Every time I see a reference to FBI agent James Hosty and the burned Lee Harvey Oswald memo, I feel this twinge somewhere in the vicinity of my wallet. I guess I’ll go to my grave thinking I should have made at least a few bucks off that one. Hosty…
Amanda Clairmont was a makeup artist. She had created a new Instagram account to showcase her work two weeks before she was found murdered in a vacant parking lot in Corinth, a suburb of 21,000 people about 30 miles north of Dallas. “Follow my new makeup Instagram account and support…
Well, it’s here. Dallas County Health and Human Services announced that “influenza activity is increasing in Dallas County” and issued a report noting an early November spike in reported cases. The emergence and spread of a new strain of the virus is an annual event, but this year, DFW’s rate…
It’s not hyperbole to say that 2017 has been a defining year for Texas politics. The state’s biggest cities openly warred with the state government in Austin, and many of those who’d built power bases in Austin over the last decade found themselves confused and frustrated by a new environment…
Airports are uniquely suited to use social media to advertise themselves and pass along useful information. When it comes to holiday travel, however, the area’s two airports have distinctly different strategies. One is posting a litany of public service announcements; the other feels like a meme campaign to promote the…
Response to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston is, sadly, a great example of the severe political entropy and impotence at the top of our political system. But don’t look there. If we look not up but down, to the level of grassroots, we’re going to see where the…
There’s a sprinkle of rain falling outside the Green Elephant, a small dive bar near Southern Methodist University, when Draco Pendragon takes the stage. He dresses like a heavy-metal circus ringmaster, clad in black leather pants and a steam-punk top hat, and wields a whip that spouts flames when he cracks it. He…
If a former FBI agent now working as an investigator completes a months-long probe of a local unit of government and says in his final report that Larry Duncan, the top elected official and a well-known political figure in the city, may be guilty of bribery, is that not a…
Former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Terry Glenn has died in a car accident Monday morning in Irving, according to the multiple local news outlets. He was 43. Glenn was the Cowboys’ leading receiver in 2005 and played a central role playoff runs in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Glenn enjoyed a 12-year…
It’s been a banner year for athletes who hail from Dallas. Given their contributions, it seems like a good time for an updated list of the greatest Dallas athletes of all time. A note about how this list was compiled: While athletes from Dallas’ immediate suburbs were fair game for the…
Dallas has been paying attention recently to some compelling research showing that racial segregation is bad for poor minority children. Truth. But only as an aside, no big deal, just me up here in the bleachers mumbling to myself: I’d like to point out that segregation probably isn’t too good…
There’s no denying that Sunday night’s tilt between the Cowboys and Eagles is a big one. The Eagles are 8-1, but untested, with their best win coming over the Panthers on Oct. 12. Beating the Cowboys in front of what’s sure to be huge national TV audience in prime time…
Here’s a decent little window on the wars within our sprawling urban school district right now. The big news is stunning. The small news is infuriating. A couple of weeks ago Dallas school district executives gave the board of trustees a full hard-numbers briefing on outcomes from the district’s 3-year-old…
On Thursday afternoon, Richardson police arrested the mother of a toddler found dead in a culvert near her family’s home last month. Sini Mathews, the mother of Sherin Mathews, is in Richardson City Jail, charged with abandoning or endangering a child, a state jail felony. Police found Sherin Mathews body…
Dallas police need the public’s help finding a man they believed robbed two Metro PCS stores Wednesday morning in northwest Dallas. At about 10 a.m., according to DPD, a suspect rolled up to the discount cellphone carrier’s outlet in the 10900 block of Webb Chapel Road in a beige, early…
Our new city manager is saying and doing all the right things. I’m watching to see how long it takes them to get rid of him. By new city manager I mean, of course, T.C. Broadnax, who came from Tacoma, Washington, in February to take the reins as the first…
When the U.S. House version of the GOP’s sweeping tax reform package makes it to the chamber’s floor — something that could come as early as today — legislators will take up a key provision that could end up costing the city of Arlington between $100 million and $200 million…
Ezekiel Elliott’s legal appeal of his six-game NFL suspension effectively ended last week when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to allow the Cowboys running back to continue playing as his case made its way through the federal judiciary. Even if Elliott eventually prevailed in his appeal against…
So close but so far away. Jody Warner, the Dallas County prosecutor fired for drunkenly berating an Uber driver over the weekend, nearly made it home before she and the driver had a falling out over directions. Shaun Platt, her Uber driver, ended Warner’s ill-fated ride Friday night about a…
An Arlington man shot by a Mesquite cop last week is finally out of the hospital, but questions remain about the shooting. Lyndo Jones told reporters Tuesday night after his release from Baylor Medical Center in Dallas that he was happy to be going home to see his kids and…
The Dallas City Council did its required rubber-stamping Tuesday, signing off unanimously on a settlement that takes care of four of the six outstanding police and fire pay lawsuits against the city. The $62 million settlement takes care of the suits filed in Collin County by former Dallas police officers and…
On Tuesday, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones addressed the growing crop of rumors that have sprung up in the midst of his fight against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, dismissing claims that his fellow owners are considering harsh punishments against Jones and the Cowboys. “I’ve had not one, not one, inkling…
