Stephen Benavides, an organizer with the United Steelworkers, was one of eight arrested Saturday at the Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America tower during Bank Transfer Day, aimed at encouraging the use of not-for-profit credit unions over for-profit banks. But while the other protesters were jailed on…
Back in February, City Hall proudly announced that Walmart was going to build, build, build all ’round town — “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” said the release, with a Supercenter at R.L. Thornton and Ledbetter Drive at the very tippy-top of that list. And…
Above, of course, is Rick Perry’s appearance on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman, where he attempted to yuck-yuck it past Wednesday’s night James Stockdale moment. But Our Governor dominated the airwaves yesterday, from sun-up till the midnight hour: On the other side are two of his morning-show appearances…
Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spokesmen offered some…
After several hours of deliberation, a jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the felony animal cruelty trial of Tyrone McGill, the former animal shelter manager indicted in August 2010 following a May ’10 incident at the Dallas animal shelter involving a cat trapped behind a wall that wasn’t…
The video you see above was taken by surveillance cameras at St. Cecilia Catholic School on Mary Cliff, just off Davis and Hampton in Oak Cliff. It’s a couple of months old — from September 17, according to the Dallas Police — and was shot during the early-morning hours that…
I was born and raised here, like my daddy before me. Left only twice — to attend the University of Texas at Austin in ’86, then again, 10 years later, to help launch a sister paper in Los Angeles. Both times I came back as soon as I could, the…
Four long years ago we wrote about two local ministries — Big Hart Ministries and the Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry– that filed suit against the city of Dallas in federal court over an ordinance that they say kept them from serving food to the homeless and violated their religious…
Don’t think for a second this small attempt to resurrect a sports blog is an afterthought. We’ll get there … sooner than later. But on a day like today: Where to begin? Penn State, no doubt, far from home for most but not for all, and certain top of mind…
So far, there’s been little indication that the council has any interest in reopening the debate over the new council-districts map approved (barely) on October 5 and dispatched to the Department of Justice three weeks later. As you may recall, six council members did ask Mayor Mike Rawlings to add…
A couple of weeks back we noted that the city’s Animal Shelter Commission has created the Dallas Companion Animal Project, a task force “charged with developing a blueprint for ending the killing of adoptable animals.” And while Nathan Winograd may not be the biggest fan, the project proceeds apace: This…
Below you’ll find the original agreement the city of Dallas and Occupy Dallas entered into last month after that trip to the courthouse that was all fist-bumps and high-fives. Problem is, the agreement is affixed as an exhibit to even more legal docs Occupy Dallas’s attorneys took to the courthouse…
OK, so just below this item is last night’s Saturday Night Live sketch starring the best Rick Perry impersonator yet, Rick Perry. But a lot’s happened since then as the Perry camp attempts to salvage the campaign. Like that tweet from the gov you see above. And: the hastily popped-up…
Time to push back: No way should anybody let this drop. Last week’s Occupy Dallas arrests should be taken as a direct challenge, not a lesson or defeat. The Dallas Police Department is already trying to paper over the outrageous arrests of seven bank protesters last Saturday on trumped-up “misuse…
Relax for a moment and imagine a place where women’s curly locks bounce on their shoulders like perfectly spiraled ribbons atop beautifully wrapped presents. A mother-daughter outing means a trip to the plastic surgeon. On an average date, a high-heeled twentysomething might find herself riding a privately reserved McKinney Avenue…
I was sitting down to watch some teevee when the bossman emailed: “Rick Perry just shit the bed.” Ah. Yes. Tonight’s debate, otherwise known as: The Night Rick Perry’s Campaign Ended when he couldn’t remember … couldn’t remember … something … oops. Shame too, though at least Bill Hader should…
Late this afternoon, former animal shelter manager Tyrone McGill took the stand to testify in his defense at his felony animal cruelty trial, which began yesterday. While the prosecution attempted to paint a picture of McGill as an indifferent, unreachable bureaucrat who willfully allowed a cat to die behind a…
I was about to write up a little something about the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s “new business plan,” announced via press release moments ago, when I espied this report from KERA’s Jerome Weeks, which says that the DSO will tap out its line of credit by February at the latest and…
At least, that’s what the star-studded cast of bold-faced names says in the video you see above, which was just posted to YouTube by the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. This is the short film being used to raise money for the capital campaign — which, as we noted only yesterday,…
At the end of business yesterday City Hall sent that memo from City Manager Mary Suhm and that letter from First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers. Both said more or less the same thing: Occupy Dallas has till 5 p.m. Saturday to clean up its mess behind Dallas City Hall,…
The University of Texas released the preliminary results today of that comprehensive study on the controversial natural gas producing process known as hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), drawing no link between it and claims of groundwater contamination. “While there have been casing/cement issues identified by regulators, we haven’t seen evidence in…
Wasn’t that long ago the Dallas Independent School District was fighting to keep W.H. Adamson High School off the city’s list of historically designated landmarks in order to raze the old Oak Cliff High School, part of the ’08 bond program. But in December the district backed off, and in…
