When Mayor Mike Rawlings and sundry other dignitaries gathered in Pleasant Grove last month to unveil the almost-open Texas Horse Park’s enormous new sculpture, there was much self-congratulatory gushing, multiple allusions to an imagined horse/cowboy culture, even a laughable pitch by Councilman Tennell Atkins for the Trinity toll road (“We’ll…
Ted Cruz confirmed what was inevitable early Monday morning on Twitter. The Texas senator, sworn in just 26 months ago, is running for president. I’m running for President and I hope to earn your support! pic.twitter.com/0UTqaIoytP— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2015 Monday morning, Cruz formally confirmed his candidacy at…
Texas High School athletes shouldn’t be tested for steroids any more, the state’s Sunset Commission says, because the state’s “steroid testing program is no longer effective.” Since 2008, the year the program started, it has confirmed 40 positive tests — less than one-half of 1 percent of all students tested…
Since we last left Faux Mayor Mike, his still criminally underfollowed Twitter has more than tripled its constituency. Faux Mike himself has continued to rampage around Dallas’ favorite Internet haunts as well, dropping f-bombs, extolling the virtues of pizza and decrying all the “jihadist anti-toll road goofballs.” Amid the profanity…
Update March 23: Villalba unblocked Rhoads on Saturday and promised her an exclusive after the bill gets its committee hearing on March 26. Jason Villalba’s taken a lot of heat for HB 2918. Some of it’s been deserved — even Villalba himself admitted to The Dallas Morning News that the…
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them with firearms, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. I have given you every ammo-bearing…
A few weeks ago, the skin off the top of a well-trafficked portion of Haskell Avenue in East Dallas suddenly disappeared. It still hasn’t come back. Pictured above is the disfigured Haskell Avenue that has been left behind. When you are driving on thick, fully-paved streets this weekend, don’t forget…
On March 26, the U.S. Department of Labor will change the definition of the word “spouse” as it’s used in the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Any person legally married to another person in any state will become eligible for the spousal benefits provided for in the act. The…
Mayor Mike Rawlings is not happy with Dallas City Council member Scott Griggs. Two weeks ago, in response to a series of pro-Trinity toll road open-microphone speakers, Griggs tore into the road at a council meeting. “This is the worst boondoggle imaginable, and it’s time to get serious about developing…
Fort Worth oil heir Kenneth W. Davis Jr. is 89-years-old but continues to work every day as chairman of the Great Western Drilling Co. Impressive. Not too long ago, Davis decided to try something new: politics. The successful oilman cites unspecified “trouble” as his motivation to become political. “I never…
SMU is out of the NCAA Tournament. After trailing by as many as 10 in the second half, the Ponies led by two in the final minute against UCLA. The Bruins Bryce Alford chucked up an off-balance three that had no chance. As it approached the plane of the front…
In a rather unsurprising turn of events, Dallas’ rich are getting richer while its poor are getting poorer. According to census data crunched by the Brookings Institution this week, the income of the top 5 percent of earners rose by a impressive 12.2 percent between 2012 and 2013, jumping from…
Nothing, it seems, trumps property rights. Not even the God-given right to carry a handgun anywhere you goddamn please that Republicans repeatedly cite. The Texas Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to approve so-called “campus carry” the second piece of major gun legislation the body has given the go-ahead this week. In…
Warrants have been issued for two women running a Deep Ellum black-market butt-injection boutique. They are accused practicing medicine without a license. Denise Ross, known as “Wee Wee,” and Jimmy Joe Clarke, known as “Alicia,” agreed to give a woman her first session of butt-enhancing injections for $520, Dallas Police…
On Tuesday morning last week, while most visitors to Klyde Warren Park were batting oversize foam tennis balls back and forth on the main lawn as part of some U.S. Tennis Association promotion, a handful of anti-circumcision protesters (aka “intactivists”) clustered on the park’s far eastern fringe. Clad in all…
The Dallas Cowboys have signed free agent defensive lineman Greg Hardy to a one-year contract, the team announced on Twitter today. He’s just what the Cowboys need. The 2010 sixth-round pick from Ole Miss is a big, rangy outside speed rusher. He’s tallied 26 sacks in his last two full…
Sure, you know it’s raining and today has a general crapturdness about it, weather-wise. But what does the rest of the week have in store? We’re so glad you asked. We’ve got the best 5-day forecast in Dallas for you, right here. Behold: Your 5-day forecast as Movie Villains…
It’s not about the road. It’s about the park. So says the American Institute of Architects Dallas chapter, which released a statement Wednesday condemning the long-planned, under-funded Trinity toll road. AIA Dallas supports a great Trinity Park as essential to the future health and prosperity of Dallas. Any highway similar…
Five years ago, the trade group representing America’s prison chaplains conducted a survey to find out which state prisons allowed inmates to grow facial hair. The results of the American Correctional Chaplains Association survey were mostly positive for beard-lovers. The majority of prisons allowed facial hair, no religious reason necessary,…
CORRECTION: I mistakenly wrote that James Parker, who filed the ethics complaint against council candidate Sam Merten, said he wasn’t told a hearing on his complaint was scheduled. He was, and the corrected sentence is marked in bold below. The first ethics complaint to make it to a formal hearing…
Yiliana Perez was midway through her shift at the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center when her boyfriend showed up. It was a surprise visit. He had dropped her off at the Greenville Avenue abortion clinic, where she works as a medical assistant, at 6:45 that morning, and he wasn’t scheduled to…
The killer of two Henderson County law enforcement officers will not be executed by Texas as scheduled on Wednesday. Randall Wayne Mays, 55, was set to die by lethal injection before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals gave him a stay of execution, agreeing with Mays’ attorneys that more time…
