Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is going to be like the weather, apparently. We know it’s coming, so we might as well relax and enjoy it. Perry’s PAC, RickPac, announced a list of major donors Thursday, calling the group its “advisory board.” “I am grateful and humbled to have the support…
Texas Central High-Speed Railway, the private company backing high-speed rail that, potentially, would provide service from DFW to Houston in 90 minutes, announced two preferred sites for its Dallas hub as well as a development partnership Friday morning. The preferred station sites, part of a list of seven submitted to…
First there was the heavy smoke that enveloped the City Council campaign of Adam McGough, Mike Rawlings former chief of staff. Now, a $10,000 contribution given from the mayor’s campaign fund to another former staffer running for council, Sam Merten, is raising questions. See also: Dallas City Council Candidate Answers…
Twitter has informed Unfair Park that today is National Weather Person day. In deference to local weather god Pete Delkus, we’re celebrating by remembering a year ago tomorrow, when we all laughed at a storm shaped like a dick. Total snow for DFW still expected around 1″. Snow is light/fluffy…
It may have cost a cool $1 million, but Dallas’ city website, which has looked like a throwback to the Geocities era since, well, the Geocities era, is finally going live with a much needed update on Friday. According to city spokeswoman Sana Syed, the site will be everything the…
We won’t say the Centerpoint Apartments on Frankford Road is one of the sleaziest apartment complexes in Dallas, because last time we checked the business had filed at least 700 lawsuits against its former tenants. The 700 suits don’t include regular evictions, but instead are for offenses such as excessive…
Rabbi Yaakov Rich wasn’t trying to initiate a battle for religious liberty when he moved his living-room synagogue into the Highlands of McKamy neighborhood in Far North Dallas; he was simply trying to fulfill the spiritual needs of his tiny flock while keeping them from having to walk a half-marathon…
Kory Watkins, leader of the ammosexual group Open Carry Tarrant County, posted a video with a distinct Colonel Kurtz vibe to his Facebook page this morning. Pretty quickly, he took it down. Here’s what he said: This morning I removed a video from my Facebook because I thought there were…
For the second time in less than six months, Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle has gotten in trouble with police. Randle was cited by Wichita, Kansas, officers after they found marijuana in Randle’s downtown Wichita hotel room. The reason police were called to the hotel room is less innocuous…
As the vaccine “debate” has gained speed in the aftermath of a measles outbreak centered on Disneyland in California, reaction from the libertarian right has been fascinating. Senator Rand Paul stuttered something about vaccines needing to be voluntary and walked up to the thoroughly debunked “vaccines can cause mental disorders”…
BY CHRIS PARKER A healthy lung lives in a bottle at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. It’s the rather extraordinary brainchild of Dr. Joan Nichols, who accomplished the bioengineering feat without any grants because everyone doubted it could be done. Nichols is the associate director of research…
Texas lawmakers are trying to strip Planned Parenthood clinics of funding that goes to breast and cervical cancer screenings for poor women because, as always, abortion. Not that a dime of taxpayer money ever — ever — pays for abortions at Planned Parenthood or anywhere else. But this is Texas,…
“City loses historic tree at White Rock Lake Park,” that’s the headline on a statement sent out by the city regarding the loss of the biggest black willow tree in Texas, which, until January 30, had lived at White Rock Lake for more than 170 years. You’d think, reading that,…
The fallout that’s come from state lawmakers Kevin Eltife’s and Stephanie Klick’s introduction of legislation that would legalize low-THC cannabis oil for use by Texans with intractable epilepsy is a prime example of what happens when you fight the symptom rather than the disease. The two Republicans’ bills are tailored…
In the lobby of the Longview Police Department station nearly two weeks ago, police fired their guns five times at a mentally ill teenager named Kristiana Coignard, killing her. In her final moments, Coignard was cornered by three armed officers. Why couldn’t they subdue her without killing her? The Longview…
If you were going to buy steroids online, Trusted Anabolic Solutions seems like a pretty good bet. According to online reviews, TAS offered a good product, discreet packaging, and fantastic customer service from someone going by “Big H.” Then, a few weeks ago, something went awry. On Muscle Gurus, jilted…
Another train line through a bottlenecked downtown. Increasing bus and train frequency, even a little. Late-night service, even if it’s just on the weekends. These are the things DART riders want, at least according to the long-term survey the agency has commissioned as it plans the next decade. Those things…
It’s hard to understand how the city of Dallas’ mandating 10 minute rest breaks every four hours for construction workers could be controversial. As City Council member Dwaine Caraway put it in December, all the workers are asking for is a break. Nevertheless, Jerry Allen, Rick Callahan and especially Lee…
Finally getting what Austinites have enjoyed for a while now, people looking for parking in the city of Dallas can get real-time data about prices, what spaces are available and even, depending on the space they want to park in, reserve it in advance. The city manager’s office, as it…
Punxsutawney Phil (whose full name, for the record, is Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary) has been predicting the weather since Groundhog Day began in 1886. His predictions are simple and straightforward: It’s either six more weeks of winter, or we’re…
On Wednesday morning Connor, my 5-year-old, shot up in bed with panic on his face. DID THEY ALREADY BLOW UP THE BUILDING? He’d been wanting to know this since the previous weekend when, as we drove past the hollowed-out skeleton of the ACS building on Central Expressway, I told him…
Last week, Mayor Mike Rawlings’ former chief of staff Adam McGough officially announced that he’s running for the Lake Highlands District 10 City Council seat soon to be vacated by Jerry Allen. Almost immediately, murmurs began on social media about the fact that, at least until recently, McGough’s two school-aged…
