It’s a shame, really, that Dallas never got to know what 635 is like without massive amounts of construction and with those groundbreaking TEXpress lanes fully operational. Alas, the freeway has fallen, overtaken by a traffic phenomenon completely unknown to science. NBC 5 producer Ashley Lowell Doussard is tweeting photos…
Texas — or at least its lawmakers — is not fond of Tesla, the electric car seller. In 2013, lawmakers blocked a bill that would have allowed the company to bypass auto dealers and sell directly to consumers. For Tesla the car manufacturer — the one that just put Texas…
In case you missed the September 2012 issue of Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, here’s a heads up: phenazepam, a powerful anti-anxiety drug sometimes sold as “Zannie” or “bonsai,” is hitting the U.S. streets. It’s not exactly a new product — it was developed in the 1970s by Soviet scientists to…
It’s not impossible to see how voters, first in West Texas (1962), then in southern New Mexico (1968), might have decided to send Ed Foreman to Congress. He has a hypnotic stage presence and exudes a folksy charisma, complete with an endless supply of homespun anecdotes. Also pretty easy to…
Two years ago, no one had a clue what Erika Perdue had on her computer. Not her intellectual-property lawyer husband. Not her University Park neighbors. Her neon green Camaro with the “My Syn” license plates certainly raised some eyebrows, but no one suspected she was into child porn. Then, in…
In further proof that Mike Rawlings’ tendency to craft major policy initiatives in secret is ruffling feathers at City Hall, some (or at least one) City Council member is pushing back against the mayor’s newly hatched plan to curb Dallas’ meat consumption. The blowback comes on the heels of Rawlings’…
Let’s be honest: Apart from some obligatory references to the Emerald Isle’s patron saint and the enthusiastic embrace of Ireland’s most famous pastime (binge drinking), there’s nothing terribly Irish about Dallas’ St. Patrick’s Day celebration. For revelers, it’s about getting hammered; for the Greenville Avenue bars and restaurants that sponsor…
A significant chunk of America’s uninsured population lives in Texas, and a lot of those people live in the Dallas area. That’s partly because Texas refused to expand Medicaid, which has left a million-plus people too rich to qualify for government insurance but too poor to get subsidies to buy…
Dallas’ St. Patrick’s Day parade and party on Greenville Avenue this weekend was, for all the drinking and debauchery, generally peaceful. According to the final tally Dallas PD sent out on Saturday evening, police arrested seven people for public intoxication and one for DWI, handed out 125 parking tickets, and…
Going into Sunday, most experts considered SMU a lock to make its first NCAA tournament in 20 years, even after losing to a mediocre University of Houston team in the opening round American Athletic Conference tourney. They beat four Top 25 teams, including a season sweep of UConn. They went…
At the time, we never did get an official explanation for why DFW NORML was barred from participating in last year’s Dallas St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival. Presumably, it was like the marijuana group said at the time: Organizers simply didn’t think weed meshed with the event’s new “family-friendly”…
Non-journalists don’t understand how hard it is to be a newspaper columnist. It takes years, sometimes decades, of ink-stained toil in drab newsrooms. One by one, the hacks fall by the wayside. Only a select few have the talent and perseverance to be admitted to the pantheon and allowed the…
In case you haven’t been following one of the stupider developments of the primary election cycle — and there have been plenty to choose from — Buc-ee’s is officially an issue in the race to become Texas’ next lieutenant governor. To recap: Buc-ee’s is a chain of enormous roadside convenience…
Members of the Tri Delta sorority never technically own the diamond-studded star-and-crescent pins they are given upon initiation. They are merely caretakers, required to return the badges to the national organization upon their death, unless the executive board grants a special exception. That explains how Delta Delta Delta’s Arlington headquarters…
Attention Rockwall: We are receiving reports that Bigfoot is inside of you. According to the horrendous photoshop job photographic evidence above, he is currently perusing your quaint downtown. DO NOT BE ALARMED. Renowned Sasquatch chaser and Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. founder Tom Biscardi is en route from California and is…
Here’s an idea. What if, instead of maxing out its credit card on a road-building spree, Texas took care of the roads it already has? Crazy talk, right? If the past decade has proved anything, it’s that the state’s fiscal conservatism ends as soon as the asphalt begins. So who,…
When Allen ISD announced two weeks ago that its brand-new, $60 million high school football stadium had developed cracks in the concourse, it was clear that someone had screwed up in epic fashion. One doesn’t shut something down, disrupt graduation ceremonies, and call every reporter in earshot to a press…
It took more than a year and two special sessions to do it, but last July, the Texas legislature finally provided a constitutional option for punishing teen murderers. In Texas, 17-year-olds are treated as adults for purposes of criminal law, which previously meant that those convicted of capital murder were…
David Moorman isn’t old, at least not by any modern standard. The Fort Worth man is in his mid-50s, still nearly a decade away from reaching Medicare eligibility, still in command of all his faculties, and he still has several years of productive employment ahead of him. According to the…
I’m not going to say whether my bike ride this morning, straight into a patch of freshly laid concrete, was an intentional but poorly executed attempt to leave leave an indelible mark on University Park (think a child’s sidewalk hand print, except with no hands and one ass), or whether…
The underground sex economy in Dallas, you probably won’t be surprised to know, is thriving. Not thriving quite like the local trade in drugs ($191 million per year) or guns ($171 million), but it’s substantial, pulling in an estimated $98.9 million per year. That’s at least the figure reached in…
You can buy anything with Bitcoin (pictured above) these days: A sandwich; art; insurance. And, until yesterday, at least, you could also buy shares in Texas oil wells. The oil well shares were offered by a Southlake company called Balanced Energy, which, according to its website, is currently offering a…
