Despite vaccinations’ being in literally everyone’s best interest, the Texas Legislature didn’t pass Dallas State Representative Jason Villalba’s bill this year that would’ve ended conscientious exemptions from vaccinations. As kids around the state get ready for the new school year, they will, just as they have in the past, only…
In October 2007, Willie Jo Mills of Houston suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of her body. A widow with two daughters and a son, the 80-year-old woman was prescribed a variety of pain medications, but doctors couldn’t find the right cocktail. Six months later, Mills’ son Larry…
Yeah, but the thing about Dallas being so screwed up is that being screwed up is also what’s cool about it. In everybody’s understandable push to make this a perfect city, we never should forget that Dallas’ glaring imperfections have always been among its attractive qualities. Many years after the…
Wednesday, the Texas Senate will take the first real step in and investigation of Planned Parenthood ordered by Governor Greg Abbott. The governor, along with virtually every other Republican in the state, is in a tizzy over two videos recently released by the Center for Medical Progress. The videos, recorded…
In Colorado, adults can now legally grow Marijuana. In Arlington growing marijuana is reason enough for the SWAT team to raid one’s home. Two years ago, officers stormed a hippie commune called the Garden of Eden early in the morning on a no-knock warrant. The Garden of Eden, which we…
Irving-based Boy Scouts of America has lifted its prohibition on gay scoutmasters. Monday night, the Scouts’ National Executive Board voted to accept the unanimous July 13 recommendation of the BSA’s national executive committee to dump the organization’s across-the-board ban, while still allowing individual troops to discriminate as they see fit…
Among the first things Unfair Park — yes, we’re still calling ourselves that, old habits die hard — does when it gets up in the morning is to quickly scroll through Twitter. Since the downtown-to-Oak Cliff streetcar started rolling in April one thing that’s popped up consistently is DART’s alert…
Surely, you guys have wondered about the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in various Texas counties. You haven’t? Well RentApplication.com is here with a interactive map to tell us all about it anyway, titled “These are The Most Sexually Diseased Cities in the USA.” The website provides data on syphilis, gonorrhea…
When Texas isn’t suing for the right to dump crap in the water, we’re using the water we have to drill for natural gas, a process that may contribute to contaminating the water, in an endless water-crap cycle. The U.S. Geological Survey has a much more polite way of explaining the…
The new Dallas school superintendent, Michael Hinojosa, could have done a lot of things to signal he was the new sheriff in town. Reform the teacher pay system. Look at testing. The enemies of the old one, Mike Miles, claimed they were mad about everything, so Hinojosa had everything to…
As far as Change.org causes go, the petition to “Discontinue Plan to Cease Package Acceptance at All Camden Properties” sounds like it’s about as minor a problem as they come. It’s not about freeing an imprisoned journalist, or asking for a federal investigation into Sandra Bland’s death or ending revenge…
Mouthy women populate my lineage. My mother’s mother, college-educated before many women were in Kansas, widowed with two young daughters, so a single parent when few middle class mothers were, was what I believed would have been called at the time “outspoken.” She was a woman who had made her…
Just before 10 p.m. on July 9, a motorcycle barreled into a car at the corner of Greenville Avenue and Bryan Parkway. The woman on the motorcycle slid under the car and was trapped. Witnesses raced over to help her out, and police arrived within 30 seconds, according to the Dallas…
Let’s give credit where credit is due. The Dallas Morning News has done a perfectly OK job of covering Sandra Bland’s questionable arrest and alleged suicide in a jail cell outside Houston. Even chronically wrong opinionaters (i.e. Tod Robberson) have managed to swallow their worst hot-take reflexes and compose thoughtful…
Maypearl Chief of Police Kevin Coffey was arrested and charged with four felonies, including sexual assault of a child, after turning himself in Wednesday afternoon. Coffey, 49, contacted a then 14-year-old girl on Facebook two years ago, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. He sent her messages almost every day,…
Erstwhile Texas governor and current presidential candidate Rick Perry’s campaign is in danger dying before it really gets underway, but Perry is doing everything he can to avoid a premature exit. Perry is stuck somewhere below 5 percent in national Republican primary polls. In any election from 2012 backward, low…
Congressman Michael Burgess, representing Denton and Tarrant Counties, is a former gynecologist, but that won’t stop him from defending a medical device that’s been known to spread cancer in women. The device is a tool called the power morcellator, which doctors have used in surgery to grind up benign uterine…
Yesterday’s announcement in The Dallas Morning News of a new Dallas-based $75 million private bullet-train fund was not actually about a new Dallas-based $75 million private bullet-train fund. It was about screwing southern Dallas. Not since southern Dallas got screwed out of the Richard Allen Inland Port opportunity — a…
Dallas City Hall took a big head-slam yesterday in the Cityplace Sam’s Club suit. 5th Court of Appeals Judge David J. Schenck shot down the city’s argument that neighbors had no right to sue over a big-box store on the east side of Central Expressway north of Haskell Avenue. Schenck…
Two recent city documents to call to your attention: 1) showing that we have spent almost $610 million so far on the Trinity River project, which is mainly unbuilt, and 2) showing that we need to spend $121 million, which we supposedly don’t have, just to stop our terrible street…
In hindsight, Dr. Shawn Tassone says he and his colleagues were perhaps too eager to implant metal coils in their patients’ fallopian tubes. “We do kind of treat women’s health a little bit on the sly here in the United States,” says Tassone, who practices at Austin Area Obstetrics, Gynecology…
Tuesday morning, the dubiously named Center for Medical Progress released the second undercover video stemming from what it claims has been a three-year “undercover” investigation of Planned Parenthood. Like the first video, released a week ago, the new video shows a Planned Parenthood senior executive talking about, depending on your…
