After all of us and our children are dead, Texas will finally get this pesky ozone problem under control. That’s according to a state clean air plan that the Environmental Protection Agency just rejected but Texas environment officials are continuing to defend anyway. Texas environment officials, go pat yourself on…
Kristina Leisey’s former fiance sits in jail in Hopkins County on a drug-possession charge, his link to the world outside a telephone and frequent calls to her. “He’s trying to call every day, sometimes two or three times a day,” Leisey says. “He doesn’t understand how much it adds up…
A Dallas tow company called Longhorn Wrecker may soon owe the state $88,900 in fines over towing violations. Reached for comment a few weeks ago, a bitter company representative said it was “all bullshit” and that his company had never been in trouble before. He apparently wasn’t taking into account…
There are heroes all around Dallas. Today, let’s highlight the work of Ari Nessel, a developer who has decided against suddenly evicting all the residents of a Lake Highlands condo building he recently purchased. “Tremendous progress has been made, and it’s because of the pioneers like Mr. Nessel,” Dallas City…
Rich people, we learn time and time again, do not like living near tall buildings or lowlifes who rent their homes, even if those tall buildings are fancy condos, occupied by lowlife renters who are also rich. Of course, the well-to-do usually come up with a better excuse for why…
More proof that the white man is under attack: a bunch of local white supremacists are facing criminal charges for allegedly dealing meth in North Texas and beyond. As far as white supremacist drug gangs go, this one appears to be relatively diverse. Some of the people in the meth…
In October 2012, Travis County officials promised that bringing video visitation to the local jails wouldn’t affect anything else about jail visits. “We’re not changing anything else from what we’re doing,” Travis County Major Darren Long told the county commissioners before they voted to approve a contract with Securus, the…
In January, before many people were aware that a little-known corporation with the powers of eminent domain wanted to build a private toll road through the rural communities east of Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Hubbard, the Texas Department of Transportation was promising in a written agreement to help the…
Mobile home parks, at their best, offer community, safety and freedom for people who can’t afford to be tied down in a regular house but don’t want to be fleeced by a slumlord running a crumbling apartment complex. A Dallas commercial real estate company called Harvest Partners Ltd is doing…
At a condominium near Turtle Creek, there is a bitter, strange battle brewing between the building’s homeowners’ association and the domestic partner of one of the HOA’s members. In January, the 3081 Gilbert Homeowners’ Association felt so threatened by the man, they filed a lawsuit. The court filings start out…
Say what you will about Longhorn Wrecker, one of Dallas’ notorious towing companies, you can at least never accuse it of laziness. This is the same company that during the Dallas Gay Pride Parade five years ago descended on a post office nearby and towed a few dozen cars from…
Texas has exactly one good sized natural lake that we share with Louisiana, and it’s totally not getting flooded with oil right now, officials have assured us these last few weeks. On October 13, workers noticed crude oil leaking out of a pipeline and into a Louisiana bayou. The pipeline…
You want to live in Frisco’s Plantation Resort 2 neighborhood, you better keep your property looking good and fancy. Because Plantation Resort 2 isn’t going to put up with your shit. Here are Plantation Resort 2’s hardcore summer lawn-watering instructions: Although we are currently under water restrictions we cannot allow…
Every hour or so, the Save the Cabana Hotel Facebook page reminds its 900-plus followers to SAVE THE CABANA HOTEL. Dallas’ luxury Cabana Motor Hotel opened on Stemmons Freeway in 1962, and photographs on the fan page show legends like John Bonham and Robert Plant hanging out. The Beatles, Jimi…
North Texas’ regional transportation officials recently announced that they would no longer recommend forcing people out of their homes in the countryside northeast of Dallas to build another toll road, because it turned out that people didn’t like the idea. “We thought we had consensus that we should proceed in…
A little-known perk of being a Texas hospital is that if a broke accident victim visits you for emergency treatment, you get to lay claim to any money the victim wins through the courts later. It’s officially called a “hospital lien,” legal through a state statute that’s been on the…
Slip through the right series of loopholes and it can be perfectly legal to inject benzene into oil wells. Naturally, drillers in Texas figured this out thousands of gallons of benzene ago. Using data disclosed by the oil industry, a new report calculates all the benzene that is legally going…
From the beginning, the private toll road that would run parallel to Interstate 30 seemed like a sure thing, no matter how many people who lived in the way who said they didn’t want the road. “I think that maybe the ship has already sailed, and all these meetings out…
UPDATE: On Friday, the general contractor sent over a check covering the lien. “While this still does not cover the entirety of the missing wages, the payment is a victory for workers,” Workers Defense Project says in a statement. “By ensuring that workers are paid for their work, Aldi Supermarket…
Lead makes you dumber, even if you only eat or inhale just a little bit. (Don’t take my word for it, see what the scientists are saying). So when Frisco became one of 21 places in the country that failed lead-air quality standards that the feds implemented in 2008, people…
For the people who live in the countryside east of Lake Ray Hubbard and Lake Lavon, the appeal is in the quiet rural roads, dense trees, wild animals in the woods and bright stars shining in the night sky. To a Dallas company called the Texas Turnpike Corp., all that…
Marquis on Gaston is one of those faux-luxury apartment complexes plopped by one of Dallas’ cool neighborhoods (in this case, Deep Ellum), advertising itself with descriptors such as “gated community,” “suburban living in an urban environment,” “luxurious pool area,” “French patio doors,” “distinguished community” and the claim that “Marquis on…
