Dallas — nay, America — has many good reasons to love Mark Cuban. He turned the Mavericks into NBA champions. He’s the most accessible billionaire in the universe. He yells at terrible refs on our behalf and feuds with the Perots. He was a disruptor before disrupting was cool. But…
Over the summer, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sided with Open Carry Tarrant County’s Kory Watkins and struck down as unconstitutional an Arlington city ordinance banning people from distributing literature — in his case copies of the Constitution — to passing motorists. According to a brief prepared by the city…
Last we checked, Mark Cuban was in “no rush to do anything” with the block of five estates he’s bought up over the past quarter century behind Ebby Halliday’s little white house at Preston and Northwest Highway. But something’s changed in the past eight months. In September, Cuban closed on…
You heard it here first: Former Dallas City Council member Linda Koop next month will waltz to victory in her Texas House race. We know this not because Koop is running as a Republican in a North Dallas district that, aside from an anomalous Democratic victory in the pre-Tea Party…
Four-and-a-half years ago, Mayor Tom Leppert stood overlooking the old Trinity River channel, now a forlorn muddy course that snakes through the Design District, and unveiled Turtle Creek Plaza, a handsome semi-circle of concrete adorned with a red water fountain that very much resembles a fire hydrant and a blue…
With the mountains of tips the Dallas Police Department fields on any given day, and with finite resources forcing the department to prioritize and decide which leads to follow up on and which to put on the back-burner, it’s only reasonable for a concerned citizen to wonder how to make…
Get caught with a joint in Dallas this afternoon and you’ll find yourself being chauffeured to Lew Sterrett in the back of a squad car. Get caught with a joint in Dallas this January and you may well escape with a ticket and a stern admonition to show up in…
Dallas Weekly, one of the city’s main black-owned newspapers, just published its latest issue online. The issue date suggests the cover was designed pre-ebola, but the timing of the email blast they just put out is … unfortunate…
For now, the occupants of the Vickery Meadow apartment where patient Thomas Eric Duncan was staying are hunkered down in their ebola-tainted quarters while a Hazmat team scrubs the unit and the rest of Dallas preps for the end times. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins told reporters in a conference…
Earlier this week, we spent some time examining why Preston Center, the aging shopping center floating on a sea of Park Cities/Preston Hollow riches, sucks so hard. Little did we know that Crow Holdings already had a plan to fix it. With a skybridge. Last December, Crow purchased the old…
Equest CEO Patrick Bricker couldn’t have designed a better spot for a new headquarters. The land, 238 sprawling acres of pasture just off Lake Ray Hubbard in Rowlett, checked all the boxes: close enough to the nonprofit’s current home in Wylie to be convenient to its existing base of therapeutic…
Anyone who’s attempted to navigate the intersection of Preston and Northwest Highway at rush hour will have had ample opportunity while sitting through multiple cycles of the stop light to contemplate one of North Dallas’ most enduring paradoxes. Here, at the spot where the Park Cities and Preston Hollow converge…
Somewhere in Preston Hollow, Laura Miller is wiping clean the dagger with which she eviscerated two proposed apartment developments at Preston Road and Northwest Highway. Developer Luke Crosland has officially abandoned plans for Highland House, a 27-story high-rise he wanted to build behind Hopdoddy in Preston Center. On the northeast…
Breathe easy, Texas. Your long-term transportation needs — the one lawmakers and policy experts have been fretting about for years — have officially been solved. The masses, in their wisdom, which the Texas Transportation Institute has distilled in a just-published survey, have settled on a sure-fire way to address the…
When the State Fair of Texas transformed a kitschy 50-foot Santa Claus into an cadaverous, hollow-eyed cowpoke six decades ago, we did nothing. When Big Tex was resurrected last year following his grisly self-immolation, creepy grin and all, we did nothing still. But there comes a time when civic duty…
It’s really easy to recycle in Dallas if you live in a house. Just dump that unsorted mass of old newspapers, empty soda cans and milk cartons into a cavernous blue bin, drag it to the curb and let one the city’s lumbering dump trucks haul it away. For those…
Arlington City Council member Robert Rivera can rattle off scores of reasons why his constituents think the city should pull the plug on its red-light cameras. They worry about Big Brother’s growing omniscience and the privatization of policing, or object to the government making a revenue grab while cloaking it…
One of Downtown Dallas’ oldest buildings, a 129-year-old Romanesque Revival structure at 1611 Main St., was razed on Sunday to make way for an expansion of The Joule hotel, the latest in a line of historic Dallas structures sacrificed on the altar of progress. A few blocks to the southeast,…
Opposition to the Trinity Toll Road hasn’t quite reached the torrential flood that will be needed to sweep it into oblivion, but there’s at least a decent-sized stream that’s been growing, drop by drop as former supporters realize it’s a terrible idea. This morning, the Texas Public Interest Research Group…
There were several points on Thursday when City Plan Commission members came dangerously close to debating whether City Hall should be allowed to get away with eviscerating several dozen acres of post-oak savanna, in violation of its own zoning rules, so rich people can go golfing. Luckily for the city’s…
Our apologies to WFAA’s Brett Shipp. After a lengthy run as our favorite local investigative TV journalist — occasionally prone to hyperbole, sure, but a fantastic reporter with the proper evening-news mix of charm and obnoxiousness — he has been displaced. That coveted spot in our heart now goes to…
Last night in Houston two masked men, armed with a revolver and a shotgun, stormed a Denny’s and raided the cash register. The same scene has played out on security footage at dozens of Houston-area IHOPs and Denny’s, albeit occasionally with bloodshed. Houston police officer James Taylor, testifying before a…
