This crowd during this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities was relatively well-behaved, as far as these things go. Sure, there were three dozen public intoxication arrests and one DWI, but by far the most common offense was a simple parking violation, of which police issued 243. Not a bad outcome,…
By the time she died in December 2011, Kathlyn Gilliam’s reputation as a pioneering civil rights advocate had been tarnished somewhat by her role, cemented during 23 years on the DISD board of trustees, in establishing the race-obsessed bureaucracy that has long since stopped benefiting the district or its students…
There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids’ drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston…
Four months after his death and mere days after his larger-than-life alter ego J.R. Ewing was laid to rest, Larry Hagman will finally get that which he never had in life: a life-sized Larry Hagman statue in Weatherford. That’s the plan of the Weatherford City Council and The Larry Hagman…
Serving people with lawsuits or divorce papers can be a tricky business. Maybe they’ve moved. Maybe they haven’t left much of a paper trail. Maybe they just don’t want to be found. Chances are slim, after all, that they’ll be delighted with what the process server brings them. But this…
Christopher Jones was lurking behind a dumpster at a FedEx Kinkos at Skillman and LBJ around 2 this morning when, according to Dallas PD, a police cruiser pulled to a stop nearby. The officers inside, Kyle Tholl and Erik Vasquez, were on routine patrol when they spotted spotted two men…
In her time in office, Councilwoman Pauline Medrano has established herself as a staunch ally of the LGBT community. That’s more or less a requirement for election in District 2, which includes much of Oak Lawn and has a sizable, and politically active, gay population, and there’s no reason to…
Dear Deion: There was a time when your Prime Time swagger was endearing. Back when you were still effortlessly shutting down opposing receivers as a Hall of Fame defensive back, your brash self-confidence, unfiltered by any hint of superego, played as charming. You’ve also proven yourself a passable used car…
In late 2008 and early 2009, the Five Points area was put on edge by the news that two girls there, one 12, the other 14, had been bound with tape and sexually assaulted by a suspected serial rapist. Detectives, after combing through police calls and incident reports, zeroed in…
There are a couple of bills bouncing around the state Legislature now that would make it easier — or, rather, make it harder to interfere with — to breastfeed in public. We wrote about one of them, state Representative Jessica Farrar’s HB 1706, which would allow women to sue if…
You’d think in this state, property rights would be the inviolable bedrock around which damn near everything else revolves. You’d think eminent domain, the taking of private property for public use, would be invoked only when the common benefit of a railroad, a highway or a pipeline is so undeniable…
Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. The message that rolled into our inbox earlier this week was upbeat. A “juggernaut of marijuana bills” is rolling its way through legislatures across the nation, the Marijuana…
You only thought you’d heard the last of the nightmarish Carnival cruise-turned-floating toilet ride that gripped the global media for days last month and exhausted every imaginable “poop deck” pun. But no. In Dallas federal court today, 17 Texans who were aboard that ill-fated voyage have filed suit against Carnival…
This weekend’s Greenville Ave — ahem, Dallas St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival — is supposed to be more “family friendly” than years past. It sounds ominous but, as we were assured in January, is more of a marketing thing than an effort to keep keep people from getting wildly,…
In the race to replace Ann Margolin as District 13’s representative on the City Council, Jennifer Gates has Staubach as a maiden name and the backing of the establishment; Leland Burke, a real estate investor, has the business experience that plays well in the district’s Preston Hollow core; and Jacob…
They called him crazy. And “crazy-pants,” and “unhinged,” and, at times, a “gay-hating conspiracy theorist.” But when you call freshman Tea Party-darling Senator Ted Cruz any of those names, just understand that whilst you are merely boring, petty glue, he is rubber. Proudly crazy rubber. At a speech last night…
On February 5, U.S. Postal Inspectors customs agents were doing a routine inspection at the North Texas Processing and Distribution Center when they spotted a package freshly arrived from Singapore and destined for a home address in Crowley. The customs agents opened the mail — they have the authority to…
As Washington shuffles forward toward some sort of expansion of gun control (universal background checks, yes; bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, maybe not), state legislators in Texas are debating the optimal technique for thumbing their noses at the federal government. On Wednesday, the House Select Committee on Federalism…
Dump trucks, upended concrete, chain-link fencing and security tape block every logical path to the Crum Basketball Center, making it nearly impossible to penetrate SMU’s practice facility. The university is remodeling nearby Moody Coliseum, where the Mustangs play their games; soon the musty building will be transformed into a shiny…
State Representative Rafael Anchia of Dallas filed legislation Friday that he hopes will position Texas to lead the sustainable age. He describes it as a launching point for a dialogue in the Legislature, a “shell” of a bill that will eventually drive workforce development for the next generation of jobs…
Late last month, 27-year-old Sondra Scarber and her girlfriend Hillary Causey headed to a Mesquite elementary school’s playground, to take Causey’s 4-year-old son Jaxon to play. The couple later told police that soon after they arrived, some much bigger boys started pushing Jaxon around. “Can you please keep your hands…
It was hard to fathom how Robert Jeffress could possibly refine his already highly nuanced views on human sexuality, but the First Baptist pastor has managed, somehow, to do just that. Right Wing Watch brings us a video of Jeffress’s appearance last week on Trinity Broadcasting Network’s “Praise the Lord”…
