Richardson is supposed to be an orderly place, where a citizen can settle into a comfortable existence, which includes twice-weekly trash pickup and all the plastic grocery bags one can carry, and gaze dismissively down Central Expressway to the shit-show at Dallas City Hall while thinking, Not here. And so…
The conspiracy theory that sprung up around Jade Helm 15 is almost too stupid to dignify. From July 15 to September 15, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command has scheduled the military training exercise — with a name perfect for the next Avengers movie — for the southwestern United States…
We write so much about how uninsured women get screwed over by Texas lawmakers that we often forget about the women with health insurance. Did you know that some health insurance policies will actually cover an abortion? But maybe not for much longer!…
Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles must face a performance review by school board members before the May 9 board elections, Dallas County District Judge Carl Ginsburg ruled Tuesday. In a case filed by three school trustees against board President Miguel Solis, Ginsburg said Solis’ decision to push the meeting about…
A week after a sizable group of veterans descended on the state capitol to demand access to medical marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions, the Texas House’s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday finally held a hearing on a cannabis-based treatment bill. Don’t expect the veterans…
Though no court has fully adjudicated the matter, it’s safe to say that Dr. James Angelo Summa is guilty of doing something creepy. To wit, in the fall of 2013, the Dallas radiologist was caught surreptitiously photographing cheerleaders at a Mesquite High School football game. Summa was arrested by Mesquite…
DFW home prices are almost 9 percent higher than this time last year, Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That’s more than double the average 4.2 percent growth across the country. Dallas is one of just two metro areas where home buyers face prices higher than they were in 2006…
Christin Bates is an anomaly. She is the only woman in her doctoral program at Dallas Theological Seminary, a conservative institution in a field — evangelical Christian scholarship — that is slightly more progressive on gender equality than 17th century Massachusetts. When she completes her dissertation in five years or…
Monday afternoon, the Army Corps of Engineers concluded the decades-long approval process for the Trinity River project. Dallas can begin building a park between the Trinity River levees in addition to the Trinity toll road in whatever guise it may take. That is, the city can start on the portion…
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that an oil and gas company can go ahead and sue an anti-fracking activist for defamation, because of course it did. Steve Lipsky is the Parker County homeowner famous for being able to light his water on fire after Range Resources started fracking near his…
Three Dallas ISD trustees asked separately in February that school board President Miguel Solis schedule a meeting for the board to discuss Superintendent Mike Miles’ performance. Dallas ISD board policy required that Solis honor such a request by placing the item on an agenda within 60 days. Solis interpreted that…
On October 28, 2013, Brian Hunter received an invoice in the mail from the city of Dallas. One week earlier, Hunter was in solitary confinement in the City Detention Center. At 2:15 in the morning, a jailer found him unresponsive. An ambulance came and took Hunter to Baylor Hospital. At…
The Texas Railroad Commission has ordered companies running two wastewater disposal wells near Azle to prove that the wells should remain open. The decision comes on the heels of a team of SMU researchers saying last week that Azle’s 2013 earthquake swarm was likely caused by oil and gas drilling…
Calling the transaction that was ironed out over the weekend between the Los Angeles Angels and the Rangers a trade is misleading. The Angels are just giving Josh Hamilton to the Rangers, in addition to paying the vast majority of the $80 million left on Hamilton’s contract. No players are…
As of 2:10 p.m., it’s officially springtime in North Texas. The National Weather Service has issued its first 2015 tornado watch for Dallas County…
Earlier this week, Blue Bell promised to launch an extensive cleaning process at each of its plants, attempting to combat the public health and public relations disasters that have accompanied 10 people being hospitalized after eating the company’s listeria-tainted ice cream. “We’ve always worked to make the very highest quality…
Texas lawmakers are chewing over several civil-forfeiture reform bills, ranging from the weak (allowing police departments to use forfeiture money to fund scholarships for children of officers killed in the line of duty) to the strong (Representative David “God made weed” Simpson’s to do away with civil forfeiture entirely. As…
Recall last month when it came to light that, whoops, Dallas police had reissued the guns used in not one but two officer-involved shootings, despite the fact that the guns were material evidence important to the felony cases against the two cops, Amy Wilburn and Cardan Spencer, as well as…
On the same day that a Dallas County grand jury refused to indict two Dallas police officers for the shooting of Jason Harrison, a shooting that was captured on one of the officer’s body cameras, the Texas State Senate approved a program that would allow cops around the state to…
The Dallas cops who shot and killed a mentally ill man holding a screwdriver will not face charges, after a grand jury declined to indict Dallas Police Department Officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins. “The family is obviously severely disappointed,” attorney Geoff Henley told The Dallas Morning News. The news…
DFW is one of 17 areas identified in a United States Geological Survey report released today as having a high risk for “induced seismicity.” That means we’re doing something that’s making the ground shake, namely injecting wastewater byproducts from energy gathering activities back into the ground. “This new report describes…
The Dallas Police Department’s explorer program, a partnership with the Boys Scouts, offers young people with a “sincere interest in law enforcement” the chance to do things like ride-alongs and paint over graffiti with cops. But according to the department, one veteran officer recently took an alarming interest in his…
