Jack Lowe, DISD school board president
Blacks were hissing rudely at Hispanics. Hispanics were yelling at other Hispanics. And just about everyone was taunting distraught school board trustees, themselves appearing to teeter on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Ladies and gentleman, this is your Dallas Independent School District.
Last night, the DISD's trustees voted to suspend next year’s elections and change their own terms from three years to four amid an endless chorus of catcalls
Irving Mayor Herb GearsFor two years, the city of Irving's been turning over to federal officials people it arrests, for various reasons, and suspects of being illegal immigrants. Matter of fact, the so-called "experiment" has been in effect for so long that a once-controversial issue -- Hispanics claimed the Irving PD was engaged in racial profiling and pulling over folks for petty offenses -- appeared to turn into a nonissue. Till this morning.
My former Daily Texan cohort Randy Kennedy
Judge Juan JassoYesterday, in an Oak Cliff Justice of the Peace courtroom, two tenants celebrated a victory in their quest for decent living conditions. Judge Juan Jasso ruled in favor of Ramona Robles and Rigoberto Gutierrez, who, after filing complaints with the city about unbearable temperatures at their Lancaster Avenue apartment building, found eviction notices on their doors."If a complaint is made against the city, then anything that happens after that is considered retaliation," Jasso ru
It's very hard to turn down an invitation to La Calle Doce in Oak Cliff, but, alas, a movie screening will have me otherwise occupied at 1 p.m. Anyway, here's what will go down: Carlos Quintanilla has decided to join the list of Hispanic activists calling for the head of CNN's Lou Dobbs, whose "angry, irresponsible language ... is fueling violence against our
community and promotes the discrimination seen recently in Farmers
Branch," says Quintanilla in the press release announcing today's ev
