Southwest Airlines Won’t End Its SeaWorld Partnership

SeaWorld has taken a bit of a beating recently as the backlash from CNN’s Blackfish documentary, which lays bare the cruel folly of keeping killer whales in captivity and forcing them to entertain the masses. To a lesser extent, so has Southwest Airlines, which has a longstanding partnership with the…

Plano Loves Its New Liquor Stores

The advent of liquor stores in Plano has not transformed the suburb into a downtown Dallas-like pit of moral depravity, as some naysayers had predicted in the lead-up to last May’s local-option election. The level of debauchery is about the same as it’s always been. On the other hand, contrary…

Dallas State Rep. Jason Villalba Makes a Play for Sriracha

When Denton City Councilman Kevin Roden first made his pitch to bring Sriracha to North Texas last October, it seemed like an impossible long shot. What chance did a lone municipal official, bearing no tax breaks or economic development incentives, have of convincing the manufacturer of the most delicious condiment…

The Biggest Speed-Trap Cities in North Texas

Maybe the street was deserted and you decided to open up the throttle. Maybe a tree branch was blocking the flashing school zone sign, or you didn’t notice the cop as you rolled through the stop sign. Whatever the particulars of the situation, practically every driver knows the flush of…

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Issues Mea Culpa for Obamacare Takedown

This fall, as the growing stack of policy cancellations was giving the lie to Obama’s ill-considered “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” promise, newspaper editors across the country were simultaneously barking at reporters to dig up Obamacare horror stories, and fast. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s…

Texas Narrowly Avoided a Series of Rolling Blackouts This Morning

Congratulations, Texas. You successfully averted a morning of rolling power blackouts. Less than an hour after ERCOT, the state’s power-grid manager, issued an emergency alert pleading with customers to conserve electricity, the declaration was rescinded after Texans rushed to lower their thermostats and turn off their gaudy LED lights…

Union Jack, the First Gay Business on Cedar Springs, Is Closing

Cedar Springs Road wasn’t always the heart of Dallas gayborhood. Until Richard Longstaff, a British expat, opened Union Jack in 1971, there probably wasn’t a gay-owned business on the block, according to a 2011 Dallas Voice article. It was, the paper reported, surrounded by pool halls, grocery stores, a bookstore…