The best thing that could be said about Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt, the McKinney police officer seen on video pulling his gun on and tackling teenagers at a pool party gone bad, is that he didn’t shoot anybody, according to Jahi Bakari, who said Casebolt hit his daughter during the incident…
Friday night, a pool party in McKinney went bad. Then it went worse after 12 McKinney cops showed up. Residents of the Craig Ranch subdivision called McKinney police after, according to Chief Greg Conley, teenagers at a party at the subdivision’s pool began fighting and then refused to leave when asked…
Another day, another list dropped unceremoniously into the email account of the artist formerly known as Unfair Park. This time, with summer approaching, it’s WalletHub’s guide to the best cities for your summer vacation. (A sidebar: We get about 300 of these best-whatever lists every month from assorted websites, and curiously, no…
In the far northeastern corner of Flag Pole Hill Park, just shy of where the open space surrounding White Rock Lake gives way to the ranch-style homes of Lake Highland, a dirt footpath snakes for about three-quarters of a mile along a thicket of trees. Ken Coutant, a tax accountant…
Sure, it might look like a developer wants to put three huge apartment complexes over existing business and homes in Oak Cliff, but that’s only because Alamo Manhattan published a map of three huge buildings over existing businesses and homes in Oak Cliff. It’s still all very preliminary, insist the…
Three weeks ago, we told you that Texas’ almost three years long drought was finally, thankfully, breaking. The latest numbers released by the U.S. Drought Monitor Thursday show that, save for a couple of areas of limited dry areas in West Texas and the Panhandle, Texas isn’t even experiencing any…
Rick Perry officially announced his renewed presidential aspirations Thursday at Addison Airport. Flanked by veterans and Taya Kyle, the window of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle, Perry said he would return American exceptionalism, lambasted President Obama and told a cheering throng that “rights come from God, not the government.” “It’s time…
So there’s not much to this one beyond what you can see in the dashcam video. DPD has seen the video but hasn’t yet received a report about the incident. YouTube user Nihilanth posted the video Wednesday afternoon. At first, it features your basic Central Expressway at rush hour with everyone…
There are First World problems, and then there are Highland Park problems. Beginning this month, Dallas’ toniest municipal enclave will begin a crackdown on porta-potties. The problem — if that’s the correct term for it — is that residents and city officials are tired of looking at the garish plastic boxes…
A couple of weeks ago, former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, announced that her husband had something very important to tell all of us on June 4 in Dallas: He’s going to run for president, again. (It was a pre-announcement announcement, not an announcement-announcement. Just try to act surprised…
Rangers prospect Joey Gallo played in his first major league game last night. It went very, very well. Facing the expectations that come with being perhaps the Rangers’ most highly touted minor league hitter ever, the third baseman somehow didn’t disappoint. He knocked in two runs with a single in…
If Dallas was once ashamed of being the city where President John F. Kennedy was murdered, little evidence of that remains in Dealey Plaza today. An “X” on Elm Street, marking the spot where gunshots hit his motorcade, is a popular place for tourists to dare traffic and pose for…
At what Dwaine Caraway said would be his last City Council meeting, the term-limited council member put on a vintage performance, fighting against what’s become the bane of his existence: single-use plastic bags. He lost. Single-use plastic bags will be free again on Monday, but he lost fighting the good…
Now that Texas has passed a law says cities can’t ban fracking, it’s a fitting middle finger to fracking bans that an energy company would get to work in Denton, the city where voters passed the historic regulation that started this all. Vantage Energy resumed drilling in Denton on Monday…
Texas House Bill 225 was not controversial. As written by Rio Grande City state Representative Ryan Guillen, it would have allowed people who call 911 to help a friend who’s overdosed on drugs avoid charges for possessing a small amount of drugs themselves. So-called Good Samaritan provisions already exist in…
In the legislative session that just wrapped up this week, as has become their custom, Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers pushed measures that were variously undemocractic, anti-transparent, reactionary, discriminatory (both anti-gay and anti-Muslim), mind-bogglingly stupidly puritanical, and many otherwise awful and/or pointless pieces of public policy, a few of which they managed to put into law…
Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday whether to replace the nickel charge for disposable grocery bags, which became effective January 1, with an outright ban. “It’s an environmental issue. These bags, because of the physical nature of the bags, they are going to be a permanent litter problem. It doesn’t…
As state lawmakers prepare to leave Austin, political observers are writing off 84th Legislature’s session as a dud, small in deed and ambition. After all, this is a body whose proudest accomplishments are passing tax cuts that will be too small for anyone to notice and letting licensed gun owners carry…
Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that is intended to make cannabis-based oils with low levels of THC legally available to people who suffer from intractable epilepsy.The problem is, no one is likely to be able to get it. State Senator Kevin Eltife announced the plan to legalize…
As is their wont, some open carry activists staged a protest that didn’t make very much sense on Sunday. A version of open carry has passed the Texas Legislature. Governor Greg Abbott has promised to sign it. Many activists are mad because Texas’ new open carry law requires those openly…
Hey, wouldn’t it be great to be able to walk from your apartment to Klyde Warren Park, the hugely successful new deck over a downtown freeway named for a rich kid? You can. Really. Just be rich. But what about this? What if you could get a really nice pretty…
Alamo Manhattan, the Dallas real estate firm that demolished the old Mason Bar in Uptown last year to build apartments, now has its sights set on Oak Cliff. Last week, the company asked City Hall for $11 million in tax incentives to built three five-story buildings in Oak Cliff. The…
