We so often associate Prime Prep Academy with its co-founder Deion Sanders that we often overlook all the little people who helped make the school such a dysfunctional place. If it wasn’t for Prime Prep’s school board, for instance, Sanders may have remained permanently fired from the school, removing the…
In October 2013, Clint Peterson was shot to death by a Duncanville Police Department officer. Now his family has filed a lawsuit in federal court against three unnamed officers who responded to the call that ultimately lead to his death. Other defendants named in the suit are Duncanville Police Chief…
Buried deep within Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus’ nearly 1,000-page budget is a measly little $2.5 million item of great interest to North Texans, the “TexNet Seismic Monitoring Program.” Unfair Park was duly excited when we first caught wind of the plan, from the Texas Tribune. Surely, we…
Bobcats almost certainly won’t eat your children; humans, even tiny ones, are too large and awful-tasting. Bobcats probably won’t eat your dog, unless your dog is a free-ranging tea-cup chihuahua that — let’s be honest — totally had it coming. They will eat your backyard chickens in a heartbeat, so…
Plano’s anti-discrimination ordinance is under attacks from all sides. Four local state representatives plan to introduce a bill that will void the ordinance as well as any similar laws passed by other cities. The Texas Pastor Council has collected 7,000 signatures in an attempt to force the Plano City Council…
November 26, 2014, the day before Thanksgiving, Dallas 911 received a call from a man threatening to jump from the Martin Luther King Boulevard overpass onto S.M. Wright Freeway. Daniel Mulvihill was the first cop to show up and tried to talk the man down. Additional officers, including the epically…
A 3-month-old is dead and a teenage relative is in jail after a Monday morning drowning at an apartment complex near Charlton Methodist Hospital. Dallas police say they received a “person in danger” 911 call just after 6 a.m. When they arrived, they were told by members of Dallas Fire…
After James Harper, an unarmed kidnapping suspect, was killed by a police officer in July 2012, police Chief David Brown committed to reforming the way his department would chase suspects on foot. Brian Rowden, the officer who shot Harper, had ended up chasing Harper alone after Harper and three other…
Maybe you moved here from some expensive city on the coast, lured by a job offer and the cheap rent. An apartment broker directed you to a new building with a really pretentious name, like, say, “Celebrity.” But after spending a few months renting a cramped, thin-walled unit inside Celebrity,…
Terry Hendrix, as he notes in his lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, is speaking for all of us. He’s speaking on behalf of Dez Bryant, all Dallas Cowboys fans and all people in and from the “Sovereign Republic of Texas.” His demands — make that our demands –…
Edgar Diaz’s life had all the trappings of the quintessential American success story. After fleeing his native Colombia in a harrowing escape from leftist guerillas in 2001, he and his wife settled in Dallas with little money and less English. With a diligence and entrepreneurial spirit that would do Horatio…
Not content with bleeding us dry one toll at a time, the North Texas Tollway Authority plans to squeeze traffic to a near standstill in and around downtown this weekend. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday, two lanes on each side of the tollway will be closed…
To the mainstream medical community, reparative therapy for homosexuals is quackery. Organizations either denounce it or call it dangerous and the Texas GOP was skewered for endorsing the practice in its 2014 platform. So when Unfair Park learned about a billboard at Forest Lane and U.S. 75 promoting a reparative…
The latest salvo in the war to get the city of Dallas to stop adding fluoride to the city’s water supply comes from the canines behind dogsagainstfluoridation.com, who are urging the City Council to follow council member Sheffie Kadane’s lead on January 28 and vote to end the vicious commie…
Somehow Dallas City Council member Tennell Atkins managed to escape the cameras on his way to his municipal court hearing this afternoon. By the time they arrived — one from the Morning News, one from one of the TV stations — he was seated with his attorney in the front…
Anonymous associate and freelance investigative journalist Barrett Brown, who’s already spent more than two years behind bars, learned today that he will be locked up for three more. Brown, who admitted to being an accessory after the fact to accessing a protected computer — he linked to data obtained from…
As of Thursday, the world doomsday clock sits at 11:57. The clock is a measure created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to show just how near disaster the planet is at any given time. When the clock hits midnight, it’s all over. “In 2015, unchecked climate change, global…
DISD schools: still not great, but not that bad if you look at other really big districts. So says a report issued by the Bush library and Mayor Mike Rawlings that compares achievement and disciplinary stats across the country’s biggest urban districts. The mission of the reports is described as…
“Majority rule, minority rights.” It’s one of the first axioms you learn in civics, social studies or whatever your elementary school called it. It’s part of the American social contract, that those out of power in a legislative body have at least some means to check the actions of those…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings recently released his semiannual campaign finance report, detailing the money he’s received for his re-election campaign and what he’s doing with it. There are no smoking guns in the report, no examples of obvious corruption that everyone can feel righteously outraged about. Most disappointingly, there is…
Records obtained by the Austin American-Statesman show just how far North Texas school districts were willing to go to assuage parents’ Ebola fears last fall. Seven DFW districts — Burleson, Grapevine-Cooley, Garland, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Highland Park, Hurst-Euless-Bedford and Royse City — spent money on various levels of “deep cleaning” for…
Elizabeth Julian, head of the Inclusive Communities Project in Dallas, left the U.S. Supreme Court this morning feeling optimistic about the future course of a case that could dramatically change how the U.S. Fair Housing Act is applied. The court heard oral arguments this morning in Texas Department of Housing…
