Mike Cantrell, the lone Republican Dallas County commissioner, has drafted as resolution calling on District Attorney Craig Watkins to go to court to try to suspend fellow Commissioner John Wiley Price with pay until Price’s federal bribery case is completed. Cantrell also wants whichever district judge who rules on Prices…
In a quiet, private vote yesterday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted to approve a Dallas-based chemical waste management company’s request to triple capacity at its West Texas disposal site. Waste Control Specialists had proposed that it site grow from 2.3 million cubic feet to 9 million cubic feet…
It’s a phrase that’s uttered too often at Little League games and on the playground. Even adults playing slow-pitch softball use it as a crutch. “You throw like a girl.” It’s an easy, if seemingly sexist, shorthand for the lunging, forearm focused, dart-throwing motion that happens to be one of…
Using data drawn from what is admittedly a self-selected sample — users of their UP fitness tracker — Jawbone, a company famous for its Bluetooth headsets and speakers, has compiled some interesting findings about sleep habits and walking patterns from around the world. You should check out and play around…
The man heard the first gun shot down the street and moved the kids from the front yard into the house. Then he heard four more. The man, a neighbor who requested we don’t name him, says he wasn’t surprised there was a shooting in the area, a tree-lined street…
On Wednesday, book lovers from across the city showed up in force at the Dallas City Council meeting. It was the first time council members were able to throw amendments at the proposed city budget for the next fiscal year. And supporters of Dallas Public Libraries wanted them to carefully…
As midnight rolled around last night, a police car with officers Jay Jankowski and Michelle Herczeg pulled into the rear lot of the Grand Hotel Dallas, just off LBJ Freeway, where they saw an idling truck. They thought the truck had been stolen, police say, so they went to investigate…
Oscar Ramirez looks older than his 30 years. He is reserved and wears a simple blue button-down shirt and jeans. His skin is weathered, and crow’s feet frame his dark brown eyes. His nails are bitten down, and his arms are sporadically etched with small, thin scars. Life has been…
Late last month, we told you about BTCity, a startup trying to find the perfect site for the company’s Bitcoin ATM, expected to be the first in Dallas. BTCity still hasn’t managed to get its machine up and running, but a local entrepreneur took the company’s plans as an opportunity…
Your boss tells you that you have to attend a business meeting in Paris, you poor thing. After packing a bag or two, how much time should you reasonably allot to get to the airport from your downtown office? In honor of DART’s new orange line expansion, we decided to…
The woman in the passing car shouted, “Black power!” And the gun-rights advocates lined up on the sidewalk outside Forest Avenue Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard returned the call. In the heat of a Wednesday afternoon, about 30 black men and a few women, dressed head-to-toe in…
Last week, we told you about 13-year-old Gaby, who was given an order of deportation from immigration Judge Michael Baird. Gaby is from Honduras, and will be sent back this fall after having been in the United States for less than a year. Her court appearances will have taken place…
Norm Hitzges leans into the microphone, ready to bear the joke’s brunt. He’s sitting in KTCK-AM 1310 The Ticket’s fourth-floor studio on Victory Plaza as the digital clock’s red numbers count off the first minutes of the noon hour. Four TVs decorate the wall to his right, flickering ESPN, NBA…
In February, Mayor Mike Rawlings created a task force to fight against what he calls Dallas’ “barbell economy.” Dallas is a wealthy city, experiencing 68 percent GDP growth between 2000 and 2012, but it is also a city with pockets of concentrated poverty that promote blight and toxic stress for…
You’ve probably heard about the nine researchers with real Ph.D.s who are on a mission to prove that the Bible’s version of how the Earth formed is real, using scientific evidence. Sure, many pastors have argued for years that the creation story in Genesis shouldn’t be taken literally and that…
Now, we’re not sure if you live on the moon, under a rock, or under a rock on the moon, but you probably noticed Rick Perry handed himself in yesterday to face his indictment on felony charges for abuse of power. If you’ve ever heard of a thing called “Twitter,”…
You likely remember Ethan Couch, the then-16-year-old boy who, while drunk and stoned on Valium, drove his car into four people, killing them, and then got 10 years probation because of his privileged upbringing that the judge termed “affluenza”? Yeah, pretty sure you remember him. Well: His father, Fred Couch,…
Darn those young vegan-organic-diet, yoga-loving hippies with their electric cars and their solar panels. They must all be moving up to Plano from Austin, and frankly the Plano home builders and developers won’t stand for it. In 2011, state legislation forbade Home Owners Associations from banning solar panels on homes…
Last week, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins announced the formation of a new Civil Rights Unit, a two-person team that will investigate shootings by officers independent of the police department. Chief David Brown supports the unit. “You can’t have enough oversight when it comes to police-involved shootings,” he said at…
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott rejected a request from Republican state Representative Jason Villalba to investigate Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ use of asset forfeiture funds to make good on a February 2013 traffic accident Watkins caused. Abbott told Villalba that he can’t initiate an investigation based solely on…
That image you see above is of a surprising email that just hit my (and probably yours) inbox from RickPac, Governor Rick Perry’s federal political action committee. The surprising part isn’t that Perry’s PAC is using his recent indictment to solicit contributions. All’s fair … when life gives you lemons…
Zion Hayes, 14, stopped wanting to become a police officer last month. Until then, he had so much enthusiasm that he had his mom, Audrey Hayes, threw him a police-themed birthday party. But a run-in with a real Dallas officer changed Zion’s career goals. Following a noise complaint at the…
