Jonny Holden would need his sister always, even at the moment he was born in a Houston hospital when she was only 11. His translucent newborn’s skin glowed a livid red. His tiny legs worked spasmodically. His body recoiled as his blood metabolized the last of the opiates he had…
A few months ago, Joan Walne, chair of the city’s Park and Recreation Board, sent a letter to the City Council to let them know that the board was not happy with a rock crushing plant right across the street from the $38 million Elm Fork Soccer Complex, which is…
Anybody who is at all familiar with the Texas Railroad Commission won’t be surprised to learn that the almighty oil and gas regulator isn’t exactly aggressive in its enforcement of the rules. The highly political commission’s contradictory charges are to promote oil and gas development while holding the developers accountable…
The Cowboys nabbed Martellus Bennett in the second round of the 2008 draft with hopes that the 6-foot-6 tight end would be good to have on the other side of the formation from Pro Bowler Jason Witten. That never really came to pass, and Bennett was written off as a…
The record-breaking drought that Texas endured in 2011 wasn’t good for much of anything. Farmers and ranchers suffered, as did the people in towns whose water supplies ran dry. And let’s not forget the owners of lakefront property whose lots fronted an empty stretches of parched earth. See also: A…
Since @barackobama has forgotten how much he’s added to national debt #ForAll our kids to pay off… twitter.com/GovernorPerry/…— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 20, 2012 Rick Perry is so good at Twitter. A few days ago, he posted the gem above, complete with that extremely OG photo. Seems pretty clear, right?…
Via Over at Mavs Moneyball, Andrew Tobolowsky (who, in the interest of full disclosure, I routinely destroyed during pickup basketball when we were at Richardson High) stumbled upon something of a mystery yesterday. The Mavericks, it seems, have set up a bare-bones web page with a floating Dirk bobblehead and…
Joel Schulman is not on the North Texas Tollway Authority’s list of top toll scofflaws. In fact, he lives in Bossier City, Louisiana, three hours east of the nearest NTTA-controlled roadway. That hasn’t stopped the agency from sending notice after notice demanding payment for tolls racked up by a certain…
We haven’t checked in on our favorite congressman, Representative Ralph Hall (R-Antediluvian Era) lately. Not since he dove from a functioning aircraft dressed in nothing but a form-fitting American flag. Turns out, he’s been rummaging through a dusty, cobwebbed steamer trunk stuffed with contraceptives and religious freedom, the war on…
Today, in case you haven’t been on Twitter, is National Voter Registration Day, in which volunteers around the country hit the streets and Internet to get people signed up to vote in November. It’s an admirable effort, particularly seeing as, per organizers, more than 6 million people didn’t vote last…
At first blush, it would appear that Playboy’s annual ranking of the country’s best party schools is completely arbitrary. How else to explain the appearance of the University of Western Ontario in last year’s top 10 or Plymouth State the year before? But no, this is science. “Our methodology?” Playboy…
The Dallas Independent School District has been wrestling with how best to evaluate its teachers for going on forever. In August of 2011, the district unveiled a plan to develop an evaluation system, a lengthy, three-committee process that would take until 2014 to implement. That’s right: just creating the evaluation…
The first time I saw Mayor Mike Rawlings deliver a prepared speech, he talked about changing the culture of southern Dallas by shooting it with bullets of economic development, so I had high hopes for his lunchtime state of the city address today at the Sheraton downtown. Other than some…
It’s been almost two weeks since law enforcement swept into a Dallas apartment and arrested Barrett Brown, frontman for that merry band of hackers at Anonymous, for threatening an FBI agent on YouTube. Brown was taken briefly to Dallas County Jail before being released to the FBI and reportedly sent…
If you’ve been up that ways in the past year, you might have noticed that they’re doing some work on LBJ. But, as the video above tells you, it’s not just any old work. They’re transforming the tired old freeway into the LBJ Express, by which they mean they’re adding…
In 1997, Dave & Buster’s seemed like a good idea. It did to 12-year-olds, anyway, and adults played along for a while, enough for the chain of arcade/crappy restaurants to go public for the first time. Things soon soured, however, and the Dallas-based company was taken off the stock exchange…
The swaths of land that run underneath Oncor’s electric transmission lines are in many ways ideal spots for jogging trails. They stretch for miles, are largely free of obstructions and are controlled by a single entity, eliminating the types of property issues that would make construction anywhere else a logistical…
For the first time in five games, Josh Hamilton will be in the Rangers lineup tonight for the first of four against the A’s, who conveniently lurk four games behind in the West with 10 games to go. Hamilton has been sidelined with blurred vision and balance issues, reportedly caused…
Nearly half a million dollars seized by the FBI during its investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price are headed for civil forfeiture proceedings over the protestations of Price and his top aide, Dapheny Fain. Both say the thick stacks of $100 bills — confiscated from a safe in…
Tomorrow afternoon, Mark Cuban, Mayor Mike Rawlings, and Harvard Business School guru Clayton Christensen will walk into a room with a dozen other civic, academic, and business leaders for the sixth and final closed-door meeting of the 21st Century Commission to finalize their vision for the future of the University…
We all got a good chuckle when Lubbock County Judge Tom Head warned of that impending United Nations invasion of West Texas, but the laughter may have been premature. InfoWars, the website run by Austin Austin radio host/all-around crazy Alex Jones, published a low-budget, Onion-quality newscast that provides incontrovertible proof…
On January 5, a student at Dallas ISD’s Sunset High wrote a letter to his school’s assistant principal. It was about his math teacher, Richard Hood. According to the student, Hood was having students in his Algebra II class memorize answers in advance of the coming Assessments of Course Performance…
