Sure, it might look like a developer wants to put three huge apartment complexes over existing business and homes in Oak Cliff, but that’s only because Alamo Manhattan published a map of three huge buildings over existing businesses and homes in Oak Cliff. It’s still all very preliminary, insist the…
If Dallas was once ashamed of being the city where President John F. Kennedy was murdered, little evidence of that remains in Dealey Plaza today. An “X” on Elm Street, marking the spot where gunshots hit his motorcade, is a popular place for tourists to dare traffic and pose for…
Now that Texas has passed a law says cities can’t ban fracking, it’s a fitting middle finger to fracking bans that an energy company would get to work in Denton, the city where voters passed the historic regulation that started this all. Vantage Energy resumed drilling in Denton on Monday…
Alamo Manhattan, the Dallas real estate firm that demolished the old Mason Bar in Uptown last year to build apartments, now has its sights set on Oak Cliff. Last week, the company asked City Hall for $11 million in tax incentives to built three five-story buildings in Oak Cliff. The…
You have a big coal plant in Texas and you want to make sure the states says you’re following the Clean Air Act, so you don’t get in trouble. How can you ensure that Texas regulators will give you the clearance you need? By telling them what to do. Correspondence…
Throughout the regular legislative session, which will finally end this weekend, Texas lawmakers have dreamed up all sorts of creative ways to stop women from getting abortions. Following the abortion bills in Texas is like playing a game of choose-your-own-adventure. What kind of pregnancy would you least want to go…
A teenager in Brownwood almost died after going into cardiac arrest and collapsing in P.E. class. In the hospital, the boy and his family tell CBS, he wasn’t breathing for 20 minutes. Just as doctors were ready to declare him dead, he started breathing again. “His recovery has been incredible,”…
At the end of April, Josh Gravens was testifying in Austin, lobbying to support legislation affecting the criminal justice world. One week later, Gravens was back home in Dallas, in the Frank Crowley criminal courthouse, facing his own criminal charges that may put him away for up to 25 years…
Lana Del Rey was supposed to play at the Gexa Energy Pavilion on Saturday, the second stop on her “Endless Summer” tour with Courtney Love. The official reason for why Lana Del Rey didn’t go on, announced over the intercom at the last possible minute, was severe weather, which had…
A post on the Bike Friendly Oak Cliff’s Facebook page indicates that some poor, unknown soul got a parking ticket at Klyde Warren Park. Not a car ticket, but a bicycle parking ticket. If you’ve ever ridden a bike in Dallas and then unsuccessfully looked for a place to park,…
You may or may not believe the popular theory that a second gunman targeted John F. Kennedy behind the grassy knoll, but it’s clear that another conspiracy has been brewing at Dealey Plaza. Robert Groden is the popular conspiracy-theorist author who brought the Zapruder film public in the ’70s and…
When Texas lawmakers banned abortions after 20 weeks in 2013, the ban wasn’t totally devoid of compassion for women. There were a few exceptions to the 20-week ban; for instance, abortions “that are performed on unborn children with severe fetal abnormalities” would still be allowed. For Representative Matt Schaefer, a…
Late at night on Santa Clara Drive, back in 2007, Carter Albrecht wasn’t acting like himself, his girlfriend would tell reporters afterward. Albrecht, a popular local musician who played in Sorta and Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, had been taking Chantix, the controversial smoking-cessation drug, and was drunk. He became…
We write so much about how uninsured women get screwed over by Texas lawmakers that we often forget about the women with health insurance. Did you know that some health insurance policies will actually cover an abortion? But maybe not for much longer!…
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that an oil and gas company can go ahead and sue an anti-fracking activist for defamation, because of course it did. Steve Lipsky is the Parker County homeowner famous for being able to light his water on fire after Range Resources started fracking near his…
On October 28, 2013, Brian Hunter received an invoice in the mail from the city of Dallas. One week earlier, Hunter was in solitary confinement in the City Detention Center. At 2:15 in the morning, a jailer found him unresponsive. An ambulance came and took Hunter to Baylor Hospital. At…
The Dallas cops who shot and killed a mentally ill man holding a screwdriver will not face charges, after a grand jury declined to indict Dallas Police Department Officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins. “The family is obviously severely disappointed,” attorney Geoff Henley told The Dallas Morning News. The news…
At the Dallas County jail, a local company’s attempt last year to end in-person visitations and replace them all with video chats was quickly foiled by local activists and politicians. But in Denton, the same plan recently went off without a hitch. Denton County and the video company Securus are…
On February 9, a dog was taken to the animal emergency room in Denton County. The dog had been “injured,” according minutes from the Denton County Commissioners Court, “while deputies of the Denton County Sheriff’s Office performed their patrol duties.”…
Sometime after 3 a.m. on February 5, at the Flats at Five Mile Creek apartments, a tow truck driver left his truck idling and walked away. He was looking for parking violations, police said. When the driver returned to his truck, a 27-year-old probation officer named Lance Lemons was sitting…
No detention center has bigger plans for illegal immigrants than the South Texas Family Center in Dilley. The center is run by the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America and is under expansion. By May 2015, the facility will be able to hold 2,400 people. “If this expansion proceeds, Dilley will…
In an East Dallas efficiency roughly the size of the prison cell where he once lived, John Whiteman has finally found a home. His neighbors in the rundown apartment building are former inmates like him. The apartments are like dorm rooms at what would be a very seedy college. A…
