Last month, the Morning News reported that Frankie Forshee, a code enforcement worker and 13-year city employee, had been arrested and was facing a trio of bribery charges. Details were scarce at the time. Code Compliance Director Jimmy Martin told the paper only that Forshee had been placed on paid…
When a pantsless young man runs into his backyard in the wee hours of the morning and shines a laser pointer at a police helicopter overhead, criminal charges are sure to follow. But what if you’re in a Walmart checkout line fully clothed and decide to test that new light-emitting…
Update on April 16: The Morning News reports that Tovar will not, in fact, be resigning. No reason given yet for the change of heart. Original post: What’s happened at Sunset High School over the last seven years has been, if not quite a miracle, than at least proof that…
Eric’s post this morning about the shit storm controversy stirred up by Molly Forthright, a columnist for Fort Worth, Texas Magazine who came down firmly against mothers breast feeding their babies in church — or pretty much anywhere else — drew the usual pro- and anti-nip commenters. Yeah, we expected…
You may have been wondering how Delonte West has been spending his free time now that he’s on an indefinite hiatus from professional basketball. If Twitter is any indication, he’s still in the Dallas area and has mostly occupied himself by making cameos at local gyms and dropping in on…
The woman on the line was frantic. She had been kidnapped the day before and didn’t know where she was, she told the 911 operator. She just knew she was in a house with one of her captors and could see a parked Dodge pickup from the tiny bathroom window…
It should have been a time of celebration. Willie Amendola had just led his Dekaney Wildcats to Texas 5A Division 2 football title and was giving a post-game interview near the Cowboys star at midfield. Then, something rather odd happened. A driverless golf cart barreled down the field, crashing into…
Typically, Molly Forthright’s advice column in Fort Worth, Texas Magazine goes completely unnoticed by the Internet. Her insights on proper gym etiquette, obnoxiously over-involved sports parents, and snoring husbands garnered nary a comment or Facebook share. Then, Forthright went and wrote about breastfeeding, and the Internet exploded. In the column…
A few days after the Rangers sputtered into last off-season, running on fumes and whatever was left of Josh Hamilton’s CRUNK!!! stash, manager Ron Washington said what many fans and pundits had already said: “Maybe I played them into the ground.” Seven of his starters played 147 games or more…
The Lord had chosen an unlikely vehicle for his message to John Wayne. But when John learned he’d been DJing in a church, he knew it was a message from above. John grew up Pentecostal in Waco, at a church where they spoke in tongues and laid on hands. He…
Up to 50 Dallas ISD schools could have a changing of the guard next year, as principals announce their resignation or retirement. Superintendent Mike Miles has placed heavy emphasis on principal reform, including replacing those who underperform. But around a dozen principals are not going quietly into that good night…
Last week, as they City Council was being briefed on the still very incomplete effort to end chronic homelessness in Dallas, a frustrated Dwaine Caraway proposed a surefire solution: Why not round up the homeless people, stick them on a Greyhound bus, and send them back to where they came…
Joe Barton, the Republican Congressman representing Arlington and its environs, has never been shy about expressing his skepticism about global warming. As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he launched an investigation into a pair of studies that documented a dramatic spike in global temperatures, sparred with Al…
Congratulations, Texas! After a lot of hard work and many long nights, we’re number one in the nation for repeat teen births. According to the Centers for Disease Control, which released a new report on April 2, in 2010, 22 percent of Texas teenagers aged 15-19 who gave birth were…
As they try to carve out a permanent niche in the ultra-competitive American car market, Tesla and billionaire founder Elon Musk have had to position themselves as sprightly Davids disrupting the lumbering Goliaths of Detroit and Japan. They have no other choice. They can’t afford the untold billions legacy automakers…
In February, a DART committee gave preliminary approval to a plan to extend employment benefits to employees’ domestic partners, both gay and straight, and their children. It was a welcome decision, and it gave hope that, after six month of debate over costs and morality, approval by the full DART…
In 2006, with the controversy over its ultimately successful bid to house the Bush Presidential Center very much brewing, SMU set to work establishing the Embrey Human Rights Program. It was a pioneering effort that aimed to raise awareness of global social justice issues and perhaps inspire students to pursue…
The community of maternal marijuana legalization activists was rocked this past weekend when a cannabis quilt, the product of two years and more than 70 pairs of hands, was stolen from atop a Ford Explorer parked at the CVS on Thornton Lane in Irving. The quilt, self consciously modeled on…
Subrina Brenham, the businesswoman challenging Tennell Atkins in the District 8 City Council race, was driving along Lancaster Road this morning when she noticed something odd: One of her campaign signs, the large rectangular variety you see plastered on the sides of buildings and fences, had been cast aside in…
There’s a robust debate, and a small handful of legislative proposals, aimed at reforming a school disciplinary system that charges hundreds of thousands of students each year with misdemeanors for things like chewing gum or wearing too much perfume. What happened today at DISD’s alternative school, formally known by the…
Around 5:30 this morning, 29-year-old Tomas Cavazos developed a serious beef with a pile of trash. A neighbor called police to report that the man appeared to be shooting the hell out of some debris in his front yard. Police arrived at a house in West Dallas to find the…
There are some large and generally predictable drawbacks to living a stone’s throw from Vickery Meadows’ Five Points intersection, which is a notorious hotbed of crime. Steve Parker learned as much soon after moving into his Hemlock Avenue condo in 2008. Things started innocuously enough when someone kicked a hole…
