The days when you had to actually smoke marijuana to get dosed with THC ended long ago with the discovery that the chemical can be melted into butter and baked into brownies. Ganjapreneurs in Colorado are taking things to a completely different level. In Denver, you can get high via…
Every Wednesday, before and after every Dallas City Council meeting, there is an open mic session. Most of the stuff that comes up is rambling, off-topic, and beyond the scope of a municipal government’s authority (e.g. 9/11 conspiracy theories), and council members may or may not pretend to listen. Nevertheless,…
Longhorn Wrecker has a very long list of of enemies. That’s only natural in an industry predicated on holding people’s vehicles hostage for exorbitant fees, especially when you do business the way that Longhorn does business. Put another way, it will be no easy task to identify the man who…
Two days ago, Mark Cuban took time out of his busy schedule to acknowledge the existence of San Antonio and its “muddy ugly-ass River Walk.” The proper response would have a polite curtsy, if not gushing praise, from San Antonio, thanking Cuban for deigning to mention their humble burg and…
State Representative Jonathan Stickland is brash, young and cocky, just as he was when Tarrant County voters sent the 30-year-old Tea Party favorite to the Legislature two years ago. In one instance — his trailblazing email privacy bill — Stockland’s irreverence served him well, earning plaudits from civil libertarians and…
Carol Hardaway woke in the morning and padded over to her 8-month-old son’s crib. A towheaded blue-eyed boy peered up at her, smiling, enveloped in one of her old T-shirts. “Are you ready to get up?” she asked. She reached down into the crib and wrapped her hands around his…
We’re not entirely sure why Denton Mayor Mark Burroughs just paid $2.2 million for a condo at Dallas’ One Arts Plaza. Vacation home? Rental property? That’s between him and the voters of Denton; the deed is now in his name, according to Dallas County records. (“My wife buys, makes over/redesigns…
Last fall, Eagleridge Energy won some permits to frack right next to a few Denton neighborhoods, despite a new city ordinance that was supposed to keep the company farther away. The city said sorry, it was powerless to stop Eagleridge, because the company had found an extremely clever loophole. So…
On Valentine’s Day, Dallas police arrested 41-year-old Jacqueline Edwards on suspicion of setting up at least two Craigslist robberies. The news first appeared Tuesday on WFAA’s website. An hour later, DallasBlack.com had the story. Nothing particularly suspicious there. The WFAA story is little more than a summary of a arrest…
Electronic cigarettes look like cigarettes. They supply nicotine like cigarettes. Users exhale a puffy cloud like cigarettes. So they must be cigarettes, right? According to the Frisco City Council, yes. On Tuesday night, its members voted unanimously to ban the use of e-cigarettes wherever traditional cigarettes are banned — i.e…
The people of Fort Worth have been doing a good job of using their water sparingly, and that has the Fort Worth Water Department very, very worried. Recent news reports claim that Fort Worth has been bleeding cash because of its noble water conservation efforts. The city lost $11 million…
In 2016, on a yet-to-be-determined date in June, Republicans from across the country will gather somewhere to pick their next presidential nominee. Maybe it’ll be Chris Christie. Or Rand Paul. Perhaps a Jeb Bush-Ted Cruz ticket? Yes, that last one is stupid, but so is speculating on a race that’s…
This afternoon, for the first time since a marriage equality resolution went down in flames almost a year ago, the Dallas City Council made its first official nod to LGBT equality in the form of a “comprehensive statement of support” passed by the Budget, Finance & Audit Committee. The measure…
Mike Howard is not a fan of Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne. A quick glance at the one-time Irving City Councilman’s blog (written under the nom de plum Mark Holbrook) is proof of that. But it’s one thing to lob critiques of local government from the safe confines of the…
Dallas has, for the most part, missed out on the North Texas population explosion that has taken place over the past dozen years or so. While the region as a whole grew by 22 percent between 2000 and 2012, and exurbs like Frisco and McKinney more than doubled in size,…
It may have been mostly a publicity stunt — see the press release and accompanying bicep-flexing, lipstick-wearing photo — but Jen Welter and the Texas Revolution made history in Allen on Saturday. Welter, a 36-year-old veteran of the Women’s Football Alliance, became the first-ever woman to play running back in…
Later this morning, gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott will stumping at a Tex-Mex joint in Denton. At his side: rocker/conservative troll Ted Nugent. For a candidate aiming to be taken seriously, Nugent, who has called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel” and “piece of shit” who should “suck on my machine gun,”…
Dallas police officer Joshua Burns is alive right now in part because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, because alleged shooter Rakeem Perkins didn’t hit his head, because he was rushed to Baylor Medical Center, where trauma doctors tended the wounds on leg and shoulder. He’s also alive because, when…
Amongst the stack of campaign literature that showed up in my mailbox on Saturday, two fliers caught my eye. One featured photograph of a smiling, competent-looking Tammy Kemp, a top administrator in District Attorney Craig Watkins’ office currently running for judge in the 204th Criminal District Court. The other showed…
There’s a formula — there has to be — that every sports columnist is taught during his or her days as a cub reporter that goes something like famous professional athlete + baseless speculation that he’ll land on local sports team = diamond-encrusted gold! That’s OK. When properly executed and…
There’s not a lot of what Michael Pollan would call “food” at South Dallas’ KSO Dollar Mart. Plenty of beer, wine and hair care products, according to the signs out front, but not much by way of whole grains or fresh produce. The store nevertheless did a thriving business in…
You probably haven’t heard of Chris Mapp, a South Texas boat salesman and one of the six also-rans challenging John Cornyn in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and here’s hoping you never have occasion to hear of him again after March 4. If you do, chances are disconcertingly high…
