In its first few weeks of existence, the Burleson chapter of Abolish Human Abortion focused its energies on the time-honored technique of standing outside abortion clinics holding disturbingly graphic signs. The results, as founder Jered Ragon recounts in a series of YouTube dispatches, were less than encouraging. Their first outing,…
Jennifer Gerson, a 2007 SMU graduate and rape survivor, passed along her response to the Daily Campus’ recent victim-blaming alcohol-and-rape op-ed, which she sent to SMU president Gerald Turner and other school officials. We’re running it here in full. President Turner: Today I am ashamed to call myself a graduate…
In Richardson, along the booming Central Expressway corridor, architecture firm Good Fulton and Farrell and developer JP Partners have teamed up on the Palisades project, a large mixed-use development they plan to put on 58 mostly vacant acres across the freeway from DART’s Galatyn Park light rail station. The folks…
The armed robbery yesterday afternoon of the the Oak Lawn headquarters Trivie wasn’t a random holdup. The app-maker’s office is on the third floor of a plain retail-and-office building between Hall Street and Rawlins, hardly an obvious target, and the robbers were methodical. According to police, three of them, all…
When federal prosecutors announced yesterday that Refugio “Cuco” Ramirez-Garcia will spend the next 20 years in federal prison for helping run a pair of heroin-distribution conspiracies, they gave a shout-out to the local law enforcement agencies who helped bring him down. That’s standard practice. What’s unusual about Ramirez-Garcia’s case is…
Even for the most financially and technologically challenged, receiving a personal email from Dallas Police Chief David Brown asking for cash sets off all sorts of alarm bells, alarm bells like He’s not the NSA — how did he get my email address? and Wouldn’t it be easier to shake…
Werner Eric Brauss is long gone. The real estate dealmaker fled the country in 2009 as the market collapsed, leaving behind a pile of unpaid debt to investors and Las Vegas casinos and the feds’ hopes of an easy prosecution. The chance that Brauss will leave the Brazilian coast, where…
The case of Jeffrey and Henry Buck, the gay Dallas couple who married in Massachusetts in 2006 before filing for divorce in Dallas two years later, proved a couple things. One was that gay married couples, just like straight married couples, can fall out of love and decide it’s best…
It’s a touchy subject, booze and rape on college campuses. Emily Yoffe, Slate’s advice columnist, caught hell last month for suggesting that parents and universities need to do a better job warning students of the connection between binge drinking and sexual assault. Yoffe offered a measured argument that is backed…
As a general rule, people know how they feel about Buc-ee’s. To some, the Wall Street Journal included, the big-box-convenience-store empire is a decadent piece of roadside kitsch, a symbol of American culture’s ongoing decline. To others, it’s an oasis, a snack-food and novelty-gift wonderland, its Beaver Nuggets offering a…
Last April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued enforcement guidance No. 915.002, more commonly referred to as the “Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Few people paid attention. One of those who did was Texas Attorney General…
There’s a growing body of science that says injecting substances underground can cause earthquakes. Here in North Texas, we’ve had plenty associated with the injection of slippery frack water deep into earth. Motionless faults get lubricated into sudden shifting and a country not known for seismic activity suddenly gets active…
At the end of September, researchers at Sam Houston State University’s Crime Victims’ Institute compiled a study of sexual assault resources offered by 74 Texas colleges and universities for the state legislature. The results were underwhelming. On the bright side, most of the schools had on-campus clinics offering pregnancy testing…
To the cops in Richardson, who arrested him in May for marijuana possession and misdemeanor theft, her name is Larry Tremell Bernard. To the rest of the world, it’s Armani Nicole Davenport, a transgender woman who has ridden the southern drag pageant circuit for more than a decade, recently notching…
The aftermath of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling last week reinstating the requirement that doctors performing abortions in Texas have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic was swift and sweeping. By the next morning, a third of the state’s abortion clinics had closed…
Give Barack Obama some credit. Rather than simply barricade himself inside the mansions of a pair of elite lawyers to gladhand with deep-pocketed Democratic donors, as was the initial plan for his trip to Dallas this week, and rather than holing himself in some White House bunker and pray that…
For the first time in three decades, Dallas is home to a downtown shuttle. And for the first time ever, the shuttle will not be marked by three-foot high bunny ears and painted-on whiskers, a la the ill-fated “Hop-a-Bus” program. The trademark pink will remain, however, as DART rolls out…
It’s not quite as sexy as the last one, but LOOK AT THAT FANCY BRIDGE LET’S MOVE THERE. See also: The Brand-New, Sorta Inspiring, Slightly Overwrought, Kinda Horny Dallas CVB Promo H/T: FrontBurner…
You’re speeding out of work with a cell phone in one hand and can of Coke between your knees, trying to make it home before the Chihuahua you keep locked inside all day shits the carpet again, when suddenly, one of those small, panicked dots appears in the distance, in…
Isaiah Smith isn’t one to lay down in the face of injustice. When the Birdville High School student, who is gay, learned via a TV show that restaurants can legally refuse to serve gay people, he petitioned the Keller City Council to ban LGBT discrimination. When he decided that the…
Arthur Dawson left his Oak Cliff apartment at 9:45 p.m. on Halloween night, headed for the MS Express convenience store around the corner at Chaucer Place and Camp Wisdom Road. He didn’t make it back to the apartment complex until 11 p.m., when a neighbor spotted him staggering on the…
The billboard, featuring John Carona’s miserly grin accompanied by the words “Our State Senator,” went up months ago on Central Expressway, long before Carona’s reelection bid had drawn an opponent. Perhaps he sensed that, with the current political climate what it is, a primary challenge would be inevitable. Or perhaps…
