Stressing the need for stability, the Dallas ISD board of trustees voted 8-1 Tuesday to name former Superintendent Michael Hinojosa as the sole finalist for the district’s vacant superintendent job. Hinojosa previously served as superintendent from 2005 to 2011 and will become the first person to have been hired for…
In 2011, the Texas Legislature passed an awesome law allowing people to shoot feral hogs from helicopters, which was both the first and last time that feral hogs (to say nothing of the bill’s sponsor, current Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller) produced anything good. Otherwise, the creatures are a scourge upon nature and…
Donald Trump With Robert Jeffress, Katrina Peirson and Scottie Nell Hughes American Airlines Center, Dallas Monday, September 14, 2015 Attending one of Donald Trump’s events is like stepping into an alternate-reality where the United States has reaped the whirlwind of years of nativism and indulging its worst impulses. He offers…
“Hi,” the woman says, in a voice that isn’t friendly. “What are you doing?” It’s a pitch black night in mid-August in Southeast Dallas. Marina Tarashevska wields a camera as she approaches the back of a black pickup. A man wearing a cowboy hat opens the driver’s door to get…
Money — i.e. making more of it — isn’t the only reason to go to college. The pursuit of knowledge, the opportunity for self-discovery, the chance to test the hardiness of one’s liver are also important benefits. But for people who have to make a living, college is in large…
Last week without any prior public discussion, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced (see below) he was unilaterally turning over the planning process for the Trinity River Park downtown to philanthropists Rusty and Deedie Rose in exchange for a gift of $1 million. The mayor did say, “We must also continue…
Dallas, according to the city, the Morning News and the eyes and bitten faces of residents, has a stray dog problem, especially in southern Dallas. The City Council, especially southern sector reps Scott Griggs, Erik Wilson and Rickey Callahan are fed up. Two weeks ago, they summoned members of Dallas Animal…
North Texas is a fantastic place. Dallas is a real city, with a comparatively low cost of living along with all of the benefits you’d expect from a city its size. If cities aren’t your thing, we have every kind of suburb you can imagine — inner suburbs, normal suburbs,…
Tell me that again. Texas school districts, you say, are in state court in Austin telling a judge they need more money because of “the Legislature’s increased demands for standardized testing and curriculum requirements to graduate high school.” Wait. I’m a libtard. I always want the schools to get more…
On August 10, a soccer mom and dad say, a Dallas parks employee destroyed their league’s goal posts and then threw them into a creek that feeds into White Rock Lake. Members of the Dallas Park Board, meanwhile, maintained last week that they don’t know whether that’s true. In the meantime,…
Rick Perry is quitting the 2016 presidential race. The former four-term Texas governor, who also ran in 2011 for the 2012 nomination, never saw his campaign get off the ground this cycle. He performed better on the trail than he did in 2011, but wasn’t able to overcome the taint…
The road is filled with hazards. The Cowboys, having won the NFC East last year, have been gifted with a first-place schedule. They play the two defending conference champions (Seattle and New England), the team that knocked them out of last season’s playoffs (Green Bay) and face a trip to…
In one narrative, a Dallas developer hoping to capitalize on Bishop Arts has decided to listen to citizens and do what is right. Alamo Manhattan, the company that once promised to make Oak Cliff cool with giant apartment structures over existing homes and businesses, in a project that was to…
Want to actually, you know, drive on LBJ rather than just sitting on it? Now you can, but it’ll cost you. The TEXpress lanes are open. The new sunken pay lanes on Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway — we’ll begrudgingly admit — are a civil engineering marvel. They’ll also generate quite…
Hey, Mr. Jensen. I’m so ashamed. I feel terrible. I wrote all those stories about the city screwing you out of your home and warehouse in West Dallas and how Monica Alonzo, the City Council member for your area, ignored your repeated pleas for help. You kept saying, “I don’t…
An Ellis County grand jury has indicted eight people, including seven volunteer firefighters, on charges arising from the sexual assault of a trainee firefighter, who in March reported that he’d been anally penetrated with a link of chorizo as part of an initiation ritual in January. Ellis County called in…
In April, Pope Francis continued his run of saying pleasantly non-regressive things by declaring that men and women deserve equal pay for doing equal work. He called the fact that women are often paid less a “pure scandal” at odds with the Christian notion of radical equality. But here he…
If the city gets its way, the second light rail line through downtown will traverse what’s become known as the Jackson Street alternative. With DART facing a deadline for applying for a federal grant it says is essential to the project, the Dallas City Council voted 13-1 Wednesday to endorse…
Wait a minute. Dallas Morning News Metro columnist Steve Blow is gone? You’re kidding me. Why was I not told? You say he retired? How can he just retire? This means no more Steve Blow alerts. What am I supposed to do with my wind-up Steve Blow alarm? I’ll tell…
It’s been more than five months since Barking Dog Avi Adelman, formerly of Lower Greenville, currently of what we’ll refer to as Greater Junius Heights, raced to the Santa Fe Trail to take pictures of a cop who collapsed. The cop revived, spent a couple of weeks in the hospital, and…
Ron Pinkston says Dallas cops are in danger. When the Dallas Police Department releases the names of officers who kill a member of the public, things get even worse, the Dallas Police Association president claims, so he wants DPD to stop doing that. Anti-police activists are “calling for the killing…
Can’t shake it. Worried. I still think something scary could be going on with Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk. After I read a story about her in the Saturday edition of The Dallas Morning News, I was even wondering if I should call 911, but then I thought, “Oh, wait,…
