In defense of the teens in the above video, there’s not much to do in Plano post-midnight on a Friday. Certainly, though, they could have picked a less appalling target for their petty vandalism than an American flag belonging to a Vietnam vet. Garden gnomes spring to mind. “They ran…
The Aledo High School Bearcats didn’t want to score 91 points over Fort Worth Western Hills on Friday night, nor did they intend to hold their opponent completely scoreless. When the team glanced at the scoreboard as time expired and discovered they’d done both those things, the pangs of remorse…
KIPP Destiny Elementary opened with little fanfare this August in a converted Mervyn’s storefront across from Southwest Center Mall in Red Bird. The national charter school network, which already operates the KIPP Truth Academy middle school a few miles away, is saving that for Wednesday. That’s when tennis great Andre…
Chris Arnold has been uncharacteristically quiet. A usually prolific tweeter his account has been dormant for 10 days, and his voice has been missing from The GBag Nation, the midday show he co-hosts on 105.3 The Fan. CBS Radio hasn’t commented publicly on Arnold’s absence, but it’s no accident that…
Interim Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez is now acknowledging what’s been clear to everyone else for two months: City Hall really stepped in it with its Uber crackdown. “I made a mistake. Please accept my apology,” he wrote this morning in a memo to the City Council. “I regret the…
The Dallas Mavericks, with the advent of in-game GPS devices that tracks a player’s every twitch and movement, are already gleaning the last scraps of data available to measure on-court performance. Now it’s onto the next frontier: watching players while they sleep. The term of art that’s been coined for…
Uber, thanks in no small part to Dallas’ reactionary, lobbyist-led crackdown, has been getting a lot of love in recent weeks. Uber’s convenient, fast, chic, and fits nicely into the role of a dashingly handsome David taking on Yellow Cab’s Goliath. If this Uber love has geographic center, it’s in…
Less than two weeks after winning the fight to have DART offer domestic partner benefits, Resource Center Dallas is shifting its focus on a new target: the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The bank, one of dozen independently run regional reserve banks, does not currently include transgender protections in its…
Richard Keiper has built a life in Boyd, Texas. The Facebook photos posted by his wife show him at birthday parties and family gatherings often cradling his granddaughter with the awkward caution of someone not quite accustomed to caring for a creature so small. The 67-year-old doesn’t look the part…
In the wake of last month’s hunt for a serial rapist targeting South Dallas, the smart money said that the first lawsuit would come from Alan Mason, the mild-mannered insurance salesman whose name and picture were plastered across the media after he was mistakenly identified by police as a “person…
When Shannon Herrin’s teenage son found his mom dead in her garage in August, Mineral Wells police were perplexed. There was no evidence of murder — no trauma, no signs of a struggle, no one with any apparent reason to want her dead — and yet there was the indisputable…
In a new book that’s been making the rounds this week, federal appeals court judge Richard Posner expresses regret for writing a 2007 opinion upholding Indiana’s tough voter ID statute, which he now describes as “a type of law now widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than…
In initial reports, Dallas police said they had good reason to open fire on Bobby Gerald Bennett. The 52-year-old schizophrenic had been acting erratically, reportedly saying he wanted to be shot by police. When they arrived at his cul-de-sac in the Rylie neighborhood of far southwest Dallas just after noon…
For a while now, at least since March, the writing on the wall has suggested that Nolan Ryan’s exit from the Rangers’ front office was imminent. That writing has now migrated from the wall and into an official announcement from the club. His tenure as CEO officially ends on Halloween…
When a U.S. Postal Inspector interviewed Jessica Nicole Weatherread at the Keller Police Department on December 30, 2011, she made two things clear. One was that she didn’t steal the 400 pieces of open mail and packages addressed to Southlake residents that police had found scattered throughout her rental car…
It’s fun to joke about the filthiness of the Trinity River. It’s even more fun to remind Houston that all that urine and feces and prescription medication we flush down our toilets winds up in their water glasses. By all means, this should continue. At the same time, it’s worth…
For a few months at least, you can rest a little easier thanks to Congress’ eleventh-hour decision to reopen the federal government, lift the debt ceiling, and not send the country plunging over the cliff it’s been careering toward so ominously. The last-minute display of sanity came with no help…
If you happened to find yourself on westbound I-20 yesterday, our condolences. The entire interstate was closed for a brief time between Lancaster Avenue and Houston School Road, and lane closures lasted into the evening, causing traffic to back up for miles. You might be alarmed to discover that the…
After five years of litigation and a three-week trial, it took a jury all of a couple of hours to decide that, contrary to the Securities and Exchange Commission, there was no evidence that Mark Cuban was guilty of insider trading. Outside the courthouse, a newly vindicated Cuban briefed a…
When Texas’ State Board of Education convenes next month to adopt new biology textbooks, chairwoman Barbara Cargill will be disappointed. The Republican from The Woodlands is a staunch advocate of teaching “all sides of scientific explanations,” which is code for more Genesis and less Darwin. Yet none of the 14…
True.com has always been a study in contradictions, an upstart dating website promising “a wholesome environment for courtship” while rather shamelessly inundating the Internet with ads featuring photos of scantily clad women and, in one alleged case, a dead soldier. For a time, the paradox worked. The New York Times…
The electronic cigarette is either a) a near-miraculous smoking-cessation tool that has enabled untold thousands of smokers to ditch tobacco or b) a rapidly growing menace to public health. Or, it could be both. Researchers aren’t really sure and won’t be until they can study the long-term health effects of…
