Rich people, we learn time and time again, do not like living near tall buildings or lowlifes who rent their homes, even if those tall buildings are fancy condos, occupied by lowlife renters who are also rich. Of course, the well-to-do usually come up with a better excuse for why…
On Tuesday, the State Board of Education met for the final hearing on the adoption of new social studies textbooks. The board intended to cast the first vote on the textbooks, with the final vote scheduled for Friday. But after hours of impassioned testimony from both the right and the…
The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority has heard your cry, trolley rider for whom 15 minutes is just too long of a wait. The Uptown transportation provider now has a live map showing where each of its vehicles is at any given time. It is exactly what it looks like in…
The results are in from state Representative Rafael Anchia’s survey of Dallas residents’ feelings about the Trinity toll road. They are exactly what you’d expect. Of 1,014 respondents who reported Dallas ZIP codes, only 42 said they supported the toll road, and 955 were against the toll road and. Somewhat…
As we’ve mentioned before, City Manager A.C. Gonzalez’s presentations at the end of City Council briefings are frequently excruciating and uninformative. Tuesday, though, there was an interesting tidbit in the midst of Gonzalez’s promotion of the city’s wellness initiative for city employees. After singling out City Council member Dwaine Caraway’s…
OK, North Texas. Regional transportation planners have heard your shrill, anti-toll battle cry. They know you will not countenance a speculative private toll road that inexplicably runs from Wylie to Greenville. They also know you also hate those new “managed lane” thingies, which essentially charge drivers for using highway space…
A debate that began more than a year ago when City Manager A.C. Gonzalez tried to slip an ordinance that would have banned car services like Uber and Lyft in Dallas will likely end December 10, when the council takes up new regulations for transportation-for-hire businesses. The new regulations that…
Last week, Highland Park ISD released its updated high school reading list. The list provided titles required for in-class reading, optional outside reading and the passive aggressive list of “approved” but not taught in the classroom reading. Students will have to get parental permission to read six books on the…
The Desoto Police Department’s first attempt to run off Sergeant James Henrise came around 1996. Henrise and a fellow cop had come forward with evidence they claimed showed that Chief John Horvath had improperly meddled in a seven-year-old murder investigation and used public funds to finance a family vacation to…
Shortly after midnight on September 2, 2013, Brice Johnson, then 19, began a conversation with Arron Keahey on MeetMe.com, a social-networking platform that would change both of their lives. Over the next few hours, the two men exchanged messages, many of them sexually explicit, before Johnson gave Keahey directions to…
The Low T Center, the growing network of clinics that injects Dallas men with testosterone and whose scientific foundation is a tad shoddy, has won an award for “ingenuity, commitment and character.” SMU’s Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship named it one of the city’s 100 fastest-growing private businesses, quite an…
Like the river its supposed to run beside, everything about the Trinity toll road is murky. It’s hard to know where the funding for the toll road will come from, hard to know what it will look like if it ever gets built and harder still to figure out why…
Well this sucks. As first reported by CBS’ John Heyman Giancarlo Stanton, the Miami Marlins slugger who has long been the dreamiest of all Texas Rangers dream acquisitions, has agreed to a 13-year $325 million contract with the Marlins that will make him the highest paid player in American professional…
It’s been a few months since Clay Jenkins ceremoniously announced that, because rates of unaccompanied immigrant children coming into Texas had ebbed, there was no longer a need for a local shelter. Has the influx remained low? See also: Dallas County Will Not Shelter Thousands of Central American Kids After…
More proof that the white man is under attack: a bunch of local white supremacists are facing criminal charges for allegedly dealing meth in North Texas and beyond. As far as white supremacist drug gangs go, this one appears to be relatively diverse. Some of the people in the meth…
Maybe Mike Cantrell was right. As first reported by The Dallas Morning News late last night, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office is being investigated for the potential improper use of money seized during criminal investigations. Cantrell, the lone Republican on the Dallas County Commissioner’s Court, fought a solo battle…
On Thursday afternoon, a dozen or so journalists stood in an awkward semi-circle near the Women’s Museum at Fair Park, gazing at Dallas’ first bike-share station. They had been promised that Mayor Mike Rawlings would be there at 3:30 p.m. to take the inaugural ride on one of the gleaming…
There is no worse feeling as a DART commuter than seeing your bus pull off seconds before you complete your jaywalk/sprint to the bus stop. The frustration of almost making it is bad enough, the fact that you’ll have to wait a long time — sometimes over an hour –…
Vinita Hegwood, the Duncanville High School English teacher whose profane tweet aimed at “dumb duck ass crackers” went viral on conservative social media, has resigned, she announced Thursday afternoon. Hegwood was suspended without pay in anticipation of her being fired after her Friday night tweet went viral…
At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, a group of Dallas day laborers and representatives from the Workers Defense Project were out in full force to advocate for local workers’ rights. Their appearance yesterday was the latest in a push over the last several months to require Dallas employers to allow water…
If we’ve learned anything this week, it’s that net neutrality is the real enemy. Ted Cruz let us know that it’s Obamacare for the Internet. Rick Perry sent out a press release saying “President Obama’s call to saddle 21st century technology with outdated, unnecessary regulations from the era of the…
In October 2012, Travis County officials promised that bringing video visitation to the local jails wouldn’t affect anything else about jail visits. “We’re not changing anything else from what we’re doing,” Travis County Major Darren Long told the county commissioners before they voted to approve a contract with Securus, the…
