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Midlothian

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Small-Town Muckraker Joey Dauben Will Run the World Some Day. Just Ask Him.

    In the little towns outside of Dallas, publisher and aspiring politician Joey Dauben is on a crusade to expose abuses of power, civic mischief and -- most of all -- himself.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Activists Hail Dallas County Commissioners Court For Demanding State, Feds Clear the Air

    ​Anti-gas drilling activist Raymond Crawford sends word this morning: Moments ago the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted to adopt a resolution demanding the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency do something about cleaning up Dallas's air. Long ... More >>

  • News

    March 24, 2011

    Maybe City Council Should Have Asked Some Questions Before Taking Drillers' Money.

    ​Anti-gas drilling activist Raymond Crawford sends word this morning: Moments ago the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted to adopt a resolution demanding the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency do something about cleaning up Dallas's air. Long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    More to Read With This Week's Feature on Al Armendariz, the Environmentalist and Engineer in the Middle of State Leaders' Fight with the EPA Over Texas Air.

    ​This week the Paper Version of Unfair Park's cover is a profile of Al Armendariz, who took a leave from his gig as a Southern Methodist University engineering professor to run the Environmental Protection Agency's regional office in Dallas, stepping right into a simmering fight between the agenc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    RIP: David Milson

    ​Despite another brave battle, cancer won again yesterday. Back in July I told you about friend and fantastic basketball coach David Milson, one of the happiest people I ever did meet. Lung cancer finally got the best of him, as the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach has pass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Dallas EPA Office Agrees With Downwinders: TXI's Request to Burn Car "Fluff" Is Toxic Stuff

    Courtesy Downwinders at Risk​A couple weeks back we ran that Downwinders at Risk ad taking the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Governor Rick Perry to task for "conspiring" to keep out of sight TXI's request to burn plastic trash and so-called "auto fluff" (such as "all the non-steel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Downwinders at Risk Launches First-Ever TV Campaign Against TXI, TCEQ and Rick Perry

    Two months ago, TXI made a big deal out of shutting down four wet-process cement kilns in Midlothian -- a move hailed by Jim Schermbeck, head of Dallas-based Downwinders at Risk, as "the culmination of a 21-year fight that began in 1989 by a group of residents who found that burning hazardous waste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    David Milson: Bad News For a Great Coach

    I had a couple people recently make fun of the fact that I wear a Livestrong bracelet. "Those are out of style," the jab went. To some it's a fad I guess. But to me it's a reminder of a couple people who are - fashion trends be damned - still battling cancer. Unfortunately, I've got anoth ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    Up With People

    I had a couple people recently make fun of the fact that I wear a Livestrong bracelet. "Those are out of style," the jab went. To some it's a fad I guess. But to me it's a reminder of a couple people who are - fashion trends be damned - still battling cancer. Unfortunately, I've got anoth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Clean-Air Fund to Stop Funding Natural Gas Projects Till Industry Cleans Up Its Act

    Click to expand this map provided last week by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality​Way back in '97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope -- a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI -- and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    U.S. Attorney Sends Word of 19, Most Locals, Indicted For "Massive Cybercrime Conspiracy"

    ​After the jump, in its entirety, is a release we just received that offers sketchy details involving 19 people -- most of them locals -- who were indicted by a federal grand jury this week for their involvement in what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls a "massive cybercrime conspiracy." We will fo ... More >>

  • News

    November 19, 2009

    Dive In | Fuzzy Math

    ​After the jump, in its entirety, is a release we just received that offers sketchy details involving 19 people -- most of them locals -- who were indicted by a federal grand jury this week for their involvement in what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls a "massive cybercrime conspiracy." We will fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Disney Investment Firm Says Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck Were Elected to TXI Board

    ​Last November, Walt Disney's nephew (Roy Disney) and the Disney family's investment firm (Shamrock Holdings) bought a 5.5 percent stake in Mockingbird Lane-based concrete maker Texas Industries, Inc., which, till just recently, wanted to burn tires down in Midlothian in order to fuel its kilns. ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Ash Grove's Determined to Force Plano, At Least, to Buy Its Midlothian-Made Cement

    ​Back in December, we mentioned that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company -- which operates a cement-manufacturing plant in Midlothian -- filed a massive lawsuit against Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Arlington, among others, in which the company claimed that those cities' decision to purchase cle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing

    Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Don't Want TXI to Burn Tires in Midlothian? Too Bad. TCEQ Doesn't Wanna Hear About It.

    In April, public ire rose when Texas Industries scored a 10-year air permit renewal -- no public comment period required -- for its notoriously toxic Midlothian cement operation. The renewal came with one condition: TXI's cement kilns, the only ones in North Texas authorized to burn hazardous waste, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    For a Second Year, the Sue Pope Fund Will Dole Out Grants to Folks Who Can Clear the Air

    Katy HubenerIn a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    Whitt's End

    Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I got $1 for the first person who can show me - like Tony Romo did last week - any time that Terrell Owens has ever uttered the phrase: "This one's on me." Owens has every right to be jealous of Romo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Kick in the Ash: Cement-Maker Takes Dallas, Tarrant Counties to Court

    The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city's desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove's wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant Cou ... More >>

  • News

    November 13, 2008

    Sexy Things|Cough, Cough

    The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city's desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove's wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant Cou ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Green Cement Plants Could Mean Cleaner Air and Lower Costs

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2008

    Way Up in The Air in Their Beautiful Corporate-Sponsored Balloon

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2008

    Airheaded Fun

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2008

    Wonders a Downwinder: A Bad Wind A-Blowin' In From Midlothian?

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Culture

    February 14, 2008

    Tony 'n' Tina's Nuptials Take the Cake

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Divide and Conquer|Disgusting Bleeding Hearts

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2007

    TXI: Guilty. Now, Hand Over $20 Million.

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Re: Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2007

    Summerall in Mesquite

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2007

    Re: A Soldier Dies in Iraq on Christmas

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Dining

    November 23, 2006

    Nip and Duck

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2006

    No Child Left Behind

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    War and Peace

    Also: not much to celebrate in Risk Theater's Slaughterhouse Five

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Chief Sitting Bull

    The toughest Dallas cowboys don't wear helmets

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2006

    What, No Kenny Wayne Shepherd?

    The toughest Dallas cowboys don't wear helmets

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2006

    Raising Midlothian

    The toughest Dallas cowboys don't wear helmets

  • Music

    April 21, 2005

    Odds & Ends

    Fry Street Fair returns to Denton; Braidy Bingham is a teen titan; and Lizard Lounge offers reward for burglary information

  • Music

    September 25, 2003

    Sum 36

    DV8 could be the standout at the North Texas New Music Festival

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2003

    Summer Lovin'

    It's a good day, sunshine

  • Culture

    December 19, 2002

    Long Live the Poison Pen

    There are two kinds of critics: those who criticize, and those who don't

  • News

    April 5, 2001

    Letters

    A Word From Our Sponsor; Gone, Not Forgotten; Friends in Weed

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Letters

    Judging Joe Kendall; Elian's kidnapping; Clearing the air; Chaos on Lower Greenville

  • News

    February 12, 1998

    Bottom of the ninth

    Permit hearings begin in TXI's quest to become the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator

  • News

    July 10, 1997

    Letters

    Permit hearings begin in TXI's quest to become the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Letters

    Permit hearings begin in TXI's quest to become the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Something In The Air

    Downwind of TXI's Midlothian cement plant, people and animals keep getting sick. Instead of investigating whether the plant is to blame, state regulators appear ready to let TXI burn even more hazardous waste. Part two of A Dallas Observer Special Report

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Ill Wind Blowing

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    Letters

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • News

    August 15, 1996

    Companies that whore

    Channel 8 sells its name to advertisers, including one of the state's biggest polluters

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