The letter was anonymous, just like other warnings that came before it. In late January, it arrived in the mailboxes of advocates who work on behalf of Christian sex-abuse victims. For 26 pages, it offered a rambling defense of a place that shouldn’t need one — Prestonwood Baptist Church, a…
Before getting into what actually happened Wednesday, we will note that council members basically never get rung up on city ethics charges. Complaints get filed, are briefly annoying and then just sort of fade off into the ether. Still, Vonciel Jones Hill and much of the rest of the council…
The Continental pedestrian bridge was one of Dallas’ best additions in 2014. It has great views, water features and play equipment for kids and the occasional food truck. Strolling the bridge, assuming the weather isn’t too hot, is genuinely pleasant. Building the Trinity toll road would seriously screw it up…
It’s only natural for Texas’ urban/suburbanites to assume that the choice of agriculture commissioner has little bearing on their lives. This is false. City dwellers eat food, which is grown on farms. They fill their cars at gas pumps and weigh their produce on grocery scales, both of which the…
Just after 9 p.m. Tuesday night, an Erath County jury found Eddie Ray Routh guilty for the February 2013 shootings of American Sniper author Chris Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield. Routh never disputed that he shot Kyle and Littlefield. At trial, he and his defense team claimed he was…
The sam-sex spouses of Dallas uniformed employees are now eligible for survivor benefits. The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Board granted the benefits, effective immediately, Tuesday. The move follows a February 18 vote by the City Council to give same-sex spouses of civilian employees pension benefits. The board’s vote…
Rowlett Mayor Todd Gottel, like all decent human beings, hates it when able-bodied individuals (read: assholes) park in handicap parking spots. “It really disgusts me,” he says, “because the handicapped deserve the same rights as we have. Those folks that violate that should be ashamed of themselves and should be…
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. WFAA weather personality Pete Delkus, in the form of his odd new smoking-jacket and cigar accessorized avatar, has announced what we’ve known for quite some time. He can, and does, control the weather.Looks like tomorrow could be another snow day kiddies! I’ll let you…
Like the folks who rose up against Plano’s non-discrimination ordinance, Republican Texas Representative Debbie Riddle is quite concerned with which public restroom you choose to use. Riddle introduced a bill Friday that mandates that anyone over the age of 12 commits a Class A misdemeanor when he or she uses…
The tow truck driver who shot and killed a young, unarmed probation officer named Lance Lemons earlier this month was not arrested afterward, and Dallas police are still refusing to identify the shooter. They say they don’t have to reveal his name unless they decide to send his case to…
The mystery of the missing narratives. Ever since the Dallas Police Department’s public reports system came back online after a more than month-long hiatus last summer, it’s been on everybody’s — well everybody who, you know, could use this sort of thing for a blog post or whatever — mind…
So the news here is pretty simple. The East Kessler Nighborhood Association in Oak Cliff scheduled a mayoral candidates forum for Tuesday. Challenger Marcos Ronquillo is going to be there. Until late last week, so Mayor Mike Rawlings, as far as everyone knew. Then, on Friday, Rawlings made it clear…
Listen. This is Texas. The roads in this state should not look like the time we accidentally left the freezer open all weekend, and returned only to close it and look away, hoping for the best. The best is not what happened, though — it was instead the very worst…
All of the schools are closed. You find yourself stuck at home with your own children. They want to go outside and run in the sleet, but you have been told by various important weather outlets that #SLEETSHOW2015 is no joke, and that going outside can only mean certain death…
Dallas’ most favored weather oracle, Saint Delkus the Wise, brings news that later this week North Texas shall again be the object of God’s wrath. Yes, later this week, after having been given the briefest of respites following the plague of #sleetshow2015, Dallas will again face the trauma of weather…
In advance of the thundersleet-bearing storm that’s currently causing a minor inconvenience throughout North Texas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit put its new winter weather contingency plan into effect for the first time. It was fitting capper to AIA Dallas’ car-free week: Dallas’ already suspect public transit system significantly cutting service…
Who lives in Dallas? No, not not you, suburbs. We mean big D, little A, double L, A, S, the actual city, a curious place with some expensive, high-class entertainment areas and homes but then also a lot of poverty and some Detroit-like patches. City officials decided to investigate that…
Local weather forecasters including Pete Delkus, CBS11Larry, and your mama predicted that sleet would rain down upon us all last night, and it sure did. (For my fellow Native Texans, “sleet,” of course, in meteorological terms is the petulant baby that is created when snow and rain do The Nasty.)…
Somehow, @fauxmayormike, Unfair Park’s favorite local, civic-minded parody Twitter account, only has 46 followers. This is a grave injustice, as @fauxmayormike is one of the rare parody Twitter accounts that is actually funny. Here’s some of what you’ve missed to this point: Would this face stop Kingston from asking questions?…
The results of Lewisville ISD’s investigation into “White Power” signs in the Flower Mound High School student section during last Friday’s basketball game against Plano East are in. And what did the district find? Basic dumbassery among young idiots. Surprise! Here’s the timeline, according to the district:…
Organizers of a petition drive to stop Plano’s new anti-discrimination ordinance misled supporters, failed to properly verify signatures and didn’t follow Plano requirements for petition drives, the city says. See also: What Do Plano Christians Have Against Veterans?…
If there was any doubt that Eddie Routh, the former Marine who shot and killed Chris Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield in 2013, was profoundly disturbed, Thursday’s testimony at Routh’s murder trial erased it. Now, the jury is going to decide whether Routh knew that shooting Kyle and Littlefield…
