This was, unfortunately, inevitable. James Faulk has decorated his University Park home in the most tasteless way imaginable. It’s got everything. Caution tape, waste disposal barrels, trash bags filled with “biohazards.”…
Marchers, about 50 strong which would grow to a couple hundred, walked from Founder’s Square, down the right lane of Main Street, to Main Street Garden last night in protest of police brutality, which in Dallas and nationwide disproportionately affects blacks. Chants of “indict, convict, put those killer cops in…
Erstwhile billionaire/current Dallasite Sam Wyly has fallen on hard times. The serial entrepreneur, who with his late brother Charles founded Green Mountain Energy and turned Michael’s into a $1.6 billion craft-store empire, was recently dinged for around $300 million for illegally hiding financial transactions in offshore trusts to sidestep U.S…
Slip through the right series of loopholes and it can be perfectly legal to inject benzene into oil wells. Naturally, drillers in Texas figured this out thousands of gallons of benzene ago. Using data disclosed by the oil industry, a new report calculates all the benzene that is legally going…
Right now, as this story is being written, four clinics provide abortions in Dallas: Abortion Advantage, Planned Parenthood, Routh Street Women’s Clinic and Southwest Women’s Surgery Center. Two, Whole Woman’s Health and Planned Parenthood, are open in Fort Worth. But read quickly, because it’s possible some of those will be…
If you’ve read anything about the 2014 Cowboys, here or elsewhere, you’ve seen it repeated multiple times: The Cowboys are off to their best start since 2007. That team, which at 13-3 had the club’s best regular-season record since the Super Bowl-winning 1992 team, is easily forgotten. It faded down…
As hysteria fades, people’s lives are still being affected. Here’s what’s happening: The conditions of the patients Late Tuesday afternoon, Nina Pham was upgraded from fair to good condition by her treatment team at the National Institutes of Health. Amber Vinson is still stable at Emory University Hospital near Atlanta…
On Monday, Governor Rick Perry announced that UT Southwestern Medical Center, Methodist Health System and Parkland Hospital System would be partnering to open a dedicated Ebola treatment center at the Methodist Campus for Continuing Care in Richardson. With Wednesday’s opening, we spoke to residents and workers near the center to…
During a seven-year law enforcement career as a Dallas County deputy constable and Dallas City marshal, Tyler Atkins says he protected the public from fake security guards. “I used to take people to jail who used to run security companies without a license,” he says. But for the past several…
They don’t work. At least not in the way they’re intended to. Study after study shows that red light cameras are, at best, an inefficient revenue generator and, at worst, increase accidents. Dallas’ red light enforcement is especially bad. Because the city signed its contract with Xerox — the company…
On Saturday, the Supreme Court decided to let Texas enforce its strict two-year-old voter ID law, which a district court judge struck down as grossly discriminatory this month, but that ruling was temporarily put on hold by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Got that? No? Then let us…
Luke Crosland stands at the window of his seventh-floor office and looks out across Preston Center. In the foreground, a tangle of luxury SUVs battle for access to a shabby, two-story parking garage that seems to deteriorate before his eyes. The garage is ringed by a jumble of aging retail…
We have an immediate opening for a copy editor. Until we find one, we’ll continue to let commenters correct our terrible spelling and grammar while we try and fail not to get defensive about it. It’s the Observer way…
Stephen Young told you earlier about the latest renderings of plans lakes along the Trinity River near downtown in a post that seemed just a bit doubtful. “Impossible Fever Dream,” he called them. It’s sad, really. Stephen is a young man, and already he expresses such cynicism toward City Hall…
As if the state needed more reason to be ashamed about the 2012 Republican Senate primary — you know, the one that ended with Ted Cruz basically being handed a national platform on a silver platter — Buddy Barfield, longtime top aid to Cruz’s runoff opponent, David Dewhurst, has admitted…
Here’s the good news: Dallas-Fort Worth ozone levels for the first this year dropped below the federal standard of 84 parts per billion. The bad news: the 84-ppb standard the area has just now met for the first time is from 1997. The current standard is 75 ppb, well below…
Dallas has terrible streets. Ask any driver who hasn’t been rendered prematurely senile by the constant jostling over disintegrating pavement or any cyclist who’s survived a run-in with a man-eating pothole. Hell, ask City Hall, which estimates that it will take three-quarters of a billion dollars to get the city’s…
With 17 days until the last person in direct contact with one of Dallas’ three Ebola patients finishes monitoring, here’s the latest: The condition of the patients: Amber Vinson’s mother, Debra Berry, discussed her daughter’s condition on Good Morning America early Tuesday. Mom says Vinson remains weak, but is doing…
Two years ago, when I arrived in the States from the UK, I had a very vague idea of what ice hockey was. I was, though, sure that it was one of the most far-fetched sports out there. While most sports are played on the sort of easily accessible field…
From the beginning, the private toll road that would run parallel to Interstate 30 seemed like a sure thing, no matter how many people who lived in the way who said they didn’t want the road. “I think that maybe the ship has already sailed, and all these meetings out…
We have an immediate opening for a copy editor. Until we find one, we’ll continue to let commenters correct our terrible spelling and grammar while we try and fail not to get defensive about it. It’s the Observer way…
Say what you will about boring stuff like feasibility — as surrealist art the latest renderings of potential park-like amenities between the Trinity River levees are pretty damn amazing. Tragically, the solar-powered water taxis we’ve all grown to love from earlier sales pitches for the Trinity project are gone, but…
