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  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Pot for Pain? Not in Dallas County, No Sir.

    ​Will the feds' new stance on medicinal marijuana have any impact on local users, even though, sadly, Texas isn't among the states that permit the practice? Craig Watkins's office says no way, no how. Local Libertarians, not surprisingly, are crossing their fingers. (As opposed to ...) "The federa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Outside a Quiet Two-Party Town Hall, Health Care Demonstrators Take To the Streets

    Patrick MichelsDemonstrators on both sides of the debate shared space outside this morning's town hall meeting with Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.​Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Smoking Bans: "An Affront to Freedom ... An Assault on Small Business"

    Friend of Unfair Park "Peterk" forwards along this item from this morning's National Review Online, which excerpts a Friday story from the Financial Times concerning the "law of unintended consequences" created by smoking bans -- like, ya know, the one the Dallas City Council passed two weeks before ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    Don't Blow It|Cookie Monsters|Our Bad|Risky Business

    Friend of Unfair Park "Peterk" forwards along this item from this morning's National Review Online, which excerpts a Friday story from the Financial Times concerning the "law of unintended consequences" created by smoking bans -- like, ya know, the one the Dallas City Council passed two weeks before ... More >>

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    HIV Numbers Cloud Condom Sense

    Friend of Unfair Park "Peterk" forwards along this item from this morning's National Review Online, which excerpts a Friday story from the Financial Times concerning the "law of unintended consequences" created by smoking bans -- like, ya know, the one the Dallas City Council passed two weeks before ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Thirteen Years Later, Dallas County May Finally Get Back its Condom Sense

    In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    Why the New Smoking Ordinance Should Have Been Delayed, and Sorting Through the 10 Amendments

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    Cancer Won't Keep a Runner from the White Rock Marathon

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    Blowing Smoke|Red-Faced Profession|From the Inside Too

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Wanna Smoke in Dallas? Don’t Plan on Leaving the House.

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    The Rap Up: Nothing To Lose (But Ignorance) At Hip Hop for HIV

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    It's Dallas vs. Dallas, As ER Docs Assail McCain's Advisor's Health Care Claims

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    A Piece of Parkland Hospital is Now Buried Deep Below Kansas Soil

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Eleven More Women Join Suit Against Presbyterian's Eating Disorder Program

    There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the ... More >>

  • Music

    January 24, 2008

    Rogue Wave

    Saturday, January 26, at Hailey's in Denton

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Say 'Screw It' to Smoke Breaks with Snus

    Saturday, January 26, at Hailey's in Denton

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    American Toxic

    The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

  • Music

    November 15, 2007

    Puscifer

    "V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    P.P.T. Crew Video and Skinny on S.P.E.A.K. Project

    "V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    Part of the Heard

    "V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2007

    Law Briefs

    "V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2007

    No Dallas, But, Maybe, Dallas Buyer's Club

    "V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

  • Home Entertainment

    January 25, 2007

    Dr. Feelgood

    You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2006

    The Forbes 35 (Drunkest)

    You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2006

    Cancer Happens (Or: You Could Be Next)

    You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

  • Culture

    August 10, 2006

    Closet Case

    With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Aim right

    The effective liberal

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Letters

    Conor's Crying Game Sinful Stem Cells A Mother's Loss

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Mighty and Young No More

    Plus: Time To Talk; Only Rock and Roll

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Dear Santa

    A certain state representative needs some coal in his stocking

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Delayed Pain

    Plus: Viva la Alcaldesa!; Donkey Kong

  • Best of Dallas

    October 14, 2004
  • Calendar

    March 11, 2004

    Jean Genie

    Join the "Evolution"

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2004

    Wine 'n' Dine

    Toast the Resource Center

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    Wheeler Dealers

    Feds allege scam artists bilked Medicare for millions

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    Vanity Plates

    The perfect gift for the pet that has--ahem--almost everything

  • Best of Dallas

    September 26, 2002

    Best Spa

    Aqua Spa

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Enough to Make You Sick

    In the struggle for a shrinking pot of money from asbestos litigation, the sickest victims are getting nickels and dimes while lawyers get their millions

  • Culture

    July 19, 2001

    In a Silent Way

    The paintings of John Wilcox create a tension disguised as minimalism

  • Music

    November 30, 2000

    Out of Town

    Whiskeytown's last album is a rock-and-roll masterpiece. So how come you haven't heard it?

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Beggars' banquet

    Dallas' matrons of charity find that ostentation is out and value is in when it comes to raising money

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    On the lam

    A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

  • News

    February 4, 1999

    Slicing the pie

    Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle

  • News

    July 2, 1998

    Death on tap

    Cryptosporidium kills AIDS victims in Dallas. Who will the pathogen claim next?

  • News

    February 29, 1996

    Just don't call them nelly guys

    In a town that knows cheerleading, folks are flipping for a relentlessly upbeat gay squad

  • News

    November 30, 1995

    Rich man's Robin Hood

    GOP budget is greatest-ever transfer of wealth from the Have-Nots to the Haves

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    Couldn't Medicare less

    Shady goings-on in the fight over health care

  • News

    May 18, 1995

    Charlotte's Web

    At the Routh Street Women's Clinic, Charlotte Taft created a controversial feminist enclave and waged war with anti-abortion zealots. Then she questioned her movement's gospeland it all fell apart

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Letters

    At the Routh Street Women's Clinic, Charlotte Taft created a controversial feminist enclave and waged war with anti-abortion zealots. Then she questioned her movement's gospeland it all fell apart

  • News

    December 8, 1994

    Supine science

    Research subjects push back the frontiers of space by hitting the sack

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