The residents of the Dallas West Mobile Home Park on Commerce Street probably should have seen the writing on the wall almost a decade ago, when the Dallas City Council rezoned the property and turned their trailers and RVs into “non-conforming uses.” If not then, when the Oak Cliff hipsters…
A half hour south of Fort Worth and a couple of miles down a narrow Farm-to-Market road near Alvarado, you’ll find the Turkey Creek Bar & Grill. It’s an easy-going place with a dirt parking lot, corrugated roof and a generous front porch. You could almost call it a honky-tonk,…
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comLast May, after conquering Central Expressway by stopping traffic and graffitiing the pavement as an inexplicable memorial to a fallen comrade, stunt bikers planned to do much the same to the newly opened Calatrava. But a heavy — and heavy-handed — police presence derailed those plans. Really,…
It’s an urge that all but the most upright among us have fought at one time or another. The unoccupied snack-cake delivery truck idling in front of the store, its unprotected cargo beckoning. Surely no one would miss a box or two, you tell yourself before dismissing the thought, deciding…
Back in March, the operators of Klyde Warren Park surprised neighbors by passing the hat and asking for a modest contribution to keep downtown’s newest jewel clean and running smoothly. And it was modest. The public improvement district they wanted to create would levy a tax of two-and-a-half cents for…
The debate over Joshua ISD’s decision last week to cut the mic on valedictorian Remington Reimer’s graduation speech probably should have died by now. The oft-repeated claim that he was silenced for talking about God is belied by, among other things, the lengthy, overtly Christian prayer that closed the ceremony…
A bigwig at NRG, Texas’ second-most prolific electricity generator, took to the editorial page of the Houston Chronicle the other day, and the result was remarkable — a tacit admission from one of the sector’s biggest players that deregulation simply does not work. As we noted recently, Texas’ power grid…
Update: Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson agrees. Original post: There were a lot of surprising details that emerged as the feds were filing criminal charges against Arlington police officer Thomas Kantzos. There was the casual way Kantzos tipped off his steroid dealer, scuttling another agency’s investigation, and the detail about…
It’s a cute idea, really. A couple of dozen Democratic lawmakers enter to protest looming cuts to the food stamp program by going to the grocery store, elbow-to-elbow with real Americans, and spending $30 for a week’s worth of food. Not only will it shame Republicans into eliminating cuts to…
There was a time, about a century ago, when prostitution was perfectly legal in Dallas at least so long as it took place in Frogtown, the city’s official red-light district. It was a decidedly pragmatic way of dealing with the world’s oldest profession, but it wouldn’t last. The state’s Supreme…
Officials at the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, which owns the Arts District’s shiniest building, Museum Tower, have loudly announced that they have a solution to their glare problem, the one muddying their neighborly relations with the Nasher Sculpture Center next door. They want the Nasher to fix their…
Republican Congressman Ralph Hall of Rockwall isn’t the most virulently homophobic member of Congress, but he’s not exactly waving a rainbow flag either. On his website, he boasts of his support for “traditional family values,” which he has expressed by decrying the decision to lift the military’s ban on openly…
It’s no secret that North Texas is lusting after Oklahoma’s water. Here we are struggling to quench a thirsty and growing population, while our neighbor to the north hogs its bountiful supply of H2O, which is roughly 10 times its projected need. The Tarrant Regional Water District made the first…
Fernando Garcia was after gas, not sex, when he pulled his Ford pickup into to the Exxon station at Laureland Road and Interstate 35 on Wednedsay afternoon. Nor was he aiming to get laid when he was approached by a youngish, blond woman asking for a ride. The 61-year-old told…
USA Today, of course, broke the news this morning: Gannett Co., the newspaper’s parent, is acquiring Dallas’ Belo Corp for $1.5 billion: Gannett will acquire all outstanding shares of Belo for $13.75 per share in cash, or approximately $1.5 billion, plus assume $715 million in existing debt for an enterprise…
Human sexuality is a complex beast, its expression influenced by an intricate tangle of psychology, biology, emotion and social norms, all tempered by personal experience. Sexual behavior is certainly much too complicated to be boiled down to a single factor. Unless you’re a college-age girl whose father wasn’t around when…
Jan Daniels was at home at 9:40 this morning, but she wasn’t opening the door. She lives in a quiet and generally crime-free neighborhood of winding streets off Preston and Keller Springs in Far North Dallas, but she didn’t recognize the three men at her door. So, the 60-year-old stood…
A new report put out by the research advocacy group Children At Risk has compiled statistics to show that hundreds of thousands of North Texas children are living in poverty and facing food insecurity. The Future of North Texas’ Children examines 10 topics affecting North Texas children, including poverty, hunger,…
The news hit the Arlington Police Department like a ton of bricks: On Tuesday afternoon, a three-year veteran named Danial Vo shot and killed himself in the woods near his home on Tuesday. Some time earlier a fellow officer, Thomas Kantzos, had been arrested by the FBI. Both were the…
LGBT activists and allies showed up early at City Hall this morning, all wearing red. One by one, they stepped to the microphone and chastised the Dallas City Council for its epic wuss-out on a marriage and workplace equality resolution. “Leadership requires action, not just words,” said Resource Center Dallas’…
Remember how Governor Rick Perry called a special session to talk about redistricting? And remember how sophisticated political observers (i.e. everyone with eyes and a functioning brain) predicted that the special session would soon turn into a huge, nasty dogfight about abortion? Yeah, that’s happening. On Tuesday, Perry added “legislation…
Dallas County established its truancy courts a decade ago with the hope that a specialized judicial system would better address the root causes of chronic absenteeism (mental health problems, family issues, etc.) than school discipline or adult courts. County Judge Clay Jenkins has declared the program a success, saying they…
