For the last month, Dallas has been buzzing with plans to temporarily shelter thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children. Some 60,000 kids are expected to flow into the United States this year, and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins’ hotly debated plan would have provided temporary relief for stressed border resources, in…
On Thursday, the city of Dallas’ Fair Housing Office released a presentation outlining its specific policies regarding dress codes and other means of potential discrimination at bars, restaurants and other public accommodations. There’s nothing new in the guidelines, which were seemingly reiterated in response to the multiple charges of racism…
A state study released yesterday found that from 2002 to 2011, the female breast cancer rate for Flower Mound residents was significantly higher than surrounding areas.Even better? Officials have no idea why. Last April, after allegations of a faulty previous study, the Department of State Health Services agreed to conduct…
The Oakglen Apartments are, for lack of a better term, a craphole. Long-abandoned with boarded-up windows and, unless City Hall made good on its promise to mow the city-owned property on Wednesday after WFAA ran a story about neighbors’ complaints, completely choked with brush and weeds. It’s not supposed to…
The first sight at the Dallas Animal Services shelter is a group of kittens tumbling on each other as they play in a plate glass cage. Beyond that, and closest to the entrance, are the young, healthy, friendly, especially cute and wide-eyed cats and dogs. Parents with young kids peruse…
It was like landing on the moon. The thought ricocheted through Joleena Malugani’s mind as she took in the vast, dusty expanse of the corner of West Texas claimed by Midland and Odessa. Malugani was fresh out of college when she came across an Ector County Independent School District booth…
We’ve written elsewhere about what transpired at the Cotton Bowl last night. In short, at some point during a pre-season exhibition game that was charging $50 a head and up, one fan decided to charge the pitch. This happens a lot in sporting events around the world. People run onto…
We’d be remiss if we didn’t start this post by saying that Unfair Park is not an entomologist. Not even close. That being said, looking at the address of locations being sprayed to combat West Nile, we think we’ve noticed a pattern. Mosquito control measures this year had focused on…
The Cotton Bowl was filled with 57,000-plus soccer fans last night, there to see some of the world’s greatest footballers do some very mediocre footballing. It was slow and scoreless for the first hour or so, until Roma’s Francesco Totti scored at the 58-minute mark. Fans were irritated and bored…
Armed with at least his Infowars.com press pass and his smartphone camera, Frisco resident Brett Sanders is staging a one-man crusade for the Bill of Rights. For each of the last three Fridays, Sanders, who says he is also involved in the Open Carry movement, has filmed a different entity…
In the year-plus since the West fertilizer plant explosion, the tragedy has made its way to where it was always destined: the courts. Around 200 plaintiffs, mostly people who had family members killed or property destroyed, have filed suits. El Dorado Chemical Company and CF Industries are two fertilizer suppliers…
It’s perfectly legal to film people who don’t want to be filmed as long as it’s all happening in public. If you’re trying to provoke an asshole into kicking your ass without breaking the law yourself, getting a camera and the courage to overzealously use it may just be your…
Local protests have increased in recent weeks against the expected influx of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children, part of an unprecedented surge of kids fleeing poverty and violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. As resources are stretched at the border, at Lackland Air Force base and other shelters,…
If there’s one thing Unfair Park has taken away from the high-stakes civic lesson that’s been the Cityplace Sam’s Club case thus far, it’s this: The notices sent to homeowners telling them about proposed zoning changes in their neighborhoods are terrible. The notices are meant to let people who own…
The regulations the Dallas City Council might eventually maybe get around to putting on Uber, Lyft, and the like could include a provision requiring a certain portion of their fleets to be handicapped-accessible. But there are already laws in place requiring transportation providers to accommodate passengers with disabilities: the federal…
After the conclusion of arguments that started Friday morning, District Judge Phyllis Lister Brown ruled against a neighborhood group seeking a temporary injunction aimed at stopping construction of a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club store near the intersection of Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75. The decision means the city can issue building…
Spencer Noon thinks bitcoin is going to change the world. The cryptocurrency — currently worth about $575 per unit — was created as an anonymous, digital means to provide verifiable online transactions outside the realms of governments and regulations. Despite high profile setbacks like the Mt. Gox disaster, in which…
Sarah Buchanan’s mother grizzly was showing. On her Highland Park block, in which the large branches of trees provided some relief from the 100-degree day, her son and his friends had set up a lemonade stand in front of her house. Two doors down was the home of Judge Clay…
Last month, Dallas Independent School District held its annual job fair to fill roughly 2,000 open positions for the 2014-2015 school year. The fair at Conrad High School was stuffed to the brim with eager college graduates, jaded career changers and Dallas newcomers. By mid-morning nearly half the positions had…
That was a crap weekend, wasn’t it? Well it was if, unlike me, you went outside at all. The outside is over for all of us until Texas bucks its ideas up. Guess what though? Texas is about to buck its ideas up…
We know the real estate industry is doing well in North Texas because we keep getting stuck in traffic at huge construction sites. If you have an idea for a weird new thing you’d like to be built in Dallas, local Realtors are a good, powerful group to get on…
The second act of the East Village Association’s battle to reset the clock on a zoning change that would allow Trammell Crow to build a proposed 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club near Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75 will not be resolved until at least Monday afternoon, after Judge Phyllis Lister Brown was…
