On November 14, the New York Post broke news that FC Dallas CEO Doug Quinn had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a luxury hotel room in New York City, where he was celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife, Elizabeth. As the Post described it, a “hulking” 6’5″,…
There was an interesting, widely under-reported battle going on in the state legislature this morning, and it hinged around consistently badass Fort Worth state Senator Wendy Davis. Back in January, Davis filed SB 248, a bill that would bring the Lilly Ledbetter Act to Texas. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay…
In the early morning hours of March 17, 2011, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was walking through the parking lot of Spearmint Rhino when she was struck and killed by a Ford F-250 with enormous wheels and a monster lift kit as it left a parking space. The driver, 27-year-old Eric Crutchfield,…
On January 16, President Obama, flanked by family members of some of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary the month before, laid out his plans to curb gun violence. These included 23 executive orders that tweak the system for background checks, lift a ban on federal funding for…
It was June, a few weeks after his long-shot run for Congress and his marriage both came to an end, and Jason Roberts couldn’t shake the nagging weariness that had dogged him through the campaign. He felt constantly as if he’d just racked himself on his bike frame. It was…
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. Let’s kick this off with a couple of truisms: It’s hard to keep a good man down, and be careful what you wish for. We’re looking at you,…
It’s been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and their families, with a…
At the end of January, state Senator Carlos Uresti, a San Antonio Democrat, quietly filed a bill that would lift the legal age to smoke or possess cigarettes, or any other tobacco product, from 18 to 21. “If we are serious about stemming the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases and the…
For 17 years, Tina Milton worked as a clerk at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Wynne Unit. Her job was to pore over inmate mail in search of coded gang messages, and she did it just fine until late 2006. That’s when she returned from a sinus surgery and…
Update at 4:02 p.m.:Heritage has issued a statement: “Yesterday the Augusta National Golf Club filed suit against Heritage Auctions over the Art Wall’s 1959 Green Master’s jacket being offered in an upcoming sale in New York City. Prior to their filling the lawsuit, Augusta National did not contact Heritage Auctions,…
Texas Freedom Network has a lot to be irritated about lately. TFN is a left-leaning advocacy group focusing on things like civil liberties, church-state separation and not wasting classroom hours teaching Texas schoolchildren that the Rapture is a rock-solid scientific inevitability. As you might imagine, TFN comes down on the…
Is Keystone Pipeline really good idea?Bringing lots of heavy, dirty oil across country, when fracked ,cheaper, cleaner energy available— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) February 15, 2013 Yeah, you read that right. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, whose cable news empire has been almost solely…
On Valentine’s Day, the University of Texas System regents named University of Alabama-Huntsville Provost Vistasp M. Karbhari as the lone finalist to succeed James Spanioloas as president of the University of Texas at Arlington. Less than a week later, though, regents have decided their decision needs a bit more discussion…
Update at 3:19 p.m.: City spokesman Doug Adolph provides the disappointing news that the city has turned down SugarDaddie.com’s $4.6 million offer. “We decided to agree to disagree,” he says. “Sugar Land is not for sale.” Mayor Thompson did, however, provide a counter offer: If the dating site would relocate…
Texas’ 20-cent-per-gallon gas tax hasn’t changed since 1991. That’s despite the erosion of the tax’s purchasing power — the Wall Street Journal estimates that the gas tax buys half as much concrete, steel, and other materials as they did 20 years ago — and a glaring need — the state…
Deyfon Pipkins has spent a lot of time in the Dallas County jail over the past decade, having been arrested a half dozen times on theft charges since 2003. Police say he was back at it again at 4:15 p..m. on Monday afternoon, when he targeted a house in the…
Longtime Collin County Sheriff Terry Box made it clear in January that he would not be party to President Obama’s attempt to disarm the Real America and, presumably, pave the way for a permanent Marxist dictatorship through a handful of modest gun control proposals. Never mind that or that a…
In December Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a measure banning the adoption of Russian children to American families. The move was widely considered, and tacitly acknowledged as, a retaliation against a new U.S. law targeting accused Russian human rights abusers. Russian officials portrayed it somewhat differently, however, as a way…
Ron White spent nights during his eight-month tour in Afghanistan in 2007 holed up in his bunk with his laptop, poring over lists of words and numbers until they were committed to memory. It struck his Navy comrades as unusual, but memory is what White does. He founded a memory…
In yet another piece of bad publicity for SMU’s fraternities, the university’s police department reports there was a “hazing incident” at Sigma Alpha Epsilon over the weekend. Two reports were filed from the Sigma Alpha house on February 17, one around 9:30 a.m. for the hazing, and another at 10…
We tried not to hold it against Josh Hamilton for his occasional trip to Sherlock’s, his ridiculous energy drink addiction, his snooze-worthy line of Christian clothing, and last year’s collapse. And while that bungled fly ball — you know the one — was hard to forgive, that didn’t change the…
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow is scheduled to speak at First Baptist Dallas at 9:15 a.m. on April 28. Tebow is very open about the role religion plays in his life (good for him), and First Baptist Dallas Reverend Robert Jeffress is also very open about his beliefs, like…
