Mike Rawlings has hired Laurey Peat + Associates, a Dallas-based public relations firm to handle media relations for the mayor’s office. The firm replaces Sam Merten, the mayor’s previous manager of public affairs and communications, who left the office on September 19 to make a run for the District 9…
Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national being treated for Ebola at Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital died this morning at 7:51 a.m.. Presbyterian issued the following statement: “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at…
This week, Highland Park school district’s “Nurses’s Corner” is an attempt to assuage parents’ fears about the Ebola risk at HPISD schools. There is no risk, the letter says, despite Armstrong Elementary parent Clay Jenkins being in close contact with members of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan’s family…
Just before heading into a private executive session to address what he called “security issues” related to the Ebola virus’ arrival in Dallas, County Commissioner John Wiley Price told his fellow commissioners and County Judge Clay Jenkins what led to the temporary release of an Ebola-stricken Thomas Duncan from Dallas’…
Monday morning word came down from on high, or wherever it is the Supreme Court proclamations come from, that the court would not hear any of several same-sex marriage cases it could have this term. In turning down cases from the 4th, 7th and 10th federal circuit courts, the Supreme…
This guy is wanted for shooting two people at a Seagoville trailer park Sunday afternoon. If you have seen him or know where he is, we apologize. You should also contact Seagoville police…
After each of the Cowboys last four games — all wins, sending the team to 4-1 and its best start since 2008 — we’ve heard it: The team is winning because it’s running DeMarco Murray early and often. Even in the third game of the season, when the Rams jumped…
Thursday night, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay that allows Texas to fully enforce House Bill 2 — the anti-abortion measure passed by the state in 2013. As of this morning, there are eight healthcare facilities in the state that can legally provide abortion, one for…
Since concluding our coverage yesterday, the situation hasn’t changed much. The apartment in which Thomas Duncan stayed at The Ivy in Vickery Meadows is still under quarantine, but has received additional cleaning and waste disposal. No person Duncan was in contact with has shown any symptoms, and the only reason…
Newest updates will appear at the bottom of this post. Yesterday’s updates can be found here: Ebola in Dallas: What We Know So Far October 2: Morning Links: Emily Mathis on the atmosphere at Texas Health Presbyterian. From Vox, “How a Dallas hospital failed to diagnose the Ebola patient” and…
Live updating of this blog has moved to: Ebola in Dallas: Day 3 September 20: Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan arrives in Dallas from Monrovia, Liberia via Brussels. Duncan made an intervening stop at Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C.. September 26: Duncan first visits Texas Health Presbyterian. The AP…
They successfully fought contract provisions that would have banned in-person visits at the Dallas County jail while the county made money from new video visits. Now exonerated inmates, prison rights advocates and County Judge Clay Jenkins aim to make the county among the first in the nation to stop profiting…
UPDATE, 3:44 p.m.: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a patient at Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is the first case of Ebola confirmed in the United States. UPDATE, 5:13 p.m.: At a news conference in Atlanta, CDC Director Tom Frieden said federal, local and state health…
They’ve tried to beat them at the City Council, they’re still trying to beat them with Michael Morris and the NCTCOG, now Yellow Cab is trying to join Uber and Lyft by offering an app that consumers might actually want to use. See also: Vonciel Hill and Michael Morris Join…
Unfair Park certainly hopes it isn’t a mirage, that the Titans, Rams and Saints aren’t just bad. We really want to believe that the Cowboys victories the last three weeks are a sign of positive things to come. But we’ve been down this road before. We’ve had our expectations soar,…
The signs were there on opening day. Tanner Scheppers, the Rangers’ starting pitcher, was making his first major league start, not because he’d stated a case that he deserved to start the first game of the season, but because of injury. The bullpen, similarly beset by injuries, would melt down…
The lawyer for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones appeared in a Dallas courtroom Friday to argue that a lawsuit accusing Jones of sexual assault — and the Cowboys of conspiracy to cover it up — should be dismissed because of the statute of limitations. Attorney Gregory Shamoun also said the claims…
Vinny Minchillo had seen enough. “Everyone talks about civil discourse, but when we talk to each other, especially on social media, there’s no civil discourse,” he says. “It’s really, really funny. It’s become OK to talk about Republicans in the most horrible terms possible. In the ’80s and ’90s on…
Monday, Jana Weckerly filed an amended complaint in her sexual assault case against Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, further detailing her claim that Jones assaulted her in 2009 and describing efforts she alleges Jones, the Dallas Cowboys and Jones’ attorney, Levi McCathern, made to silence her. The new complaint was filed…
Update: The Dallas Morning News’ Robert Wilonsky reports that Caraway has pulled the Mandela renaming plan and is now calling for Lancaster to be renamed for legendary Booker T. Washington and Roosevelt High School football coach Raymond Hollie. Earlier in the week Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway told The…
The Dallas Morning News’ Rudy Bush got the scoop: a copy of memo from City Attorney Warren Ernst that says the City Council could walk away from building the Trinity River toll road despite the city’s contract with the North Texas Tollway Authority to build the thing. “There is no…
The last time Unfair Park mentioned that the Rangers were looking a little too competitive, the team proceeded to lose 14 of 20, so we decided we should speak up again. Under the temporary — for now at least — leadership of Tim Bogar, the Rangers have won 9 of…
