Every fall, the battle for bragging rights among Texas cities begins. The winners don’t have the best high school football teams, no, they’ve got the worst roads for traffic in the whole state and the rights to complain that comes with it. The Texas Department of Transportation’s new 100 Most…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown is retiring from the Dallas Police Department. His last day on the job will be October 22, according to letter from Brown posted on DPD’s DPDBeat.com blog. “After much prayer, I am announcing my retirement from the Dallas Police Department after 33 years as a…
Lawyers for Ethan Couch, the drunk-driving teen who killed four and injured 11 in a 2012 accident, are trying to get their client out of Tarrant County Jail. In April, Couch was ordered to serve almost two years in jail by Judge Wayne Salvant for violating the terms of the…
Jeremy Jeffress is headed to Houston for rehab and will likely miss the rest of the regular season. The Rangers relief pitcher has been on the MLB restricted list since Friday, when he was busted for DWI after leaving the Sisu nightclub in Uptown. Conveniently, Jeffress should be home just in…
One good indication an institution is up to no good and probably guilty of the sin you suspect it of is an extremely thin-skinned response to your complaint. If they’re not feeling guilty, they wouldn’t be thin-skinned. With thin skin as my scale, I don’t know who measures up as…
Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor has seen the lowest of lows and the highest of highs. He’s been a Twitter scapegoat and a social media super hero. He’s made Adrian Beltre slap him playfully on the cheek for his second baserunning mistake in one night and sent Rangers fans home…
There are a lot of the recommendations contained in the report the Boston Consulting Group regarding the loose dog problem in southern Dallas. To a member, the city council members at Tuesday’s specially called meeting voiced approval for all seven of the recommendations made in the BCG report. What became…
Maybe this is all moot. Letters and emails are flying around all over town, one side accusing or attacking the other in the debate about privatizing Fair Park, but I think the deal is done already anyway. No matter what anybody says about it, Mayor Mike Rawlings probably has the…
The online reviews for Dallas’ Doll House Massage Parlor are heavy on acronyms. Once you decode things, you end up finding stuff out you probably could’ve gone without knowing. The Doll House, according to those reviews and the U.S. Department of Justice, was offering out more than just rubdowns. Late…
One of the most fascinating things about the Dallas Police Department’s blog, DPDBeat.com, are the action-packed photos and videos the department posts to try to solve unsolved crimes. So far, DPD Beat has featured hammer-wielding thieves busting up an ATM, a massive counterfeit bust and employees fighting back when their…
On Monday, the battle for the future of Fair Park began in earnest. Dallas’ fight over handing the park over to the Walt Humann-led foundation had been a proxy battle at the park board level. Those skirmishes ended earlier this month when the board signed off on the proposed management…
Did anybody else notice that Inclusive Communities Project just got its hat handed to it on its big lawsuit against the state over placement of subsidized housing in already segregated neighborhoods in Dallas? No, I didn’t think so. Welcome to Weirdtown. After yesterday’s City Council briefing on a new city…
If the mosquitoes in Dallas County are able to transmit the Zika virus, we won’t know it until a patient is diagnosed. The main surveillance for the disease will have to involve a human case, said Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson. “In Miami-Dade, there were four confirmed…
A pickup pulls up to the corner of Churchill Way and Hillcrest Road, near a quiet residential community in northwest Dallas. The bright green truck, adorned with an evil-looking image of a mosquito atop the back tire and the words “Fight the Bite” on each flank, is one of the…
After Thursday night’s preseason game against the Seahawks, it seemed like the Cowboys, and Tony Romo, had gotten away with one. Despite Romo’s getting knocked out of the game three plays in by a Cliff Avril hit, the injury to Romo’s back wasn’t serious, according to Romo and Cowboys Head…
Finally Oak Cliff’s streetcar actually goes somewhere. Monday, after nearly 18 months of ferrying riders from downtown’s Union Station to the El Fenix at the intersection of Colorado and Zang Boulevards in Oak Cliff, the city of Dallas and DART joint project will begin taking people all the way from…
Jeremy Jeffress did not make an appearance in the Rangers 9-0 win over the Indians on Thursday, but he had a long night nonetheless. Early Friday morning, Dallas police stopped the right-handed reliever in Uptown after he made a lane change without signaling in the 2500 block of Maple Avenue…
For nearly two years, Dominique Alexander has been organizing protests in Dallas as the founder of the Next Generation Action Network. Now Alexander is going to prison. He was sentenced on Friday afternoon to two years for violating his probation on multiple occasions. The most recent violation occurred when he left…
We know you’re busy. So here’s a roundup for those news junkies who missed out and now need their Friday fix. Family and Friends Remember Kelli Cox, a Recently Discovered Serial Killer’s Victim In a house in Farmer’s Branch, friends, family and police gather to remember Kelli Cox, whose body…
It’s a time of scrutiny in Austin for the Texas Railroad Commission. The oil, gas and mining regulator is now under review by the state’s Sunset Advisory Commission, which evaluates agencies’ performance. The Sunset Commission can recommend changes, up to termination of the agency. These are only recommendations. The previous…
As far as protest bits go, the one thought up by the University of Texas at Austin’s anti-campus carry contingent was a pretty good one. Wednesday, in order to combat what many students and staff viewed as the unnecessary hyper-masculinity of carrying a gun around a college campus like Yosemite…
This is like two weeks before Christmas when I was 7 years old. I’m so excited. I know it’s going to be something very good. There is no way the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would devote this much energy to keeping something away from little old me…
