All signs point to the Dallas City Council adopting a new transportation-for-hire ordinance at their Wednesday meeting. The ordinance, fought over for more than a year, attempts to level the playing field for cabs — dominated by Yellow Cab in Dallas — and app-based services like Uber and Lyft. To…
There’s not really any need for me to write much here, beyond noting that this morning was a very foggy one. Thankfully Justin Terveen got out in front of the fog, and he sent us these shots…
When Texas Health Presbyterian was still in the middle of its Ebola public relations fallout, hospital officials had an ever-shifting series of explanations for why Thomas Eric Duncan was initially misdiagnosed and sent home. The hospital had at first made a subtle suggestion that the misdiagnosis was a nurse’s fault…
In Houston, the cosmopolitan big city with an openly gay mayor, the battle over an equal-rights ordinance that barred discrimination against the LGBT community raged for months before the City Council approved it in May. In Plano, the quintessential Texas suburb and home base of the Liberty Institute, the religious-right…
Police say Clarence Mallory and Carter Cervantez thought they got away with their first theft — an $18,000 deposit absconded with from the Hulen Mall’s American Eagle’s safe after-hours in August — so they decided to do it again. This time, they were going after a bigger score, the store’s…
By the close of business Monday, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, dropped another 4 percent. Since July the price of oil is down 40 percent, which seems like it could be a disaster for Texas, given the portion of the state economy based on…
The D-Link has to be considered a success. The city-funded, DART-operated, free-to-ride circulator has done what it was created to do: connect many of Dallas’ entertainment districts — Bishop Arts, Downtown Dallas, the Arts District and Victory Plaza — at a reasonable frequency. It’s the only bus line that runs…
Bringing an end to almost an eight-year legal battle, the Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday on whether to pay two charity groups $250,000. Big Heart Ministries and Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry sued the city in March 2007, challenging a city ordinance that restricted the ways groups could provide…
By midday Thanksgiving, Love Field’s 4,000 parking spaces weren’t enough. Each one had been sold and parked in, leaving those arriving to take afternoon flights circling hopelessly or forced to go home and take DART back to the airport. The influx of cars can be blamed on more than just…
After last night’s drubbing of the Bears in Chicago, Dez Bryant had one simple request: that the assembled press not censor his post-game rant when the ran it the next day — no “little stars,” no nothing. After waiting dutifully all day for someone, anyone, to heed this very important…
Because ours is going back to the UK. Which is sad. He is smart and funny and is easily confused by America, and he makes Chartbeat blush. Remember when we sent him to the NRA convention? Or the time he watched the World Cup — that was that one soccer…
Most people don’t realize that Texas has had a pretty cool law on the books since 1985 that bars merchants from charging customers extra for paying by credit card. The famously annoying credit card surcharge feels like it’s everywhere, and Texas is just one of a handful of states where…
For the second week in a row, demonstrators took to Dallas streets to protest an out-of-state grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black man. Unlike last week, Dallas police blocked off access to Interstate 35 and kept demonstrators from closing the freeway…
Bentley the dog, may he live a long and prosperous life, survived Dallas’ recent brush with Ebola. Maybe it was the $27,000 the city spent on his care. Maybe it’s that, though it appears that dogs can be infected with the virus if they snack on Ebola-infected animal carcasses or…
For the past few years, the Dallas City Council says it’s been trying to develop a vacant lot on Simpson Stuart and Bonnie View roads, in a section of Dallas south of Loop 12 that is 22.5 square miles but home to just 27,500 people. What the relatively low-population area…
Providing yet another reason for me to be thankful I never have to attend another day of primary school, The Dallas Morning News’ Matthew Haag enumerated a little of what’s on DISD’s controversial exams for elective courses in elementary school Thursday afternoon. They are tough. The list is littered with…
Josh Brent may have done his time for the December 2012 drunk driving wreck that killed his passenger, former University of Illinois teammate and best friend Jerry Brown Jr., but the legal battle surrounding the case isn’t over. Brent’s been sued by Beamers Private Club as it attempts to insulate…
He didn’t do it. That’s what Eric Williams’ defense boiled down to. Despite the storage locker filled with weapons and survival gear, the getaway car bought using an assumed name, the emailed confession that came from his house and the bullet found in his possession that came from the same…
The Texas UIL’s system of determining high school athletic eligibility has meted out another dose of its strange justice. Gabrielle Gregory, a junior point guard at Irving MacArthur and a four-star recruit who’s made a verbal commitment to Kansas State, has been sidelined for the first weeks of the season…
Monta Ellis, volume-scorer extraordinaire turned straw that stirs the Mavericks drink, hit a ridiculous spinning, off-balance fadeaway to beat the Bucks at the buzzer Wednesday night. Unfair Park thinks that’s a thing you should see. The celebration afterwards was almost as good as the shot itself, check out Mark Cuban…
Just over a week ago, on November 24, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the “odds were in favor” of the state suing the federal government to stop President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Wednesday afternoon, the governor-elect cashed that bet, announcing that he’d been joined by 16 other states…
Of the just more than $155,000 the city of Dallas spent responding to Ebola, almost $27,000 — just more than 17 percent of the total — went to caring for Bentley, Nina Pham’s King Charles Spaniel. The majority of the Bentley cash, $17,057.46, was spent on getting Grand Prairie Armed…
