Email Author Brantley Hargrove

2011 Stories by Brantley Hargrove

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  How an Evolution Denier Shaped Texas Board of Ed's Science-Book Decisions Yesterday

  published Jul 22, 2011

  The State Board of Education met yesterday to debate which supplemental materials the state should use to update its outdated science textbooks. To make things easier, before the meeting, the board's ... More >>

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  Dithering Inside an Addison Dealmaking Expo For Oilmen, Where It's a Shale of a Good Time

  published Jul 19, 2011

  Haven't you heardr There's gas in them thar shale formations. And if the parking lot outside of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison was any indication this morning, a goodly number of the players ar... More >>

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  Carrollton Teen Sues Over Petty Cheerleading Beef, Is Laughed Out of Federal Court

  published Jul 18, 2011

  How often do federal appeals judges wade into the petty internecine struggles of high-school cheerleaders and their meddling mothersr We're going to go out on a limb and say it's rare. Rare and, when ... More >>

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  Down in Cedar Hill, Breaking a Sweat, and Bread, With the Future Leaders of Iraq

  published Jul 15, 2011

  Mohammed squatted atop a five-foot pile of mulch, his shovel jabbed into the chaff somewhere out in the snake-infested, cedar-scrubbed hill country southwest of Dallas. Sweat darkened his black Reebok... More >>

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  Wisconsin Group Files Suit, Claiming Perry's Prayer Event Has "No Secular Rationale"

  published Jul 13, 2011

  Now this is a response: Perhaps you've heard that a Wisconsin-based "state/church watchdog" group opposed to mixin' government and religion today filed for a temporary injunction down in Houston, aski... More >>

• Area Gun Dealer Pretty Sure That New Two-Per-Customer Law Won't Solve Border Violence

  published Jul 12, 2011

  An edict from the Justice Department to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives paved the way Monday for tighter regulation of repeat purchases of semi-automatic rifles with de... More >>

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  The Incredible Shrinking Bond Forfeitures: At This Rate, County Will Owe Bondsmen Money

  published Jul 08, 2011

  On Sunday the daily reported that Dallas County had some $35 million in outstanding bond forfeitures. Oh, but wait: Yesterday Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins shot back, calling the number a "gross mi... More >>

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  Praying to JC for JWP: Attending the South Dallas Rally for John Wiley Price

  published Jul 07, 2011

  At Kirkwood Temple C.M.E. Church last night, 120 or so congregants petitioned an Ecclesiastical Court on behalf of a decidedly earthly cause: that of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley P... More >>

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  Larry McMurtry Speaks at The Last Picture Show Screening, in Shadows of Actual Picture Show

  published Jul 05, 2011

  Alamo Drafthouse's Texas Monthly Rolling Roadshow has been kicking up dust around the Lone Star State for the last month, screening 10 Texas film gems in their locales of conception: Blood Simple in... More >>

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  Magicians in the Midst: A Dispatch From the Annual IBM (No, Not That IBM) Convention

  published Jul 01, 2011

  You probably didn't know this (I didn't either), but the annual gathering of Mages and magicians, professional tricksters, practicing misdirectionists and wide-eyed neophytes, has alighted at the Sher... More >>

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  Eight is More Than Enoughr Avalon Group Homes Square Off Against Dallas (Again).

  published Jun 30, 2011

  As we've mentioned before, Dallas has been grappling for some time with how to regulate the city's nearly 280 group homes, those halfway houses and assisted-living facilities that are protected by fed... More >>