A week ago, the Frisco Police Department was convinced that it had a solid case against Pallavi Dhawan in the mysterious death of her 10-year-old son, Arnav, and was ready to tell everyone about it. “Officers asked if she had killed the child and Mrs. Dhawan nodded her head ‘yes,'”…
Frisco has some sort of ordinance that prosecutes humans who hold signs. The police know this, because they used that ordinance as an excuse to bust the man who waved a “Police Ahead” sign at passing motorists. As we told you last month, Ron Martin was arrested by the very…
Sure, he was a celebrity, and sure, the school was named after him. But from where Vera Cole sat, Mr. Prime Time couldn’t have been more down to earth. Cole was the academic counselor at Prime Prep Academy, the controversial charter school co-founded by NFL Hall of Famer Deion “Prime…
Local officials had a big celebration last month when a hospital in southern Dallas finally started offering forensic exams for rape victims. “Unfortunately, Dallas has a perceived — and maybe a real — impression that individuals from the southern sector don’t receive services like those in the north,” Dallas County…
We’ve all seen those desperate emails that Yellow Cab sent to Dallas City Hall last summer, using its influence there to demand that officials crack down on Uber, the digital-savvy car service. Poor Uber, the narrative went, just a little start-up under assault by the entrenched taxi industry. But when…
Throughout the public collapse of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by Deion Sanders, the former Cowboy star has been accused of bullying and even attacking school employees who failed to cow to his demands for more power and more money. Those allegations have largely been hard to corroborate,…
Even though the new, techie transportation services can often be cheaper than cabs, city officials like to accuse the apps of discriminating against people who live in poor areas. Most recently, Councilwoman Vonciel Jones Hill concluded yesterday’s transportation meeting by sharing a story about a person who tried to get…
Update: On Sunday, Marlise Munoz was allowed to die. According to attorneys for her family, Fort Worth’s JPS Hospital removed Munoz, 23 weeks pregnant, from life support at about 11:30 a.m. Her body was released to her husband, Erick Munoz. The hospital had announced earlier in the day that it…
Just how strict is Yellow Cab about putting safe, responsible cab drivers on the road? That answer depends on which day you’re talking to Yellow Cab. On Tuesday, for instance, Yellow Cab’s owner Jack Bewley gave a long speech at City Hall’s special transportation meeting touting how safe and responsible…
Planning meetings isn’t easy, especially when you’re a boardmember on a taxpayer-funded organization. Then your meetings have to follow a bunch of rules. Mainly, they must be open to the public and generally easy for the public to hear about and attend. It may surprise you to learn that the…
The Dallas Morning News clearly wanted to publish a story reporting that Wendy Davis exaggerated about growing up poor while raising kids on her own. That’s plain by the title of its big feature on the Sunday front page: “As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key…
Yesterday we introduced you to Ron Martin, a man who was arrested by Frisco traffic cops for holding a sign toward passing motorists that said “Police ahead.” Officer Thomas Mrozinski (that’s his police vehicle pictured above) was trying to catch drivers going over the speed limit that day. When he…
Duncanville has a new interim city manager, and barely into her new job, Lynda Humble is already trying to shake up the way City Council formats its meeting agenda packet, a proposal that has proved to be surprisingly controversial. “A new agenda format has been created to establish a more…
The Frisco traffic officer was camped in an unmarked Chevy, trying to catch drivers going above the speed limit, when he noticed something suspicious. Some of the motorists could see him. They waved. He had a feeling that a man named Ron Martin might have had something to do with…
After a frack job is complete, can we be certain that the energy industry is taking care to ship the oil as safely as possible? Two United States senators are gently questioning that as a series of crude oil train explosions have made the news. On December 30, a crude…
Pretend that a corporation from China wants to build a factory in Texas just for the fun of it and needs to seize a bunch of Texans’ private property to build the factory, because it’s going to be really big and awesome. Do you think the Texas Supreme Court would…
If you can’t get enough of Deion Sanders talking sports on ESPN or Deion Sanders being accused of assaults in the news, soon you can turn to the Oprah Winfrey Network and see Deion Sanders from a pleasant, uplifting human-interest angle. The network will air a series documenting his life…
Freight trains are the little engine that could of the transportation industry — really janky-looking and slow, but resolutely refusing to die. In fact, the freight train industry is doing better than ever in states sitting on top of shale, enjoying a massive increase in business thanks to fracking. There…
Greedy slumlords have a lot of leeway in Texas to stomp on renters as they please. But starting Wednesday, that will change — slightly. Under new legislation that went into effect yesterday, landlords are no longer allowed to hide your own lease from you or retaliate against you. Landlords, we…
No one wants to give kids a crappy education with taxpayer dollars, but Texas regulators are now cracking down on a few charter schools that aren’t actually the most embarrassing ones in the state. In an announcement this month, the Texas Education Agency called out six charter schools that it…
Earlier this month, the Dallas Police Department released figures that seemed to be encouraging for Dallas motorists. The DPD’s data showed that police have been slowly scaling down on traffic tickets over the years. In the most recent fiscal year, from October 2012 until September 2013, the DPD issued 37,000…
When a natural gas company is accused of making an oopsie during fracking, the EPA’s response has typically been to come down hard on the company at first but then back away. That was one of the the major plot points of the Gasland documentaries. Environmentalists and homeowners accuse the…
