Last November Phyllis Lister Brown, who at the time was a city of Dallas municipal judge of 17 years, filed a lawsuit against the city. It was a preemptive strike. Brown was preparing a run for a seat on the 162nd Civil District Court and expected the city require her…
A year ago Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, studied the tax returns of 280 corporations. What it found was a Beltway version of a Mafia protection scheme. From 2008 to 2010, at least 30 Fortune 500 companies — including PepsiCo, Verizon, Wells Fargo and DuPont — paid…
The incident report on DPD’s public access website regarding Marshall Moreno’s death is bare-bones. Yesterday at 4:47 p.m., the 43-year-old died at Baylor Hospital of unknown causes, and his body was taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. But the cause of Moreno’s death isn’t quite as obscure…
This morning around dawn, as Stevens Park Golf Course was preparing for the day, a worker passing noticed something odd sticking out of the sand trap on the 18th hole. Closer inspection revealed it to be a silver 2004 Ford sedan. Police were called to the club and, through careful…
Museum Tower’s PR team has really been stepping up their efforts lately to persuade people to live there, which sources familiar with the development told us in late August has been an uphill battle. The charm campaign began with an exuberant full-page ad in The Dallas Morning News a couple…
At their end-of-season press conference yesterday, Rangers brass mostly deflected questions about Josh Hamilton’s terrible performance down the stretch. Team president Nolan Ryan opened up a bit more yesterday to Galloway & Company on ESPN Dallas, at least about Hamilton’s on-field performance. Ryan dismissed the idea that Hamilton quit on…
The city’s proposed rules for drivers operating motor vehicles near cyclists — that they must pass at a safe distance, can’t turn right into their path, and, last but not least, aren’t allowed to pelt them with things from car windows — seem like no-brainers. Anyone who doesn’t think they…
The claim that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs has been endlessly recited in media exposes and confessional tell-alls from former teammates. The evidence, however, has never been put forth in any sort of formal way, as was going to happen publicly before the seven-time Tour de France winner announced he…
The development of North Texas’ Barnett Shale did not go as smoothly as gas companies had hoped. The flaming water in Parker County, elevated levels of benzene in DISH, elevated rates of breast cancer in Flower Mound, and any number of other reports contributed to the perception among the general…
Melissa Kingston, the Lower Greenville resident and attorney representing neighborhood groups in negotiations over the Greenville Avenue Walmart, didn’t hold back in her lawsuit against Avi Adelman. The longtime neighborhood activist and proprietor of BarkingDogs.org is a “menace” and a “neighborhood terrorist” who bullies anyone with whom he disagrees, the…
The sequence of events detailed in the lawsuit filed last month by the family of Deanna Cook was damning: Cook, screaming for help as her ex-husband attacked her, called 911. An understaffed emergency call center finally, after several minutes, dispatched officers, who stopped at a 7-Eleven and checked on a…
The Rangers just wrapped up their 2012 post-mortem press conference. It was by and large quite boring, probably by design. You can imagine the team’s PR gurus urging the team brass to keep it vague, uninteresting, answer-free. For the most part they succeeded. GM Jon Daniels and president Nolan Ryan…
If you haven’t seen the most recent 60 Minutes piece on the potential threat to U.S. telecommunications infrastructure posed by Plano-based Chinese telecom titan Huawei, watch it. If you have, the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the results of its investigation Monday, and they are deeply troubling…
It’s mid-October again, time for temperatures to cool, leaves to turn, and Neiman Marcus to drop its annual compendium of decadent absurdity in the form of its 176-page Christmas Book. The catalog, which you can find here, contains just as hypnotic a collection of high-end fashion photography and ridiculously expensive…
Former city council woman and intermittent Unfair Park commenter Sandra Crenshaw was arrested in August after she allegedly failed to return a rental car to Budget. Court records show that she was indicted on felony theft charges last week. We accidentally broke the news of her indictment to Crenshaw just…
Last week, workers at Wal-Mart stores in Southern California walked off the job in what was, per Salon, the first multi-store strike in the retail giant’s history. Today, the protest made its way to Dallas. Workers at nine area Wal-Mart stores walked off the job this morning to demand higher…
There is good news to be found in the city’s crime stats. For the ninth year in a row, Dallas is on pace to see a drop in its crime rate and, while violent crime is about flat, burglary and theft are down by 15 and 11 percent, respectively. The…
Just last week, we noted that while those long-delayed bike lanes downtown are great and all, it’ll be a long time before Dallas drivers give cyclists their space. Texas motorists tend to feel entitled to the road, which they are loath to share with some spindly, non-motorized conveyance. We learn…
The police report for Sunday afternoon’s robbery of the Zone d’ Erotica on Forest Lane doesn’t say much. Someone walked into the adult novelty retailer with a knife, demanded cash, and left. The robber got the money, about $250, but he (or she — the report doesn’t specify) also made…
You already knew that Mike Miles, DISD’s new superintendent, isn’t one to mince words. That was, after all, part of the thinking in hiring him: that a straight-talking, pull-no-punches leader could transform DISD from an improving but still struggling urban district into one of the country’s finest. So far, Miles’…
Steven Lawayne Nelson was found guilty Monday morning in the slaying of Clint Dobson, a 28-year-old pastor who was discovered in Arlington’s NorthPointe Baptist with a plastic bag clinging to his face. Investigators say Nelson wielded a Daisy air pistol during the March 2011 robbery that ended in Dobson’s murder…
This summer, Andrew Moss, a former DART police officer, launched a petition urging the transit agency to offer domestic partner benefits. Moss had worked for DART until health problems forced him to step down in 2008. Though his husband continued to work there as a police officer, their marriage isn’t…
