Pay No Mind to That Flaming Airbus A380 at DFW Airport. It’s Only a Drill.
Drivers traveling past DFW Airport today may have noticed the cloud of black smoke rising into the air. This guy did, at least:…
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Showing 12189 - 12210 of 35753All Sides Are Pissed at City Council as Fracking Debate Comes to a Head
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the Morning News’ Randy Lee Loftis posed a question we’d been wondering about ourselves: Just what the hell happened to that fracking ordinance the City Council was supposed to pass, the one that would finally and completely resolve all those unanswered questions about gas drilling within the…
Faking Car Accidents Not A Great Business Model, Will Get You Sent To Prison, Fort Worth Family Learns
There must be easier ways to make a living than faking car accidents and submitting false insurance claims for those fake car accidents. It also sounds like a ton of work to set up fake chiropractic clinics to generate fraudulent medical records and bills to submit with those fake insurance…
Glenn Beck is Outraged that eBay Pulled His Masterwork, “Obama in Pee Pee” [Updated]
We generally don’t actively want to write about Glenn Beck, for more or less the same reasons we don’t go around touching other people’s cold sores. But sometimes, up there in his Southlake media fortress, the man does things that put us in the sad position of feeling obliged to…
Jon Stewart on What Really Killed the Twinkie
The Daily Show with Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cThe Employees Strike Back – Twinkie’s Endwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart took on Hostess, finally providing the definitive postmortem on what caused the snack maker’s…
Dallas ISD and Race to the Top: Everything You Need to Know* About That $40 Million
There has been a lot of ink devoted over the past few days to Dallas ISD being named a finalist for $40 million in federal Race to the Top funds, which built to a crescendo yesterday when Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to town. That all sounds fantastic, but what…
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The Ballad of Lucille Baller: The Bizarre Second Life of a Dallas Police Officer Turned Rapper
The Morning News’ Tanya Eiserer and WFAA’s Rebecca Lopez teamed up last night for what has to be one of the more bizarre stories to emerge from the Dallas Police Department in recent years. Their reports revealed that Regina Smith, a DPD lieutenant in charge of burglary and theft detectives…
2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell Wants the Media to Lay Off Deion Sanders and Prime Prep
Luther Campbell’s days as a member of 2 Live Crew, cutting wildly misogynistic tracks that shocked and appalled Tipper Gore and led to a famous Supreme Court victory for free speech, are behind him. He’s a father now, married to a lawyer, and he has a respectable job as a…
Five Years Ago, a Dallas Compounding Pharmacy’s Mistake Killed Three People. Now, They Get a Slap on the Wrist
On March 30, 2007, 57-year-old Margrit Long went to the Center for Integrative Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She was given an intravenous dose of colchicine, a drug developed to treat gout but commonly prescribed, as in Long’s case, to treat neck and back pain. She’d been receiving the treatment for…
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America’s Second Richest City Is … Midland?
Writing in the Atlantic today, Derek Thompson reports from recently released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis that Midland — not Washington, D.C. or San Francisco, but a 110,000-person speck of dust out in West Texas — is the country’s second richest city, per capita. It might well be…
TxDOT Wondering What to Do With Bridge Between I-30 and Woodall Rodgers. (Hint: They’re Not Going to Tear It Down)
It’s officially called the IH 345 overhead freeway bridge, but you probably know it better as the clusterfuck between Woodall Rodgers and Interstate 30 which, even when there’s relatively little traffic, is a nightmare to navigate. It’s also structurally deficient, which is a civil engineer’s way of saying it’s not…
Texas Railroad Commission Still Needs to Work on Holding Oil and Gas Producers Accountable
Once again, the Railroad Commission of Texas’ raison d’être has been evaluated by a commission comprising state legislators and two regular citizens. Once again, it was given a reprieve from being abolished, given the gang-busting pace of oil and gas development over the last several years. But not without a…
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More Americans Are Moving to Dallas and its ‘Burbs than Anywhere Else
It’s hard not to note the triumphant tone in Joel Kotkin’s piece in Forbes today on where Americans are moving. Kotkin, a scholar and pundit on urban issues, has some skin in the game, having just published a book that predicts that population growth over the next several decades will…
Race for Angela Hunt’s Council Seat Heats Up With Entry of Plan Commissioner Bobby Abtahi
Angela Hunt, the term-limited City Council member representing District 14, has already made it pretty clear whom she favors as her successor. That would be Philip Kingston, a Dallas attorney who entered the race last month and whose campaign treasurer is Paul Sims, aka Mr. Angela Hunt. If you still…
Legislators Begin Push to Legalize Gambling in Texas
We’ve officially known it was coming for a couple of months now, and we’ve assumed as much since forever, but yesterday marked the first official volley in the biennial battle to legalize gambling in Texas. State Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, filed a resolution yesterday that proposes a constitutional amendment –…
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Environmentalists Say Dallas County is Plotting a “Mosquito District” for Pre-emptive Spraying
Something a little bizarre going down this morning at Dallas County Commissioners Court. Or not. A number of people are supposed to show up at this morning’s commissioners meeting to speak against a move by the county to create a mosquito district. Only there is no move to create a…
State Rep Wants to Ban Soda in Public Schools. For Real This Time.
In 2003, the state of Texas took a halfhearted swing at skyrocketing childhood obesity rates when it took steps to ban the sale of soda and candy — though only in elementary schools and only during breakfast and lunch. Those rules were strengthened in 2009, but middle and high school…
Coming Soon to the Old Dallas Plaza Hotel on Akard: a Holiday Inn & Suites
The future seemed bright for the Dallas Plaza Hotel in 2006. Developer Larry Hamilton, fresh off a slew of successful downtown redevelopment projects, had just purchased the seedy, 12-story complex on Akard Street just across Interstate 30 from City Hall with plans to turn it into a boutique hotel. Construction…
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Writer Loses CultureMap Gig After Blasting Highland Park “Rape Apology”
Pop culture and music writer Dan Solomon, who until recently contributed to CultureMap’s Austin and Houston sites, says his byline is no longer welcome at the digital-media venture. Apparently, corporate didn’t take too kindly to this post on his personal blog, critical of CultureMap Dallas managing editor Claire St. Amant’s…
We Just Made Our Commenting System Even More Awesome Than it Totally Was
It’s safe to say that Livefyre, that fancy new commenting system we rolled out four months ago, has been an unqualified success. Sure, there were some technical hiccups at the beginning and some ongoing cries of anguish from the comment section, but what you haven’t seen are the mountains of…
Mark Cuban Doesn’t Think NBA Should Be Endorsing Power Balance Bracelet Scam
In February, a ginger-haired young man named Ryan Naylor went on the reality show Shark Tank to pitch his business idea: a watch line that Naylor claimed looked great and improved health and balance using “negative ion technology.” Neither of those claims was true. The watches are hideous, basically DayGlo…
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Texans Stockpiling Guns Post-Election Aren’t All Political Nuts. Some Just Worry It’s the End Times.
Even after a gunman slaughtered a dozen moviegoers and injured scores more this summer in Aurora, Colorado, President Obama was careful not to utter anything that could be construed as anti-gun. He merely alluded, vaguely, to a need to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. His reluctance to…