Ever come home from vacation and find spoiled milk in the fridge? When new Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings gets home, he’s going to find the whole cow. It’s not just the FBI raids on his campaign supporters. Last week, while Rawlings and his wife vacationed in Paris, Allynmedia, the local…

Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue has lambasted me in his most recent “Ask the Editor” column for having lambasted the News in a column here two weeks ago. Now I have to lambaste him back. Whole lotta lambastin’ goin’ on. Anyway, I share with you this open letter…

Gromer Jeffers has a pay-walled column in today’s Dallas Morning News trying to explain community support for embattled Southern Dallas leader John Wiley Price, now the target of a major FBI investigation for money laundering and other crimes. I respect Jeffers for struggling with a very tough issue right at…

Thank you, Angela Hunt, for putting the B-word on the table. I could make an argument that fear of the B-word is the main reason we can’t get off the dime about homelessness. Bum! There. I said it, too. Bum bum bum! Some of them are not simply “homeless persons.”…

I need to correct an error and an omission. Yesterday I posted an item identifying the lawyer who defended Dallas County Judge Jim Foster from an intimidation attempt by Commissioner John Wiley Price as Ken Barr. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Ken Barr is a former mayor of Fort Worth and member…

Part of what we do in the reporting biz is look for the anomalous response. I emailed Parkland Hospital earlier this afternoon asking about information I received that the FBI showed up there last night with search warrants related to the Commissioner John Wiley Price investigation.Candace White of the Parkland…

Our coverage of the Inland Port scandal in Dallas may yet produce some new federal law. If it does, I don’t think it’s going to be anything we will be bragging about. Yesterday Wilonsky posted a 2-year-old deposition he found on the website of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley…

Federal agents of both the IRS and FBI persuasion have fanned out across our fair county and state, maybe even traveling to exotic shores, trying to tease truth out of the densely woven fabric of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s financial affairs. Lots of luck. As of last week,…

Last week I was talking to a very well-known Dallas television investigative reporter about the Dallas County federal corruption probe. I won’t name him here, because it was a personal call to discuss something else. But he made a point that kept coming back to me all through the long…

Looking to keep your holiday week festive?Then look no further than tomorrow night’s wingding at the Kirkwood Temple CME Church — to our knowledge, the first real “community” event in support of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who, of course, is under FBI investigation for money laundering and…

This weekend I have been sitting around ruminating on the last three years of reporting I have done on the Inland Port story, which now seems to an element in the FBI corruption probe of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. By the way, I happen to know the FBI…

Mayor Mike Rawlings’s chief campaign-runner, Mari Woodlief of Allyn Media, responded this afternoon to questions I had posed about the $270,000 paid by the Rawlings campaign to consultant Kathy Nealy, whose offices were searched by the FBI Monday as part of the federal investigation of County Commissioner John Wiley Price…

If you are a regular reader of The Dallas Morning News, Dallas’s only daily newspaper since 1991, and if you are following the federal corruption investigation of John Wiley Price, the county’s most powerful black politician, then from here on out you need to put on your magnifying specs and…

Yesterday I’m standing out in front of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s house by Lake Cliff, and I get a phone call from a radio producer who wonders if I can come on air and talk about “John Wiley Price’s lavish lifestyle and his history of having people roughed…

This was Dwaine Caraway’s last day as temporary unelected mayor of Dallas. He is now the former temporary mayor or FTM. But he thinks he’s prime material for full-time elected mayor at some point in the future. That’s not true. The reason why it is not true may not be…

Sometimes it takes me a couple days to get my mind around Rick Perry. For the last several days I have been pondering the governor’s veto of the Texas no-text bill. As passed by both houses of the Legislature, the measure would have made it illegal to carry out text…

It’s just beginning to dawn on me. I should be in heaven right now. I don’t know why I’m not. The sheer dumbness of the Trinity River toll road is now at long last apparent for all to see. It’s blown sky high and is comin’ down! And none of…

It’s so strange. This city is a pane of glass in which we see only our own reflections dancing on the surface, but behind and beyond that mirror, a magical realm eludes us. I think I just stepped through the pane. It’s a little after 7 a.m. I just drove…

Maybe I just had the wrong impression of Rick Perry. I guess I was remembering that time he shot a coyote with his .380 laser-sighted Ruger loaded with hollow-points. He said, “Don’t attack my dog or you might get shot.” Now that’s some macho cowboy stuff right there. I don’t…

I did a thing for DC9 at Night yesterday about how the city didn’t do anything wrong at that rave at Fair Park over the weekend, and I got a lot of very positive response in the comments, most of it probably from the people who put on the rave,…