Tobacco and alcohol, like milk and cookies, Jay Z and Beyonce, and emphysema and liver disease, are perfect companions. There’s just something about going out for a drink that makes you want to light up a cigarette, and something about going out for a smoke that makes you want a…
The hydroponic marijuana-growing community has suspected for a while that they’re being watched, and for good reason. By the DEA’s own account, law enforcement has turned its attention increasingly toward indoor growing operations as a quarter century of an aggressive eradication campaign has forced an increasing number of pot farmers…
Just when you thought the shark-jumping Museum Tower imbroglio couldn’t get any more absurd, The Dallas Morning News’ Steve Blow goes and writes a column comparing the spat that has riveted the Dallas Arts District for the past year and a half with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has claimed tens…
On Thursday morning, as much of Dallas was commuting to work, a family squabble broke out in the alley behind the 1800 block of Angelina Drive in West Dallas. It’s not clear from police descriptions what sparked the fight nor, a police spokesman said, did responding officers note the family…
It hasn’t even been 24 hours since Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 2, the infamous abortion clinic-killing bill, into law, and three Planned Parenthood clinics are already making plans to shut their doors. The Huffington Post reports that Planned Parenthood clinics in Bryan, Huntsville and Lufkin will close down…
Mavericks were first introduced to Flula Borg way back in 2011, when the German DJ released a song, “His Name is Dirk,” and heaped praise upon his basketball-playing countryman. “He has dominated the NBA with a smooth jumper and intelligent plays,” he explained at the time. “He is like a…
Yesterday afternoon, In-Sync Exotics announced in a somber Facebook post that the canine distemper outbreak currently ravaging the Wylie animal sanctuary had claimed its fourth victim, a white tiger named Harley. “He has been very sick with this hateful virus for quite some time, and we finally made the decision…
Here’s how the Dallas Police Department described last night’s officer-involved fatal shooting in Pleasant Grove in 1:44 a.m. Facebook post: On July 17, 2013, at approximately 10:00 pm officers responded to a burglary in progress at the 1600 Block of Conner Dr. Upon arrival, officers observed one suspect inside of…
Police had a weird and somewhat wild Wednesday. Here are some highlights from yesterday’s police activity: Dining In: At some point between 1 and 7 a.m., someone broke into the banquet hall of Skyline Ranch on Wheatland Road and helped themselves to $30 worth of food. They dined in, then…
Property rights in Texas are supposed to be sacrosanct, practically God-given. So the ease with which pipeline companies seize private land through eminent domain is curious. The law here is anything but settled. That’s where landowners like Freddy Davenport come in. Increasingly, disputes between citizens like Davenport and huge pipeline…
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on FacebookLast month, Rick Perry unveiled a one-minute ad trashing New York for its high taxes and excessive regulations and inviting its people and businesses to come down to the Lone Star State. Comedian Lewis…
When center Dwight Howard spurned the Mavericks and decided to take his talents to the Bayou City, it marked the second straight year the team had epically flamed out in free agency. And, for the second straight year, Mark Cuban is trying to rewrite history. “I think we’ve put ourselves…
A powerful ex-oil industry executive has proposed a new energy plan for Texas, and it may not surprise you to learn that his plan involves oil. Lots and lots of oil. Leonardo Maugeri used to be a top executive at Eni, a company that has the double honor of being…
Stephen Paulsen is, for a few more seconds at least, the principal of Morton Elementary School in Arlington ISD. He’s spending part of the summer in Florida, partly to visit his mother and father, who has Alzheimer’s, and partly, according to Boynton Beach police, trying to seduce someone he thought…
Luminant, the Dallas-based electricity generator, doesn’t have the greenest public image. It’s aging fleet of coal-fueled power plants includes some of the dirtiest in the country. It pumps millions and millions of tons of greenhouse gases and other pollutants into the atmosphere. Then, when pushed to modernize its coal plants,…
We’re not sure how much Fort Worth-based Altego proved when it enlisted aeronautical engineering students at Texas A&M to attach its Polygon Sunfire laptop bag to a weather balloon and launch it into space. They were trying to make a point about durability, but I’m pretty sure my neon green…
USP Labs’ Dallas headquarters doesn’t actually look much like a laboratory. It’s more of a nondescript warehouse in a sea of nondescript warehouses off Stemmons Freeway and Northwest Highway. That’s where the company keeps its stock of its bodybuilding supplements for shipping to retailers like GNC or directly through its…
Neola Robinson told police that she’d last seen her husband on Memorial Day 2010, when he’d left their Tarrant County home and run off with another woman. That wasn’t entirely far-fetched. Ervin “Shorty” Robinson had already been married several times when he and Neola got together. Still, something about the…
At this point last year, Dallas County had already recorded a handful of West Nile deaths, a figure that would ramp up to 19 in the following weeks and months as the number of infections skyrocketed. But the West Nile outbreak of 2012, which resulted in a record 286 death…
On Saturday, the morning after they returned from out of town, David Underwood and his wife decided they ought to stop by their house on Watercress Drive in Fort Worth. The couple doesn’t live there at the moment; the modest, ranch-style affair overlooking the northwest corner of Lake Worth belonged…
Back in June we reported on Cairo, the snotty-nosed tiger at In-Sync Exotics, an animal rescue society in Wylie. When Cairo seized earlier this summer it was the first sign of a canine distemper outbreak at the sanctuary, and since then roughly a third of the 60 lions and tigers…
The summer of 2011 will go down as one of the hottest, driest years on record. Heat drove Texans to their thermostats and the electric grid to the brink of rolling blackouts. Tuesday, with those unbelievable temperatures in mind, grid managers convened to discuss whether they should raise the target…
