Early this morning an hour or so before rush hour, as the city was just beginning to rouse, a man wearing jeans and a dark blue jacket was buzzed through the front door of a nondescript storefront on Ferguson Road near its intersection with Shiloh Road. Inside, he pulled a…
Over the course of a season in the NFL, or in any sport, it seems that the general mission of a team is to improve upon its demonstrated weaknesses and sustain its strengths. The second half of the Philly game provided a tiny glimmer of hope that the Cowboys could…
When news broke Friday that Hostess is now effectively out of business, the prevailing narrative, amplified by the right-wing media, was that it was the intransigence of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, whose members went on strike to protest cuts in pay and benefit cuts, that…
Just after midnight on Saturday, an employee of an apartment complex off of Bonnie View Road, not far from Paul Quinn College, was sitting in his car when saw a man in a gray hoodie shooting in the direction of a nearby creek. The man was screaming: “That was my…
Here’s what you need to know. Ashland Inc. has a chemical plant off Jupiter Road in Garland. Something exploded there this afternoon. It is now on fire. Garland and Dallas fire crews are on the scene doing what they can to put the fire out. You them do so on…
We tried this morning to make it clear that the Twinkie is safe. Some private equity firm will swoop in and buy the brand at bankruptcy auction, along with Sno Balls, Ding Dongs and any other Hostess snack cake that carries with it a whiff of nostalgia. It’s inevitable. According…
In Texas, black widows are a fact of life. You don’t want one in your attic, but if you find one, it’s something you deal with. Across the pond in England, it’s apparently cause for freaking the fuck out. According to a breathless account in the Daily Mail (“Believed to…
Midlothian is not likely to make a list of places you want to move, even one of those made-up Forbes lists. If the hulking smokestacks and the fact that there is a Cement Valley there don’t scare you off, then the reports of abnormally high rates of cancer, stillbirths, respiratory…
In October 2011, a rogue spark ignited a cloud of flammable gas at Magnablend’s chemical processing facility in Waxahachie, setting off a massive fire that burned for several days. The company pledged to rebuild the destroyed plant at the site of the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider. The EPA declared that…
Just after noon at Thurgood Marshall Elementary yesterday, Dallas police were called to Thurgood Marshall Elementary, which is in Dallas but part of Richardson ISD. A teacher had just cleared 20 students from her classroom after an 11-year-old boy threatened to cut the throat of a fellow classmate, then placed…
On Tuesday, Governor Rick Perry and Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst announced their support for a bill filed by Flower Mound State Senator Jane Nelson, which would require people applying for Temporary Assistant for Need Families (TANF) funds to be drug tested. At the same press conference, they also announced that…
Now that one of the largest oil and natural gas producers in the world is behind the carbon tax, is it finally an idea whose time has come? For the record, White House spokesman Jay Carney says President Barack Obama has exactly zero interest in proposing one. But Irving-based ExxonMobil…
Hostess Brands announced this morning that it’s over. America’s premier snack-cake maker will seek permission from a bankruptcy judge to sell off its assets and lay off its 18,500 employees. This comes after a bitter dispute with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, whose members rejected…
Remember those allegations that Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant beat the shit out of his mom in June? That now officially never happened. The DA’s office, after going to the trouble of filing a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, decided to dismiss them so long as he completes a counseling program…
This week, to our great excitement, Texas legislators started pre-filing bills for the upcoming legislative session, which kicks off in January. Those bills will include State Senator Jane Nelson of Flower Mound’s proposal to drug test potential welfare recipients and a measure from Longview’s David Simpson that would make it…
If you direct your browser to 16dollarhouse.com and plunk down $9.97 for an e-book, you can still learn from Ken Robinson ( “poised, measured, insightful and wise” and an AMERICAN, all caps, as the site informs you) how to use adverse possession, a once obscure Texas law, to get a…
When authorities found the body of Robert Dodson II inside a burning SUV at a gas well in rural Johnson County last month, how he wound up there was a mysterious. It was easy to wonder whether it had something to do with a June incident in which a 17-year-old…
Last week a representative of Poo Prints, a company that performs DNA tests on dog shit in order to track down the irresponsible owner who didn’t pick it up, tried to convince the City Council to adopt such a program citywide. It would be a way to reduce the ungodly…
It was while pounding the pavement of Old Preston Hollow in search of a certain lost chicken that I noticed some train tracks running through the back yard of a an aging but stately house on Park Lane. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Preston Hollow, that isn’t…
The morning that Michael Risch inserted himself into the battle between a Fortune 100 company and the man known as the “father of the iPod” began like any other, with a wake-up call from his 6-year-old son. Risch, a professor of intellectual property law at Villanova University, padded to the…
At this point, you’ve probably heard just about enough about petitions, particularly the one lobbying the White House to let Texas “peacefully secede” from the United States . It’s got over 100,000 signatures at this point, our managing editor Patrick Williams thinks the whole thing is deeply, pants-shittingly disturbing, and…
If you want a summary of neighbors’ reasons for not allowing Dallas United Crew you can visit visit this website, which is advertised on a fair number of yard signs surrounding White Rock Lake. The boat house will destroy a beautiful, relatively pristine view of the lake, critics say. The…
