Dallas Will Decide on Plastic-Bag Ban in March. For Real This Time.

March. That’s when the Dallas City Council will finally decide whether to ban single-use plastic (and paper) bags. That was the takeaway from today’s council briefing on the subject, the umpteenth since Councilman Dwaine Caraway launched his crusade last March. For the first hour of the meeting, it looked as…

Wendy Davis Didn’t Actually Mock Greg Abbott for Being Paralyzed

When campaign fundraising totals for the Texas governor’s race were announced on Tuesday, Wendy Davis’ team celebrated that their $12.2 million haul bested Greg Abbott’s $11.5 million. Abbott’s team accused her of “fuzzy math” for counting $3.5 million donated to the Texas Victory Committee, which splits its funds between the…

FC Dallas’ 2014 Season Is Already Looking Grim

Full disclosure: I don’t follow Major League Soccer, and I’ve never been to an FC Dallas game. The one and only time I’ve been to Frisco was when my future wife dragged me to IKEA. So, when I say that the coming season doesn’t look promising, I’m not passing judgment…

Dallas Police Chief David Brown Refuses to Stop Live-Tweeting Cop Firings

Anyone who follows Dallas Police Chief David Brown on Twitter or Facebook knows that during the department’s semi-regular disciplinary hearings he posts details about the punishment handed down to misbehaving officers. A Dallas Police Association attorney briefly raised a stink about it last March, but the practice has generally been…

Chung Kim Gets Life in Prison for Dog Poop Murder

Chung Kim might look like someone’s kindly grandpa, but the 76-year-old has a helluva mean streak. His former boss knew this; when Kim was laid off from his job in 2001, he allegedly pulled a weapon. So did his neighbors, several of whom he allegedly threatened with murder over the…

Texas Is Mulling a Ban on Pouring Gasoline into Rattlesnake Burrows

At some unknown point in the not-too-distant past, after the advent of the internal combustion engine, human beings discovered that pouring volatile chemicals into underground burrows made it much, much easier to hunt rattlesnakes and other critters. The practice, aptly called “gassing,” caught on and has been in use in…