Every year, thousands of Texas high school graduates continue their educations at community colleges, but only a fraction –16.2 percent according to a recent study — will ever go on to complete a four-year degree. A number of factors contribute to such an abysmal college completion rate, most of which…
For a moment, it seemed that one small suburb in north Texas was prepared to take on the tow truck industry. It was less of a crackdown and more of an “education campaign,” according to Euless Police Department Lieutenant E.J. Starnes. The police were concerned that apartment complexes had made…
Last night, developers officially flipped the switch on 9,000 feet of new LED lights on downtown’s Bank of America Plaza they’ve been testing for the past few weeks. What followed was a lively–some might say gaudy–light show, a rapid-fire showcase of some of the fancy new colors (256 million of…
Just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, 16-year-old Jerry Nguyen stepped out of a friend’s Volkswagen Beetle in front of Bryan Adams High school to wait for his bus. He was struck and killed a few moments later as the car was executing a U-turn. Nguyen studied science and engineering at…
Right now, Dallas has right around 100 miles of hike and bike trails and counting. That’s impressive. Less so is their arrangement. They are, with a few notable exceptions, disconnected, less a cohesive network than a collection of self-contained pathways from nowhere to nowhere. The city of Dallas and the…
Casting Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott as a union buster isn’t tough to envision. At least that’s the narrative the Texas State Troopers Association is pushing in a recent lawsuit filed in federal court. It argues Abbott and the Department of Public Safety are bent on “breaking apart a public…
Justin Lookadoo can’t figure out what all the fuss is about. He showed up at Richardson High School yesterday to give the same motivational speech he’s given to students thousands of times only to have his name desecrated on Twitter and be pilloried by the media. His presentation, he told…
James O’Keefe may be the motive force behind Project Veritas, the conservative nonprofit that has taken down ACORN, an NPR executive and now a handful of health-insurance navigators, but its latest undercover video sting wouldn’t have packed the same punch had it been him walking into the Urban League of…
Sam Hurd was never destined for the Cowboys record books. An undrafted wide receiver out of Northern Illinois, he recorded a modest 45 catches and 630 yards and excelled on special teams during four seasons with the team before he was traded to the Chicago Bears in 2011. What Hurd…
Raymond Bohlin holds a doctorate in molecular biology. He received his master’s degree in population genetics, the study of how adaptation and speciation is expressed by DNA. In other words, he possesses more than a passing knowledge about the theory of evolution. At the University of North Texas, he participated…
It’s been more than a year since Westboro Baptist Church last came to town. Then, they were calling God’s wrath down upon Glenn Beck and his “Restoring Love” shindig at Cowboys Stadium. Beck probably deserves to be protested. Most of Westboro’s targets — the families of fallen soldiers, the victims…
Around 1 p.m. today, the hashtag #lookadouche showed up on the Twittersphere. A group of students at Richardson High School were skipping regularly scheduled math or science classes to attend an optional PTA-sponsored assembly. The day’s guest speaker was a motivational speaker who has co-authored faith-based dating books, Dateable: are…
The story was absurd enough when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported it earlier this week. Tempie Strickland, an 80-year-old Fort Worth woman fed up with her ex-husband’s lip and his late-night trips to the barber shop and bingo hall, allegedly tried to murder him on Sunday. Police said she…
Aledo’s David Barton was pretty sure he could have become Texas’ next Senator, as so many Tea Party leaders were encouraging him to do, but the time wasn’t right. “Right now, I believe my role is to continue educating, equipping and inspiring citizens through the work we do at WallBuilders,”…
Wayne Christian is eying a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency charged with the twin tasks of regulating the oil and gas industry. So naturally, Christian is campaigning hard on his unwavering opposition to abortion. Christian, a former state representative from East Texas, touts his pro-life bona…
As President Barack Obama was praising Obamacare volunteers at Dallas’ Temple Emanu-El last week, conservative activist James O’Keefe was plotting a visit of his own. O’Keefe, whose video stings have successfully taken down the community group ACORN and an NPR executive, had members of his Project Veritas team visit local…
November 22 is still nine days away, but the eyes of the world are already turning toward Dallas in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy being gunned down in Dealey Plaza. City leaders knew this would happen. It’s why Mayor Mike Rawlings has been working on his…
In a matter of weeks, crude oil will begin flowing through the Gulf Coast portion of the Keystone pipeline in Texas. The question watchdog group Public Citizen asks: Is it ready? That’s because, with the help of landowners along the line’s course, they say they’ve identified 125 separate instances in…
Ali Eskandarian was on the third floor of a row house in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just after midnight on Monday morning when a disgruntled Iranian musician climbed onto the adjoining terrace and opened fire through the window. Eskandarian was killed instantly. So were two brothers, bandmates in the Yellow Dogs,…
For too long, the defenders of Christian liberty in this country have huddled in their bunkers while liberals have launched salvo upon salvo at Christmas, reducing it to a bland and tasteless mush of pan-religious inclusiveness. Bill O’Reilly would scurry into the open from time to time to issue loud,…
A student en route to Dallas ISD’s Townview Magnet died this morning after being struck by a car. The incident happened at East Dallas’ Bryan Adams High School. According to news reports, the teen was dropped off by a woman just before 9 a.m. to wait for the bus. The…
Monica Meza’s trips to Walmart don’t always end very well. In March, the 32-year-old was detained after waltzing out of a Northwest Dallas location with a cart full of nearly $300 worth of stolen merchandise. Police say the same thing happened earlier this month at the Supercenter on Central Expressway…
