Time for the bucket of cold water in our face treatment. Susan Hawk, the Dallas County district attorney currently on leave with mental health problems, is not going to come back and sit behind the desk and be the DA. Not successfully, if she tries. It’s just not a realistic…
Given Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne’s political proclivities, it’s no surprise that she headed over to Glenn Beck’s studio at The Blaze to participate in an extended discussion about Irving’s clock kid, Ahmed Mohamed, less than a week after he was arrested for bringing what he described as a homemade…
Princeton sits in an ocean of cookie-cutter suburbs about 40 miles northeast of Dallas, at the edge of a gold coast of development washing away horse country. To the west is McKinney; to the east, Farmersville. In between, there’s Princeton, where they love God, country and family and the divorce…
A Dallas County grand jury has decided not indict Scott Griggs based on allegations that he threatened to “break the fucking fingers” of a member of the city secretary’s office because of documents Griggs felt were being improperly handled. In the run-up to April 16’s all Trinity toll road City…
It only took Dallas’ UberBlack drivers a long weekend to get back their right to pick up only passengers willing to pay for their more expensive service. Late Monday night, following four days of protests and calls for strikes, Uber informed drivers through an email that they could opt out…
Putting a list together of Dallas most psychically painful sports injuries was no easy task. For injuries to matter to fans — let’s stipulate that every injury matters to the player to whom it happens, especially in the NFL, where contracts aren’t guaranteed — the team being affected needs to…
A year ago, South Dallas’ Billy Earl Dade MIddle School was in disarray. Things there were so glaringly bad that, on an impromptu visit in mid-October, six weeks into last school year, Superintendent Mike Miles got rid of Principal MIchael Jones and 10 teachers on the spot. The following Monday,…
It’s all downhill from here. No good will come of this. Time to cut our losses. There’s no more getting lucky. But enough about me. What about Dallas? Oh, well, Dallas. That’s another story. This last weekend I had one of those recurring experiences — I have them every once…
Before it was consumed by Ahmed Mohamed’s clock, Dallas’ broadcast media’s late summer obsession was listening to people complain about their water bills. “Four times higher,” The Colony’s Jim Budney told KXAS at the end of August. “Hasn’t been that much hotter, we’ve been watering the lawn with the same…
2014 was a good year for LGBTQ rights in Dallas. The city added limited insurance benefits for transgender city employees, made it possible for city employees to use the Family Medical Leave Act to take care of their same-sex partners and started on a path toward getting retirement benefits for the…
Until Friday, Uber in Dallas was essentially two different services. There was UberBlack — and its cousins UberSUV and UberSelect — the service that started everything for Uber. UberBlack began as a way to keep town car drivers who weren’t busy, busy. Drivers between gigs could switch the app on…
Did I just have a Hillary moment? Not sure. But I am sure of this: I have stumbled into some very persuasive evidence that HUD Secretary Julian Castro, shortly after his appointment by the president a year ago, cut HUD’s enforcement division off at the knees in a deal to…
College football players get scrutinized on social media. That’s one of the anti-perks of taking the world’s highest-profile unpaid internship. Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones, perhaps the 2015 Heisman Trophy front-runner, is probably most famous for his brutally honest 2012 tweet about not being at Ohio State to “play school.”…
So maybe I pulled a small deception on Ben Sandifer when I called him, something I did not fully disclose at the time. Or really disclose at all. But now I will. Sandifer, a somewhat reclusive person or at least one who does not actively seek the limelight, has emerged in…
Dallas barbecue institutions, apparently, are not safe from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, even when they’re located in Deep Ellum, one of the most liberal parts of one of Texas’ most Democratic cities. “Texas is what America is supposed to be,” Abbott said in front of a packed house. “America needs…
Texans, a lot of them, are getting medical insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Some 700,000 in 2014, according to numbers released by the Census Bureau and collated by the left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities. That’s good. Three percent more Texans had insurance in 2014 than 2013. That’s…
Ted Cruz continues, as Dan Rather told us when he stopped by the office last month, to be a desperado waiting for a train. Throughout Wednesday night’s second Republican debate, Cruz leaned on the ropes, stressing his extreme right-wing bona fides but refraining from attacking Donald Trump or any of…
Ahmed Mohamed is, it seems, going to fine. The Irving 14-year-old, arrested earlier this week after bringing a homemade clock to school, received a worldwide outpouring of support Wednesday, a day Mohamed concluded with a smiling, confident press conference. Monday morning, Mohamed brought the clock to school. He was hoping,…
Dallas went viral twice this week. Let’s hope our immune system can take it. First time was for the local visit of Donald Trump, champion of all angry white people everywhere on Earth, living, dead and unborn. Second time was for the handcuffed arrest of a ninth-grade student named Ahmed…
Why do I feel like I just got shot in the leg and now they’re sending me to a tailor? The North Texas Tollway Authority, which is in the toll road business, is now going to review the latest plan for the road the mayor wants to build on top…
If one member of the City Council gets his way, you may not have to head downtown to fight a traffic ticket next year. You might be able to do it in front of your closest justice of the peace. The problem, if you ask critics of Dallas’ municipal courts,…
Tuesday, Schutze told you all about why we should be scared because Dallas is taking $1 million in rich-people money from the Trinity Trust to pay for yet another “charrette” to come up with a plan for a park between the Trinity River levees. Letting rich people fund park planning…
