The first few months after her husband died, Heather Boulware was fine. She didn’t feel fine, of course, but she managed to keep taking the medications she’d been prescribed five years before to treat her bipolar disorder and continued to care for the couple’s three children. “I was doing what…
Around 2 a.m. yesterday morning, two men were walking near the corner of Audelia Road and Forest Lane in northeast Dallas when, according to police, a dark four-door car, adorned with tinted windows and 24-inch rims, approached them slowly. There were five or six black men inside, all thought to…
In this week’s cover story, we wrote about Dallas’ boarding houses, which are home to thousands of the city’s mentally ill, elderly, and disabled, as well as people recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. The homes aren’t regulated by any state agency, and despite a law passed some three years…
So Kevin Dixon, principal of West Middle School in DeSoto ISD, is apologizing for emailing “a video of dancing chimpanzees to his staff last week that a school board trustee found racist,” the Morning News’ Matthew Haag writes in today’s Metro section. For some reason, the News didn’t see fit…
Pro-life groups in Texas are in an awkward position these days, as the Medicaid Women’s Health Program fights for its life. On one hand, they celebrate anything that they perceive as a blow to Planned Parenthood (which Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas Executive Director Karen Garnett once memorably described…
Back in January, the Dallas Independent School District suffered some minor self-inflicted PR wounds when it tried to eliminate a policy that bans schools from holding graduations in places of worship, except for in “unusual” circumstances. After the ACLU did the whole ACLU thing — stern press releases, vague threats…
As Brantley pointed out yesterday, the Texas Public Utility Commission got down to hard numbers last week as it inched further toward what appears to be inevitable — a huge increase in the current $3,000 per megawatt-hour cap on the price of wholesale electricity during times when demand is high…
Not long after I wrote a story about Vickery Meadow last month, Jerry Holley, an antiques auctioneer who grew up in the area, sent me a polite email that made me curious as to what I hadn’t written. “Enjoyed your article on Vickery Meadow, but you missed the real history…
I, the overbylined, hereby solemnly swear that Unfair Park (“The Blog”) will not, under any circumstances, devolve into a sycophantic shadow booster for the long-shot congressional aspirations of Jason Roberts (“That One Biker Guy”), even in the event that one Robert Wilonsky (“Biker Guy’s Cyber-Boyfriend”) returns to the blog after…
If you happened to stumble upstairs at the Londoner last night, you might have wondered just what the hell was going on. Why were so many of these men wearing suits to the bar? Is that a sweater vest in the corner? Everyone’s throwing the word “santorum” around with such…
The Texas Public Utility Commission is finally spitballing dollar figures for just how high they’re willing to let wholesale electricity prices spiral when weather extremes send us to our thermostats. For the moment, we’re sitting at $3,000 per megawatt-hour. To keep the lights from going out (ERCOT predicts demand will…
With a lingering budget crisis and shrinking enrollment, the Dallas Independent School District has eliminated hundreds of teaching jobs in recent years, and this year will be no different. But in a sharp departure from years past, the district is preparing to part ways with hundreds more teachers for reasons…
Longtime Denton Record-Chronicle opinion-page editor Mike Trimble was fired last week after a dispute with the paper’s publisher, Bill Patterson. Trimble, 68, had been at the paper 18 years and its lone editorial writer since 2002. “It was just a difference of opinion,” Trimble told Unfair Park on Monday. “And…
Update 3:37: City Hall isn’t buying that Columbia Pack video any more than we are. City spokesman Frank Librio sent out the following response just now: March 12, 2012 To: Media From: City of Dallas PIO Re: Columbia Packing The City will use all legal means possible to ensure that…
Back in February, it was semi-big news when a group called One Million Moms called for a boycott of Dallas-based J.C. Penney. The reason was the company’s new spokeswoman, Ellen DeGeneres, who you will be shocked to learn is gay, and thus obviously unfit to sell pleated Dockers and window…
State legislation requiring voters to present state-issued identification such as a driver’s license, a concealed-carry permit, or a U.S. passport or military ID was rejected Monday morning by the U.S. Department of Justice. “Because we conclude that the state has failed to meet its burden of demonstrating that the proposed…
Kids walking the halls of Prime Prep Academy next fall might have a shot at television stardom because Deion Sanders, the school’s co-founder, is working with entertainment exec Tracey Edmonds (with whom Sanders’ ex-wife accused him of cheating) to make his school a reality … show. That’s right, a reality…
The wife and I are house-hunting, looking for something modest and sensible: good school district, open floor plan, lots of windows, pool out back, pool inside, bowling alley, racquetball court, theater, tennis courts, and — this is a must — a conservatory. You know: Your average East Dallas rebuild. We’ve…
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who worked as a nurse before heading to Washington, dropped by Martin Bashir’s show on MSNBC to denounce Governor Rick Perry’s stance toward Planned Parenthood (and to call Rush Limbaugh “un-American”.) “I don’t even know this governor anymore,” the congresswoman says in the clip above. “I…
Update: Cannon has resigned. More after the original story. Original item: The folks from the Dallas Police vice squad had an interesting Thursday, going undercover at the apparently lovably bizarre King Spa and Sauna. And they netted themselves an interesting fish: Scott Cannon III, a longtime Duncanville city councilman with…
Update, March 10: Federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced late Friday in Houston that federal funding to the WHP would be cut. She said the program will wind down over the next several months, and that the feds are considering funding Planned Parenthood directly. In response, Allison…
Kinda beautiful, right? It’s like a baby — the arrival is joyous, even if some think its conception was regretful. No use dwelling on the labor pains. (Or, to sum up in the inimitable words of hard-hitting Dallas Morning News Metro columnist, it’s “nice.” Don’t think so? Then discuss.) …..
