Ever since the EPA announced new pollution regs that would come down hardest on dirty power plants, there’s been considerable Sturm und Drang from the industry, who’ve been making all sorts of dire predictions about rolling outages resulting from burdensome, onerous, expensive federal regulation. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation…
A years-long dispute between a woman who runs a dog rescue out of her home and her increasingly annoyed neighbors has resulted in hundreds of phone calls to Animal Control, a felony robbery conviction, one dead dog and, we’re guessing, some pretty awkward block parties. “This has been going on…
Below, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores hopped in the comments to underscore something he said during yesterday’s discussion concerning Teach for America. Said the trustee yesterday, TFA corps members in the district “outperform two-thirds of all our teachers in math and science” — not just first-year teachers or…
For those wondering whatever become of the stagnating Lake Highlands Town Center, a ray of hope appears on the council’s Economic Development Committee’s agenda for Monday: “Community Development Block Grant Section 108 Guaranteed Loan Application for the Lake Highlands Town Center.” I’ll post the actual briefing docs when they’re posted…
There’s a piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal in which Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor Harlan Crow and Fort Worth oil man Charles Moncrief explain why they’re throwing their money at Mitt Romney after years spent filling Rick Perry’s coffers. Long story short: It’s that openin’-his-mouth thing he does. It’s…
Here we go again.Ever since I read this last month, I’ve been trying to nail down whether the United States Postal Service intends to shutter the Dallas Main Post Office on IH30. I went so far as to contact Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office; two weeks ago her spokesperson said, “We…
On August we told you that the Dallas Independent School District had been hit with a $40-million breach of contract lawsuit filed by a technology vendor with whom the trustees had agreed to do business till, out of nowhere, district officials just decided to go with someone else. In May…
In mid-October we predicted that the hearing before the Permit and License Appeal Board over whether the club Afterlife should have its dancehall license revoked would probably be the most exciting thing that’s come before the board in a very long time. In hindsight, that was probably an understatement. At…
Two days after 22-year-old hairdresser Elizabeth Lightfoot was found dead inside her burning car along Preston Road between Keller Springs and Arapaho, her tragic tale became international news. Yet close to a month later, save for a few horrific revelations Dallas Police are still no closer to solving the case…
Three hours after their start time, the Dallas ISD board finally got around to discussing whether or not to extend the district’s contract with Teach for America — which would seem like a no-brainer after you read this 2010 Atlantic piece about TFA or this January 2011 study by the…
On Tuesday we told you about a report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation — an entity tasked by the feds with ensuring the lights stay on — that singled out Texas as a state that may not have the electrical reserves to meet peak demand by 2013. Officials…
My wife and I watched last night’s Highland Park-set episode of Top Chef: Texas in wide-eyed (and, eventually, slightly drunken) disbelief; it was like some Frankenstein monster created from the worst parts of Most Eligible Dallas, The A List: Dallas, Dallas Divas & Daughters and one of those rare occasions…
The Dallas Independent School District board has yet to get down to business; at the moment it’s behind closed doors in executive session. But moments ago it heard from a parade of public speakers, all of whom were awfully well behaved and used their three minutes wisely as they spoke…
Pike Park, on Harry Hines as you’re heading into downtown, sits more or less in the shadow of the American Airlines Center; you’ve probably driven by it hundreds of times, even if you’ve never stopped once. Built in 1914 at the cost of a little more than $18,000 in what…
I didn’t have time to tune in yesterday for the entirety of the ad hoc committee meeting of some Dallas Independent School District trustees tasked with rewriting the district’s “educational philosophy.” At close to two hours, it wasn’t a short discussion either — it never is when trustees gather ’round…
The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for “the beginning of the end,” a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight…
A little more than nine months after those aggrieved ticketholders left out in the Arlington cold during Super Bowl XLV brought their lawsuits, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn — she of tough sentences and no nonsense — has refused to dismiss the breach-of-contract case. But: Lynn did remove the Dallas…
Boom shaka-laka: Occupy Dallas called for a general “strike” by wage earners this week. We’re not sure which day, because, you know, it’s a fluid movement (in more ways than one). Whichever day it was, none of us were supposed to shop or show up at work. Ooh, better lay…
Art happens, no matter what. Neither poverty, madness, clueless critics or an unappreciative public can kill the relentless drive to re-imagine the world. Sadly, however, all but a lucky few artists must waste valuable creative energy in soul-crushing regular jobs to survive. But no amount of dog-walking, poop-scooping, telemarketing, sperm-donating…
Winnowing down Dallas’ growing, dynamic community of artists to three MasterMinds was like lining up at a vast buffet prepared by an outstanding chef: too many wonderful selections and too little room on our plates. On the way to naming the winners, our judges narrowed the original list of 45…
Sergeant Vince Ariaz liked what he saw in 15-year-old “Maggie.” Eager to please, in awe of police work and seeking a trustworthy authority figure in her life, the shy brunette was an ideal fit for the Brownwood, Texas, Police Department’s Explorer program. With nearly 2,000 law-enforcement Explorer posts and upward…
Shortly before word began circulating that the immortal Billy Graham has been hospitalized for the second time this year due to pneumonia, Athletes in Action posted to Vimeo the extraordinary artifact you see above: Graham teasing Explo ’72, which Time called The Jesus Woodstock, that brought some 80,000 Campus Crusaders…
