend the First Amendment. I know it wasn’t easy. It never…
They stand in front of voters at forums across North Texas, laying out their plans, their opponents’ faults and their reasons for seeking the Republican or Democratic nomination in the March 1 primaries. They come in various shapes and sizes, with variety of experience to offer voters. They dress in…
Four decades ago, when he was 16, Philadelphia police wrote Avi Adelman a ticket for violating curfew. In all the time he’s spent chasing cop cars and ambulances with his camera, in his quarter century as the Barking Dog of Lower Greenville, in the 59.85 years he’s spent being Avi…
If the status of the Dallas Police and Fire System weren’t so dire, it might be amusing. The retirement plan, facing an unfunded liability somewhere north of $1 billion, faces a lawsuit filed by a group of real estate advisers that was helping the fund pick properties as it dug…
This is exactly what Scott Griggs was worried about. As the Dallas City Council arduously debated whether or not to ban the Exxxotica adult expo from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Griggs told a packed house that the council was giving Exxxotica the best public relations it could hope…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, already facing three felony charges related to illegal lobbying in Collin County, received even more bad news Wednesday when a Texas State Bar disciplinary committee announced that it would allow to move forward a complaint about Paxton’s acts in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme…
A self-referential anecdote here at the top. I never do this. Indulge me. Several years back I’m starting out on a canoe trip in Canada with a bunch of guys. It’s the part I hate, carrying our canoes on our shoulders and our packs on our backs, stumbling down a…
On Thursday, Dallas ISD trustees will be confronted with some sobering statistics about the stark economic segregation that divides Dallas, more than almost anywhere else in the country, into silos of haves and have-nots. According to a 2012 study from the Pew Research Center, 37 percent of low-income residents in…
More or less, the main voices on the Dallas City Council behind a proposal that will bar Dallas City manager AC Gonzalez from signing a contract with the eXXXotica porn expo in 2016 said Wednesday that they didn’t care if they got sued. Protecting Dallas from the convention — Rawlings…
Ray Hunt has done many good things for the city of Dallas. He built Reunion Tower, without which the Dallas skyline would just be a bunch of boring rectangles. He was an early financial backer of D Magazine, without which we would be unable to identify which Dallas women are the most…
Running a third party candidacy is no picnic. Just ask Russell Verney, senior political adviser to H. Ross Perot during the 1992 presidential election and his 1996 campaign manager. Perot headlined the two most successful third-party campaigns in modern U.S. political history. The Dallas native and billionaire received 18.9 percent…
Thanks to a last minute injunction stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Texas Greyhound Association, the Texas Racing Commission did not have to make the decision Tuesday that will decide the future of horse racing in Texas. The commission tabled a discussion that would’ve decided whether or not to keep…
The problem with K2 downtown, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Monday, might be more than the drag on resources it causes for Dallas police and firefighters or the health threat it poses to the synthetic drug’s often homeless users. The drug also could be responsible for an increase in…
This is very dangerous talk, dangerous for us all. You agree, I agree, we all agree that sexual slavery, especially the enslavement of children for sexual purposes, is an unspeakable evil. But doesn’t that make it all the more important to be careful and precise in what we say about…
Late last week, the Dallas Police Department received a report from Fort Worth Police about a sustained domestic assault alleged committed by Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel across DFW on January 29 and 30. Colleen Crowley, Manziel’s ex-girlfriend, had filed a request for a protective order from Manziel in Tarrant…
Last August, just ahead of the eXXXotica Expo’s Dallas Convention Center debut, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, announced that he was “deeply concerned” about the convention. Seemingly, he was acting in concert with the Dallas Women’s Foundation, which drew a line between a harmless, tacky convention hawking dildos and overpriced photos…
Charles Cato, long thought to be Dallas’ police-chief-in-waiting, is leaving the Dallas Police Department. The long-serving first assistant chief has been named the chief of Mesquite’s police, and will start March 7. During his time with the department, Cato served as the interim Dallas ISD police chief in 2006, was…
When does escaping from the nanny state become an escape from sanity? Ted Cruz is urging New Hampshire Yankees not to be, in his inimical words, “coddled by a bunch of nanny-state liberals who want to control every aspect of your life, or die.” What if they need a nanny?…
Dallas and Houston have never officially met in the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find a good way to pit them against each other ahead of Sunday night’s Super Bowl 50 bonanza. Both metro areas fancy themselves as the state’s No. 1 football hotbed, but which really…
Dr. Christopher Perkins just started his job as director of Dallas County Health and Human Services in 2012 when an emerging disease took root in Texas. The West Nile virus, spreading across the United States on the wings of mosquitoes, infected hundreds of people in Dallas county — more than…
