Remember all of the awesome details from the 2008 Democratic primary race in Texas between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? No? Weird. Well the short version of that story is that Clinton won Texas. The longer version is that a businessman from Washington D.C spent hundreds of thousands of secret…
From its website, City Trapping comes off as slick, big ol’ hog-snatchin’ company, with a perfectly corporate “About Us” description: “We help alleviate your destructive feral hog problems in a secure, safe, and humane process.” But it’s actually just one guy, hunting-loving business owner Osvaldo Rojas, who does all the…
Deion Sanders, who has accused other NFL athletes of faking their head injuries for money, is cognitively impaired, four doctors have determined. Sanders has had no problem using his pedestal as a Hall of Famer and television analyst to talk shit about other former NFL players suffering brain damage. “The…
The Dallas and Arlington Police Departments have found Alan Mason, who they’re calling a “person of interest” in the serial rapist case that’s been haunting the Fair Park area this summer. Mason’s arrest comes after two more victims of sexual assault came forward this week. The most recent victim to…
Not long after police announced that a ninth women had come forward as a victim of a serial rapist prowling South Dallas, and a few hours before they would identify 29-year-old Alan Mason as a person of interest in the assaults, residents packed into a community meeting hosted by Dallas…
Is the gas industry mature enough to have a serious discussion with the American public about hydraulic fracturing, one that explores the benefits of domestic natural gas drilling but also carefully considers methane leaks, groundwater contamination, earthquakes and other potential risks that peer-reviewed research has linked to fracking activity? Fracking…
Frisco residents worried about a power company’s plan to install high-voltage power lines above ground next to their homes have been frustrated by the company’s handling of their complaints in recent weeks, but this morning they can celebrate a momentary victory: Their city council last night passed a resolution opposing…
Pretend you busted your checking account and fell behind a few days on your rent. Would you feel safer if your landlord let a towing company take your car away? That’s the gist of an organization called the Texas Association of Safer Apartment Communities, a safety association landlords can join…
Just as the Dallas City Council shot down an energy company’s plans to drill for gas in the city limits, a new study raises further questions about the role energy exploration plays in small earthquakes shaking up Texas. Earlier research has linked quakes to the disposal of fracking fluid. So…
On Monday, the same day a big new elementary school re-opened in Jubilee Park, a woman who lives near the school called us from the hospital. She said her husband was recovering from a heart attack. “He’s been kind of a silent partner with this fight,” Norma Hernandez tells Unfair…
Local officials talk a good game about killing mosquitoes this West Nile season, but are they doing enough to warn us before they unleash mosquito-killing insecticides in our neighborhoods? These are insecticides that, as we’ve covered, might not be so good for people to breathe in. City Hall’s own website…
Readers, have you ever purchased coke or meth from a man named Yayo? If so, stop reading, get on a Greyhound and immediately get out of town. For the rest of you: “Yayo” was the subtle nickname of a convicted drug dealer named Sergio Moreno Vidales, a former Dallas resident…
Now that Dallas finally has a Trader Joe’s, we can more easily eat all-natural, non-GMO, pesticide-free veggies and meat that roamed freely across organic pastures before it was gently killed, right? Actually, no. Trader Joe’s is one of those grocery stores that seems all organic-y, because it has tasteful decorations,…
The Madera Lakeside apartments in north Arlington have the cookie-cutter look of much of suburban North Texas, a series of low-rise buildings in various shades of beige with a name (“Lakeside!”) that doesn’t quite match reality (an oversized puddle). The road it sits on, Brown Boulevard, is curvy, narrow and…
“You look nervous,” is how Deion Sanders greets me, loudly, as we meet me for the first time. I am not nervous. “That’s just the way my face looks,” I respond. He says that I look fine but definitely nervous. I am confused. We are standing in a fancy indoor…
Fat Texas residents are slowly realizing that they should bike more, according to a Texas Tribune article co-published in The New York Times this weekend. Sourcing mostly “city officials,” the report comes to the conclusion that fat Texans are biking more thanks to the efforts of — you guessed it…
A new, bullshit list has found that University Park is the most walkable neighborhood in all of Dallas-Fort Worth. Highland Park comes next and Addison ranks third. And then the list ends. Well, that settles it then. Come on Uptown, Oak Lawn, Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville and all of Oak…
Bad news from Eat the Yard, the army veterans-turned-organic local gardeners who were on our cover a few weeks ago: they think that four of their seven gardens got hit with the toxic insecticides the city has been spraying to kill West Nile-infected mosquitoes. To be safe, Eat the Yard…
Wendy Davis, the “Abortion Superstar,” is jerking our chains a little bit. She still won’t say whether she’ll run for governor in 2014 or just re-election for her seat in the Texas senate. But a Texas lobbyist with “credible sources” has posted on his blog that she’s definitely gunning to…
The prosecutor asked Alan VanHoozer how he knew Heather. “I’m Heather’s father,” Alan said, his voice struggling to finish the sentence. Not long after, he broke down and cried. Heather VanHoozer was 24 when she was killed by a drunk driver almost a year ago. She was supposed to start…
It’s no secret that the gentleman buying you tons of free drinks doesn’t give a crap about your health, safety, or even how much you like drinking. He’s just making a calculated investment, figuring that you’re more likely to have sex with him after you have $30 worth of vodka…
We want to kill the mosquitoes, but we don’t want to kill the bees. Is it possible for Dallas health officials to process those two competing ideas in their heads at once? Let’s hope so. Last year, Dallas sprayed an insecticide that killed everything — the mosquitoes and the bees…
