Email Author ANNA MERLAN
2012 Stories by ANNA MERLAN
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FEATURED STORY
In Never-Ending Battle Between Texas and Planned Parenthood, Judge Says PP Can Be Blocked From New Women's Health Program
published Dec 31, 2012
For those of you who have been following the ongoing, never-ending, multi-court battle of Texas vs. Planned Parenthood, we'll make this quick: Planned Parenthood is out of the Texas Women's Health Pr... More >>
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Hurst Police Officer Won't Face Criminal Charges Over "Move and Fuckin' Die" Incident
published Dec 31, 2012
Back in November, Hurst 17-year-old Andrew Rodriguez was being arrested by Officer M. Jimenez on an outstanding trespassing warrant. Rodriguez was lying on the ground with his hands behind his back w... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
If You Ripped Apart a Stuffed Santa in North Dallas This Morning, The Cops Would Like A Word With You
published Dec 28, 2012
The holidays can do strange things to people. Case in point: around 2:40 this morning, police were called to the 4000 block of Trinity Mills Road in North Dallas, where, per the police report, callers... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Godless Dallas Heathens in the Running for 2012 Atheist Billboard of the Year
published Dec 27, 2012
Dallas-area atheists had a controversial and often entertaining 2012, in which they pissed off both movie theaters and Baptist preachers . Our recent cover story about the rise of atheism in Texas a... More >>
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Richard Malouf, the Dentist Building a Backyard Water Park, Wins Temporary Injunction Against Real Estate Blogger Candy Evans
published Dec 20, 2012
Back in October, Richard Malouf, the Dallas dentist accused of massive Medicaid fraud, sued real estate blogger Candy Evans, who had published photos of the small waterpark that appeared to be under ... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Judge Tells Avi Adelman He Can Depose City Council Candidate Philip Kingston
published Dec 19, 2012
Back in September, attorney Melissa Kingston sued Lower Greenville blogger/rancorous shit-disturber Avi Adelman, memorably calling him "a self-proclaimed vigilante-style neighborhood activist who more... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Dallas' Homeless Say the City Tore Down Their Camp, Trashing Meds, Clothes in the Process
published Dec 19, 2012
"They came by the other day and swept some of our stuff up," Michelle complained. She's a petite black woman in her mid 40s, with chin-length hair partially hidden under a black and orange knit cap. O... More >>
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Anonymous' Barrett Brown Pleads Not Guilty To Stratfor Hacking Charges
published Dec 18, 2012
Hacktivist collective Anonymous has had a busy couple days, fighting their old foe the Westboro Baptist Church. Meanwhile, court records show that their former self-proclaimed spokesperson, Barrett ... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Texas Wants a Detailed Report on All Abortions and Will Discipline Doctors Who Don't Comply
published Dec 17, 2012
Last legislative session, Representative Bill Zedler, a Republican from Arlington, wanted to hear about abortions in Texas. All of them. In great detail. Zedler filed a piece of legislation that wo... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Mayor Rawlings Says New Drilling Rules Are At Least Six Months Away. In the Meantime, Trinity East May Drill Under the Old Ones.
published Dec 14, 2012
Yesterday afternoon, we were summoned down to City Hall via a text message from Paula Blackmon, Mayor Mike Rawlings' chief of staff. After several long months of silence, it appeared that there was f... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
A Dallas County Employee Was 14 Minutes Late Today, and His Excuse Should Win a Pulitzer
published Dec 13, 2012
Here's what we know: a guy named Adam who works at the Dallas County Clerk's office was late to the office this morning. Fourteen minutes late, to be precise, according to the "Kronos Workforce Timeke... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Merck Suspends Funding to Boy Scouts of America, Citing BSA's "Policy of Exclusion"
published Dec 12, 2012
Back in July, the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America reiterated that it won't be having any openly gay folks in its organization. Now, they've lost another corporate sponsor as a result of that polic... More >>
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Rick Perry Supports "Fetal Pain" Measure, Vows to Make Abortion a "Thing of the Past"
published Dec 11, 2012
Perhaps you were hoping that the upcoming legislative session wouldn't be yet another round of conservative lawmakers vying with one another to show just how deeply and sincerely anti-abortion they ar... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Texas Anti-Abortion Group Wants to See a "Fetal Pain" Bill Passed This Session
published Dec 10, 2012
Seven months ago, the influential anti-abortion advocacy group Americans United for Life released its annual report, Defending Life 2012, featuring an enthusiastic blurb from Governor Rick Perry, who ... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Texas Finally Realizes Where Babies Come From, May Restore Family Planning Money
published Dec 07, 2012
Last legislative session, your lawmakers in the Texas Legislature cut $73.6 million from the state's family planning budget, a move which, impressively, has somehow resulted in far fewer patients bein... More >>
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As City Plan Commission Takes No Action On Gas Drilling, XTO Reportedly Pulls Its Drilling Request [Updated]
published Dec 06, 2012
Back in September, using the format of a totally ridiculous board game, we recapped the fight over gas drilling on land owned by the city of Dallas. At that point, the drilling task force had long si... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Texas Nationalist Movement Has a PAC Now, Are Pretty Sure They're Becoming a "Political Force"
published Dec 05, 2012
It's getting near Christmas, and as far as we're aware, Texas has yet to secede from the Union. Even Governor Rick Perry thinks it's a bad idea, and he looks like the sort of man who'd snort wasabi o... More >>
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COVER STORY
The Rise of the Texas Atheist
published December 6, 2012
It's a warm fall morning near the Texas State Capitol's south steps, and there's a... More >>
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Angel the Psychic, Wrong About All Those Bodies at a Liberty County Farmhouse, Has Been Located and Sued
published Dec 04, 2012
In June of this year, Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton sued a number of people who dropped by their rural farmhouse in Liberty County last year, people who mistake... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Texas Now Serves Fewer Family Planning Patients and Spends More Money To Do It
published Dec 03, 2012
In the last legislative session, Texas lawmakers cut the state's family planning budget by two-thirds, a loss of around $73.6 million over the next two years. The reason behind this, naturally, was th... More >>
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Until Yesterday, the Web Site for Syria's State News Agency Was Hosted in Dallas
published Nov 30, 2012
This morning, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the conflict in Syria had reached "new and appalling heights of brutality and violence," as the clashes between government troops and opposition ... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Dallas Animal Services: Still 'Horribly Understaffed' But Now With More Chairs
published Nov 30, 2012
As we've mentioned more than once, Dallas Animal Services has been dealing with a few serious unresolved issues, some of them stretching back years: the HVAC system in the shelter doesn't work and ap... More >>
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Faking Car Accidents Not A Great Business Model, Will Get You Sent To Prison, Fort Worth Family Learns
published Nov 28, 2012
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 c... More >>
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Glenn Beck is Outraged that eBay Pulled His Masterwork, "Obama in Pee Pee" [Updated]
published Nov 28, 2012
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 for... More >>
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After 49 Years, A Monument for Slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit
published Nov 20, 2012
Officer J.D. Tippit came home for lunch on November 22, 1963. He rarely ever had time to leave his patrol long enough to do that, and his wife, Marie, scrambled to fix him a turkey sandwich and set th... More >>
