Things have not been going well for Breitling Energy of late. In the third quarter of 2014 it suffered a reported loss of $759,229 which, hey, may have been a blip but we can’t be sure because that was the last financial report it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission even…
It took more than five decades, but George Harris, 82, and Jack Evans, 85, got married Friday morning. Harris and Evans received Dallas County’s first same-sex marriage license from Dallas County Clerk John Warren, who acted in defiance of a Thursday message from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton telling county…
Dallas County has not issued it’s first same-sex marriage license yet, but it appears it’s only a matter of time. County Clerk John Warren is meeting now with staff from the District Attorney’s Office, but he has reportedly said he could begin issuing licenses within an hour or two, defying…
The town of Mansfield has at least 200 gas wells, some of which are dangerously far away from any serene neighborhoods with nice houses and cute children playing in the backyard. Luckily, some home developers are ready to change that. Locals have spotted a few signs lately advertising planned housing developments…
Remember back in February, when newly inaugurated Governor Greg Abbott decided to remake Groundhog Day as Chris Kyle Day, purportedly to honor the anniversary of the death of the author of American Sniper? That seemed strange, as typically holidays celebrating individuals occur on or near their birthday, rather than the…
As bad things so often do, a West Oak Cliff woman’s run-in with a not-really-a-dentist dentist started with a medical consultation on Facebook. The woman was in pain and needed some dental work done. Tiffany Gonzalez was happy to help, Dallas police say. Gonzalez set the woman, identified by The…
However one might feel about the law, without doubt, the Affordable Care Act has helped Texans. As of March, the state’s percentage of uninsured residents, still the highest in the United States, has dipped almost 8 points to 16.9 percent. The drop can be almost entirely attributed to people buying…
Surely you haven’t forgotten about the Texas Nationalist Movement? Their quest to secede from the United States so far has won little more than sarcastic newspaper headlines, all that was before Texas separatists had the tacit support of the Russian government. This news arrived via Politico, which read some tea leaves/Russian language newspapers…
Dallas police and the county prosecutors are testing the city’s 4,140 backlogged rape kits. That’s good. What’s less good is the strain the inevitable DNA matches the tests find will place on District Attorney Susan Hawk’s office. To prepare, Hawk announced Wednesday she’s expanding her office’s sexual assault unit, adding…
He didn’t just get sick of it and quit. There was calculation. Dallas School Superintendent Mike Miles, who came here three years ago with a mandate to reform the school system, quit yesterday because the board had flipped and the mandate was gone. In effect the school board gave up…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. The flood of Central American children who poured across the Rio Grande last fall has ebbed. Anti-immigrant protesters have packed up their signs, and reporters…
This week we’re profiling 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from photographer Can Turkyilmaz. On a cool evening in March 2014, Dominique Alexander stood in front of A. Maceo Smith High School with scores of other mourners, candles guttering in the twilight. Nearby…
This week we’re profiling 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from photographer Can Turkyilmaz. As executive director of TEA Fund, Nan Little Kirkpatrick is a tireless advocate for reproductive justice. TEA Fund provides small grants — $50 to $150, depending on need —…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. When Imam Zia Sheikh learned that two would-be jihadists had been gunned down outside a draw-the-prophet-Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland this May, he braced for…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. It meant everything, even though it would accomplish nothing. The Texas House of Representatives was not going to pass anything that could be construed as…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. As a rule, convicted sex offenders don’t get much empathy, and usually for good reason. Often, cities don’t think twice about creating laws that restrict…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 20 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Can Turkyilmaz. The bizarre sentence a Dallas judge gave a confessed rapist in spring 2014 might have gone unnoticed by national media if not for Bobbie Villareal…
Dwaine Caraway’s “big announcement” Tuesday, to borrow a phrase from Dennis Green, was what we thought it was. Caraway is going to run for Dallas County commissioner Place 3. You know, the one that’s been held by John Wiley Price since 1985. Before we even get to Price, let’s talk…
Maybe it’s because Mike Miles’ cutting ties with Dallas ISD has felt inevitable for so long, but the reaction to his Tuesday-morning resignation has been largely muted, at least in tone, even from his harshest critics. Bill Betzen, a former Dallas ISD teacher who now fancies himself a district watchdog,…
Dallas ISD’s embattled superintendent gave up the fight Tuesday morning, resigning his post after almost three years on the job. In May, Miles survived an attempt by the Dallas ISD board to remove him from his post, but there were signals at the time that he may have held on…
Governor Greg Abbott’, three weeks after effectively telling drug overdosers to drop dead by klling a bill to protect Good Samaritan 911 callers from prosecution for small-time drug possession, took another intexplicably regressive potshot at the Legislature’s attempts to make Texas’ criminal justice system just a bit more humane. Among the measures…
In case you missed it — something that’s entirely possible given the average Dallas resident’s level of municipal engagement — Dwaine Caraway is no longer on the City Council. It’s a shame, too. Caraway, whether he was railing against plastic bags, imitating his eminently imitable colleague Vonciel Jones Hill or…
