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Liberal Leppert, Tea Party Taj Unmasked by Completely True, Fair-Minded Election Materials Because there's no way a true conservative could ever look this pathetic.The primary for the U.S. Senate, House and a slew of local races is coming up -- on Tuesday to be exact, with early voting ending today -- which... More >>

Even in Mesquite, You Can't Bring Guns to an Elementary School No means no.When I picked up the phone a bit ago, I was expecting a call back from a congressional candidate for whom I'd left a message. Instead, it was a robocall from a pleasant-voiced woman speaking Spanish. I would... More >>

Sadness, Loss as Bonham Elementary School Prepares for Consolidation Greg HowardToday is the last Friday of the school year for Dallas ISD schools. For 11 schools in the city slated for consolidation after a school board vote, like the 89-year-old James B. Bonham Elementary, this Friday holds even more... More >>

Arrests Made in the Case of a Man Whose Burned Body Was Found in a Field, Identified Only By His Tattoos Angel Javier TovarOn May 5, the badly burned body of a man was found in a vacant field in far southeast Dallas, not far from the railroad tracks. Pieces of him were missing. The body's condition made identification difficult, so... More >>

Trinity Toll Road Decision Could Have Dire Consequences? Like What? Stoning? Dallas is a weird little speed-trap town in its own way. I often wonder what visitors think. What they need to think is, "I've got to be really careful and keep my mouth shut until I get out of this... More >>

Fort Worth Skunks Dallas on Bike Plan City of Fort WorthCouple of years ago, Fort Worth had about as few bike lanes as Dallas. Now it doesn't.It was shortly before or not long after I read Robert Wilonsky's post from earlier this week about Dallas retaking its... More >>

The Dallas Country Club is Now Worth $36 Million, DCAD Says. Cue the Lawsuit in 3 ... 2 ... FlickrThe original DCC clubhouse.Around this time last year, the Internet had a collective chuckle when the Dallas Country Club sued the Dallas County Appraisal District, hoping to lower its annual property tax bill. The county appraisers had valued the club's... More >>

NorthPark Scare Reminds Us 'Suspicious White Powder' is Sometimes Just Cocaine Recent anthrax scares at preschools, synagogues, government offices, and just about anywhere else the U.S. Postal Service will deliver a white powder-filled envelope, not to mention the panting media coverage, has people on edge, calling in the cavalry at the... More >>

Mike Rawlings Wants to Shoot Southern Dallas With Bullets. Of Economic Development. When I wrote yesterday about Mayor Mike backtracking from his backtrack on the Trinity Toll Road, I glossed over the real purpose of his visit to the Oak Cliff Chamber, which was to pitch his GrowSouth initiative. For the uninitiated,... More >>

After Conquering Central Expressway, Stunt Riders Take on Calatrava this Weekend . Remember those motorcyclists who briefly took over Central Expressway last year to peel out, do wheelies, spraypaint tributes to fallen comrades, and generally distract commuters from their smart phones? NBC 5 does and reports today that they're coming... More >>

The Mother of Jakadrien Turner, the Oak Cliff Teen Deported to Colombia, is Suing the Feds Photo by Leslie MinoraJakadrien Turner (center) at DFW airport after returning from Colombia in January.It was unusual when Jakadrien Turner's grades in high school began to falter after the death of her grandfather nearly two years ago. She was typically... More >>

The Bogus 'Detour' Argument for the Trinity Toll Road is Finally Dead Wait. Click the pause button. Freeze this. There's a huge point here that some people do not want us to notice. In the last 24 hours, the entire debate about the Trinity River toll road has completely shifted ground. I... More >>

Texas' Virtual Schools Are Failing, and Critics Say It's All Florence Shapiro's Fault FlickrVirtual education: Where will it endProgress Texas doesn't much like the virtual school movement that has drawn increasing numbers of the state's grade-school students away from real classrooms, many of them full-time. For one thing, it's proven ineffective, the group... More >>

Mayor Mike Rawlings Wants to Make This Clear: "Right Now, I'm a Toll Road Guy" Mayor Mike Rawlings was a bit late for his 9 a.m. speech at this morning's "Building South" presentation at the Oak Cliff Chamber. I knew it was Mayor Mike because OC Chamber director Bob Stimson, waffling for time, kept saying... More >>

Dallas Executive Airport is Still Struggling. Maybe a Solar Farm Will Help? Alcoa.comFlights at Dallas Executive Airport have dropped by 40 percent since 2005.As a nickname, "Dead Bird" hasn't fit so well since the city of Dallas' airport in South Oak Cliff changed its name from Redbird to Dallas Executive a decade... More >>