On Tuesday, you saw a glimpse of Dallas’ garbage future. The city’s long-term solid waste plan had some relatively progressive ideas — mandatory recycling, a plastic bag ban and “zero waste,” for example — but those won’t even be up for actual discussion for another couple of decades. Once the…
Just after 8 o’clock this morning, I was riding to work, as I always do, along the Sante Fe Trail. I’d just passed Woodrow and was riding along the fields at Randall Park when I heard pop, pop on my left. It sounded like when a squirrel drops a half-eaten…
Google “Oak Farms reward” and you’ll get a lot of hits, recent news articles mostly with headlines like “Oak Farms offers $10,000 reward in murder of Arlington couple,” “Reward offered in hairdresser’s murder,” “Oak Farms Dairy offers reward in DART retiree murder.” Most recently, it was $10,000 for the arrest…
In the heady days of early 2007, then-Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks added another major sports franchise to his portfolio with the £435 million purchase of Liverpool F.C. He and his partner, George Gillett, promised to deliver grand things, first-and-foremost a brand-new stadium, but what they did…
The North Texas Tollway Authority has made headlines of late for slapping outrageous fees on civilians and veterans alike, publicly shaming them, then threatening to sue and boot their cars. But really, the agency wants you to know, it’s not the bogeyman some people make it out to be. It’s…
First, a word of caution. If someone cold-calls you, says they’re a police officer, then asks you to withdraw a large some of cash from the bank so they can see if it’s counterfeit, don’t do it. Chances are, they’re not actually a cop and you’re never going to find…
Outside Cowboys Stadium, near entrance E, is a black, marble bench. As things that are black and marble tend to do, the bench gets hot when exposed to the summer sun. Jennelle Carrillo says she discovered this the hard way when, on August 10, 2010, she sat down to wait…
Four years ago, Cheri was on a parking shuttle at DFW Airport on her way home after a long trip to New York. The shuttle was operated by The Parking Spot, which seems irrelevant but is important to the story, probably more so than it should be. Anyways, the driver…
Update at 11:45 a.m.: Never mind. Police just retracted the $10,000 reward. “Detectives are working on potential information,” they said via news release, which I assume means they have a possible lead. Original post: Police still don’t know who shot 40-year-old Yayehyirad Lemma and 31-year-old Yenenesh Desta on the front…
Both my parents went to SMU, and I even went to a few sporting events growing up. But I claim total ignorance of SMU’s apparently proud tailgating tradition. Er, I mean Boulevarding tradition. Either way, the school does it well, according to Southern Living, which ranked SMU as one of…
Zahed Lateef was a born entrepreneur. His family emigrated to the United States from India as a kid, and he was soon hard at work. He established a lawn-mowing business when he was 11 then, after graduating from high school a year early, launched a company that bought and sold…
In March, with the U.S. playing El Salvador for a spot in the London Olympics, Brek Shea coughed up the ball late in the game, setting up a game-tying goal that cost his team a trip to London. He wasn’t called back up to the national team, marking, as Greg…
It’s the middle of a summer morning at Eban Village Apartments, and a half-dozen or so teenagers are gathered in the old leasing office of the nondescript complex two blocks south of Fair Park. A couple of them tool around on a bicycle stand, a couple more idle in a…
There have been 111 documented human cases of the West Nile Virus in the city of Dallas this year, a full quarter of cases nationwide. The county declared a state of emergency a couple of days ago and, this morning, Mayor Mike Rawlings followed suit this morning. That puts the…
Last June, Angela Hunt and Scott Griggs went to the Trinity River Overlook and gazed down at the empty floodplain below. Wouldn’t it be nice, they thought, if there was a network of trails down there that came up and over the levee and connected with all of Dallas’ other…
Last month, Texas’ prison population was right at 154,000, the lowest its been in five years. Lower crime rates, an aging population, and alternative treatments have all contributed to the decline. But as the Star-Telegram noted yesterday, the drop hasn’t been enough to spare Texas the dubious distinction of locking…
When zebra mussels found their way to Lake Ray Roberts last month, or, more precisely, when wildlife officials found that they had found their way there, Dallas let out a collective “Oh, crap.” The invasive bivalves were easy to ignore when they were the plague of the Great Lakes and…
I was already asleep last night when — or maybe until — all the storms rolled in last night. Justin Terveen wasn’t, which is how he was able to snap the pic above. A couple of dozen pics, actually, all merged together. He titled it Chaos…
Two years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Completion by Design, a $35 million program aimed at dramatically increasing the graduation rates of community college students. The money was parceled out to nine target states, Texas among them. The Texas group was spearheaded by the Lone Star College…
It’s an easy thing for a state to rationalize. Every year, the percentage of Texas residents who are technically obese inches up slightly. It’s just by a percentage point or so, so maybe it’s a rounding error or a gravitational anomaly that affects every Texans’ scale. Besides, who doesn’t overindulge…
Best case scenario: The world’s largest retailer builds a spaceship that allows humanity to flee a trash-choked planet and spend several centuries growing ever fatter and lazier on an interstellar cruise, unwitting captives to a self-aware computer, until an oddly adorable trash-compacting robot unshackles us from our digital overlord and…
Media outlets in Chicago are reporting this morning that Brianna Gardner, a 22-year-old from Dallas, was fatally shot in the head in an upscale Chicago hotel. Gardner’s body was discovered in her seventh-floor room by the Whitehall Hotel housekeeping staff. One guest told the Chicago Tribune they heard a gunshot…
