Density is good. Regionalism is bad. Dallas’ city government should focus on the city itself, not on getting in good with our suburban neighbors by forming partnerships that hurt the city itself. These are things Unfair Park has heard so often that it basically takes them to be true. For…
Amber Vinson, the second nurse from Thomas Eric Duncan’s treatment team to contract the Ebola virus, had her engagement ring incinerated along with many of her other belongings. In an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, Vinson revealed her struggles to figure out how she got the disease despite following the…
There’s a long and sordid history of notorious American criminals cashing in on their fame by publishing books, selling prison artwork or hawking their personal effects. Nowadays, the macabre “murderabilia” market has mostly migrated online, where anyone with an Internet connection and an unhealthy obsession with sociopaths can buy memorabilia…
The Dallas Cowboys, complete with their famous silver trousers, play their first game in London on Sunday. You should tear yourself away from Swansea vs. Arsenal (or as they would call it in America, “Swans – Gooners”) and watch a man with a malfunctioning spine attempt to defeat a team…
It’s on the way!! RT @RyanMaue: Next week’s Arctic blast will threaten 41 States and 250,179,444 people pic.twitter.com/MR78ssJVVL— Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) November 6, 2014 Suck it, boring sunny weather. Now we have something to live in fear of. The chaos of a Dallas winter begins again in earnest next week,…
Ahead of his election day disaster, District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the creation of a new division in his office. He’s done this before, most recently with the Civil Rights Division, a team that will investigate, right alongside Internal Affairs, when a police officers shoots someone. The latest is a…
At its peak, Bitcoin Savings and Trust — Trendon Shavers’ Bitcoin business that he purported to be an investment operation — controlled a full 7 percent of all publicly traded Bitcoin. Operating out of his McKinney home, Shavers, known as “pirateat40” in the Bitcoin community, managed as many as 764,000…
Just two days after winning his unopposed re-election bid, state Representative Rafael Anchia has released a survey to gauge Dallas residents’ opinion of the proposed Trinity toll road. The survey was quickly pushed out on social media by opponents of the toll road such as City Council member Scott Griggs,…
It’s far too early to render judgment on Superintendent Mike Miles’ school-choice initiative. Eventually, he wants to open nearly three dozen specialized campuses that offer an alternative to neighborhood schools but aren’t as selective as magnets. Thus far, he’s opened just one: Mata Montessori, just south of White Rock Lake…
BY SEAN CHAFFIN One morning in 2011, just after sunrise, a swarm of federal agents rolled quietly down a neatly manicured cul-de-sac in Southlake, the city police’s SWAT alongside them. They gathered outside the home of their target, a $750,000 spread with five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a swimming pool,…
Preliminary numbers are out for Texas’ midterm election voter turnout from the Election Project, and they are abysmal. Just 28.5 percent of Texans eligible to vote did so, either in early voting or on Tuesday, the lowest percentage in the country. The last time Texas voted for its governor in…
Say what you will about Longhorn Wrecker, one of Dallas’ notorious towing companies, you can at least never accuse it of laziness. This is the same company that during the Dallas Gay Pride Parade five years ago descended on a post office nearby and towed a few dozen cars from…
As in any good tragedy, Craig Watkins’ tumble from his perch as Dallas County district attorney was preceded by hubris and stupidity. After badly underperforming compared with the rest of his party in his 2010 re-election win against Republican Danny Clancy, Watkins did everything possible to ensure another close race…
By the time Denton’s city offices opened this morning, officials already had two brand new lawsuits waiting for them. As Denton’s attorneys begin the weary post-election process of sorting through a legal defense against this inevitable barrage of suits, it’s clear the battle over the ban on fracking voters approved…
Everything you need to know about Michael Furrh you can learn from his outgoing voicemail message: Caddie Master at Caddie Club; golf ambassador for Rolling Hills Country Club; Guinness World Record holder. Hopefully you didn’t get bored and hang up, because that last part is key. At Arlington’s Rolling Hills…
So, Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez is making his twice-monthly report to the City Council Wednesday afternoon. This time, he’s going to be talking about something called the Dallas Center for Performance Excellence which, well, we’ve read the whole briefing and still have no idea what it is. Its purpose,…
In one West Dallas neighborhood, roughly 25 to 30 percent of eligible voters do not have a valid photo identification for voting. This area, along with sections near Fair Park, have the highest rates in the city. Yet speaking to voters outside C.F. Carr Elementary School, one of the central…
Here’s another reason hockey is my favorite thing. See also: Our British Texan Falls in Love With the Stars Hockey has some real pantomime villains. Soccer, sure, there were some bad guys. Luis Suarez, for instance, is very keen on biting people, as you do. He was also suspended for…
When a Dallas cop shoots someone in the line of duty, you can count on Dallas Police Association leader Ron Pinkston to leap to the officer’s defense. The cop who shot a mentally ill man who, as best a surveillance video shows, stood up from a chair? Shouldn’t have been…
If you aren’t sure of where you’re supposed to vote this morning, you’re now battling more than just the rain. As of 10:00 a.m., dallascountyvotes.org, the county’s guide to all things voting, isn’t working. We called the county to see what was going on. A worker told us the site…
Texas has exactly one good sized natural lake that we share with Louisiana, and it’s totally not getting flooded with oil right now, officials have assured us these last few weeks. On October 13, workers noticed crude oil leaking out of a pipeline and into a Louisiana bayou. The pipeline…
In a couple of weeks, people in Dallas running a little short will have access to small loans that aren’t accompanied by usurious interest rates — provided their employer opts in to a new program from a nonprofit called Business and Community Lenders of Texas. The Community Loan Center of…
