From the reaction among a certain subset of Dallasites — the moralizing, socially conservative-right — you’d think the new Fifty Shades of Grey flick was like something from the Marquis de Sade’s secret home movies. As though somehow, a movie with an MPAA “R” rating will bring down civilization. It’s…
Video from a body cam worn by a DPD cop — released by the department Thursday — shows a dramatic water rescue from creek near 5800 Military Parkway. The man being rescued lost control of his car before he and the car fell more than 50 feet into the creek…
The notorious radioactive waste dump in West Texas once run by late, politically-corrupt connected Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons could soon begin a new, more extreme phase of waste-dumping. On Friday, Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the company will seek a license to temporarily — up…
After Artrai Alexander stole a Dodge Challenger from a convenience store in the 3000 block of Grand Avenue Wednesday afternoon, police say, he took cops on a high speed chase. The chase ended when he crashed, a fairly typically outcome. What happened after the crash wasn’t. Jessica Liesmann, the woman…
When word came down Tuesday of a new PAC intended to support getting rid of Interstate 345, the freeway bridge that cleaves downtown Dallas from Deep Ellum and connects I-45 to U.S. 75, one of the most interesting names listed among the PAC’s supporters was former state Senator John Carona…
Last week, we reported District 9 City Council candidate Sam Merten’s response to allegations that a $10,000 payment he received from Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings in May 2014 was improper. Merten told Unfair Park that the $10k was payment for work he’d done on behalf of the DISD home rule…
Opening statements in the trial of Eddie Routh, the former Marine accused of murdering “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield focused on the limited ground over which the case will be decided — whether or not Routh met the Texas standard for legal insanity when he shot…
They weren’t mentioned. Not once. No one, not the parents, not the teachers from other schools nor longtime critic and DISD trustee Joyce Foreman, asked DISD Superintendent Mike Miles about the “reptile’s nest” of instant messages sent between former members of the district’s human resources department at a parental forum…
Much has been made on Unfair Park and elsewhere over the fact that, due almost certainly to a drafting error, the city of Dallas election code allows for unlimited donations to officeholder accounts. See also: Ronquillo Calls Out Rawlings On Fat-Cat Contributors. Me, Too. Marcos Ronquillo, a challenger to Mike…
7-Eleven, the store where bums wait outside by the Redbox to harrass you for change after you buy yourself a $1 slice of something pizza-like, is suddenly trying to act like it’s all fancy. The convenience chain is charging Dallas customers a whole 15 cents if they need to carry…
Sometimes, something happens that gives us hope that some small amount of justice lives in this world. Today was one of those times, because Texas House Bill 195 was referred to committee. Yeah, yeah. That’s extremely wonky, but you take your hope where you can get it. HB 195 is…
Lest you consider, not that you would, heading to Arlington for any pre-Valentine’s Day fun via I-30, Unfair Park has a few words of advice: Don’t. Unless you don’t care if you actually make it back to Dallas. TxDOT will be closing the two left lanes of the eastbound side…
When Unfair Park’s attention was first drawn to Connect Dallas Now, a nascent marketing campaign we’ve now learned is intended to promote the Trinity toll road, we weren’t sure it was real. The effort’s Twitter account still has just four followers — including an apparently hate-following Angela Hunt — and…
“I’m in the lobby, and I need some help,” Kristiana Coignard said into the station telephone at the Longview Police Department. “OK what kind of help do you need?” an officer asked. The officer gets no response, and the recording ends…
Last week, Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle was cited and released for misdemeanor marijuana possession after police responded to his Wichita, Kansas, hotel room following a 911 call about domestic violence. The weed charge was subsequently dropped, but just released 911 tapes obtained by The Dallas Morning News show…
Larry Tuttle, a six-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, died Saturday after police say a woman in his apartment shot Tuttle before shooting herself. The woman was an acquaintance of Tuttle’s, police say, but cops have not yet identified her. A 6-year-old girl, thought to be the shooter’s daughter,…
Last week, Schutze told you about an interpretation of the city’s election rules that allows any incumbent to receive unlimited donations, regardless of the city’s $5,000 limit on campaign contributions from individuals. Money going to something called an officeholder account are not bound by the $5,000 rule, and can be…
At an age when most of us were preoccupied with hot-boxing our parents’ cars or eating Crayons (you ate crayons in high school too, right?!), the teenagers at Greenhill School in Addison are making us all look like slackers. “I kind of got into the whole social justice scene during…
The khapra beetle, considered the world’s most destructive insect, has popped up in DFW luggage screens on five different occasions in recent months. In each instance, the beetle has been found in dried food a passenger was attempting to get past customs, despite not declaring the packages of rice, dried…
Even before Joshua and Jordan Earls were formally charged with making child pornography and child molestation in 2013, it should have been obvious to the Garland church where they worked that something was awry, one of their victims says. Josh moved to Texas to work as a youth minister at…
SMU’s initial report of data collected from seismometors placed in Irving is interesting, provides a bit of useful context for the recent rash of quakes and promises further action. It does not, however, fill us in on what we’re all so curious about — whether or not the resource extraction…
When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his meditation on the American prison system in the 1830s, the country’s experiment in solitary confinement was a half century old, begun in 1786 by pacifistic Pennsylvania Quakers as an alternative to execution. As the Frenchman noted, it hadn’t worked: Nowhere was this system of…
