Email Author Rose Farley

1999 Stories by Rose Farley

• Defensive driving

  published December 9, 1999

  Arlington taxi driver Eric Owusu always said he felt safe driving his cab, provided he steered clear of Dallas and Fort Worth, two cities the... More >>

• In search of the Tubervilles

  published December 9, 1999

  On November 29, Linda Dennis sent Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk a letter containing what may well be the last and weirdest claim made against the city... More >>

• Stop the madness

  published November 11, 1999

  In the second homework-related arrest in as many weeks, a Denton County juvenile court judge jailed a Ponder student for suspicion of making a... More >>

• Quick Fix

  published October 28, 1999

  If there is still such a thing as a war on drugs in Texas, then one of its last skirmishes is unfolding in the trenches at New Place, a drug... More >>

• Strikes and spares

  published August 12, 1999

  The news that Mayor Ron Kirk ignored Councilwoman Laura Miller when he doled out committee leadership assignments last month was hardly a... More >>

• Caged and confused

  published August 5, 1999

  In the destitute world of animal rescue work in Dallas, the SPCA of Texas' plan to build the Russell H. Perry Animal Care & Education Campus truly... More >>

• Disturbing personality

  published June 17, 1999

  Linda Earnhart is still disturbed by what she saw the Thursday morning before Memorial Day, when her concepts of safe neighborhoods and the... More >>

• One of their own

  published May 20, 1999

  Earlier this month, alarm bells sounded within the small, increasingly skittish world of Texas historic preservationists when they learned that... More >>

• Fowled Out

  published May 13, 1999

  If Oak Cliff were its own state, the rooster might be its state bird. That, or the finger, extended with pride and pointed north across the... More >>

• Road rage

  published April 15, 1999

  "What in the hell?" asks Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb, who has just been put on hold by a goosey receptionist inside the city manager's... More >>

• Whipping boy

  published April 8, 1999

  A lineup of heavy hitters was on hand for the Dallas Breakfast Group's March 9 candidates forum at the Crescent Hotel. Real estate mogul Vance... More >>

• Sonny boy so true

  published March 4, 1999

  To county clerks around Texas who are tracking legislation in Austin, the show is turning into a sort of campy horror flick. Call it Courthouse... More >>

• Raising a stink

  published February 11, 1999

  Phil Thomas is undeniably obnoxious and, to be blunt, weird. He speaks--loudly--of being a "commando" for truth, democracy, and open government.... More >>

• On holy ground

  published February 4, 1999

  Dallas Plan Commissioner Rick Leggio doesn't have any doubts about the purpose of a letter he received last month from a member of the Roman... More >>

• The facilitator

  published January 21, 1999

  Christy Morrow is hard at work on this Tuesday evening inside the Munger Place United Methodist Church, where more than 100 people have gathered... More >>

• Courthouse bully

  published January 14, 1999

  Jim Carrao stares through the windows of a ninth-story conference room into a thicket of fog that has swallowed the city's skyline and blotted out... More >>