Here’s a roundup of the (mostly good) Ebola news from over the weekend: The condition of the patients: Amber Vinson is still being treated at Emory University hospital in Atlanta. She remains in stable condition. Over the weekend, her family issued a statement asking for privacy and disputing claims that…
On Monday afternoon, dozens of nurses, doctors and other healthcare employees convened at the front entrance of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to discuss the recent controversy about how the hospital handled the Ebola outbreak. Despite definitive comments in support of the hospital, Presby’s nurses remained tight-lipped on what actually happened…
In a move that’s a bit like Fiskars hiring Michael Irvin as a spokesman , MeUndies, a Los Angeles-based underwear company, is bringing on Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle to sell $20 pairs of boxer briefs. Randle, who is making $495,000 this season, was arrested last Monday for absconding…
As the Cowboys have marched to their best seven game start since 2007, the accolades have been plentiful and plentifully spread around. DeMarco Murray has, deservedly, been lauded as the second coming of Tony Dorsett with each successive 100-yard performance. The defense is “improved” and “flying to the ball.” Tony…
Dallas — nay, America — has many good reasons to love Mark Cuban. He turned the Mavericks into NBA champions. He’s the most accessible billionaire in the universe. He yells at terrible refs on our behalf and feuds with the Perots. He was a disruptor before disrupting was cool. But…
If you want any real Ebola news, check out the Friday afternoon update. If you want to see something we barely believe isn’t from The Onion, keep reading. In a move that makes Highland Park ISD’s response to Ebola seem thoughtful and measured, Maine School Administrative District 58 has placed…
Heading into a much needed weekend, here’s the latest Ebola news of note: The condition of the patients. Nina Pham is now being treated at a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland. She is listed as being in fair condition. While she was listed in good condition at Presbyterian,…
The rhetoric from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses in the last several days has been vehement. Nurses are anonymously alleging that the hospital did not take proper steps to prevent contamination and infection, which ultimately led to nurses Amber Vinson and Nina Pham contracting Ebola from patient Thomas Eric Duncan…
UPDATE: On Friday, the general contractor sent over a check covering the lien. “While this still does not cover the entirety of the missing wages, the payment is a victory for workers,” Workers Defense Project says in a statement. “By ensuring that workers are paid for their work, Aldi Supermarket…
Alan Hruby is a 19-year-old shopaholic. “There is no bigger rush then [sic] getting to the register at a store and swiping your credit card. And in that moment you are waiting for the screen to say, ‘Approved’ you start to get heart palpitations and you get a rush of…
Max Geron, the Dallas Police Department’s media relations officer, smiled and shook his head in disbelief. In the video, a veteran East Coast police officer approached a photojournalist, who was standing across the street from a traffic stop with multiple squad cars present, and told him to leave. The officer…
Over the summer, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sided with Open Carry Tarrant County’s Kory Watkins and struck down as unconstitutional an Arlington city ordinance banning people from distributing literature — in his case copies of the Constitution — to passing motorists. According to a brief prepared by the city…
The statement lawyer Thomas Bowers issued Thursday morning after the dismissal of his client Jana Weckerly’s sexual assault lawsuit against Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was precise: “Neither Jerry Jones nor the Cowboys organization has paid us any money.” If you’re the suspicious sort, you might be wondering if that means…
On Thursday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Mayor Mike Rawlings, and members of city health authorities convened for an emergency commissioners court meeting to officially declare disaster in Dallas. But after a private debate, and a significantly tamer public discussion, the court agreed that while disaster declaration was a “tool…
While the Rangers’ hiring of Pittsburgh Pirates bench coach Jeff Banister to take over Ron Washington’s vacated managerial post didn’t come completely out of nowhere, it’s certainly a surprise. For those outside the organization, the first sign that Banister was a serious candidate for the gig came when he, along…
Jerry Jones is no longer headed to trial over accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2009. The case, brought by former stripper Jana Weckerly, also claimed that Jones and his longtime lawyer, Levi McCathern, conspired to pay her off until the statute of limitations expired. A hearing was…
Lead makes you dumber, even if you only eat or inhale just a little bit. (Don’t take my word for it, see what the scientists are saying). So when Frisco became one of 21 places in the country that failed lead-air quality standards that the feds implemented in 2008, people…
For the people who live in the countryside east of Lake Ray Hubbard and Lake Lavon, the appeal is in the quiet rural roads, dense trees, wild animals in the woods and bright stars shining in the night sky. To a Dallas company called the Texas Turnpike Corp., all that…
With the Orioles re-signing shortstop JJ Hardy, what was already thin free agent market at the position became threadbare. Beyond Hanley Ramirez, Asdrubal Cabrera and Stephen Drew the cupboard is largely empty, leaving big-market clubs like the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers and Tigers — all of which will look to sign…
The National Socialist Movement, which is apparently still a thing, has selected the Aryan paradise of Rockwall for its November 8 rally against immigration and to protect the American way of life. An event notice posted on The White Resister informs Unfair Park that speakers include Commander Jeff Schoep, Captain…
On Tuesday, nurses at Presbyterian Hospital voiced their complaints for the first time — in so many words. Fearful of ramifications in the workplace, nurses anonymously sent their allegations to National Nurses United, where their comments were read aloud by spokesperson Deborah Burger. The nurses silently listened in on the…
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court cleared the way for reopening 13 abortion-providing health clinics that shuttered following an October 2 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed Texas to begin enforcing the most draconian portions of House Bill 2, the state’s 2013 anti-abortion measure. While…
