The city-owned Dallas Executive Airport has a new website. It’s slick, a vast leap forward from the static, text-heavy site that seemed a relic from the dial-up era. Just in time, too, since the airport is on the cusp of a major expansion. There, amidst bold-faced promises of Dallas’ “world-class…
If a pest control guy is making you feel terrified about rats invading your home, he’s probably just trying to sell you on his ability to kill all those rats. That’s the lesson, anyway, from another guy who sells rat-killing services. “If it feels like they’re trying to scare you,…
Since the 2013 controversial passage of House Bill 2, which placed restrictions on abortion clinics and prompted the closing of more than half the clinics in the state, Texas has gained a reputation outside the state as one of the worst providers of women’s health care the country. See also:…
Former Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton’s relapse, the one in January 2012 in which he allegedly got drunk at the Sherlock’s near Park Lane and U.S. 75 and had sex with a woman in a bathroom stall, has received a proper memorial. The handicap accessible stall in the bar’s back bathroom,…
On September 1 the most stringent portion of House Bill 2, the anti-abortion legislation passed by the Texas Legislature last year, is scheduled to go into effect. Any healthcare clinic in the state that provides abortions will be required to be an ambulatory surgical center. If the rule takes effect,…
She was recovering in a postpartum room at Baylor University Medical Center this spring, exhausted from giving birth, when her husband gave her the good news. “We got the placenta,” he told her. “It’s in the cooler.” Now she just had to get it off the hospital property without being…
An off-duty Dallas police officer shot and killed a man police said is a suspect in a fatal shooting in Northwest Dallas early Wednesday. Around 12:40 a.m., two men began to quarrel at the pumps of a gas station near Midpark Road and Central Expressway, police said. One of the…
Every year districts typically fall short of the number of kids expected on the first day. Between personal issues and confusion or simple failure to meet registration deadlines, it’s an annual problem most districts have to combat. Approximately 17,448 kids did not show up Monday for the first day of…
Maybe the image that comes to mind when you picture Texas roads is zipping down a West Texas highway in a pickup truck with a dusty breeze whipping through your hair. It’s the image Ford has probably seared into your mind through years of advertising, and one that’s occasionally pretty…
There exist, floating around the Internet and stuffed into the filing cabinets of public-interest watchdogs, an trove of eminently credible reports and white papers explaining in painstaking detail why and how Texas’ decade-old experiment with electricity deregulation has failed. But there’s an easier way to show how the free market…
John Wiley Price is not going to be suspended or removed from the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court until at least the end of his corruption trial, which is slated to begin in January 2016. Mike Cantrell, the county’s lone Republican commissioner, presented a resolution that would have suspended Price, with…
Monday morning in southern Dallas, Steven Douglas rammed his truck into a car, breaking out the driver’s side window. It belonged to the mother of his children. With her three kids, she had been trying to run away from him. He’d visited her apartment that morning, and, when she managed…
America is the best place ever. Everyone knows that except, it seems, our educators. The College Board is rolling out new guidelines this year for the Advanced Placement U.S. history exams that has some Texas School Board members crying foul. Ken Mercer, noted conservative school board member, says the new…
In the midst of a string of recent police shootings, the Dallas Police Association, the city’s largest police union, has called for all officers to be outfitted with body cameras that record the officers’ every move. And the union’s receiving support from a group not generally considered an ally: the…
Friday, we told you about County Commissioner Mike Cantrell’s resolution calling for the suspension of John Wiley Price from the commissioner’s court for the duration of his bribery trial. See also: Mike Cantrell Is Going to Call for John Wiley Price’s Suspension on Tuesday Price is not the only Democratic…
Despite having received zero proposals for private investment and an expected zero dollar contribution from DART until the agency’s cash flow issues loosen in 2035, plans for public transportation along the former Cotton Belt Line in northern DFW are moving forward. According to a DART presentation, plans for the line…
Denton ISD’s new grading policy rolls out today with the first day of school, to the delight of middle and high school students and the chagrin of their teachers. The district-wide policy veritably ensures that Denton students have to work harder to fail than to pass their classes. Their future…
There’s a fundamental tension baked into Dallas’ plans for the Trinity River corridor. On the one hand, it wants to open the vast, unconcreted lands of the Great Trinity Forest for people to enjoy — average folks, too, not just the naturalists and horsemen and gonzo hikers hearty enough to…
The homeless man identified only as Patient No. 5 was in a wheelchair, recovering from a suicide attempt and three broken bones when Parkland Memorial Hospital staff discharged him to a homeless shelter. He didn’t want to go. “The patient stated he did not feel safe going to the shelter…
You might have seen the above map making the rounds recently among those opposed to the controversial voter ID law, which first passed in 2011 and was upheld in 2013. It requires voters to present an up-to-date photo ID to election officials. The map, and maps below, were first put…
Regulation of the mysterious chemicals used in fracking fluid used in drilling for oil and gas has been pretty much off limits to the Environmental Protection Agency ever since Congress in 2005 stripped the EPA of its authority to regulate fracking fluid under the Safe Drinking Water Act. In a…
Continuing to make hay while the sun shines, RickPAC, our esteemed governor’s political action committee, is now selling T-shirts featuring his mugshot. See also: Rick Perry Wisely Strikes Back with Video Targeting Travis County DA The shirts, available for a minimum donation of $25, feature the aforementioned mugshot with the…
