Last week, Governor Rick Perry’s chief of staff Brandy Marty — his newest appointee to the Public Utility Commission — broke the deadlock between commissioners Donna Nelson and Ken Anderson over just how much intervention the electricity market needs right now. Both Nelson and Marty signaled their interest Friday in…
While other upscale suburbs are known for having clean air and being far from dirty factories, Frisco went against the grain. The affluent north Texas suburb last year had the distinct honor of being one of only 21 areas in the United States that failed federal air quality standards for…
Most of Texas’ sweeping anti-abortion law has already gone into effect. The ban on the procedure after 20 weeks post-fertilization, the requirement that clinics meet the standards laid out for ambulatory surgical center, the mandatory reliance on outdated FDA guidelines on abortion-inducing drugs–all scooted from Governor Perry’s desk to reality…
Former state Representative Allen Vaught doesn’t want to create a White Rock ISD, per se. He just thinks Dallas ISD is too big, too unwieldy to function effectively. The Whiterock ISD Facebook page he put up on Saturday was a way of “planting a flag where people can rally to…
Unlike most of the separatist groups that are currently en vogue, the folks behind the republic State of Texas do not call for secession. They don’t need to, having already established a parallel state government on the theory that, in conjunction with their counterparts in the other 49 states, they…
Green building in Dallas isn’t just green anymore! It changes! What!? pic.twitter.com/zcaBiyZFfa— Cody (@Codyhp91) October 30, 2013 The official unveiling of the new lights on Bank of America Plaza (aka that green building downtown) isn’t for another two weeks. But those fortunate enough to be traversing downtown in the predawn…
Congressman Louie Gohmert has made it abundantly clear that he will resist Tea Party calls for him to run against Senator John Cornyn in this spring’s GOP primary. No matter. Conservative activists have reportedly turned their attention to another candidate they hope can dethrone the upper chamber’s No. 2 Republican,…
The Packard Automotive Plant stands as an emblem of modern Detroit. Once the thrumming embodiment of industrial might, it’s now a hulking, weed-choked ruin, a tangible symbol of a city in decline. It wasn’t without some trepidation that Wayne County, Michigan officials put the plant’s 40 acres up for auction…
Mr. Martinez knew it was coming, was bracing for it, was already crafting how he might respond in the office and the halls and the parking lot at morning drop-off. Still, when it hit on Sunday, it had to hurt. Martinez — first name Hector, not that it gets used…
Since the Texas Legislature made online solicitation of a minor a crime in 2005, it’s been used to lock up any number of gymnastics coaches, teachers, as well as plenty of non-educators caught digitally cruising for sex with underage kids. Today, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled unanimously that…
Texans are set to decide whether to ratify a constitutional amendment creating a $2 billion water infrastructure fund, billed as the answer to a growing and drought-vulnerable state. It’ll finance new dams, reservoirs, desalinization plants and the development of new groundwater supplies. As we saw in many parts of the…
The United Nations has already made quite clear that it has no intention of invading Texas, dismissing Lubbock County Judge Tom Head’s prediction of blue-clad international forces laying siege to Hub City as “absolutely ridiculous.” It’s now clear that UN bureaucrats were hatching an even more insidious plot. Infowars, Alex…
The Dallas Morning News is reporting this morning that the Mavericks’ 477-game sellout streak, the longest in the NBA, could end at tonight’s season opener versus the Atlanta Hawks. We can only assume the piece was written before Dirk & Co. unveiled their secret weapon: a one-minute video parody of…
An HIV diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it once was. With early detection and proper treatment, those infected with the virus can fight off AIDS for decades — unless, that is, the patient happens to be in a relationship with 37-year-old Larry Dunn of Irving. Prosecutors say that…
The members of the One Nation Motorcycle Club were in a hurry last week, and for good reason. They were headed to the Ricky Bobby Sports Saloon (no, not that Ricky Bobby), one of Fort Worth’s newest breastaurants. So maybe their speedometers did occasionally inch above the officially posted 60…
If wide receiver Lance Alworth isn’t in the pantheon of Dallas Cowboys legends, it’s because he spent the nine of his 11 Hall of Fame seasons with the San Diego Chargers. But it was with Dallas that he made the two most important catches of his career — one to…
When it opened last month, the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden received mostly glowing reviews, and understandably so. It’s hard not to be at least a little awed by a $62 million science playground that packs more than 150 interactive exhibits into eight prime acres at the Dallas Arboretum. For…
The big surprise that emerged from this summer’s arrest of Arlington police officer Thomas Kantzos wasn’t that he’d been using steroids, nor that he’d once had them delivered to his squad car, nor that he repeatedly tipped off his dealer as a local drug task force was preparing to move…
On October 3, a few weeks after celebrating their 16th anniversary as a couple, Vic Holmes and Mark Phariss of Plano walked into the Bexar County Clerk’s Office to apply for a marriage license. Their request was was denied, as they knew it would be. Same-sex marriage is still banned…
It was always the answer. What better way to pave over fears of spills and an unlocked ocean of carbon than by literally paving the soil above the Keystone XL pipeline with a bike path stretching from Canada to the Texas Gulf? The concept, rendered in hilarious detail by the…
This photo, of Councilman Philip Kingston and his predecessor Angela Hunt (or vice versa?) was posted on Facebook over the weekend. “I do not make an attractive woman, but my legs are dead sexy,” Kingston said of his attire on his Facebook page. We sincerely hope this is a Halloween…
The IRS still hasn’t said why federal agents raided the Preston Hollow home of Straight Line Automotive Group founder Jeremy Wiggains in August, ultimately leaving the $3.3-million McMansion toting several boxes of documents. Pretty much all that could be gleaned at the time came from the bankruptcy filing he’d made…
