Dallas and Fort Worth students' performance on national standardized tests looks much better when you take demographics into account, according to a new report released by the Urban Institute. Dallas jumped to No. 5 in the ranking of 27 large school districts across the country. The analysis was based on...
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The numbers don’t look good for North Texas’ long-term care facilities, where the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on elderly residents and staff. Monday, 19 members of a Plano memory care facility were hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, according to The Dallas Morning News. Since mid-April, Dallas nursing home...
The first meeting of Dallas’ new police oversight board fell into chaos Tuesday night as activists stormed the microphone after being denied a public hearing. The board overhaul was approved by the City Council earlier this year after years of debate, resulting in a compromise that created a new office...
Johnny Bedford says he's going to be the greatest bare knuckle boxer of all time.
State budget shortfalls associated with the COVID-19 economic slowdown could put state prekindergarten programs at serious risk, according to a report released Wednesday. In the report, researchers with Rutgers University's National Institute for Early Education Research warn that cutbacks to state-funded pre-K programs could have long-lasting effects, not only on...
Since the George Floyd protests began, calls for the removal of statues deemed racist have reached as far as Belgium, the United Kingdom and South Africa. They’ve also crescendoed in Gainesville, a town 85 miles north of Dallas. Gainesville, which has a population of fewer than 17,000 people, is home...
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This year as we give thanks with our nuclear units, we might find ourselves reflecting on years past, when we lived outside a quarantine bubble. Remember the year we all did the mannequin challenge? Or that time your siblings laughed at you when you singed your eyebrows checking the gas...
Have you masked up, sanitized all over and gone to the supermarket, but found yourself unsure of wine to buy while you’re sheltering in place? The good news is — especially if you’re looking to stock up — it’s possible to spend about $10 a bottle, or even less, for...
As protesters crossed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge toward a wall of cops on June 1, they chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” Members of the media were among the protesters. Photographers’ camera shutters snapped, writers scribbled in their notebooks and some streamed the event live on their phones. Then, the...
On Friday, March 13, Gas Monkey Live will host something they are calling "Freakers Small," an event that will host seven bands, five of them tribute bands and three featuring one man, Paragraph Taylor, whose tendency to ... embellish ... his words earned him his moniker. You might have heard...
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced his plans to reopen the state eight days ago, he led his press conference with a powerful anecdote. Texas' COVID-19 infection rate — the rate at which tests for the disease come back positive — had declined over the last 17 days, he said...
Dallas-based graphic designer, visual artist, and “professional doodler” Christina Moreland is fighting a war on the side of good for the soul of humanity. The weapons in her arsenal? Cartoons. Her latest assault on ignorance is a series of aphorisms in cartoon form through a series called Daily Tips for...
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Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, as a parade of witness talked about the scene at the South Side Flats apartments, the forensic results of Amber Guyger’s decision to shoot Botham Jean and investigative procedure, prosecutors' case came into clearer focus: Guyger might not be a cold-blooded murderer, but she was...
Budget travel has seen a surge of popularity in recent years. Bare-bones airlines promise flights to Europe for less than your weekly paycheck. Airbnb makes it easy to find a comfortable spot to stay literally anywhere. A result of this popularity is an increase in advertising for travel. Social media...
A Tarrant County resident tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, health officials there announced Tuesday evening. The person is the sixth reported case of the novel coronavirus in North Texas and the 21st in the state, according to Texas Health and Human Services.
Texas prosecutors aren't giving juries the opportunity to put people to death and, even when they do, jurors aren't going for it. Those are the big takeaways from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's annual roundup of Texas' death row development. Only nine of the 21 executions scheduled...
Southwest Airlines workers will get a nine-figure piece of their Dallas-based employer's settlement with Boeing, the airline announced Thursday. The settlement comes with the Boeing 737 MAX, a key component of both Southwest's and American Airlines' fleets, still grounded because of two crashes that killed more than 300. The terms...
Many of us in East Dallas remember Dixie House, which filled that large restaurant space at the corner of Gaston Avenue near Abrams Road with the smell of delicious rolls that constantly came out of the kitchen. Plenty of people were bummed when it closed, and the short-lived Sugarbacon Proper...
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One Dallas restaurant and two suburban spots are on Yelp's Top 100 Places to Eat in 2020. The restaurants close to home are Sky Rocket Burger in Dallas (No. 28), Tommy Tamale Market and Cafe in Grapevine (No. 16) and The Aussie Grind in Frisco (No. 30). The site has...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has charged 58 Texans as part of an interagency crackdown on illegal opioid distribution and insurance fraud. The “strike force operation” resulted in 21 cases, including one against a Dallas medical device company that made millions of dollars in false Medicare...
In a few months, a bunch of testosterone-loving men will host a convention in Florida aimed at teaching women how to be great –– great wives, great mothers and great sexual objects. It’s called The 22 Convention: Make Women Great Again, and we can’t quite wrap our minds around it...
Tippy Balady doesn’t cuss. “I’ve never had a place for it in my vocabulary,” she says, the “it” referring to the four-letter words others might employ with ease. “Even in high school, when your parents expect you to start cussing, I didn’t see a need for it.” Yet sometimes people...