Do you agree with #Obama’s decision to stop deporting illegal immigrants? chron.com/news/houston-t…— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 15, 2012 Today, President Barack Obama announced an executive order effective immediately that will protect undocumented immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought here as children from deportation for up to two…
Museum Tower and the Nasher Sculpture Center have been in mediation for months now to try to hammer out the Case of All That Incredibly Reflective Glass. In an interview with The Dallas Morning News today, Nasher architect Renzo Piano harshly criticized Museum Tower’s owners and developers, saying that in…
This is the type of weirdness that the re-boot of Dallas has created. The show premieres tonight on TNT — we’ll see you at the Angelika, right? — and in celebration, the channel and Groupon are giving away a deal that a journalism school grad turned Groupon copywriter predictably felt…
Someone has shown the Texas Democratic Party the video creator apps on YouTube, and the results are Lego George W. Bush, a joke about santorum (the frothy kind), a version of Rick Perry that looks like a rotund funeral home director and some jabs at sweater vests. Politicians, please start…
In news sure to inspire furious bickering inside your television, a Texas A&M study has found that the castle doctrine — on which Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law is based — does not deter crime and, in fact, increases murder rates. The killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by…
Last June, things got pretty busy around Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton’s farmhouse in Hardin, what with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, DPS and a half-dozen media outlets stopping by, as you see in the AP video above. What were they looking for? A mass grave containing 25…
Dallas police just announced that they’ve arrested one of the two men suspected in the May 28 robbery of a Metro PCS store. That man is George Tucker, and he can be seen in the video above waving a gun at the store employees, a male customer, and, at one…
Yesterday we wrote about Eccie.net, the apparently-local escort-review site that’s suing an anonymous blogger for libel. The blogger goes by the name of Ty Steel and has a whole host of accusations against Eccie: that its reviews are biased, that it’s run by “pimps,” that it participates in “human trafficking”…
Last month, five families sued the crime-scene cleanup company Aftermath Inc. and three of its north Texas employees. Three families had hired Aftermath to clean up after the suicide of a loved one, while the two others brought in the company after their family members were found dead several days…
On Eccie.net, the escorts are always known as “providers.” Visiting them is referred to as “the hobby,” as in, “I do most of my hobbying on the weekends.” This afternoon, some 5,700 “hobbyists” and prostitutes were chatting across thousands of message boards. Meanwhile, in a more remote corner of the…
Fort Worth Senator Wendy Davis announced this week that she’ll be teaming up with the Texas Department of Public Safety to remind state law enforcement agencies, once again, that a new law requires them to report how many untested rape kits they have in evidence. At the same time, she…
In late January, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance and a team of volunteers hit the city’s streets and shelters to count the homeless . The count is something hundreds of cities do each January as part of the requirements to receive federal funding, but it also helps MDHA understand where the…
Americans United For Life, one of the nation’s largest anti-abortion advocacy groups, has released its annual report, Defending Life 2012, complete with an enthusiastic blurb from Governor Rick Perry. On the whole, they seem very pleased with Texas and its “aggressive legislative action” to restrict abortion. Texas, they write, has…
In addition to being smutty and un-hip, the DFW area is now ranking way down at number 47 on the American College of Sports Medicine’s Fitness Index. And the bad news is that unlike some of the other lists we’ve been bitching about lately (looking at you, perv index) this…
Ever since Ted Cruz announced that Sarah Palin is endorsing him in his bid for Senate, we’ve been clustered around the office phone (we only have one), waiting patiently to hear a robo-call from ex-Alaska Governor Palin. It never came. That’s because, as it turns out, Palin’s calls may have…
The practice of law is a subtle art, one which requires finesse, tact, and skill. Sometimes too, we’ve learned, it necessitates calling the other guy’s lawyer a pansy, an asshole, an ignorant slut, and threatening, not very subtly, to sodomize him. (What’s with lawyers and threatening to sodomize people?) Martin…
On Friday, Dallas police reported that they were investigating the apparent overdose deaths of two students from Thomas Jefferson High School in March and April: 14-year-old Jaime Morales, who was found dead at his home in Northwest Dallas, and an unnamed 17-year-old, found dead in an apartment on Ferguson Road…
As Matthew Haag noted yesterday over at the Morning News’ education blog, DISD’s Citizen Budget Review Commission made several recommendations at last week’s board briefing for how the district might cut costs. The most eye-catching: consider getting rid of metal detectors in middle and high schools. The commission’s report calls…
An exhaustive new study has found alarming conditions for Texas teenagers housed in adult jails while awaiting trial, a practice that Dallas and Harris counties use more than anywhere else in the state. In essence, the study found that there’s really no good way to keep teens and adults safely…
In addition to sports team ownership and a sideline in media impresario-ness, Mark Cuban is quite the blogger: dishing out advice to the Occupy movement, fulminating about patent law, apologizing for some casual homophobia. And a few days ago, he aired his views on the small matter of student loan…
You’re probably still recovering from this weekend’s news that GCB, the all-cartoon character depiction of Dallas’s blonde and faithful, has been canceled. One Million Moms couldn’t be more pleased. They’re the American Family Association-backed protest group who’s been calling for the big-haired heads of the show’s cast since it first…
NorthPark mall can suck my ass w/ this 6 o’clock curfew bullshit!!#wtfisthis— ♥0V0♥X’0♥ (@_OptimisticSwag) May 10, 2012 Last week NorthPark Center, the fanciest mall outside of Vegas, announced it would institute a new curfew for teenagers: If you’re 17 and younger, no food court-ing or Forever 21-ing without a parent…
