There is some set of facts hovering just over the visible horizon having to do with whether Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb, 72, is in serious jeopardy of going to prison in his old age. An FBI extortion probe of his role in a Dallas taxicab war apparently has expanded…

A loose alliance of computer experts, dubbed the “Geek Garrison” by their leader, has descended on the Dallas Independent School District, demanding all of the district’s financial records for the last two decades. When they get it, the geeks plan to post all of the information on the World Wide…

City Manager John Ware sat stone-faced, staring straight at Larry Duncan while they did it to him. Mayor Ron Kirk turned away, trying to gloss over the moment with decorum and weak jokes. But the truth of it–the smell–broke out over the room in the moment right after they had…

Faced with the single biggest embarrassment in the modern history of their newspaper, top Dallas Morning News editors went to great lengths last week to explain why they had published, then retracted, then reasserted a story about a government eyewitness to sex between the president and a 21-year-old intern. Unfortunately,…

Black and Hispanic community leaders–at each other’s throats in recent months over the Gonzalez-Harden mess at DISD–are drawing together, very carefully, over a school issue that could really blow the roof off. Both blacks and Hispanics think they may finally be onto the reason why kids of color come out…

If the grand plan to rebuild the Trinity River floodway through Dallas ever gets done–a one- to two-billion-dollar package of levees, parks, highways, and ponds–someone should erect an obelisk beside it with the words of Noah Cross. This genially evil character from Chinatown, Roman Polanski’s 1974 movie, says: “Politicians, ugly…