As it stands, Easter in Lee Park won’t be happening this year. The Cedar Springs Merchants Association, which puts on the annual dog parade and get together, says that it needs to raise $20,000 by March 4 so it can cover the costs for newly enforced city events requirements. “We…
The sky over the Texas Horse Park on Thursday morning was clear and blue, unblemished by even a wisp of cloud; weather would not be dampening the morning’s ribbon-cutting celebration, which has been nearly two decades in the making. On the ground, the forecast was equally sunny. All the gathered…
Quelling a minor insurrection by the Travis County judiciary, the Texas Supreme Court issued a pair of emergency stays blocking two lower-court rulings that might have allowed same-sex marriage in the state. Tuesday, a Travis County probate judge ruled Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional while splitting up the proceeds…
Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant made history Thursday morning. Thanks to a temporary restraining order from a Travis County district judge, the couple became the first same-sex duo in Texas to receive a marriage license. Judge David Wahlberg ordered the Travis County clerk to issue the couple a marriage license…
It’s that time again. Another big event at Jerryworld is approaching, and the Morning News is credulously reporting an outrageous number for the event’s estimated economic impact. This time, it’s the Academy of Country Music Awards that’s supposed to hand the North Texas economy its latest event-related windfall, to the…
If not for Adam McGough’s residency issues, the race to replace Jerry Allen in District 10 would be, far and away, the most boring bout on the 2015 Dallas City Council card. McGough and his opponent Paul Reyes are both longtime political operators. McGough was Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings chief…
The last time we wrote about Excalibur towing, the person whose car had been towed wondered if someone broke into her car to rip off her parking sticker, possibly causing her car to be towed — assuming the sticker went missing before her car was hauled away instead of after…
A spouse is a spouse, regardless of genitalia, as far as Dallas’ city code is concerned now. The City Council voted Wednesday morning to change its definition of spouse, clearing the way for same-sex spouses of civilian city employees to receive survivor pension benefits. Gay city workers legally married in…
Unless you are wagering on horses, within the boundaries of the Kickapoo Indian reservation or placing bets directly with the state, gambling is illegal in Texas; after all, vice cops need to have something to do when they’re not busting hookers, and besides, the lottery functions much better without private…
Friday’s Plano East versus Flower Mound boys basketball game featured three overtimes, multiple lead changes and a white power sign. It makes sense that the student section at Flower Mound High School’s basketball games would have a sign with the word “white” on it. After all, the Lewisville Independent School…
We’ve been seeing signs up at places around town. “East Dallas is …” they say. And yeah, we wondered what that was about, and lo, the Internet gods answered us with a press release. It’s a marketing thing. Most things are. “Here’s the scoop – the first phase of the…
Newly elected Texas Governor Greg Abbott laid out his most comprehensive vision yet for the state during his first “state of the state” address Tuesday morning. Much of what he said was expected. He hopes to slash spending almost across the board, seal off the border by hiring more Department…
Late Monday night, a U.S. district judge in Brownsville issued a temporary injunction blocking President Obama’s decision to shield about 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. See also: Greg Abbott Leads Texas into Immigration Lawsuit Fight With Feds In November Obama announced his plan to create a program called Deferred…
Don’t call what’s being built here a “slate.” In Dallas politics, “slate” is a bad word, thanks to decades of domination by the old guard Citizens Council that still leave a bitter taste, and lingering memories of the battle to put power into independent single-member council districts. But with six…
Texas Ranger Danny Briley and a videotape gave a thorough account Wednesday of the confession given to Briley by Eddie Routh, the man on trial for the fatal 2013 shootings of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. “I know you had a tough day, but I’d like to talk a little…
Continuing Lance Armstrong’s long descent from cycling champion to tragic, cautionary tale, SCA Promotion confirmed Monday that an arbitration panel has decided that Armstrong and Tailwind Sports, the owners of the U.S. Postal Service team for which Armstrong rode, owe the Dallas-based company $10 million for bonuses SCA paid after…
With the closing of Urban Orchard last August, downtown Dallas was left without a grocery store. Downtown residents with empty pantries are faced with heading to Uptown of Cityplace still, but a requested change in the development agreement between the city and Olympic Property Partners — the firm rehabbing 1401…
Newly minted Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, conveniently oblivious to the mountains of scientific evidence that people are slowly but surely turning the planet into a scorching greenhouse, isn’t sure if he believes in climate change. But he’s damn sure about the best way to address it. “I’ll leave it in…
The outcome, what happened after Texas gun fetishists Kory Watkins and Amy Hedtke testified before the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs is what’s scary. It’s not that it now seems inevitable that students over the age of 21 will be able to bring guns onto college campuses, nor that…
On January 14, vice cops fanned out across East Dallas and descended on a half dozen aging storefronts in crappy, low-rent strip centers: one off Columbia Avenue a mile east of Deep Ellum, another where Garland Road transitions from isn’t-it-nice-to-be-near-White-Rock-Lake! to all-beauty-has-been-extinguished-from-the-world, the rest along Ferguson Road. Later, they visited…
Adding insult to financial injury, a video posted on the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook wall Wednesday shows a cop, apparently after giving a ticket, traveling the wrong way on the U.S. 75 service road. According to the woman who took the video, Christine Pham, the reversing cop pulled this move…
When Prime Time wasn’t admitting to choking his employees or threatening to throw chairs at them and break their necks, he displayed a generous side. In Prime Prep’s final year, co-founder Deion Sanders donated $132,937 to the school. The former Cowboys star worked at the school in an official capacity…
