I can tell you this much for sure: You and I do not know the truth about the mortal danger to downtown Dallas posed by potential flooding on the Trinity River. I will give you specific important instances here of misleading statements by public officials, but I can’t give you…

OK. Uncle. I give. And it wasn’t the public urination. I do that all the time. Three things made me decide it’s probably time for Occupy Dallas to de-occupy. First: allegations that a minor was sexually assaulted in one of the tents the Occupiers have pitched according to their agreement…

No way is this over. No way should anybody let this drop. The Occupy Dallas arrests last Saturday should be taken as a direct challenge, not a lesson or defeat. The Dallas Police Department is already trying to paper over the outrageous arrests of seven bank protesters last Saturday on…

Hey, Tea Party people and libertarians. Does it bother you at all that the Dallas police Saturday arrested seven people for “improper use of a sidewalk?” Does it occur to you that if bullshit charges like those can stick even for a minute, it means you can’t walk down the…

In my column in this week’s paper, I talk about that “flow control” deal, which has to do with how much trash gets trucked into southern Dallas. As usual, some of the responses I’m getting are from people mad about the way it came out who think the answer is…

For the last couple weeks I have been getting beaten about the ears by people working at City Hall with our new mayor, Mike Rawlings, who are mad at me over a couple columns I wrote saying the new mayor seems just like the old one, Tom Leppert. They say…

We’re all innocent until proven guilty. The police can investigate hell out of somebody, and that person may turn out to be pure as the driven snow. But there’s another reality in the world having to do with an old cop saying: “Crime makes you stupid.” Frankly, the behavior of…

Great trick-or-treaters last night on my street. Some years we just get kids from the block. They’re great. But last night we got spillover from the Halloween gala on Swiss Avenue a block away. When that happens, we get an even bigger window on the festival. Got me thinking. Check…

Dear John F. Kennedy Library Foundation: Good move on blowing off the Sixth Floor Museum and executive director Nicola Longford regarding her plans for a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza. Believe me: You don’t want to touch this gang with a 10-foot pole. According to…

Maybe you’ve been following the saga of Lisa Chambers, the Dallas County homeland security director who was canned this week over who knows what. The only part of it I’m really personally interested in is the paranoid part, because I happen to be paranoid myself. It’s like a club. We…

I think of everything the wrong way, from a skewed perspective. Who knows why? Maybe I got dropped on my head as a baby. But here’s how I’m looking at this deal in which Dallas County Judge Craig Jenkins fired the security lady who wouldn’t sweep for FBI bugs in…

Now this is something I could really kick myself for. I can take being wrong. It’s one thing to be accused of being too Pollyanna. (Not sure that has actually ever happened.) But the one thing I cannot forgive in myself is not being negative enough. That just should not…

Alfredo Corchado has a story in today’s Dallas Morning News about Mitt Romney’s Mexican relatives: “Mitt Romney’s relatives in Mexico are supportive but wary.” It’s a topic that has been in the back of my mind ever since Dallas’s own Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of Dallas First Baptist, tried to…

Look, I know I just covered this in a column in the paper, but I can’t resist coming back to the theme of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings as a so-what clone of the last mayor we had around here, Tom Leppert. The target I find particularly irresistible this time is…

OK, all you Mike Rawlings fans: I sure hope you like your new “progressive” Democrat mayor, the man who was going to make such a big difference at City Hall. Because it sure looks like the same weird old Dallas plantation to me. Look, I admit it’s just my own…

Big disagreement. My house. Now. Ferris wheel next to Kennedy memorial. Wife, a Dallas native. Self, a carpetbagger. Wife, tasteful. Self, not. Wife says Yankees will criticize city. Self say, so what? Self know more about Yankees than wife. Screw Yankees. It’s been almost 50 years. Can’t Dallas have a…

So let’s see if we can ride this circus train. Mike Rawlings runs for mayor pledging to clean up the “ethics” issue at Dallas City Hall. And if I may offer a small correction here at the top, I think right now it’s not really so much an ethics issue…

I guess if you took a pickax and a fire hose to it, you could have dug out a little bit of the truth from this morning’s City Hall briefing on the inland port, but you needed to have your tall rubber boots on. Before we wade into the bullshit,…

Oh, come on, Chief Brown. Please. You’ve been great so far. Don’t go all Bolton on us. Earlier this week the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas threw in with former Dallas city council member Diane Ragsdale and some other black community leaders to do a serious race-card attack on…

There is a point in the climate change debate where theory turns into money, and Rick Perry may help us all get to that point sooner. It’s a reality that hasn’t had time to filter down to Main Street, but the people at the top of the money tree know…