When Dallas Police Chief David Brown quietly changed department policy to give cops who open fire on suspects three full days before making a statement, the rationale was that studies show that the stress an officer experiences during such an event can negatively affect their immediate recollection of it. It’s…
Marlise Munoz is, as she has been for the past two months, in a Fort Worth hospital bed, being kept alive by machines. A Tarrant County judge could decide tomorrow whether she is legally dead, thus allowing her family to pull the plug as they all agree she would have…
ESPN Dallas’ Jean-Jacques Taylor has a glowing profile of SMU men’s basketball coach Larry Brown. Brown, Taylor explains, has built a recruiting pipeline that’s already funneling top local talent (Kimball’s Keith Frazier, Prime Prep’s Emmanuel Mudiay) to the Mustangs. He’s helped score a TV contract with ESPN. He’s put together…
For those who think free speech is an absolute right that shouldn’t be lightly trifled with, this morning’s City Council meeting offered an unpleasant spectacle. It wasn’t so much that the council voted 10-4 to pass an ordinance outlawing “conduct that is intended to distract the attention of motorists” (i.e…
This morning, the Dallas City Council unanimously approved a $3.3 million contract, mostly for pulling tires from the Trinity River. Everyone agreed that the thousands of abandoned tires that litter the greenbelt (3,000 were recovered during a minor city-led cleanup last summer) need to be removed. The discussion, then, turned…
Water levels in Lake Texoma are plummeting, beaching marinas, revealing heretofore submerged signs of human habitation and turning once-pleasant stretches of water into desolate moonscapes. Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which administers the lake and controls outflow through the Denison Dam, chalk up Texoma’s depleted state to…
As far as we know, Texas Governor Rick Perry and conservative radio host Sean Hannity are still staunchly opposed to gay marriage. That said, it was impossible to glean that from the way they cooed over one another on Hannity’s radio show this afternoon. Hannity, you see, is planning to…
The Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater may have suggested that Wendy Davis owes her success to her ex-husband, but he did so subtly and in the context of an article that outlines small but significant discrepancies in the rags-to-riches autobiography she’s been peddling on the campaign trail. The Internet and…
In the end, it was unanimous. Each member of the Dallas City Council voted this morning to hire A.C. Gonzalez as city manager. Gonzalez, a 15-year veteran at City Hall, has been serving as interim city manager since Mary Suhm stepped down last year. His role in the Uber scandal…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have done it. Using science, they’ve confirmed your deepest suspicion: Southlake really is the worst. In this case, it’s not the exceptionally high number of traffic tickets they hand out. It’s the exceptionally large amount of carbon dioxide (90.8 tons) the average Southlaker…
The United Methodist Church, much like the state of Texas, does not approve of gay marriage — or, for that matter, of any divergence from the Adam & Eve model of human sexuality set down in Genesis. The UMC’s official rulebook says that “sexual relations are affirmed only with the…
Naming a street for Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps the easiest way a city can express its approval of the civil rights movement. Aside from whatever pittance is required to update maps and street signs, it’s completely painless, particularly since it doesn’t require any actual effort to address stubborn…
Damn you, Flower Mound. In December, your mayor, Tom Hayden, stops a Town Council meeting and proclaims 2014 the “Year of the Bible,” thus setting the stage for a battle that can only logically end in Jesus and Richard Dawkins brawling in a no-holds-barred MMA throwdown — an event we…
It’s not entirely clear from federal court documents when Jesse Brister earned the nickname “Bozo.” Probably, it was around the time he became a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. In any case, he’s earned it. He proved it upfront when he joined an organization whose members have a…
Around 2 o’clock this morning Charles Pace, a 74-year-old grandfather, went to Denny’s on North Central Expressway to grab a bite to eat. Though just a few blocks from his apartment complex, he never made it inside. Before he could reach the door, he told police, he was jumped, set…
There was a brief time, not all that long ago, when discountmedspa.com was the Internet’s go-to place for gray market botulinum toxin, that Mansfield’s Laurie D’Alleva could call herself the Botox Queen. Then, Wired stumbled upon her site — and the how-to videos featuring D’Alleva injecting the product into her…
Dallas, we know you suck at coping with cold weather and that you would much prefer to step into a warm car on a winter morning. Trust us. We feel the same way. But leaving an unwatched car idling on a Dallas street is like wrapping a steak in bacon,…
This week, The Dallas Morning News is profiling the three finalists to become Dallas’ next city manager. Yesterday, it was interim City Manger/Uber crusher A.C. Gonzalez. Tomorrow, it’s Oakland City Administrator Deanna Santana’s turn. But today? Today belonged to David Cooke, who recently retired as the head bureaucrat in Wake…
It was inevitable, really. Some lawmaker, surfing the outrage stoked by the wrist-slap handed down to 16-year-old Ethan Couch for drunkenly running over four people in Burleson last summer, was bound to propose a law attacking his novel “affluenza” defense. It’s just weird that it would happen in California. On…
Nothing gets the cash flowing into a Texas Republican’s re-election campaign quite like a plot by coastal liberal elites to turn Texas into a dystopian failed state that will probably be powered by aborted fetuses. So the fundraising email Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst sent on Wednesday urging supporters to “stand…
This past legislative session, a schism emerged in Texas’ pro-life movement. Suddenly, some of the state’s staunchest abortion opponents, including many who helped shepherd Texas’ sweeping crackdown on the procedure into law, found themselves tarred as anti-life. The reason? They supported a bill to reform end-of-life care. The measure, which…
This, no matter what the DART-phobic among you might assume, is not what the average bus ride is like. Nor is it what your average DART driver is like. Sure, most are less than jovial, and that sidelong glance they cast as you step on board could be interpreted as…
