Dallas has, for the most part, missed out on the North Texas population explosion that has taken place over the past dozen years or so. While the region as a whole grew by 22 percent between 2000 and 2012, and exurbs like Frisco and McKinney more than doubled in size,…
It may have been mostly a publicity stunt — see the press release and accompanying bicep-flexing, lipstick-wearing photo — but Jen Welter and the Texas Revolution made history in Allen on Saturday. Welter, a 36-year-old veteran of the Women’s Football Alliance, became the first-ever woman to play running back in…
Later this morning, gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott will stumping at a Tex-Mex joint in Denton. At his side: rocker/conservative troll Ted Nugent. For a candidate aiming to be taken seriously, Nugent, who has called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel” and “piece of shit” who should “suck on my machine gun,”…
Dallas police officer Joshua Burns is alive right now in part because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, because alleged shooter Rakeem Perkins didn’t hit his head, because he was rushed to Baylor Medical Center, where trauma doctors tended the wounds on leg and shoulder. He’s also alive because, when…
Amongst the stack of campaign literature that showed up in my mailbox on Saturday, two fliers caught my eye. One featured photograph of a smiling, competent-looking Tammy Kemp, a top administrator in District Attorney Craig Watkins’ office currently running for judge in the 204th Criminal District Court. The other showed…
There’s a formula — there has to be — that every sports columnist is taught during his or her days as a cub reporter that goes something like famous professional athlete + baseless speculation that he’ll land on local sports team = diamond-encrusted gold! That’s OK. When properly executed and…
There’s not a lot of what Michael Pollan would call “food” at South Dallas’ KSO Dollar Mart. Plenty of beer, wine and hair care products, according to the signs out front, but not much by way of whole grains or fresh produce. The store nevertheless did a thriving business in…
You probably haven’t heard of Chris Mapp, a South Texas boat salesman and one of the six also-rans challenging John Cornyn in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, and here’s hoping you never have occasion to hear of him again after March 4. If you do, chances are disconcertingly high…
Fired Dallas Voice editor John Wright’s feud with his former employer didn’t end with the parting shots he delivered here and elsewhere, nor with the launch of Lone Star Q, Wright’s new online news venture. It’s simmered on, first in hearings last fall before the Texas Workforce Commission, where Wright…
There’s a lot of buzz right now in Preston Hollow over a plan to redevelop the northeast corner of Preston Road and Northwest Highway, currently home to an oddly dumpy apartment complex and rows of considerably less-dumpy town homes, into a few hundred luxury apartments. Most of it is negative…
Robert Hamilton, 72, was walking down the 2900 block of Jeffries Street in South Dallas at 4 p.m. on Thursday when he was approached by a group of five boys. ‘Hey old man,” they called to him, according to a police report. “You got some money?” Hamilton did have money,…
In retrospect, the Dallas Country Club’s reluctance to admit then-Texas Ranger Alex Rodriguez seems less an expression of racial exclusivity than an act of justifiable caution regarding a man who would in short order become one of the most universally loathed figures in professional sports. That doesn’t make it any…
The easy response to news that the city of Dallas is giving a $275,000 “forgiveable loan” to the owners of South Dallas’ Two Podners Bar-B-Que and Seafood is to dismiss it as crony capitalism. One of them must have a friend on the City Council who decided they needed a…
Today is International Condom Day. Dallas City Councilman Dwaine Caraway celebrated by holding up a bunch of condoms at City Hall. There were a million of them in all, donated by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a meaningful gesture given the alarming rate at which Dallas County’s poor people are contracting…
When he gets out of federal lockup, Michael Allen Watson may want to consider finding a new line of work. His current vocation — counterfeiting money using computer printers — isn’t working out so well. Six years ago, the U.S. Secret Service raided Watson’s Dallas home after a pit bull…
It’s been six months since the Dallas City Council rejected applications from Trinity East Energy to drill for natural gas on city-owned land it had paid $19 million to lease five years earlier. But no one really expected that to be the end of the fight. The company had spent…
U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia didn’t hand down any ruling Wednesday following a hearing on two Texas couples’ lawsuit challenging Texas’ gay-marriage ban. A decision, on whether to grant the couples’ request for a preliminary injunction blocking Texas’ constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex unions, “will be forthcoming at some time,” he…
Sometimes, the Dallas City Council does something important, say passing a budget or regulating natural gas drilling. More often, they spend ungodly amounts of time doing things like arguing about whether a single billboard should be allowed to advertise for condoms or strip clubs. That happened today for a full…
Ronnie’s Catfish & More is delicious. How delicious? This delicious: According to Dallas police, a man walked into the Ronnie’s location on Red Bird Lane at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday. “What can I get for six bucks?” he asked. He ordered a two-piece catfish basket ($4.69 plus tax, includes fries, pickles,…
Back in the ’80s, Prestonwood Country Club opened a course in Plano known as The Hills. To irrigate the greens and fairways, they pumped water out of Indian Creek. What the folks at Prestonwood didn’t know at the time, or else chose to ignore, was that the water they were…
For a glimpse at how a Republican can turn a relatively moderate stance on immigration into a winning (or, at the very least, not suicidal) political issue, look at State Representative Jason Villalba. Read the meditation he penned for The Dallas Morning News in which the 42-year-old wonders how to…
Dallas County Constable Beth Villareal is in the middle of a tough reelection bid. She knows this. You can tell she knows because she sued challenger Susan Lopez-Craig because her name was too Hispanic. It would seem prudent, then, at least until the March 4 primary, for Villareal to avoid…
