There were several points on Thursday when City Plan Commission members came dangerously close to debating whether City Hall should be allowed to get away with eviscerating several dozen acres of post-oak savanna, in violation of its own zoning rules, so rich people can go golfing. Luckily for the city’s…
Rather than, you know, enunciating her concerns at the city council briefing both she and Scott Griggs attended on Wednesday, Vonciel Jones Hill fired off a memo Wednesday morning chastising her fellow council member for his “inaccurate, incomplete and insulting” writing. The rest of Hill’s memo is less alliterative, but…
Less than two weeks after three people were arrested for filming Arlington police officers conducting a traffic stop, the Dallas Police Department announced Wednesday it will offer a class for law enforcement officers on people’s rights to film them in public spaces. Also, the department, along with national journalism organizations,…
Before Parkland placed a patient named Todd Arko in what the feds described as “immediate jeopardy,” nearly costing the hospital its Medicaid funding, there was another, lesser-known hospital that the feds say also placed a patient in immediate jeopardy. Green Oaks is a private psychiatric hospital that in February 2013…
A.C. Gonzalez took the time at the end of Wednesday’s City Council briefing to at least wink in the direction transparency. He didn’t jump into the open government pool by any means, but he took about 15 minutes at the end of the meeting to spew jargon in the general…
#TacoBell’s cousin #banhmi restaurant logo angers #Vietnamese community http://t.co/nZcTJiAut5 pic.twitter.com/beYc2AKQpV— Sonny Lê (@sonnylebythebay) September 17, 2014 Banh Shop’s theme is apparently as red as the tomato slabs on their overpriced sandwiches. The fast food joint, owned by the Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands, opened three days ago as a…
Our apologies to WFAA’s Brett Shipp. After a lengthy run as our favorite local investigative TV journalist — occasionally prone to hyperbole, sure, but a fantastic reporter with the proper evening-news mix of charm and obnoxiousness — he has been displaced. That coveted spot in our heart now goes to…
In a memo prepared in advance of Dallas City manager A.C. Gonzalez’ first of what he promises to be periodic progress report to the City Council, council member Scott Griggs outlined multiple issues with the city’s Trinity office and transportation department. Among them is the stagnation of the Oak Cliff…
The internet has gone wild over the past few days with news that Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings is facing child abuse charges after disciplining his 4-year-old son with a switch, and was separately accused of leaving a scar on another 4-year-old son’s face. A native of Palestine, Texas,…
Vocativ, a website that claims to publish “news from the deep web,” has a post up showing pipe-bomb making instructions and suggested targets, including several tourist sites in Texas. The bombs are all standard, Anarchist Cookbook-style stuff. The forums discuss using powdered chlorine as a chemical element in the bombs,…
As they have since Midlothian ISD first received a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation about the overtly Christian plaques that adorn two of its elementary schools, community members at a school board meeting this week supported the plaques with a unified voice. See also: Midlothian Parents Protest Removal…
Last night in Houston two masked men, armed with a revolver and a shotgun, stormed a Denny’s and raided the cash register. The same scene has played out on security footage at dozens of Houston-area IHOPs and Denny’s, albeit occasionally with bloodshed. Houston police officer James Taylor, testifying before a…
Some situations are not nuanced. That didn’t keep Mac Engel from making excuses for Adrian Peterson in this morning’s Star-Telegram. Peterson, he says, may have abused his two sons when he allegedly beat them to the point of bleeding and scarring, but he is not a child abuser — which…
The Dallas Police Association has a 10-point plan for reforming the department to help fix a problem with low moral among its members. Among other things, the plan calls for changes to policies regarding when police can use force, and new rules for foot chases and job transfers. And in…
A kid who was suspended 10 days from high school is super awesome, according to a federal lawsuit filed by his parents. “He is currently taking honors classes and a higher level math class than most of his peers,” says a suit filed by his mother, Tiffany Macklin. The boy,…
What’s that? Your arm just fell off? Naturally your first reaction might be something along the lines of, “Thank goodness I’m insured!” Your next reaction might be to scream in agony, but instead you might want to suck it up, save your breath and tell the ambulance driver not to…
As if Texas social studies textbooks haven’t been getting enough flack for pointed political and religious biases, a report released Monday by the National Center for Science Education highlights inaccuracies about climate change in proposed state textbooks. See also: SMU Academics Speak Out Against Political and Religious Bias in Texas…
Since 2000, Dallas Cowboys players have been arrested only 14 times, well below league average, according to a report compiled by The New York Times’ The Upshot blog from USA Today data. NFL players have had 713 reported legal run-ins since USA Today started the database in January 2000. (It’s…
Listening to the oral arguments before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday confirmed what advocates for reproductive rights feared upon seeing the three-judge panel selected to hear the Texas’ appeal of a lower-court ruling striking down two sections of House Bill 2, the 2013 legislation enacted to…
To understand just how badly City Hall has bungled its stewardship of the section of the Great Trinity Forest sandwiched between the Trinity Forest Golf Course and the Texas Horse Park, you can visit the delicate wetland pond the city illegally let a contractor drain last month for “dust control.”…
It’s Monday, which means, according to federal data, that you’re more likely to be forcibly sodomized today than any other day of the week. Sorry if we just made your Monday blues 10 thousand times worse. Information gathered by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from FBI…
Highland Park ISD plans to launch an elementary-level Spanish learning program next year. It’s a project that most in the district are embracing — after all, multilingualism is linked to dozens of developmental benefits. Bilingual individuals are often smarter, better listeners and in later life may see a delay in…
