For a thankfully brief period in the mid-aughts, I lived in Abilene. Having experienced it in all of its splendor, I can say without hesitation that it is one of the most boring places on Earth. If you can avoid it, don’t go there, ever, for any reason. If you…
In 2006, hunters generated $2.63 billion in retail sales for their sport in Texas, paying nearly $284 million in state and local taxes and supporting more than 44,119 jobs, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. That doesn’t include the millions spent by birdwatchers, photographers and others who enjoy…
In a lawsuit filed in Dallas’ 44th District Court on Thursday, state Senator Royce West claims a resident of his district has consistently defamed him and has, more recently, begun stalking him at campaign and other events, including a pair of funerals. At the events West cites, Bennie Jeffery held…
Related: It Really Sucks to Be Old in Texas Texas’ notoriously porous mental-health system is in the news even more than usual this week. At Parkland, the psychiatric ER is yet again facing allegations of patient abuse. Last weekend, Dallas Police shot and killed Jason Harrison, a 38-year-old severely schizophrenic…
Back in 2005, a woman, living on disability in Chicago, was contacted online by a man, he apparently as lonely as she. He promised to marry her, said he could cure her health woes, according to the case laid out by prosecutors. Before they could be together, though, he told…
That’s right, Dallas. Apparently Saturday marks the first day of Summer, according to Delkus anyway, which means no further research is necessary. All this can possibly mean is discomfort, sunburn, pain, short fuses, and an inevitable exquisitely painful death…
Total Wine, the chain of delightfully enormous alcoholic beverage emporia, might never have made it to Texas were it not for a strip club. Twenty-four years ago two guys, one from Florida, one from Tennessee, decided to buy a San Antonio Baby Dolls. They had the cash. They had the…
Give U.S. Representative Pete Sessions credit for participation. In December, he met with a group of students from Richardson’s Berkner High School to answer some questions and be filmed for a C-SPAN contest in which the students were competing. The students seem well informed — or at least well prepped…
In a national report released yesterday by the AARP, findings rank each state in terms of long term care for the elderly. The report considers such factors as nursing home affordability and accessibility, family support, and quality of life and care. The upshot? It sucks to get old in Texas…
An attempt to change state rules that require cars to be sold from dealerships was buried in a flood of Texas Automobile Dealers Association cash, but that’s not stopping Tesla from opening its third Texas gallery today, this one at NorthPark Center. Visitors to the section of the mall between…
Life isn’t fair. It’s why kids starve. It’s why puppies suffer. It’s why the people who live next to Cityplace will soon also be living next to a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club. Dallas’ City Plan Commission confirmed this afternoon that yep, the big box Trammell Crow has planned for the corner…
Fort Worth police say an arrest warrant has been issued for the mail carrier accused of hitting a couple’s Yorkie with a rock, injuring it badly enough that it had to be put down. Lawrence and Taiesha Brown told police on May 17 that their dog Maxwell was injured after…
If you live just a little northwest of Fort Worth, chances are you’ve felt an earthly rumble and grumble at least once in the last six months. In the cities of Azle and Reno, dozens of such small earthquakes have struck in the last year. For an area that has…
The camera guy was already there when Detective Scott Sayers pulled up to the 79-year-old victim’s Earlywood Drive home in March of last year, ready to gather footage for A&E’s true-crime reality show, The First 48. There was a phone number detectives could call to notify a camera crew that…
Dr. Austin King runs a private practice out of Abilene, and he’s been seeing veteran patients for years. Recently, one veteran came into the office with a neck cyst. After ordering a biopsy for the man, who is in his 80s, King, who’s president of the Texas Medical Association, ordered…
After finally worming its way onto the Dallas City Council’s briefing agenda, the newly revised transportation-for-hire ordinance, the one that’s supposed to fix the whole Yellow Cab/Uber/Lyft mess, has been put off. Despite protestations from Sandy Greyson, who headed the work group behind the new ordinance, and Dwaine Caraway, a…
In month when Texas Republicans seemingly cannot stop saying dumb things about homosexuality, the party’s finished 2014 platform makes it clear the state GOP isn’t just ignorant about gay life — it’s willfully ignorant. They even put it in writing. See also: Rick Perry Doubles Down on Stupid Talking About…
On Sunday afternoon, a “ping” from a tracking device confirmed scientists’ suspicions: Katherine, a 2,300-pound great white shark tagged last August off of Cape Cod, is headed straight for Texas. Right now, she’s about 100 miles from the Florida panhandle. In another week, she could be past the Mississippi. Then,…
When John Wiley Price took the microphone yesterday at the Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting, his fellow commissioners appeared appropriately remorseful during his monologue on African-American suffering throughout American history. But that doesn’t mean they were paying attention. Price took the mic to urge passage of a resolution commemorating Juneteenth,…
UPDATED OCTOBER 6, 2014: Jason Harrison’s Father Sues Dallas and the Police Officers Who Killed His Son ORIGINAL POST: To neighbors and family, it was obvious that Jason Harrison was mentally ill, even if the legal system kept treating him like someone who wasn’t. The last time his mother called…
Texas has always had its share of great characters and story lines. Davy Crockett and the Alamo. Lyndon B. Johnson and Texas politics. Rick Perry and, well, whatever he happened to say on a particular day. Recently, though, there seems to have been some coastal poaching on our dry land…
This past spring, Dallas ISD rolled out a generally successful push for eligible families to sign their 4-year-olds up for pre-k. Early registration more than doubled, from 3,288 to 6,905, and while the increase in the number of kids who ultimately enrolled was slightly less impressive — from about 9,000…
