Planning meetings isn’t easy, especially when you’re a boardmember on a taxpayer-funded organization. Then your meetings have to follow a bunch of rules. Mainly, they must be open to the public and generally easy for the public to hear about and attend. It may surprise you to learn that the…
The Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater may have suggested that Wendy Davis owes her success to her ex-husband, but he did so subtly and in the context of an article that outlines small but significant discrepancies in the rags-to-riches autobiography she’s been peddling on the campaign trail. The Internet and…
The Dallas Morning News clearly wanted to publish a story reporting that Wendy Davis exaggerated about growing up poor while raising kids on her own. That’s plain by the title of its big feature on the Sunday front page: “As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key…
In the end, it was unanimous. Each member of the Dallas City Council voted this morning to hire A.C. Gonzalez as city manager. Gonzalez, a 15-year veteran at City Hall, has been serving as interim city manager since Mary Suhm stepped down last year. His role in the Uber scandal…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have done it. Using science, they’ve confirmed your deepest suspicion: Southlake really is the worst. In this case, it’s not the exceptionally high number of traffic tickets they hand out. It’s the exceptionally large amount of carbon dioxide (90.8 tons) the average Southlaker…
The United Methodist Church, much like the state of Texas, does not approve of gay marriage — or, for that matter, of any divergence from the Adam & Eve model of human sexuality set down in Genesis. The UMC’s official rulebook says that “sexual relations are affirmed only with the…
As we reported last summer, the Texas Railroad Commission has agreed to take another look at a case of potential water contamination due to fracking in Parker County. It has been nearly three years since the agency, notoriously chummy with the oil and gas companies it is supposed to regulate,…
Naming a street for Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps the easiest way a city can express its approval of the civil rights movement. Aside from whatever pittance is required to update maps and street signs, it’s completely painless, particularly since it doesn’t require any actual effort to address stubborn…
Damn you, Flower Mound. In December, your mayor, Tom Hayden, stops a Town Council meeting and proclaims 2014 the “Year of the Bible,” thus setting the stage for a battle that can only logically end in Jesus and Richard Dawkins brawling in a no-holds-barred MMA throwdown — an event we…
It’s not entirely clear from federal court documents when Jesse Brister earned the nickname “Bozo.” Probably, it was around the time he became a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. In any case, he’s earned it. He proved it upfront when he joined an organization whose members have a…
Around 2 o’clock this morning Charles Pace, a 74-year-old grandfather, went to Denny’s on North Central Expressway to grab a bite to eat. Though just a few blocks from his apartment complex, he never made it inside. Before he could reach the door, he told police, he was jumped, set…
There was a brief time, not all that long ago, when discountmedspa.com was the Internet’s go-to place for gray market botulinum toxin, that Mansfield’s Laurie D’Alleva could call herself the Botox Queen. Then, Wired stumbled upon her site — and the how-to videos featuring D’Alleva injecting the product into her…
Dallas, we know you suck at coping with cold weather and that you would much prefer to step into a warm car on a winter morning. Trust us. We feel the same way. But leaving an unwatched car idling on a Dallas street is like wrapping a steak in bacon,…
This week, The Dallas Morning News is profiling the three finalists to become Dallas’ next city manager. Yesterday, it was interim City Manger/Uber crusher A.C. Gonzalez. Tomorrow, it’s Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana’s turn. But today? Today belonged to David Cooke, who recently retired as the head bureaucrat in Wake…
Yesterday we introduced you to Ron Martin, a man who was arrested by Frisco traffic cops for holding a sign toward passing motorists that said “Police ahead.” Officer Thomas Mrozinski (that’s his police vehicle pictured above) was trying to catch drivers going over the speed limit that day. When he…
Duncanville has a new interim city manager, and barely into her new job, Lynda Humble is already trying to shake up the way City Council formats its meeting agenda packet, a proposal that has proved to be surprisingly controversial. “A new agenda format has been created to establish a more…
It was inevitable, really. Some lawmaker, surfing the outrage stoked by the wrist-slap handed down to 16-year-old Ethan Couch for drunkenly running over four people in Burleson last summer, was bound to propose a law attacking his novel “affluenza” defense. It’s just weird that it would happen in California. On…
Nothing gets the cash flowing into a Texas Republican’s re-election campaign quite like a plot by coastal liberal elites to turn Texas into a dystopian failed state that will probably be powered by aborted fetuses. So the fundraising email Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst sent on Wednesday urging supporters to “stand…
This past legislative session, a schism emerged in Texas’ pro-life movement. Suddenly, some of the state’s staunchest abortion opponents, including many who helped shepherd Texas’ sweeping crackdown on the procedure into law, found themselves tarred as anti-life. The reason? They supported a bill to reform end-of-life care. The measure, which…
This, no matter what the DART-phobic among you might assume, is not what the average bus ride is like. Nor is it what your average DART driver is like. Sure, most are less than jovial, and that sidelong glance they cast as you step on board could be interpreted as…
March. That’s when the Dallas City Council will finally decide whether to ban single-use plastic (and paper) bags. That was the takeaway from today’s council briefing on the subject, the umpteenth since Councilman Dwaine Caraway launched his crusade last March. For the first hour of the meeting, it looked as…
Think of it as the intersection between origami and semiconductor manufacturing. Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have invented a nickel-alloy windmill so tiny that 10 of them could be comfortably anchored to a grain of rice. Smitha Rao and J.-C Chiao successfully tested the device, composed entirely…
