This week, the Observer’s Sky Chadde has a cover story about a group of Arlington “cop watchers” who spend their nights following the suburb’s patrol cars, filming police’s interactions with the citizenry and lobbing the occasional “oink,” all in the name of liberty. As part of that story, videographer Sarah…
A little before 1 a.m. this morning, a 34-year-old man broke into a hearse at Hughes Funeral Home in northwest Dallas. He managed to take the casket out and abscond before officers arrived on scene. This was the high point of his night, we’re guessing. With the casket in tow,…
“Universal pre-K” is the universal mantra of every school board member and education official in the city. It’s the elusive idea that all future, predominantly poor, kids in Dallas ISD will have gone through an aggressive early childhood education program, and that earlier exposure to vocabulary and learning will put…
When they come out, gay teens must often deal with unsupportive, even hostile parents. Sometimes, parents even go so far as to kick the kids out of their homes. If they attend a Dallas ISD school, they become one of the roughly 3,400 homeless students in the district. By some…
They’ve tried to beat them at the City Council, they’re still trying to beat them with Michael Morris and the NCTCOG, now Yellow Cab is trying to join Uber and Lyft by offering an app that consumers might actually want to use. See also: Vonciel Hill and Michael Morris Join…
Unfair Park certainly hopes it isn’t a mirage, that the Titans, Rams and Saints aren’t just bad. We really want to believe that the Cowboys victories the last three weeks are a sign of positive things to come. But we’ve been down this road before. We’ve had our expectations soar,…
Somewhere in Preston Hollow, Laura Miller is wiping clean the dagger with which she eviscerated two proposed apartment developments at Preston Road and Northwest Highway. Developer Luke Crosland has officially abandoned plans for Highland House, a 27-story high-rise he wanted to build behind Hopdoddy in Preston Center. On the northeast…
It started out as a case that wasn’t very dramatic or high-profile. Latoya Scott, a 26-year-old woman, was arrested by the Irving Police Department for an alleged fight at a mall. Prosecutors said Scott hit and scratched a woman she was dating. She was charged with family violence assault, a…
The signs were there on opening day. Tanner Scheppers, the Rangers’ starting pitcher, was making his first major league start, not because he’d stated a case that he deserved to start the first game of the season, but because of injury. The bullpen, similarly beset by injuries, would melt down…
Highland Park ISD announced at the end of last week that it would be suspending seven books from the high school reading list: Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain, John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely…
The lawyer for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones appeared in a Dallas courtroom Friday to argue that a lawsuit accusing Jones of sexual assault — and the Cowboys of conspiracy to cover it up — should be dismissed because of the statute of limitations. Attorney Gregory Shamoun also said the claims…
Breathe easy, Texas. Your long-term transportation needs — the one lawmakers and policy experts have been fretting about for years — have officially been solved. The masses, in their wisdom, which the Texas Transportation Institute has distilled in a just-published survey, have settled on a sure-fire way to address the…
In Dallas, the estimated number of homeless kids has been dismal recently. The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance reports that the population of unaccompanied homeless kids is up 108 percent in just the last few years, and the number of homeless families is up 60 percent. And a recent Department of…
Vinny Minchillo had seen enough. “Everyone talks about civil discourse, but when we talk to each other, especially on social media, there’s no civil discourse,” he says. “It’s really, really funny. It’s become OK to talk about Republicans in the most horrible terms possible. In the ’80s and ’90s on…
A few years ago, a private, Dallas-based corporation announced it would like to build a private toll road, all with its own money, connecting northeast Dallas County to somewhere around Greenville, running basically parallel to the Interstate 30 and passing near Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Hubbard. The Texas Turnpike…
Monday, Jana Weckerly filed an amended complaint in her sexual assault case against Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, further detailing her claim that Jones assaulted her in 2009 and describing efforts she alleges Jones, the Dallas Cowboys and Jones’ attorney, Levi McCathern, made to silence her. The new complaint was filed…
In the next three to four months, all Dallas police officers on patrol will be equipped with new, smart Tasers that are safer than their predecessors, Chief David Brown said at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. After the council approved a five-year deal with Taser International Inc. for the purchase and…
When the State Fair of Texas transformed a kitschy 50-foot Santa Claus into an cadaverous, hollow-eyed cowpoke six decades ago, we did nothing. When Big Tex was resurrected last year following his grisly self-immolation, creepy grin and all, we did nothing still. But there comes a time when civic duty…
Good news for E. Cannabis Unum supporters across the country: Texas, land of big businesses and economic prosperity, could stand to gain a ton of money from legalizing marijuana — more than $166 million per year, by some estimates. That’s a Texas Miracle if we’ve ever heard one. Of course,…
Update: The Dallas Morning News’ Robert Wilonsky reports that Caraway has pulled the Mandela renaming plan and is now calling for Lancaster to be renamed for legendary Booker T. Washington and Roosevelt High School football coach Raymond Hollie. Earlier in the week Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway told The…
At the latest town hall meeting held by District Attorney Craig Watkins, Dallas Police Chief David Brown, speaking to a primarily black crowd, said a program to educate young officers about the police department’s history with the city was in the works. He seemed to think it was badly needed…
The Dallas Morning News’ Rudy Bush got the scoop: a copy of memo from City Attorney Warren Ernst that says the City Council could walk away from building the Trinity River toll road despite the city’s contract with the North Texas Tollway Authority to build the thing. “There is no…
