Senator Ted Cruz went to Kentucky on Wednesday to get in on the spectacle. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis had been tossed in jail for contempt of court after refusing to perform her legal duty — issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in this case — and dadgummit, Cruz was going…
The most stubbornly entrenched meme in local white culture — that “South Dallas” is a scary awful place — is the one most certain to flip in years just ahead. It will turn around 180 degrees. People of the green ethnicity, meaning the ones with money, will start scouring southern…
Last week, Texas authorities made the unprecedented decision to reject science. (Just kidding, they do that all the time.) The science dates back to April, when a peer-reviewed study by Southern Methodist University geologists seemed to finally confirm what many people living in Azle had long suspected: a recent, surprising…
You are no doubt aware that Dallas has a gaping divide separating the northern and southern parts of the city. In very broad strokes, north is rich and white, while south is poor and brown. There are complex historical and political reasons why this is so, most of them tied…
The local news satire site Dallas Brisket described the situation best: “City Decides Polluting River Preferable to Minorities Playing Soccer.” A Dallas employee who works for the Park Department was shown destroying a youth soccer league’s goal post at Lake Highlands Park, in a video that aired last week on CBS-11…
Labor Day, simply by virtue of its being in September, is a farce. International Workers’ Day — or May Day, if you’re so inclined — is Labor Day, unless you live in North America. President Grover Cleveland moved the holiday to the first Monday of September in 1887 to disassociate the…
Dear New Dallas Morning News Editor Mike Wilson: For some reason that I guess I’m not smart enough to figure out – and I blame Eric Celeste, not you – Celeste’s July 7 item on Frontburner about you and the Morning News employee buyouts, “DMN Offers Buyouts to 167 Employees,”…
Same-sex marriage became legal across the United States in June and, thus far at least, there’s been very little substantive opposition. Through County Clerk John Warren, Dallas County began issuing licenses to same-sex couples the same day the Supreme Court ruled. The vast majority of Warren’s counterparts quickly fell in…
When last we checked in on the Rangers on August 7, they were taking in their first full breaths since the end of the 2013 season. Buoyed by the acquisition of erstwhile Philadelphia Phillies ace Cole Hamels, they’d put together eight wins in nine games, hauling themselves from 47-52 to…
Few days ago I told you the City Council and mayor of Dallas were headed for some kind of group therapy at this week’s meeting because of knife-play going on behind the scenes about the annual budget. Yesterday’s meeting was a little bit disappointing for me because no one jammed…
Fariha and Mohammad Ashfaq’s marriage was brief. They wed in their native Pakistan in December 2007 but spent only a few months together before Mohammed returned to his home in Fort Worth. They lived together for a few additional months in Texas after Fariha acquired a visa in June 2009, but…
John Cornyn really, really doesn’t want you to get that copy of Catcher in the Rye you’ve had your eye on, the one signed by John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman. Texas’ senior U.S. senator graced Dallas police headquarters Wednesday to promote something that’s been a pet cause of his for…
Back in March, The Dallas Morning News introduced us to Pam Mueller. Mueller, we learned, is a mild-mannered M Streets resident who has taken to renting out the other side of her small duplex on Airbnb, the short-term rental website that has, along with Uber, become synonymous with the “sharing economy.” “It’s more fun…
Tuesday, the Dallas Police Department made good on the first part of its plan to roll out 1,000 body cameras over the next five years, announcing that 66 officers in the department’s central division began wearing the cameras this week. Additional divisions will be equipped one unit, and one week,…
Last week HUD Secretary and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro was on MSNBC Live disarmingly fending off flattering suggestions by host Melissa Harris-Perry that he may be tapped as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate: “I learned in life,” Castro said, “that if you want to have a great future you…
The fight, the one that’s at least temporarily shut down all horse betting in the state of Texas, is over the ability of Texas horse track bettors to wager on the outcome of races that have already happened. Tracks want so-called historical racing terminals because they’re almost identical, at least…
On a chilly December night, in the wake of a 38-27 win at home over ninth-ranked Kansas State to close out the 2014 college football regular season, Baylor head coach Art Briles stood amid his jubilant bunch of Baylor Bears on a makeshift stage in the middle of McLane Stadium…
Last week, a group of forensic video researchers strongly suggested that the videos shot at a variety of Planned Parenthood facilities by a group called the Center for Medical Progress were “substantially manipulated.” A video filmed at a Houston clinic that’s served as the fuel for a storm of conservative…
The Westwood School moved into its current location about 15 years ago, repurposing an Illinois Tool Works warehouse on Proton Road in a semi-industrial corner of Farmers Branch. The neighborhood was drab, all squat warehouses and blocky, single-story office buildings, but it was becoming a hub for North Dallas private…
Take your gun to the airport, but don’t sell any revenge porn. Texas has some new laws taking effect today. Amid what was a pretty horrid Legislative session — for women, anyone not on the farthest of the far right and those who don’t want Texas to experience the Wild…
Couple weeks ago, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings gave City Manager A.C. Gonzalez and his top staff an unusual if very velvet-fingered push-back for showing the council a video presentation about how the next city budget will fix the streets when in fact it won’t. Uh-oh. It’s not nice to tell the…
Dallas Animal Services, the city’s animal control agency, is under-funded, its managers and supporters say, and has just over 100 full-time people on staff. Among people who follow such things, the general impression is that 101 people actually work full time for DAS, since the city gave the agency a budget…
