With Central American kids streaming across Texas’ border and nothing but partisan posturing on the horizon, Dallas County, under the leadership of County Judge Clay Jenkins and in partnership with the feds, is preparing to shelter thousands of unaccompanied minors from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, starting as soon as…
It was two and a half years ago that we, along with every other media outlet in town, started telling you about Deion Sanders’ disastrous plan to open a charter school with campuses in Oak Cliff and Forth Worth. That disastrous plan eventually became a disastrous reality called Prime Prep…
The initiative to ban fracking in Denton started out as many seemingly hopeless political campaigns often do, just a petition by angry homeowners fighting a well-funded industry that had already trampled the Denton City Council in court and follow-up negotiations. But now that little petition has nearly 2,000 signatures, more…
Planned Parenthood plans to open a new clinic in southern Dallas that will meet the stringent requirements imposed on abortion providers by the state of Texas, ensuring that Dallas has at least one clinic that can perform abortions under the new rules. The regulations, which were passed in the Wendy…
According to Arlington law, demonstrators can’t hand out literature to drivers who are not parked. It would seem, then, that distributing anything — even pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution — at busy intersections is out of the question. But earlier this year, that’s exactly what members of Open Carry…
Dr. Nicolas Padron was a Dallas physician with a moderately successful practice, Padron Wellness Clinic. Located near the edge of White Rock Lake, the clinic must have been an idyllic setting to operate a drug distribution ring, at least until the feds showed up. Authorities say Padron was part of…
Nine dead bodies were found in an abandoned Fort Worth funeral home Tuesday morning. According to The Dallas Morning News, the owner of the building asked the home’s operators to leave two weeks ago. But workers told police the home hosted a service on Saturday, according to WFAA. The police…
Ben Ferguson is a conservative commentator who hosts a show on WBAP-AM 820 from 9 to 11 a.m. on weekdays. Until today, Unfair Park had no idea who he was, but we have to say, after his segment attacking D Magazine’s “Best Dallas Suburbs” list, we’re intrigued. Ferguson took issue…
There are four major police associations in Dallas, each with its own slice of the force and its own interests. The Dallas Police Association is the biggest and oldest in Dallas, around since 1959. The Dallas Fraternal Order of Police is part of a nationwide organization that represents more than…
If you are a Plano resident, you probably received a letter recently that patted you on the back for your water conservation. And you were also probably informed of an upcoming Water Holiday. Plano’s yards have been baking under water restrictions aimed to cut consumption by 15-20 percent. City spokesman…
When the Sandy Hook school shootings occurred in December 2012, Jason Villalba had one toddler and one child in kindergarten. Like all parents, Villalba felt an urgent need to offer better protection for his kids. Unlike most parents, Villalba had just been elected to his freshman term in the Texas…
Multiple outlets are reporting that Emmanuel Mudiay, the No. 1 rated high school basketball player in the country, will forego his commitment to play for Larry Brown at SMU and instead play at least one season of professional basketball overseas before heading to the NBA. Mudiay has released the following…
The Rangers lost again yesterday. It’s the eighth defeat in a row and 22nd out of 25 for a franchise that’s won at least 90 games in each of the past four seasons. It was the latest lowlight in series that’s been — Yu Darvish and Adrian Beltre excepted –…
Seagoville, Texas, the spot where 635 dead-ends into despair, has long been a destination for lives that have taken a seriously wrong turn. Typically, these folks wind up at FCI Seagoville, the town’s federal prison and third-largest employer. More rarely, as in the case of a family of bald eagles,…
Lamar Alternative Education Center used to be Lamar Elementary. It’s part of the Grand Prairie Independent School District, and it officially closed its doors at the end of the 2013 school year because of low attendance. Today, the school sits empty in a working-class neighborhood, and looks the part of…
District Judge Emily Tobolowsky issued an order Friday blocking, at least for now, developer Trammell Crow’s plan to build a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club in Cityplace, just north downtown. Residents in the neighborhood near Haskell Avenue and Central Expressway won a temporary restraining order that prevents the city from issuing building…
After being swept at home by the Houston Astros (!), your Texas Rangers now own the worst record in baseball. Suffering through injuries and errors, they’ve been at a total loss, with no solutions, nothing to ease the pain, nowhere to turn. Until now. Catcher Geovany Soto was arrested in…
Ju Weng and Yu Con Weng are two brothers who have been living the dream life in Dallas, reaping the benefits of a very successful start-up business. The two have built a veritable Chinese buffet empire throughout the area: Together, they own and manage the Yes Buffet, Crown Buffet, Win…
So, what are you doing right now? You’re inside, right? You might be living inside a fridge, or lying, face down, by an air vent, or maybe having an angry fight with a fellow employee over the thermostat. It’s probably one of those things. Well, that’s only going to get…
We already knew that North Texas’ air is terrible. The ground isn’t much better. And according to the EPA, school buses may have a lot to do with that ground pollution. A school bus can emit nearly twice as much pollution per mile as a semi-truck, and it doesn’t help…
Future Texas Governor Greg Abbott hates nothing more than he hates abortions, Planned Parenthood and other women’s-health-related things, leading the Texas Democratic Party to describe him as “public enemy number one for women in Texas.” But now, in a major national fight pitting women’s health advocates against a corporate giant,…
As expected, the Dallas City Plan Commission voted this afternoon to approve the Trammell Crow backed plan for the area surrounding U.S. 75 and Haskell Avenue. The plan, for a development that’s been labeled the East Village, was presented to neighbors as being for a walkable, diverse multi-use outcropping. To…
