The Morning News has a “Healthy Living” story today about extreme races like the Original Mud Run. I came across the online (and pay-walled) version in the middle of the night last night and thought: Well, that’s odd, considering what happened over the weekend, not to mention the ensuing onslaught…
In a letter Monday, state Representative Lon Burnam called upon Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to allow him to release confidential documents he says prove state regulatory scientists fear a West Texas radioactive waste disposal facility may contaminate groundwater for thousands of years to come. Waste Control Specialists is set…
Tony Weathers, a 30-year-old athlete in the competitive division of Saturday’s Original Mud Run in Fort Worth, went missing before the end of the race, and yesterday, authorities found his body in the Trinity River, where participants crossed as part of the course. Original Mud Run organizers say they did…
As the always fashionable friends of Unfair Park are surely aware, Nordstrom stands firmly on a reputation as the fairy godmother of customer satisfaction. If you’ve had a dress for a while and it no longer fits, they’ll likely accept the return. If you used lipstick and decided you don’t…
Only three out of every 100 black students in Dallas Independent School District graduate ready for college. Among black students entering DISD high schools as freshmen, 28 percent don’t graduate at all. Those are some of the findings in a report DISD District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall passed on to…
For years, Dallas has struggled to regulate the city’s boarding houses, the places that many low-income mentally ill, disabled and elderly people call home. As we discussed in a recent cover story, right now, the city knows where about 330 of these homes are, and they’re inspected regularly for code…
The state Supreme Court is considering developing a uniform, simplified do-it-yourself form for uncontested divorce filings, an effort to increase access to the justice system for people who can’t afford a lawyer. Not surprisingly, some Texas lawyers feel the legal system is too complicated to be boiled down into checked…
ESPN’s still-reliable Sunday news magazine spared no expense in producing this heart-wrenching, hi-def look at the journey of Monika Korra, which aired yesterday. (When Tom Rinaldi’s on the case, it’s good to have some tissues handy.) Korra came from Norway to SMU on a running scholarship, only to be dragged…
The caretakers of the puppy who suffered third degree burns over most of his body were optimistic until the very end. But last night, Justice died after some of his wounds became infected and his condition worsened, according to a posting by DFW Rescue Me. The dog was rescued in…
Regulators are absolutely desperate to keep us away from that white-knuckle precipice of rolling blackouts we so perilously toed last summer. And they’re willing to try anything to entice electric generators to build more power plants and bring existing plants out of mothballs in the meantime. The main idea is…
Megan Margolies, a local burlesque performer, hairdresser at Halo Salon, and beloved member of the Deep Ellum music and art scene, died on Tuesday in a traffic collision, when a scooter she was test-driving on Abrams Road collided with a tractor trailer. She was 23. The Margolies family was unavailable…
In this last legislative session, the one that turned out to be pretty terrible for both abortion providers and family planning clinics, Arlington state Representative Bill Zedler had a dream. That dream, as we told you about at the time, was to require women and their doctors fill out and…
Let’s talk trees for a moment. They’re a bit like orphans or endangered species in that when people cry out to save them, there’s little push-back, even if little action is ultimately taken. But in an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times, one sentence amid an opus of tree-praise…
In the spirit of a Republican primary season marked by gleeful kneecapping, Grant Stinchfield, a former NBC 5 investigative reporter running for Congress, has discovered that his opponent, incumbent Kenny Marchant, claimed some endorsements from politicos who aren’t actually behind him in the race for the largely conservative, suburban 24th…
Over on the News’ ice cream blog, Robert Wilonsky reports that North Dallas was baffled last night by an unexpected firework display, allegedly to help celebrate the new clubhouse at the Dallas Country Club. But we all know that a little clubhouse opening isn’t enough to warrant fireworks in the…
When she was 15, Courtney Underwood was raped by her pastor. She’d grown up in Highland Park, attended a religious private school and had no idea how to talk about what had happened to her or ask for help. It took her two years to discuss the rape at all,…
Walk across SMU’s campus, a mini-city of stately brick buildings and pristine open spaces, and you’ll stumble across an odd sight this week: a wood-framed prototype meant for housing relief after natural disasters, built sturdily on a swath of green at the center of campus. It’s the latest work of…
The City Hall staffers who last year tried to toss road blocks in the path of a City Council plan to stripe 840 miles of bike lanes in Dallas — that’s 840 miles more than what the city has now — might be pleasantly surprised by part of what Gil…
Shale gas extracted by fracking deep formations in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere is supposed to be the bridge fuel to the sustainable age, capable of powering power plants and, hell, even our cars. It’s become the centerpiece of President Obama’s “all of the above” energy plan. In Texas,…
The seemingly sad story of Dallas firefighter Jesus Ventura is getting even sadder, at least if you believe the accusations just leveled by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Back in March, Ventura, 37, was arrested after he was accused of bringing a semi-automatic pistol into Fire Station #45, near West Commerce…
On paper, anyway, Ryan Walker Grant, the owner of Flashdancer Cabaret in Arlington, agreed to shut down the troubled strip club in January, after the city and state both leaned on Grant to close shop for a year. But as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported yesterday, and as the FBI…
In the spirit of last night’s D-slash-TED-slash-SMU DISD Education Forum at the Kessler — which asked each school board candidate one and only one randomly drawn question — here are some rapid-fire observations from an evening that, while admirably efficient, was over not long after it started. 1. School Board…
