Flower Mound

Vaccine Mandate Has Contributed to the Sharp Enrollment Drop at Texas Community Colleges

With the recent recession came a corresponding boom at two-year colleges as students sought to gain marketable job skills without shelling out big bucks to attend costlier four-year institutions. That boom is now over, and the numbers in Texas are bearing that out. Between fall 2011 and fall 2012, ... More >>

Flower Mound Montessori School Says Rival Montessori School Stole Its Teachers, Students

The world of early childhood education is cutthroat. There are only so many hyper-concerned parents willing to shell out public college tuition for their 3-year-olds to get the type of preschool education that will propel them into the Ivy League. Used to be, you could slap the name "Montessori" on ... More >>

Why Does Dallas Keep Forgetting About its Cheese-Heroin Problem?

On Friday, Dallas police reported that they were investigating the apparent overdose deaths of two students from Thomas Jefferson High School in March and April: 14-year-old Jaime Morales, who was found dead at his home in Northwest Dallas, and an unnamed 17-year-old, found dead in an apartment on F ... More >>

Ken Robinson Says He's Leaving His $16 Flower Mound House Without a Fight

Seven months after citing an uncommon application of the law of adverse possession and moving into an abandoned suburban homestead in Flower Mound, Ken Robinson is on his way out. At a hearing this morning regarding his recent eviction notice, a Flower Mound judge ruled that Robinson, who did not ap ... More >>

Gas Drillers' Reps to Task Force: 1,000-Foot Set-Back Rule Would Be a "Deal-Killer"

​After a few weeks off, the city's Gas Drilling Task Force gets back at it today at 2. The agenda's short and sweet -- "Develop Recommendations for Gas Drilling and Production Regulations" -- but the process has been anything but; initially, you may recall, the group was to turn in its recommendat ... More >>

Gas Drilling Task Force Begins Deliberations, Opts to Stick with Current Approval Process

Photo by Taryn WalkerThe task force toured a drill site this summer, getting an education before entering the deliberation process.​The city council-appointed gas drilling task force stopped listening to The Experts yesterday and got down to the business of discussing just what it'll suggest t ... More >>

After Months of Debate, Southlake Keeps 1,000-Foot Setbacks From Gas Wells to Homes

​The Southlake City Council Hall, once packed from floor to gallery with residents for whom gas drilling in town was either a looming menace or a windfall, had only a smattering of attendees a little after 11 last night. Many had already wearied of the debate, which had raged since February an ... More >>

Gas Drilling Task Force Absorbs More Info as It Inches Closer to Making Reg Recommendations

Photo by Leslie MinoraReal estate expert, Dan Wright, talks to the task force about drilling's effect (or lack thereof) on property values.​Yesterday afternoon, the city's gas drilling task force heard presentations (slideshows here) from three experts who explained the impact of drilling on n ... More >>

In Suburban Dallas, Loosening "Cheese" Heroin's Deadly Grip

Another round of deaths have another round of North Texas parents trying to wipe out a deadly combination of heroin and cold medicine.

Small Chance for a Big Catch

With City Staff's Support, XTO To Take Its Gas Drilling Permit Fight to City Hall in Two Weeks

Flickr user: Schlüsselbein2007Mountain Creek Lake in far western Oak Cliff, where XTO wants to plant Dallas's first gas drilling operation.​Patrick Michels is really our expert on the subject of XTO Energy's application for a specific use permit to drill at Hensely Field in far west Oak Cliff, wh ... More >>

Gas Drilling Variances Denied Near Grapevine Lake, While A Pair of Federal Suits Allege Water Contamination from Barnett Shale Fracking

​Worries about groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing around the Barnett Shale got a fresh wave of attention yesterday -- first with a pair of federal suits filed in Dallas, and then with the Town of Flower Mound's denial of a request to drill near to Grapevine Lake. Keystone Energy w ... More >>

In Case You Wondered How Robert Jeffress Feels About Islam, "Ground Zero Mosque"

Over on City of Ate, Hanna just posted an invite to a Ramadan break-fast tonight, one in a series being sponsored by the Dallas Islamic Center. Last week's all-you-can eat was at the Unity Church; tonight's shalom-y'all will be at Congregation Kol-Ami in Flower Mound. Based upon his comments in the ... More >>

Eat, Pray, Love and Practice Your Upward-Bending Elbow

​The principles guiding classical yoga practice are pretty clear on the topic of recreational alcohol use: Basically, the Sanskrit texts say "don't go there." But yoga studios are increasingly incorporating food and drink into their programming, and this weekend provides an opportunity for t ... More >>

Como te llamas?

Food Biz Is On The Uptick If Restaurant Openings Is Any Measure

​Tacos, tacos, tacos. That should be the theme of this month's Revolving Doors. With Rusty Taco finally opening their doors, the Austin-based Torchy's Taco making a move to Dallas this summer, and Fuzzy Tacos and Urban Taco adding more locations, that's all anyone can talk about lately. Well, we ... More >>

Revolving Doors: A Howling October

​Seems there's always much ado about little in the restaurant news. So it was in October: Lazare became Lemon Bar and will, most likely, become something else before long. Ten 15 Elm (or 1015 Elm, I was never sure) decided to call itself Thrive instead. The ballyhooed Jean-Michel's, coming to down ... More >>

Not Starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton

A short time ago, an ad-side co-worker found this video taken yesterday in Flower Mound, where jogging turned to storm-chasing.

New actors freshen up old fave, Greater Tuna; no bite in Kitchen Dog’s contest winner

Agave Tex-Mex: Good, Bad and Ugly

Handshakes And Sissy Slaps

People we'd like to shake hands with:The Addison city council, for voting to allow Sigel's to plant the 1950s-era sign, dismantled when the chain's Lemmon location closed, in the northern 'burb. Years ago I visited a spot in Lithuania where some rich guy had resurrected Soviet statues torn down when ... More >>

Where's The Beef?

How does this fat tub of lard get off the ground? Only the Texas Health Institute knows for sure.Yet another "warning" was issued last week about obesity in America, this time zeroing in on Texan waistlines in a report authored by a demographer named Karl Eschbach, sponsored by the Texas Heal ... More >>

Shocked—Shocked—To Find Discrimination in Flower Mound

"Let Him Go! Let Him Go!"

That's Rich: Plano Tops Affluent List

Price-Fixing: Legal and Lovin' It!

For Every Day

For Every Day (Self-released)

Dallas Woman Just May Have the Recipe For Million-Dollar Cookies

Moon Shot

Flower Mound gets a little more dysfunctional

Off the Short Bus

Steve Fleming fought to make his Special Olympians equal, and that got him torched

Bumper to Bumper

Don't Mound If You Do

Five Years On

Looking for Adventure?

FMPAT offers musical and comical Love

That Magic Moment

Dead men all wear plaid

Heavens, No

City of Angels gets la-la-lost; DFW drama critics dole out '06 honors

For Art's Sake

Me-shawn the Charitable

Ween-ie Roast

Sick of giving kids candy? Then scare 'em away with these sick classics

Letters

Ain't Got That Swing

Noodleswing Thai Cafe aims for the fence--and misses

Perfect Town, USA

Frisco wants to lure Andy and Opie with a Starbucks. Why is that an evil plan?

Glad to Meet You

Gingko Tree offers Chinese fare at its best

Sack of Kittens

Thango Tied

Tasty Thai now available in Flower Mound

Letters

No, you take him; Scenic Huntsville; Hell's grannies; Not us; Fair market; Blame it on Bossa Nova

Letters

Mending fences; Texas export; The doctor is in; Judge not

Good fences

Don't always make good neighbors, especially in exclusive Flower Mound, where a nasty feud between the mayor and a newspaper publisher has blossomed into all-out war

Girding for battle

There goes the neighborhood

Flower Mound ignorance blocks stellar project