For all you Dallasites who skip the midterm elections in favor of the presidential races, you might reconsider that strategy: For Texans, your vote in national and even state races is all but symbolic.It’s local issues where your ballot will really count. According to financial analysts at WalletHub, Texas is…
Your cry has been heard, discerning Dallas protector of the purity of the white race. November 8-9 you won’t have to choose between fondly remembering the Third Reich, dressing up in your finest white linens or playing with guns. That’s right, within a two-and-a-half hour drive, you can do all…
On the last day of early voting in Denton, the Denton Civic Center parking lot was abuzz with one of the most controversial, high-cost issues in Denton history: The fracking ban. The city is considering what would be the state’s first citywide ban on fracking. In a state that has…
Digging through the this year’s community survey, which you can see in full below, is like looking at one of those magic eye posters. You have to look past it to see what is really going on. On its face, the results of the survey are positive. The survey’s “major…
BY ANGELICA LEICHT Houston Press The last we’d heard from Renee Petro, the Florida pot advocate whose story was highlighted in our recent feature on medical marijuana refugees, the pint-sized parent was still fighting to obtain cannabis for her son, Branden, a FIRES sufferer. Branden’s debilitating seizures were spiraling out…
Dallas City Council members were treated to the Commemorative Air Force’s cinematic masterpiece “If These Planes Could Talk.” There are known knowns about Dallas Executive Airport. These are things we know that we know. One of the known knowns, courtesy of Dallas City Council member Tennell Atkins, is this: “We…
One of the realities of the salary-cap era in the NFL is that flawed teams can still win Super Bowls. The 2011 Giants lost seven games. The 2012 Ravens lost six, as did the 2010 Packers and the 2007 Giants. If a team can do one thing really, really well,…
Halloween might be considered by some as a holiday for little kids who want candy or as just another excuse for college kids to get plastered, but on Friday the Tea Party took it as an opportunity for its costuming to serve as some bare-knuckle social commentary. See, members of…
You want to live in Frisco’s Plantation Resort 2 neighborhood, you better keep your property looking good and fancy. Because Plantation Resort 2 isn’t going to put up with your shit. Here are Plantation Resort 2’s hardcore summer lawn-watering instructions: Although we are currently under water restrictions we cannot allow…
Dirk Nowitzki as Rev from Run D.M.C. .@swish41 & friends dressed up (and rapping) like Run DMC? Yes, please! http://t.co/FoTpM1f2Ta #Mavs #AllBall pic.twitter.com/aRlFD1SIli— NBA.com (@NBAcom) October 31, 2014 Dallas Police Chief David Brown as Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp is ready for the Mayor’s Monster Mash! @DallasPD pic.twitter.com/2DDaH5QJlR— Chief David O…
As of Tuesday, Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, the two Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses to get Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, are Ebola-free. It’s remarkable, inspiring news. Seeing the two speak at their post-release press conference was, in a way, like seeing someone back from the dead. Then…
On Thursday evening in a spacious meeting hall at University Park United Methodist Church, neighborhood leaders and local bureaucrats, led by City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates, began the process of puzzling over how to solve Preston Road and Northwest Highway. The intersection, choked with traffic and curiously dumpy given…
The other day, while I was at Kroger buying laundry detergent and frozen waffles, a man came up to me, leaned in close, and said, “Come on now, baby. Let’s see a smile on that nice little face of yours.” Before I could stop myself, before I could rebuke this…
About a week ago, on October 23, Uber announced that it was cutting prices for its UberX service in Dallas for the third time since the service made its Dallas debut in November 2013. Taking an UberX from my Oak Cliff apartment to the Observer offices costs about $7 now;…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com Dear Arlington Martin High School Parents: Your children are sneaky, conniving savages. They have the morals and senses of humor of … well … pirates, and will, if you so much as blink, do their best to make you — adults — look like fools…
Five years ago this month, a Dallas County justice of the peace signed an order evicting Clifford Holland from the $1.2 million home he was renting on Caruth Boulevard, a block outside of University Park. Aside from the eye-popping $6,000-per-month rent, the case was a routine tenant-landlord dispute: Landlord claims…
For three years, a confessed attempted murderer roamed the streets of Dallas, going on a crime spree that ended when he killed a man in July 2007. Michael Wyatt had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder in 2004, but the Dallas District Attorney’s Office wanted him to testify against his…
Cowboys running back Joseph Randle, he of the post-Seattle Seahawks victory underwear theft and subsequent underwear endorsement, had what can best be described as an amusing experience being booked by Frisco police. See also: Cowboy Joseph Randle Gets an Underwear Endorsement Deal for Stealing Underwear “This is a cool little…
As early voting wraps up this week, Denton County has seen a surge in voters, as well as campaign spending. Much of that has to do with the fracking debate, which has also incurred more spending than any other campaign in Denton’s history. See also: Frackers Have Launched an Aggressive…
Millard “Lou” Tierce is the Fort Worth veterinarian who was allegedly harvesting blood from dogs he was supposed to euthanize until his office was raided earlier this year. Tierce, whose vet license was suspended last week, was initially arrested on a charge of animal cruelty. Somehow, though, a misdemeanor, as…
Every hour or so, the Save the Cabana Hotel Facebook page reminds its 900-plus followers to SAVE THE CABANA HOTEL. Dallas’ luxury Cabana Motor Hotel opened on Stemmons Freeway in 1962, and photographs on the fan page show legends like John Bonham and Robert Plant hanging out. The Beatles, Jimi…
(Editor’s note: This week’s cover story comes courtesy of our sister paper, the Houston Press. Visit here for more stories by reporter Angelica Leicht.) BY ANGELICA LEICHT Sitting cross-legged on the floor in her apartment outside of Houston, Faith’s mother looks over at the toddler repeatedly as she talks. There…
