Jerry Jones capped off what’s been a representative week for him with a vote of confidence for embattled NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on his weekly radio show on 105.3 The Fan. After being asked “What’s your feeling on the Ray Rice issue?,” whatever the hell that means, Jones answered from…
A national organization of black lawyers and judges is still awaiting a response from the Dallas Police Department to the group’s recent request for 10 years worth of public information “regarding the number of individuals who have been killed, racially profiled, wrongfully arrested and/or injured while pursued or in police…
District Attorney Craig Watkins’ second town hall meeting on police violence following the killing of an unarmed black teenager in Missouri was much more subdued than the first, though the message was much the same: I’m one of you, and I understand where you’re coming from, but things have changed…
If you’re looking for popcorn-worthy fireworks at a public transit-related public meeting, your best bet is to watch the Dallas City Council decide who should represent the city on the DART board, an exercise that invariably descends, as so many other discussions at City Hall do, into a bitter racial…
Dallas County jurors last week spent about three hours deliberating before they awarded Martha Salazar $73 million, the largest amount of money any plaintiff has received so far in a vaginal mesh lawsuit. Most of the thousands of lawsuits that women have filed against Big Pharma over the devices are…
The 2014 Texas Rangers might not be the worst team in the club’s 42 years in Arlington — the 1972 and ’73 Rangers have at least a claim to that title — but 2014 has certainly been the worst year for the franchise as a whole. It started with the…
Kids chase each other. They have probably have chased each other since man could walk upright on two legs. Maybe it’s some sort of Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest struggle. However you look at it, kids have always chased and ran away from each other. A game of tag recently ended very badly…
It’s September 11, and the harshest restriction in Texas’ new abortion law, its requirement that all abortions take place at an ambulatory surgical center, has yet to go into effect. HB2 was supposed to become the law of Texas on September 1, and the ACS rule would have immediately shuttered…
This was the Dallas Morning News’ weather report on their Google+ page on September 10. This is their weather forecast for today:…
Brace yourself, Dallas transit users. We’re here to break some tough news: DART is losing. We don’t mean that the agency, now three decades old, has largely failed to woo people out of their cars. That’s true, but it’s not entirely DART’s fault. Neither to we mean that the focus…
Behind the scenes of the USA Today list that says downtown Dallas has the best skyline on the planet, there is a team of three expert panelists who provided commentary on all of the cities for the winning skylines slide show. Of those three panelists, two of them are architects…
Social studies textbooks have been under increasing scrutiny this year, as the successor to the science textbook controversy last year. For the first time in 12 years, the State Board of Education will review social studies textbooks, this time under social studies standards put in place in 2010. This time,…
Dallas District Judge Dale Tillery denied Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ request to seal court documents related to a lawsuit brought by an Oklahoma woman. Jana Weckerly claims that Jones sexually assaulted her in 2009 before the Cowboys covered it up. In addition to denying the request to keep documents stemming…
On Sunday night, an SMU student was raped while jogging just off campus. There are no details so far about the girl, other than the fact that she was assaulted in one of the nicest neighborhoods in town, in University Park. But her case is much more common than statistics…
You could see the dark clouds gathering Monday morning. Word had come down from somewhere near Michael Morris’ Arlington compound that someone from the North Central Texas Council of Governments was going to make a contribution to the city’s interminable discussion about regulating Uber, Lyft, Yellow Cab and any other…
Congrats to the concerned parents of Lakewood Elementary. Seriously. You guys piled into a public meeting and shot down a Dallas ISD proposal to stick a Verizon cell tower on the school’s roof. That’s how democracy’s supposed to work. Good on DISD, too, which has the bureaucratic heft to plow…
At some point next year, a Dallas-based toll company may get permission from the Texas Department of Transportation to build the only toll road in Texas that is totally supported by private finance. The exact route is something that the Texas Turnpike Corp. is still figuring out, but rural property…
Hunched over a table at a Jack in the Box, Kevin Woods doesn’t look much like a cowboy. No hat, no belt buckle, no boots, not a horse in sight. Here, tucked between a cluster of warehouses and a bustling urban highway, is about as far from the open range…
Jerry Jones and the Cowboys are being sued for sexual assault and alleged subsequent cover-up. In a lawsuit filed in Dallas late Monday night, Jana Weckerly says that over the course of the evening documented in a series of graphic tweets posted in early August, Jones rubbed and grabbed her…
Dallas County commissioners are asking for new bids on a controversial contract for the management of visitation and phone services to jail inmates, after County Judge Clay Jenkins and inmate advocates objected to a proposal that would have ended face-to-face visits while letting the county profit off families visiting their…
For Dan Elliott, his life’s work and now-generous income was born out of a horrendous family tragedy 25 years ago. “I got ‘the call’ from my mother, who told me that I needed to go tell my younger brother that his fiancee had been murdered,” says a stoic Elliott. “Someone…
Neighbors never exactly embraced Wal-mart’s plans to build a Neighborhood Market on Lower Greenville. Suspicious of the chain’s ability to integrate into an urban neighborhood, particularly one as fastidious as Lower Greenville, their opposition was close to unanimous, the only variation being in the intensity of their anti-Wal-mart sentiment. Leaders…
