The vast majority of the time, Glenn Beck should not be taken seriously. You shouldn’t put all of your savings in gold no matter what the North Texas radio and TV host tells you, and you probably shouldn’t take any of what he says as anything but performance art. In…
President Obama and Governor Perry have been facing weeks of political tension regarding the recent surge in unaccompanied immigrant children fleeing central America and arriving at the Texas border. Although Dallas has made headlines in its promise to shelter many of these kids, it’s an issue that has been attracting…
The prison-based Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is a hierarchical organization, with leaders exerting lots of power over their subordinates. The group breaks the state up into five regions, based on the prison system, and the generals of each region are the top-dog. They appoint two majors, one on the inside…
U.S. Representative Marc Veasey doesn’t have a Republican opponent in Congressional District 33, which is made up of gerrymandered swaths of Oak Cliff, Irving and Tarrant County. That doesn’t mean he’s running unopposed, just that his sole challenger happens to be Jason Reeves, a California-born Libertarian whose most recent political…
East Village Association, a group representing residents who live near the proposed East Village development, has filed a request for a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction against the city of Dallas and the Plan Commission to block a zoning change that would allow construction of a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s…
OK, so we’re a day too late on this latest effort to bolster local tourism. DART announced today that the highly anticipated DFW station would be opening four months ahead of schedule. With an originally scheduled opening in December, the date has been pushed up to August 18. Oh, and…
If you’ve been trolling Reddit anytime in the last week, you may have seen this article from June 2, 1968, in which Jack Davis, an engineer and manager for the Texas Turnpike Authority, was quoted in The Dallas Morning News. He spoke about the fledgling Dallas North Tollway project, just…
The conventional wisdom at the moment is that when Tesla Motors gets around to announcing details of its highly coveted, $5 billion battery gigafactory — the type of economic development that gives red-state governors with ill-concealed presidential aspirations wet dreams — it will land in one of two places: Reno…
Terrorists like acetone peroxide because it’s the rare explosive that doesn’t contain nitrogen, the key ingredients bomb detectors search for. It’s also cheap, easy to make at home and so unstable that sometimes people accidentally blow themselves up when they’re still putting their bombs together. As a British newspaper reported…
Michael O’Connor used Motherless.com much like other people use Facebook. He set up a profile, messaged other users and uploaded pictures. The pictures, though, were not of him. In May, O’Connor came across a profile he liked. It was of a 31-year-old woman who listed her interests as incest and…
The roof of my car has sprung a leak in the middle of a tropical rainstorm, and the backseat is rapidly flooding. I’d pull over, but I’ve been stuck on an under-construction highway for the last half hour, and time is slipping away. We’re two weeks into the World Cup…
It’s not every Tuesday that you see reporters from three Dallas TV stations live tweeting a Dallas County Commissioners’ meeting, but that’s just what happened today. Why the hubbub? This meeting was a de facto public hearing on County Judge Clay Jenkins’ plan to house up to 2,000 undocumented minors…
The Dallas Morning Newsbroke the news over the weekend that the state of Texas is planning to kill off its least popular specialty license plates, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Not because we take perverse pleasure in the notion that Highland Park ISD could only find 66 drivers to…
GOP leadership has officially announced that exotic, exciting Cleveland will be hosting the RNC convention in 2016. The final announcement has come after weeks of teasers. Last month, the RNC selection committee narrowed the convention site shortlist to four cities. Then, last week, they announced that Kansas City and Denver…
Late last month, local media buzzed with the news that our very own Prince Fielder, the hulking, injured, $168 million albatross currently not playing first base for the Rangers, would be making an appearance in ESPN the Magazine. Naked. Because why the hell not? See also: Prince Fielder to Appear…
The money was stashed in a secret compartment in her car door. Silvia Flores, a middle-aged woman, was on the Gateway of the Americas Bridge, trying to cross from Laredo into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She was stopped, and in her secret compartment was more than $100,000. The 2009 incident didn’t…
Between the excitement surrounding high school graduation and the ensuing laziness of the summer months, it’s not uncommon for many college-bound students to flame out. In particular, first generation college students have trouble following through with their fall university plans in the summer months after high school graduation. It’s a…
If you think Texas’ highways are too beautiful to sully with cheap, unpermitted signs, you’re not alone. Under the Highway Beautification Transportation Code, the Texas Department of Transportation has some very strict, un-Texas-like regulations dictating the types of signs people can display. First, for what is allowed: businesses along highways…
It’s an oft-repeated pattern in families of diverse nationalities and cultures: A family member goes to the United States to work and person sends money back to relatives in their home country. Repeat until further notice. This is a way of life that could soon come to a screeching halt,…
By now, you must have heard about the new virus — the one that gets passed by mosquitoes that bite during the day — that could potentially come to Texas. Well, there’s nothing potential about it anymore. The first Texas case has been confirmed by the Department of State Health…
You don’t get to be a billionaire — or OK, now just a high multi-millionaire — by letting people skate on debts. Our favorite local college football fan, YMCA patron and wind energy enthusiast is no exception. Last summer, T. Boone Pickens sued William Franke, founder of Swift Boat Veterans…
Wendy Davis’ 11th-hour filibuster in June 2013 didn’t ultimately stop the Texas Legislature from passing some of the country’s most sweeping abortion restrictions, nor did it stop abortion clinics across the state from shutting their doors when they couldn’t meet the stringent new standards or obtain the newly required admitting…
