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Texas Is Leading the Nation in Number of Cases of Student-Teacher Sex

News came out yesterday that former Spring Branch ISD high school teacher Kathanna Culp, 28, is accused of having sex with one of her students and of supplying him and his friends with pot and alcohol. This follows last month's story about a Dallas teacher Jessica Guilbeaux, 31, accused of sleeping ... More >>

Boomtown Rats: Why is Dallas Being Left out of Region's Growth? Ask Our Leaders.

Story in The Dallas Morning News this morning touts Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington as the fastest growing metropolitan area in the country between July, 2011, and some unspecified date in 2012. Hold on, Dallas. That's not us. In fact the sad saga of our own city's growth, not mentioned in the story, ... More >>

I Went to a Sikh American Idol Watch Party for Gurpreet Singh Sarin's Triumphant Defeat

It's hard being an American Idol contestant. It's hard enough to perform for judges, with an audience behind them, and an even bigger one unseen that's analyzing every gesture and head nod. It's hard knowing you're performing on a show that's almost old enough to be a teenager, which is venerable in ... More >>

Why Again Would a Golf Course Bring Wealth to Southern Dallas?

Breaking down the Morning News' cargo-cult approach to economic development.

Texas' Generous Tax Giveaways for Biz Look Less Magical When You Do the Math

Eric has already noticed The New York Times piece this morning focused on Dallas's own G. Brint Ryan as a sort of national go-to fixer for companies seeking generous tax breaks from state and local government. The Times piece reports the hard side of those tax breaks -- the screws put to public educ ... More >>

Spain is No Place to Learn Spanish

More Than 300,000 People in Dallas County Would Get Health Insurance Under Obamacare, But Not In Rick Perry's Texas

Some six million Texans are one health emergency away from financial ruin, and the state of affairs in Dallas County isn't any better. Nearly 30 percent of its residents are uninsured. That's 672,681 of our neighbors whom the health insurance markets have excluded, according to the latest U.S. Cen ... More >>

Someone Accidentally Called in a Bomb Threat to the Census Bureau's Dallas Office Yesterday

Census takers probably aren't the most beloved people in the country, tasked as they are with knocking on strangers' doors and asking probing questions like How many people live in your household? and Are you or are you not Hispanic?, but they're not IRS agents. They're not so odious as to merit hat ... More >>

In a Hidden Texas Farming Village, the Making (and Selling) of a Cambodian Bumper Crop

Cambodian immigrants are growing and selling a plant so invasive it's banned in several states. How did you think that water spinach ended up in your bowl?

Dallas Will Chip In $600,000 to Develop Housing for Veterans

The debate around permanent supportive housing for Dallas' homeless has become incredibly bitter in the past several years , while regulation of private housing for the mentally ill will only really begin come October. But soon one group in dire need of housing will have a few more options: veterans ... More >>

The Inland Port Can Still Win the Race for Jobs If We Don't Let Fixers Screw Us

Cities Are Now Growing Faster Than Suburbs -- Except in Dallas, Of Course

When the U.S. Census Bureau released figures Thursday estimating cities' growth between 2010 and 2011, the big news locally was that eight of the 15 fastest growing cities are in Texas and, of those, five -- Plano, McKinney, Frisco, Denton, Carrollton -- are in our corner of the state. The big new ... More >>

A Successful Health Program May End Thanks to Texas's Quest to Kill Planned Parenthood

ViaYou, sir, must not be a Texas legislator.​It's been a good 14 minutes since the state twisted its rusty knife into the already-wounded gut of women's healthcare. But fear not: There's a huge, ugly storm brewing between the state and federal governments over the Medicaid Women's Health Progr ... More >>

Census Report on Transit Use Puts Dallas Area Near the Bottom of List. DART Explains Why.

​The Census Bureau released a lot of data this morning, including the 2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates; we'll get to that once we look over the charts and graphs -- fun! But among the docs dumped is Commuting in the United States: 2009, which says, among other things, it takes ... More >>

Lessons in Recessionomics: Beef Prices, a Historic Drought and Hamburger

As my grandfather would say, "It's drier than a popcorn fart." We're smack-dab in the middle of the worst one-year drought ever. The costliest too. Feed prices are nearly unaffordable. Stock tanks are drying up. But the final boot to the gut of the Texas rancher never came. It's the strange artifac ... More >>

Is Dallas "Built Out," or Are City and County Officials' Priorities Completely Out of Whack?

​A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the city of Dallas barely grew between 2000 and 2010 -- by 0.8 percent, to be precise, though Matt Stiles and Emily Ramshaw, the Texas Trib'ers contributing to this morning's New York Times, are generous enough to bump it up to " ... More >>

Race to the State's New Census Map

IFRAMES not supportedThe U.S. Census Bureau sent to the state Legislature today the map you see above, along with details about the latest population count intended to assist with redistricting -- including numbers related to racial make-up and voting age.Per the latest tally, since the 2000 Census ... More >>

Well, If It's Good Enough for the Jonas Brothers

​Big high-five for Westlake this morning: That tiny town in Tarrant (and Denton) County, once the playground of Nelson Bunker Hunt, has been named by Forbes as The Most Affluent Neighborhood in America, based upon the recently released U.S. Census Bureau Community Survey. The annual median income ... More >>

Once Back in the Pack, Dallas Now the Top Destination for "Young People" After Austin

​There was a piece in this morning's New York Times about how Austin's now the top destination for the young American, all right. So notes Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who adds Dallas to the list of Top Five destinations for the highly coveted 25-to-34-year-old. Only a few years ... More >>

Yahoo! Them Huddled Masses Sure are Good for Texas!

Where Does Dallas Stand on the Human Development Index? Let's Go to the Report!

American Human Development Project of the Social Science Research CouncilClick to embiggen​Just spent the better part of the morning browsing the The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, a report released this morning by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Social Science Research C ... More >>

Says GE's Electric Car Look-See, Dallas Is Tops to Plug In Before Pulling Out (Of the Driveway)

​Few weeks back we noted: TXU's setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books' Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of B ... More >>

According to Census Bureau, 4,262,000 Texans Now Living Below the Poverty Line

​This morning, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States report. And while some take issue with how the bureau calculates the poverty rate, the headline are more or less the same: "U.S. Poverty Rate Jumps To 14.3 Percent." The median natio ... More >>

News & Notes: Hooray for the Ever-Expanding Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Blockbuster Keeps NYSE Listing and American's "YADA" Yada

U.S. Census Bureau​A little light lunchtime reading ...To begin with, the U.S. Census Bureau released its population estimates today, and, as usual, Texas -- and the DFWA (as in, Arlington) -- fared bestest in all the land. "Star of the Sun Belt," says here. And that means you, Frisco and McKinney ... More >>

One Sign of the "Stabilizing Local Economy": Rise in Apartments Rentals

​On Wednesday, MPF Research released a press release touting the enormo bump in Dallas-Fort Worth apartment rentals: "During the first three months of the year, renters absorbed 6,520 apartment units, the best quarterly demand performance seen since fall 2007." And, says Greg Willett, nearly 10,00 ... More >>

Today In Music News: Duff Creates With Jane, British Music Fans Have No Sense And Luda Helps The Man

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, March 31, 2010...Since Jane's Addiction can't keep Eric Avery around, I guess Duff is the next best thing.  Plus he can give the boys some sound financial advice.Liam Gallagher best British frontman ever?  Ever? Ludacris: U.S. Census ... More >>

Kotkin: Dallas Is More Than Just a "Rodney Dangerfield of Urban America"

Joel Kotkin​So writes new geographist Joel Kotkin on Forbes's Web site today, a week after his visit to Dallas to speak to the regional chamber. Kotkin, who's already branded Dallas a World Capital of the Future, writes today that the significant bump in new DFW residents noted by the Census Burea ... More >>

Look Out: Census Says Everyone's Coming to Dallas (and Fort Worth and Arlington)!

Click to expand the population change map posted by the U.S. Census Bureau today.​The CNN headline, just posted, says it all: "Census Bureau: Dallas posts biggest population gain." That's based on July 1, 2009, population estimates released today, which say that Dallas and Houston gained about 140 ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day Parade: My Top 10 Observations

​10. Riding on the Dallas Observer float and catching a marshmallow that was hurled from a good 20 yards away in my mouth has to be in the top five of my all-time proudest athletic achievements. 9. Getting nailed in the chest with a honey bun. Um, not so proud. Touche. 8. I love the parade an ... More >>

If Not For Illegal Immigrants, Would It Cost Us More To Eat?

Oh, Sure, Gabachos Loved Amnesty When It Was Applied To Confederates, But Not Mexicans

Frank Rich Says It's Lupe Valdez Who Really Scares the Heck Outta Glenn, Rush and Newt

​In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Frank Rich pours one out for Henry Louis-Gate. And as he moves from Cambridge to the White House (for the free beer), Rich stops to huff the Brit Humes at FOX News, where everyone's calling everyone else a racist these days (oh, that Glenn Beck!). So, why ... More >>

Hutchison's Press Secretary on Perry's $9 Billion "Rainy Day" Claim: "It's Hypocrisy at Its Finest and Clearly Politically Motivated."

Sam Merten​As mentioned earlier, Governor Rick Perry gave us the Heisman when we tried to get a response to his boasts this afternoon about balancing the state's budget and tucking away $9 billion for a "rainy day," conveniently leaving out that nearly all of that $9 billion and the dough used ... More >>

Hey, Mexicans, Don't Drink the Water!

DISD's Also Sending Recruiters to the Laid-Off DISD Employee Job Fair

That's Rich: Plano Tops Affluent List

Now Everyone Knows Why We Live Here

In the DFW, We're Old Working People With a Lot of Damned Kids

Inside Dallas County's "Safety Net"

Countdown to the Population Count

Dallas: We're No. 2! We're No. 2! Which is Very, Very Impressive.

The White Amendment

Pots on Fire

Chop Suey Syndrome

Our restaurant critic travels to China to unravel the riddle: Why can't Dallas do Chinese?

Letters

Suck It

Mug down on mudbugs during Crawfest 2004

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

'Tisn't the Season

Bars, restaurants take divergent paths through dismal fall

Make 'em pay

Dallas activists fight
for a living wage from city contractors

The garden of life

In East Dallas' Little Asia, a community blooms in fields of litter