Amid growing worries about public safety among downtown residents, the Dallas Police Department said Wednesday afternoon that it made its first two felony arrests for the distribution of K2 — the synthetic drug that’s been blamed for more than 200 calls to paramedics and police downtown since the beginning of…
They couldn’t even acknowledge what had happened. In all of the responses — and that term is being used very loosely — from Texas’ statewide leadership to an investigation they ordered leading to arrest warrants being issued for two anti-abortion activists, not once did Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan…
I don’t really recommend that you read anything by anyone else but me on a regular basis, and I can’t be responsible, of course, for what might happen to you if you insist on making a habit of it, but every once in a blue moon somebody out there writes…
Ethan Couch is expected to end his long Mexican vacation this week. The 18-year-old killer drunk driver has been south of the border since the beginning of December, following a viral video of Couch playing beer pong being posted to Twitter and the teen’s subsequent missing a probation appointment. His…
For some horrible reason lost to history and wrapped in political voodoo, the State Fair of Texas, one of the single most beloved icons of Texas culture, operates under the iron-fisted domination of one of the single most despised ownerships in the state, by which I mean State Fair of…
Most of the stuff contained in the Dallas City Auditor’s report about naughtiness and potential naughtiness by the outgoing members of the Dallas City Council last summer isn’t particularly galling. That Tenell Atkins and Vonciel Jones Hill both had outstanding balances on their city of Dallas water accounts when they…
Detective Billy Burleson III stood outside the Collin College gymnasium, waiting for the man he was tailing to finish a friendly basketball game with a group of students. Burleson had been following his target all day, investigating a claim from the assistant manager at the campus bookstore that the man,…
The Center for Medical Progress’ David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the two “reporters” who filmed a video that they said showed a Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast official talking about selling baby parts but actually didn’t, have been indicted in Harris County. Both Daleiden and Merritt are charged with tampering with…
Slowly but surely Dallas is turning the Trinity River into what should be re-named either The Rogue River or The Mad River — the one river in America not subject to the same laws that govern every other river, harbor and waterway in the country. In fact, maybe not even…
Judging from the tenor of the Downtown Dallas Resident Council’s Facebook page this week, one might think Dallas’ Central Business District had turned into some sort of urban hellscape. “I just had some STUPID HOMELESS ASS try and rob me while I was parking my truck in West End!!!!!! I’m…
Despite deep consternation from animal rights groups, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has approved an application from the Dallas Zoo to import six elephants from Swaziland in southwest Africa. According to the Swazi government, the animals needed to be moved in order to help preserve the country’s game…
This is the story of a hometown product that is influencing events — and killing people — across the globe. And you’ve probably never heard of it. This week Lockheed Martin, our friendly neighborhood defense contractor, sent a celebratory statement declaring that the U.S. Army and Marine Corps have used…
Jont’e Ross pulls onto the LBJ Freeway entrance ramp and accelerates past the glowing Sport City Toyota parking lot. Just before it’s time to merge, Ross veers right instead of left and brings his lumbering Ford pickup to a stop in a broad ribbon of grass running beneath hulking transmission lines. A…
Dallas City Council members, closeted in a closed-door session last Wednesday with lawyers from the city attorney’s staff, couldn’t believe their ears. Without any warning or preparation beforehand, the lawyers told the council that the council was up against a legal deadline only a few hours off, and that, if…
One of the best lists each year, put out by the Transportation Security Administration blog, informs us of just how many guns were confiscated at America’s airports. In 2015, as it has every time the list has been published, Texas did itself proud, filling out a full 50 percent of the…
This much should be said for Ted Cruz: At least he’s paying attention. Rather than largely dodging the issue, as his fellow GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have done, Cruz has taken time this week to both lambaste all levels of Michigan government and actually do something about…
The official story of homelessness in Dallas over the past decade has generally been a positive one. According to the annual census that the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance conducts each January with the twin goals of measuring the scope of the problem and remaining eligible for some $17 million in…
Andy Beal, he of enormous banking wealth and modest fame from his second life as an amateur mathematician, high-stakes poker player and failed space entrepreneur, has purchased what was listed as the most expensive home in Texas history — Tom Hicks’ sprawling, 25-acre Preston Hollow estate. Being that Preston Hollow…
Historic preservation goes on the muscle today in Dallas with the announcement (see below) of a war chest for buying up threatened properties. A new non-profit, called Dallas Endowment for Endangered Properties (DEEP), will seek ownership of anything its directors think is worth saving and in the way of harm…
It barely made a blip on the local news: a homeless man found dead on Sunday morning of what Dallas police described cryptically only as “homicidal violence.” The news made a bigger splash in Tent City, the sprawling homeless encampment under Interstate 45 — now more than 200 tents strong —…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision was inevitable. Once state Representative Myra Crownover asked for the AG’s opinion on daily fantasy sports, the opinion could only really come down one obvious way. Paxton, in an opinion issued Monday, says that the games are considered gambling under Texas law. That means…
John Wilson, who leads the McLennan County chapter of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club, was in the Waco Twin Peaks parking lot when shooting broke out on May 17 between the Bandidos and Cossacks. His son Jake Wilson was also there. John Wilson owns Legend Cycles in Waco. He and his…
