The storms have moved on, but chaos is hanging around for another day: According to Oncor, some 4,000 people are still without power across the ‘plex. NBCDFW reports that about 300 homes were damaged or destroyed in Lancaster, while an AP report from this morning says there were another 650…
Last week, in response to a post Brantley Hargrove wrote about power giant Energy Future Holdings’ slow death waltz with potential bankruptcy, a commenter gently smacked him for ignoring some Major News related to power plants, smokestacks, etc. “And in other [news] this kid refuses to cover. The 5th Circuit…
As the region cleans up from yesterday’s case of the swirlies, we were happy to learn that our go-to storm chaser, Justin Terveen, wasn’t swept into the sky. (Although that would have made for a cool shot.) He sent over the photo above, which you’ll want to click to embiggen…
Nike took over the NFL’s league-wide uniform contract from Reebok this season, and today the company unveiled its new uniform designs. You know what that means. New unis for the Cowboys. Awesome, right? It’s going to go down exactly like Mighty Ducks 2, and the new uniforms are going to…
In the meantime, take cover, marvel at Mother Nature’s latest moves in the videos below, and be on the look out for a Justin Terveen-shaped man flying past your office window, click-click-clicking away. Also, if you want to stay up to date, KXT is covering it blow by blow, including…
Last week we told you about Cat Lafitte, the police officer fired for getting into a brawl with a Plano hospital orderly and bragging about it on Facebook. Lafitte filed a complaint with the city’s Ethics Advisory Commission, alleging that her superiors had created a hostile work environment and then…
Back in 2009, Michael Scott Page of Mesquite was awaiting trial on an aggravated assault charge. He was reportedly depressed, anxious and eager to get it all over with, but delay after delay pushed his trial back. He allegedly told a longtime friend of his that he felt like “blowing…
In a fiery town hall debate last night, held in Fair Park’s African-American Museum, Dallas ISD trustee Bernadette Nutall and 20-year-old upstart Damarcus Offord both tried their hardest to prove, for better or for worse, that they were nothing like their competitor. The majority of the 100 or so people…
Richard Miles has been out of prison for two and a half years, and he was finally, officially exonerated in February for the crime he didn’t commit — the 1994 murder and attempted murder at a Texaco near Bachman Lake. He’s expecting his compensation check from the state today, any…
Yesterday, Mike Miles, an Army Ranger turned education reformer, was named the lone finalist for Dallas Independent School District’s superintendent job. Today begins 21 days of tire-kicking, a mandatory waiting and vetting period before the district and Miles can officially wed. Plenty of people will do all that kicking, including…
Prediction: The next few weeks may not be a ton of fun for Mike Miles. Miles, the superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs, was named the lone finalist for the top job in Dallas ISD at a meeting this afternoon. The board, which voted 8-0 (with Carla…
The City Council’s getting briefed this week on “community policing,” the Dallas Police Department’s ongoing effort to get residents involved in preventing crime in their neighborhoods. This last came up in December, when Chief David Brown and McGruff the Crime Dog came to visit council members and enthusiastically high-five Scott…
More than two years since the cities of Dallas, Fort Worth and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board sued Chesapeake for allegedly shorting them on millions in royalties and leaving wells undrilled, the airport and the energy company have reached an agreement. As the price of natural gas hovers at…
As we mentioned Saturday, there’s a deal in the works to keep the annual Texas-OU orgy at Fair Park, but it hinges on the city’s willingness to raise $25 million to upgrade the Cotton Bowl. It feels like chump change, considering the history and economic impact of the event. But…
Update, April 1: If you’ve read this morning’s paper, you know this story is even more disturbing than initially thought. Update after the original: Original item, Saturday, March 31: It was only yesterday that Edward Ramsey called Dallas police, concerned about the whereabouts of his 11-year-old grandson, Johnathan Ramsey. But…
Before he left for the Land of a Thousand Blogs, Robert Wilonsky had a few stories about city officials’ desire — they would call it a need — to spend another $25 million or so sprucing up the Cotton Bowl, just four years after taxpayers coughed up $57 million for…
Michael Morton, free after 25 years of wrongful imprisonment for his wife’s murder, spoke about his experience yesterday during a panel discussion on prosecutorial oversight at the University of Texas. Morton’s case has become a focal point of any story or discussion about prosecutorial misconduct, a subject we explore below…
Last week we told you about the Dallas Fort-Worth Coalition of Reason’s tiff with Movie Tavern. Once more, briefly: DFWCoR signed a contract to pay Movie Tavern three grand to show a pro-atheism ad as part of the coalition’s new campaign, “Our Families Are Great Without Religion.” But Movie Tavern…
Sure, it goes against everything we learned in elementary school — cut in line and suffer ridicule and a knuckle to the shoulder — but it turns out the city of Dallas has every right to allow compressed natural gas-powered taxis to queue-jump at Love Field to improve air quality,…
On Monday, we told you the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had published a broad investigation concluding that hundreds of school districts, including Dallas Independent School District, displayed “troubling test patterns” that could indicate widespread cheating. That day, DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander said the district had been aggressively investigating suspicious test activity for…
Traumatic brain injury may be the most elusive of all war injuries. It presents itself through a number of symptoms — mood changes, insomnia, headaches, memory loss, irritability — and in varying degrees. The conversation surrounding such injuries recently became louder after Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was formally accused with…
They finally opened up the new Calatrava bridge to vehicular traffic today, so I jumped in my pickup and went down there to drive on it. As you know, there were many delays getting it open. The bridge connects the far northwest corner of downtown with West Dallas on the…
