The following is a non-exhaustive list of the pros and cons of building the skybridge Crow Holdings wants to put in Preston Center: Pro: Preston Center is essentially frozen in the 1980s. See also: Preston Center Is Getting a Skybridge, and Maybe a Tom Thumb Con: So are skybridges!…
Kory Watkins is like the kid who got a Zune instead of an iPod for Christmas. The Open Carry Tarrant County leader is upset — very, very upset — that the Texas Senate passed a bill yesterday that would legalize the open carrying of handguns in the state. Watkins is…
We’re not going to take the time to fully debunk Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ column defending the Trinity Toll Road. Wylie H, Dallas’ preeminent City Hall gadfly and Internet commenter, has already — a day in advance no less — done that work on D Magazine’s Front Burner blog. Still,…
Jason Harrison’s mother, Shirley, appears calm on the Dallas police officer’s body camera footage as she steps out of her home, followed by her son Jason. “He’s off the chain,” she says, shaking her head and looking annoyed. “Bipolar, schizo,” she says, explaining her son’s mental illness to the police…
Friday, Unfair Park’s love/hate feelings about state Representative Jonathan Stickland took another turn. The Bedford Republican introduced a couple of bills on the last day of filing, one to cut off utilities to any National Security Agency facility in Texas and another, to make so-called “no knock” warrants illegal in…
We’ve previously noted that ex-Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins — former political wunderkind, a crusader for the innocent and the scourge of the guilty — had sunk to trolling for DWI clients using a Hotmail (?!?) account. That’s no longer the case; as of 1:32 a.m. today, he is…
In what’s just the latest evidence that Ted Cruz’s inevitable presidential campaign is going to be the best, the junior senator from Texas scared the bejeezus out of a 3-year-old girl in New Hampshire. “The whole world’s on fire,” Cruz says, while doing his requisite yammering about President Obama’s bringing…
Almost as soon as state Senator Kevin Eltife and Representative Stephanie Klick, both Republicans, introduced their plan to make a very limited subset of cannibis-infused oils available to an even smaller subset of those patients who would benefit from medical marijuana therapy, the push-back started. Shaun McAlister, the executive director…
State Representative Jason Villalba, a Dallas Republican, is close to a lot of cops. The best man in his wedding was a police officer. So is his uncle and various other friends and family members. So when his friends in the law enforcement community suggested the creation of a 25-foot…
Rafael Anchia has backed up claims that he would listen to his Texas House district when it comes to the Trinity toll road. Early Friday, Anchia filed legislation that would prevent the Texas Department of Transportation from providing funding for the Trinity roll road and require the road proposal to…
There’s all sorts of problems with pre-election candidate surveys. They’re high risk/low reward for participants, can be boring and suffer from a self-selection problem. That’s especially true when the survey is conducted by an interest-fueled PAC like the Dallas Green Alliance, one of two political action committees trying to fighting…
Nykerion Nealon has been arrested for killing Ahmed Al-Jumaili, the Iraqi immigrant shot as he, his wife and his brother took pictures in the snow on March 5. Nealon, 17, told police he took to the streets near Al-Jumaili’s apartment in far northeast Dallas after someone shot into his girlfriend’s…
We have glimpsed a vision of Dallas’ future, and it is bleak. By 2050, according to the Dallas Business Journal’s read of new data from the Texas Office of the State Demographer, Collin County will have ballooned to 3.8 million people. Dallas County, once upon a time the “urb” in…
During a joint interview with Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price hosted by the Texas Tribune in Austin, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings spoke out candidly against the growing tide in the state Legislature against local control. Rawlings words come in the wake of a start to the 2015 Texas Legislative session…
On paper, the seven plaintiffs suing the NFL for their experiences at 2011’s Jerryworld-hosted Super Bowl won. A Dallas jury agreed with the group — and the NFL — that the leagued breached its contract with the fans when they were either denied seats or switched to different seats at…
In what’s turning out to be a stellar week for tolerance in Dallas, the rabbi of Congregation Toras Chaim, the embattled Orthodox Jewish congregation that meets in a Far North Dallas home, says someone painted a swastika on his car sometime Wednesday. “I feel completely violated. As a Jew, the…
For two long weeks, workers at the Carmel Car Wash on Mockingbird Lane heard a constant “bang bang” sound. It wasn’t gunshots. It was cars going through a pot hole so bad that complaints of tire blow-outs were common. In the Lakewood Advocate, Rick Wamre wrote four days ago that…
The Dallas Morning News’ real estate reporter Steve Brown published a piece over the weekend blaming millennials for declining homeownership rates in the Dallas area. This is true. Homeownership rates among the under-35 set — i.e. the age range currently occupied by millennials — has declined markedly since peaking around…
Heading into deliberations, the questions facing the jury in the 2011 Super Bowl seating fiasco trial were pretty simple. The NFL — accused of breach of contract and fraudulent inducement after the plaintiff fans were either relocated or denied seats entirely at the game — has admitted to the breach…
As soon as the now-infamous 9-second video of white college students singing a racist song went viral, the anonymity of those involved, especially those members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity who could be seen, was sure to be short lived. Social media users quickly fingered Parker…
One week ago, I went on something called a human-trafficking bus tour and have been struggling since to make sense of what happened. On a DART bus, accompanied by a police officer and about a dozen other human-trafficking tourists, we were taken past the Shops and Park Lane, where a…
Wednesday is Planned Parenthood lobby day at the state capitol in Austin. As you might expect, it’s brought out the best in our favorite local state rep, fetal gun rights advocate and constitutional scholar Jonathan Stickland. See also: State Rep. Jonathan Stickland Swears He Wasn’t Threatening to Shoot People, Just…
