Email Author ANNA MERLAN

2012 Stories by ANNA MERLAN

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  FEATURED STORY

  "Abortion Affiliates" Banned From the New Texas Women's Health Program, But Doctors Allowed To Talk About Abortion

  published Oct 19, 2012

  The new Texas Women's Health Program is really going to be special. And by "special," we mean terrible. But as the Texas Tribune reports , state officials have made one tiny concession in response to... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Richard Malouf, the Dallas Dentist Accused of Fraud, Sues WFAA and Owen Wilson's Mom

  published Oct 18, 2012

  Richard Malouf has had an exciting year or so, what with being investigated by the state, the feds and WFAA for what is alleged to be a massive amount of Medicaid fraud. Malouf and wife Leanne's rath... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Boy Scouts' Secret Files On Suspected Child Molesters Show Decades of Abuse, Unknown Numbers of Victims

  published Oct 18, 2012

  The Los Angeles Times has obtained more than two decades of deeply disturbing confidential case files kept by the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America, detailing suspected child molesters in their ran... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  An Oak Cliff Man Greeted the Dallas Police with an 18-Inch Jagged Knife Last Night

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Around midnight today, Dallas police received a call about a man walking around West 10th Street in Oak Cliff, "wielding a large knife," as the police report puts it. The caller said the man with the ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Apocalypse Now(ish): Irvin Baxter's End Times Empire

  published October 18, 2012

  Irvin Baxter doesn't dance. It's a rainy fall night in Granbury, a small town about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. On the stage... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Lance Armstrong Will Step Down as Chairman of Livestrong, Gets Dropped By Nike

  published Oct 17, 2012

  In the latest bit of fallout from the doping allegations against him, several news outlets are reporting that Lance Armstrong will step down as chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, better known... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Charging Inmates More for Their Health Care Really Not Working Out For Texas

  published Oct 16, 2012

  Because of a new law passed in the last legislative session, Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates are now faced with a choice when they need to see a doctor: pay a yearly $100 fee, or don't go... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Michael Brutsch, Arlington-Based Reddit Troll, Has Been Fired, and is Going on CNN Tonight

  published Oct 16, 2012

  On Friday afternoon, Arlington's Michael Brutsch was catapulted squarely into his 15 minutes of fame, after a Gawker article outed him as Violentacrez, a well-known moderator and commenter on a slew o... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Giving Up an Animal to Dallas Animal Services Just Got a Lot Harder

  published Oct 15, 2012

  Last year saw the start of some big, possibly permanent changes at Dallas Animal Services: 53 full-time employees were pink-slipped and replaced with temporary workers. Meanwhile, the number of animal... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Now You Can Wear Glenn Beck's Pants, If You're Into That Sort of Thing

  published Oct 15, 2012

  Drop everything, including whatever inferior trousers you're wearing right now. Drop them and then burn them, because the Glenn Beck-made, Glenn Beck-approved jeans you've been waiting for have finall... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Notorious Reddit Troll Is Apparently a 50-Something Software Engineer in Arlington [Updated: Definitely]

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Newsflash: Reddit can get creepy. Really creepy. The hugely popular internet community has been in the news over the past few years because of various gross subreddits (message boards devoted to speci... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Elizabeth Escalona, Who Glued Her Daughter's Hands to the Wall, Gets 99 Years in Prison

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Elizabeth Escalona, the 23-year-old mother of five accused of torturing her two-year-old daughter Jocelyn Cedillo, has been sentenced to 99 years in prison, several news outlets are reporting. Accor... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  SMU's Baffling Sexual Assault Policy May Be Like Other Schools', But It's Still a Disaster

  published Oct 11, 2012

  Last night, SMU's Daily Campus reported that university police released a crime report to students, informing them that a female SMU student was sexually assaulted at an apartment off-campus by a male... More >>

• Museum Tower Is a Goddamn Flawless Jewel, Says Museum Tower

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Museum Tower's PR team has really been stepping up their efforts lately to persuade people to live there, which sources familiar with the development told us in late August has been an uphill battle. ... More >>

• Former City Council Member Sandra Crenshaw Indicted For Theft of Rental Car

  published Oct 09, 2012

  Former city council woman and intermittent Unfair Park commenter Sandra Crenshaw was arrested in August after she allegedly failed to return a rental car to Budget. Court records show that she was in... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  The Printable Gun: The Times Is Freaking Out About a Still-Nonexistent Invention

  published Oct 08, 2012

  Last week, we told you about Cody Wilson and his group Defense Distributed, which would very much like to create a printable gun using a 3D printer. Not so much because Wilson plans on stockpiling ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Lizard Lounge Lives, Despite City's Halfhearted Biennial Efforts To Kill It

  published Oct 04, 2012

  "On the inside, I'm a wreck," Don Nedler confided. He's a baldish, blue-eyed guy in his mid-50s, and from the outside he looked pretty calm. "I didn't sleep last night," he added. "I woke up at 5 a.m... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Park Board Does Not Think They're Bungling Search for a New Director, Is Really Hurt Dwaine Caraway Would Say That

  published Oct 04, 2012

  Last week, the city's Park and Recreation Board made City Council member Dwaine Caraway very unhappy when they announced their plans to go about searching for someone to replace outgoing department ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  John Jay Myers, Texas' Libertarian Senate Hopeful, Barred from KERA's Debate

  published Oct 03, 2012

  Last night's Senate debate between Ted Cruz and Paul Sadler got surprisingly heated, with the two men snapping at each other about illegal immigration, healthcare, where Barack Obama was born and whet... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  UT Austin Law Student Tries To Print A Pistol, Gets the Printer Seized Instead

  published Oct 02, 2012

  Cody R. Wilson, a second-year law student at UT Austin, has a hobby that's gotten a fair amount of media attention over the last few months: He wants to print out some guns. But his plan to make and ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Libertarian Senate Candidate John Jay Myers Files A Complaint With the FCC, Will Still Not Be Debating Tomorrow Night

  published Oct 01, 2012

  A few weeks back we told you about John Jay Myers, the Free Man-owning, big government-distrusting Libertarian candidate for Senate, who believes he's being unfairly excluded from a Belo debate that ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  "Iconic" Museum Tower Will Open in January, Says This Full-Page Ad in the Morning News

  published Sep 28, 2012

  Museum Tower will be opening in January 2013, and it will be "iconic," "world-class" and "environmentally responsible," says the full-page ad we were just sent from Barbara Buzzell, who handles the b... More >>

• New England Journal of Medicine Says Texas' Family Planning Cuts Are A Public Health Disaster

  published Sep 27, 2012

  It's been nearly a year since Texas legislators slashed the state's family planning funding, diverting $73 million to a variety of other programs. That was about two-thirds of the total family plannin... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  PolitiFact Texas Thinks Rick Perry's Body Art Is A Little Misleading

  published Sep 26, 2012

  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... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Union: DISD's Teachers Want Answers About the District's New Mystifying "Spot Observations" [Updated]

  published Sep 25, 2012

  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, ... More >>