If you were to do a power ranking of city of Dallas governmental bodies, the Park Board would come in third, behind the City Council (obviously) and the City Plan Commission, the whims of which can make or break multimillion dollar development deals. The Park Board’s 15 members are appointed…
Companies accused of poisoning our air and water typically pay a fine then move on, rarely becoming official criminals. If you want to get arrested for spewing something into the air, you’re much better off blowing weed smoke on your front porch than benzene from smoke stacks. But in 2007,…
If nothing else, you can at least say this about former state trooper Kelly Helleson: she proved quite willing to go above and beyond the call of duty. That was the case anyways on the night of July 13, 2012, when she helped a colleague with a traffic stop along…
Under the city’s development code, the proper time for opponents to voice their concerns about the Sam’s Club proposed next to CityPlace was a year ago this month, before the City Plan Commission and City Council unanimously approved a zoning change for the property to allow a 100,000-square-foot warehouse store…
The group of 100 or so people who demonstrated in person against Kung Fu Saloon this Wednesday had no hard proof that the bar excludes black people. The official reason why they couldn’t get in, their stories went, had to do with fashion. “My jeans were too baggy,” said Ryan…
Memorial Day. Now, I don’t know exactly what Memorial Day is, being from abroad. I’m not letting that stop me from speculating, however. As it is an American holiday in almost-summer I’m going to assume you have idyllic plans. Apple pie, grilling, family members, monster trucks, shooting animals, grossly misunderstanding…
Sam’s Club will have to wait an extra couple of months before it plants a 140,000-square-foot outpost next to CityPlace. So decided the City Plan Commission, which this afternoon moved consideration of the development plan until July 22. It was a victory for neighbors, albeit a tiny one. As we…
Update, 4:51 p.m.: The below was written before this. The answer to the above question is no. Original story: Derek Holland. Matt Harrison. Martin Perez. Geovany Soto. Prince Fielder. Jurickson Profar. Engel Beltre. Three-fifths of the rotation, the starting catcher, the starting first baseman, the starting second baseman and the…
There are several thousand reasons one might credibly object to Westlake resident Glenn Beck delivering a university commencement address. One is that he represents the antithesis of facts and learning and reasoned debate, i.e. pretty much everything an institution of higher learning holds dear. Another is that he’s a fearmonger…
Mark Cuban has taken a thoughtful, nuanced approach to the Donald Sterling controversy, at once condemning the unapologetic racism the Clippers’ owner expresses on a leaked audiotape, and expressing deep discomfort with the precedent it sets to punish someone so severely for expressing his personal beliefs in private. Thoughtfulness and…
If you had to guess which Census tract in the Dallas area had the worst commute, which would you choose? McKinney, maybe? One of the far-flung Fort Worth exurbs popping up in Denton and Tarrant County? If so, you’d be way off. The lone spot of dark brown on the…
God bless Lee Kleinman. While his colleagues on the Dallas City Council were busy this afternoon working themselves into an oratorical lather — this time over council pay raises — he staked his position with a single sentence. “As a fiscal conservative, I can’t support any sort of raise at…
If, like us, you’ve been worried that discussions on substantive policy issues like home-rule and merit pay have distracted from Dallas ISD’s long and storied history of stupid penny-ante graft, then you’re in luck. Federal prosecutors have just brought charges against a former DISD employee who allegedly stole $162,000 through…
Neighbors are, at this very moment, rallying opposition to the Sam’s Club that Trammell Crow plans to build at CityPlace. They’ve launched the inevitable Change.org petition. They’ve booked Councilman Adam Medrano for a community meeting tonight. They are scouring the final development plan the City Plan Commission is scheduled to…
Something weird and unsettling happened last year at the Dallas County Sheriff’s Training Academy. Of 27 recruits that enrolled, a mere seven — barely 25 percent — passed on their first try. Weird because the wave of failures was unprecedented. The previous year, all 16 would-be deputies passed. Unsettling because…
On Sunday afternoon, the Lakewood Advocate’s Brittany Nunn was treated to her first glimpse of White Rock Lake’s fabled Amphicar. She didn’t know that it was an Amphicar — an amphibious convertible produced produced briefly by a German company during the 1960s — or that it was fabled, just that…
If you’ll indulge us for a moment, Dallas we’re going to briefly revisit one of the darkest points in our city’s history, a time when an unspeakable tragedy plunged millions into a state of bewildered mourning from whence sprang talk of shadowy conspiracies. We’re referring, of course, to the 2006…
Outside of Uptown and a small handful of other neighborhoods, walking in Dallas sucks. Ungainly sprawl and skin-boiling heat aside, there’s a very real chance you’ll be flattened by an SUV. No wonder that a mere 1.2 percent of the population commutes by foot, lower than all but a couple…
The records we used for this post initially — provided to us by Councilman Philip Kingston, who had obtained them from Dallas Police Department David Brown’s office — were incomplete. Rather than the 144 citations we reported, there were 244 issued in 2013 and 103 issued in 2014 — 347…
Denton High School students were puzzled on Thursday when journalism teacher Greg Bogomol was ignominiously escorted from the building. They were soon tweeting about rumors “that something happened.” Rumors are slippery, unreliable things, as any high school journalism student can attest. Maybe they contain a nugget of truth. Lucky for…
Cheer up, Dallas. Yes, your hometown newspaper just completely snubbed you with its Best Neighborhoods list, and, yes, the chances that The Dallas Morning News will ever include any place south of Plano are close to nil, but there is hope, a development on the horizon that just might thrust…
There are good ways to handle a family dispute, and then there are bad ways, the ones that will inspire the prosecutor handling your case to send out a press release with the too-late reminder that “We are all told not to play with fire as small children.” Jeffrey Pruett,…
