Do you ever have the feeling you’d like to take the old year, put it on a little raft, set the raft on fire and push it out to sea? Nothing against the old year. Maybe it’s even a way of honoring the year just passed. But it would also…
Tuesday, it appeared that that “affluenza” teen and DWI killer Ethan Couch would be back in Tarrant County to face the limited music stemming from his flight to Mexico sometime late this week. He and his mother Tonya, who appears to have aided her son’s absconding following a missed probation…
Let’s catch our breath and count to 10 on that Ethan Couch story. Everybody from the Tarrant County sheriff to the D.A. to the U.S. marshal is on TV talking about what a guilty son of a bitch the little bastard is and how fast they’re going to put him…
Arrived: Free Plastic Bags When 2015 started, free, single-use plastic bags became officially verboten in Dallas. If you wanted one, you had to shell out a nickel, which wasn’t the most punitive thing in the world. Still, the city got sued by plastic bag manufacturers in May and ended up…
It should be noted up front that the information that’s seeped out today about Texas State Representative Jonathan Stickland and his relationship with marijuana is a classic opposition dump. It’s been passed around by Scott Fisher, the guy trying to beat Stickland in the March 1 GOP primary and none…
Ethan Couch — looking like a direct-to-video movie villain — was caught in Puerto Vallata, Mexico yesterday. The 18-year-old, on the run after apparently violating his probation for killing four in a drunk driving incident, is being held on an immigration detainer by Mexican authorities. He and his mother, Tonya…
Sean Fitzgerald hated working for a big law firm. After moving to a small firm, he discovered that he hated that, too. “I finally realized I need to be out, I need to be moving, I need to be touching earth and touching sky or I’ll be suffocated.” And so,…
According to information first reported by CNN, Tarrant County’s Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya have been arrested in the Mexican beach resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Couch, sentenced to 10 years probation in 2013 four killing four in a drunk driving incident, has been on the run since video…
Travis Koscheski has driven dangerously close to a tornado before, decades ago when he rode through east Texas, but it wasn’t as bad as this one. The 50-year-old Walmart employee was sitting in his living room Saturday night, at the Landmark at Lake Village West apartment complex where he lives,…
Business Insider last month included two Texas cities in a listicle they called, “The 15 Hottest American Cities for 2015.” Not us. Austin and Houston. But I took a look at a particular piece of research that the authors seemed to be working off, a report called “The Young and…
There’s an alternate universe in which Dallas doesn’t exist. I mean, Dallas still technically has a physical presence and it shows up on maps and stuff, but it doesn’t exist in the way that people normally think of cities as existing, with people living, working and recreating. All of that…
In Texas, 2016 is going to be the biggest year for reproductive rights since 2013. Following three years of stops and starts, contradictory court rulings and healthcare clinics closing their doors only to reopen them days or weeks later, the U.S. Supreme Court will finally decide the fate of 2013’s…
In the big picture, you could say Rowlett was lucky. No one died when an EF3 tornado tore through the northeastern suburb the day after Christmas, unlike in neighboring Garland, where an EF4 twister from the same storm killed eight people as it tossed cars and trucks into the air…
A tornado outbreak struck North texas Saturday, leaving houses in Garland demolished and at least 5 dead. Here is how the drama unfolded on Twitter, as it happened. …
We’ve made our list, we’ve checked it … well, not really twice. There was a ton of bourbon in the eggnog. But now we’re ready to air our grievances with those North Texans who’ve wronged us and celebrate those who help make Dallas such a special place. It’s the official Dallas…
Many people think 18-year-old affluenza-boy Ethan Couch and his enabling mom, 48-year-old Tonya, won’t last long on the lam — too spoiled, too rich, too in need of 1,500-thread-count Egyptian cotton bed sheets. But, hey, some people do manage to elude even the world’s best Wyatt Earps for a very…
A new front has opened in the Texas battle over nativity scenes. Last week, we told you about the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s plan to erect a “Bill of Rights” nativity scene at the state Capitol. Texas state Representative Donna Howard sponsored the display, which depicts a few of the founding fathers…
The best thing about the incessant deluge of crap to which we are now subject thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Gmail push alerts, Google alerts and Instagram, among many, many others, is the daily occurrence of something untoward, accidental or just silly slipping past a public figure’s social media goalie…
This just in: Democracy actually works if you let it. And that’s why the Dallas Park Board shot down the deal last week with the private rowing club that wanted to build a clubhouse in a city park. The demise of the Dallas United Crew floating clubhouse on White Rock Lake…
Zachary Akins is small for his age. He’s 15 and slightly built, with nerdy-chic horn-rimmed glasses that swallow half his face. He prefers playing video games to sports and keeps a bottle of hand sanitizer on his desk at school. He’s also into art. When we met at a Starbucks…
Despite chasing thousands of leads and making sure their man’s face is plastered all over media outlets across the country, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Monday that his office has had no luck tracking down Ethan Couch, the “affluenza”-stricken teen fugitive who was given probation for killing four in a…
You can probably trust the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on this one. The dam holding back Lake Lewisville probably isn’t going to fail in the immediate future. The 180 billion or so gallons of water it holds back probably won’t burst free and wash away the half-million people in its…
