Greg Abbott debuted his first general election campaign ad Tuesday, bucking his party’s recent trend by at least attempting to appeal to Hispanic voters. The ad, which can be seen in full below and features Abbott’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law, was aired on Univision during Mexico and Brazil’s 0-0 World Cup…
When you buy a house, there are several factors to consider, like lot size, crime rates, and proximity to good schools and/or a decent bar or two. And, of course, whether or not your new home is within the blast zone of any explosive chemical plants. That last factor is…
At the only Dallas-specific session of the three-day New Cities Summit being held at the Winspear this week, a panel highlighted by Police Chief David Brown, former Dallas City Council Member Veletta Lill and former Dallas Assistant City Manager Ramon Miguez discussed living in and developing a transitioning city. Well,…
A few months ago, just south of the Texas-Mexico border, a 17-year-old girl was cautiously making her way to the Rio Grande river and the American desert beyond. In her arms she carried her 1-year-old daughter. The two made it across, but, like most of the South American women and…
We should probably be used to it by now. Governor Rick Perry went on CNBC earlier this week and said something that, were it to have come from anyone else, would’ve been stunning for its intellectual dishonesty. In the midst of an interview, which you can see in full below,…
In December 2003, across the street from London’s Tate Britain museum, artist Monica Bonvicini debuted her latest installation. Titled “Don’t Miss a Sec,” it was a public toilet inside a cube of one-way mirrors. The bathroom user could gaze out upon the passing museum goers and see the construction workers…
On Saturday, when the other, more ordinary candidates for the Texas House of Representatives were probably making campaign calls or hanging out with their lame families, Arlington Republican Tony Tinderholt appeared to be on a bolder mission. Dressed in camouflage gear, Tinderholt posed for three photographs posted to Facebook Saturday…
In a dark basement at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, just north of downtown, sits a small, continually refreshed stockpile of radioactive waste that awaits disposal. After it leaves Southwestern, it is taken out to the tiny town of Andrews, where it is promptly added to the only…
The National Weather Service and International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University announced Friday that the groups were bumping their estimation of the likelihood of a summer El Niño this year to 70 percent. Depending on where you get your online news, this was either potentially fantastic…
Between 1 and 7 p.m. today, you can be picked up by Optimus Prime. More or less. Less, mostly. But more than usual, definitely. As part of the promotion for the fourth installment in Michael Bay’s Transformers series, the flame-specked semi is roaming Dallas…
It started out, according to court documents, on the up and up. Bradley Ward, owner of The Lone Star Shipping Company, agreed with FedEx to become an Authorized Shipping Center for the freight company. In exchange Lone Star received deep discounts on FedEx services and signage to put in front…
Last month, after police found a dog dead from a gunshot to the back of the head and abandoned in a cage with her 10 living, still-nursing puppies, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler gave a general assessment of what went wrong : “We have a people problem,” he said in…
The Associated Press is reporting the end of Dallas’ nascent and somewhat quixotic bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. According to someone briefed on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision making process, the committee has selected Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington to further compete to represent the United…
It’s never been a better time to get busted in Dallas, at least for inmates Willie Brown, James Langley and Jose Morquecho, who were each politely escorted out of the county jail on Thursday and set free thanks to an error caused by officers’ unfamiliarity with a new computer system…
The Dallas County Health and Human Services Department has had a rough week. First, the state cracked down on the department for allegedly falsifying county STI records. The manager of HIV-STI division, Lashonda Worthey, has been fired, and the Texas Department of State Health Services is set to launch a…
The worst-paid workers at Dallas County’s Parkland Hospital make $8.78 an hour, a buck and change more than the federal rate of $7.25. But that’s still not enough to live, hospital officials said this week, so they recommended increasing the base salary of entry-level positions to $10.25 an hour. If…
If nothing else, Rick Perry deserves points for hubris. In California to stump up business for Texas — including a proposed factory to build batteries for Teslas — the governor responded to questions about the Texas GOP platform’s endorsement of dangerous reparative therapy for LGBTQ individuals by comparing homosexuality to…
Chivalry, you’ll be happy to learn, isn’t dead. Almost, maybe, but it still burns on in the heart of former Dallas police officer Michael Mosher. Mosher was one of seven officers who responded to a report of three potentially suspicious young men walking through an alley in the 6600 block…
If you watched the local news at all over the last week, you must have seen the breathless, helicopter-aided reports of the $700,000 luxury home falling bit by bit down a 75-foot cliff into Lake Whitney. According to those news reports, the home’s Florida-based owners first reported a fault line…
There are a few things you never, ever, want to hear a doctor say. Like “uh-oh.” Or “oops.” Lucky for Glenn Hermes, he was far away from the operating table when his doctors had their “oops” moment. In December 2012, Hermes first visited the doctor for an odd growth on…
How many times in college did you call your parents in a panic because you found out you needed a graphing calculator the day before your math final? Or bombed an exam and called your mom to gripe? Or brought a bag full of laundry home for Christmas break? For…
Toni Gallego knew what she was going to get her granddaughter for her birthday. She knew the store where she was going to get it, too. She shopped at Target all the time, buying formula and diapers. Then she saw the picture: long, black rifles in the big box store’s…
