A Dallas tow company called Longhorn Wrecker may soon owe the state $88,900 in fines over towing violations. Reached for comment a few weeks ago, a bitter company representative said it was “all bullshit” and that his company had never been in trouble before. He apparently wasn’t taking into account…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A developer wants to build some apartments on an extremely valuable yet bizarrely underdeveloped major North Dallas intersection. These apartments will be very classy, as evidenced by the slick, full-color brochures zoning/PR consultant Sarah Dodd is distributing as part of a campaign…
Paul Friberg can’t say whether the earthquakes that shook North Texas on Saturday, Sunday and Monday were caused by fracking. He says that there are only a handful of instances in the world in which an earthquake strong enough to be felt — as all three of the recent quakes…
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, soon to make his home in the governor’s mansion, says the “odds are in favor” of Texas suing the federal government to prevent the implementation of President Obama’s proposed executive or to stop the deportation of certain undocumented immigrant who have been in the country…
Back in February of 2013, Schutze shook loose a secret memo showing that City Manager Mary Suhm had struck a secret deal with Trinity East Energy to allow gas drilling on city parkland while, at the same time, promising the City Council that there would be no gas drilling on…
There are heroes all around Dallas. Today, let’s highlight the work of Ari Nessel, a developer who has decided against suddenly evicting all the residents of a Lake Highlands condo building he recently purchased. “Tremendous progress has been made, and it’s because of the pioneers like Mr. Nessel,” Dallas City…
First, a word about Odell Beckham Jr.’s second-quarter catch: It was the best catch I’ve ever seen happen in real time. I’m not sure if it was better than this Tyrone Prothro catch for Alabama against Southern Miss, but that was some magical stuff by ODB. I could watch that…
We did it you guys. The longest wait of every fall, the two weeks surrounding the Cowboys bye, are nearly over. The team sits at 7-3 having weathered, for now at least, a Tony Romo injury crisis, a defense that still isn’t very good and Jerry Jones getting busted for…
It was never going to be easy for Kimball to win its fourth state basketball title in five years. The heart of last year’s team, 6-foot-7-inch small forward D’Angelo Allen, was gone for University of Missouri. Gone, too, was longtime Kimball Coach Royce “Snoop” Johnson, who was fired in the…
As if we needed further proof of Dwaine Caraway’s ability to entertain, the City Council member has responded to Kroger’s refusal to participate in his annual holiday turkey giveaway by not-so-gently ribbing the grocery giant. “I was really shocked and disheartened at the actions of Kroger,” Caraway said in a…
Randy Wesson, the 28-year-old man arrested by Hurst Police on child pornography charges, has admitted some of the details of his alleged crimes, police say. After his arrest, Wesson told detectives they could find about 42,000 images of child pornography on his computer, electronic storage and phone. He also admitted…
While I forever mourn the loss of Bonfire Night (Google it, be prepared for effigy burning), and Burns Night (involves no actual burning) that doesn’t mean I haven’t gotten on board with American holidays, and also the use of the non-word “gotten.” Some of these holidays are better than others,…
Glenn Beck is fed up with Santa. Specifically, he’s tired of the commercialized, belly full of jelly Santa we all know and mostly love. Beck, as he does with so, so many things, has a plan to fix the problem though: An origin story for good ole St. Nick that…
Randy Ray Wesson and Ricardo Javid Lugo have been arrested by detectives from the Hurst Police Department after a search of Fort Worth home revealed a “large amount of evidence of child pornography and exploitation of children,” according to Hurst Police. Cops say Wesson posed as Lugo’s father in August…
Julian Harris, a rookie officer in the Dallas Police Department’s South Central Patrol Division, was arrested Thursday morning after police were called to meet with an injured woman at Dallas’ Charlton Methodist Hospital. DPD detectives say that a fight between Harris and the woman at Harris’ Dallas apartment escalated into…
Yes, tomorrow would be the perfect time to put the finishing touches on that ark you’ve been building for this exact circumstance, because come Monday we will all be living the reality Kevin Costner so boldly hinted at in his magnum opus Waterworld…
Boston is the smartest large city in the United States, according to a new study from New Geography. Dallas did not fare nearly as well. The numbers behind the rankings are straightforward. Weight is given to the number of college graduates in each of the Census Bureau’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas…
Here’s another thing I like about hockey. We’ve all seen in sports that moment when a highly trained athlete is made to look like a 5-year-old who just made the sort of mistake a 5-year-old might make. It’s one of the reasons we keep watching sports. These incredible athletes, these…
The Dallas City Council’s decision last week to repeal its anti-protest ordinance — the one that has irked both the far left and far right, from the peaceniks railing against the Bush Presidential Library to the Obama-hating patriots — was a tacit admission that banning people from protesting next to…
Duncanville ISD thought it was getting a great deal when, one year ago this month, it switched electric providers and signed on with the State Power Program through the state’s General Land Office. Just like that, Duncanville ISD’s price-per-kilowatt hour dropped almost 20 percent, from 7.3 cents to a maximum…
One thing is clear after Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ 15-minute speech Wednesday at a Trinity Groves breakfast: It can’t possibly be about what he said it was about. There is no way that after all the time, all the “balloon juice,” that’s been expelled over the issue, that he can…
On Thursday, a Dallas community organization will file a formal complaint with the Department of Justice against Dallas and its police department for fostering what the group sees as an environment in which police officers can kill blacks and Hispanics without fear of consequences. The complaint is the product of…
