Earlier this month, as reported by Unfair Park and practically every other outlet in town, the Texas Education Agency began the process of revoking Prime Prep’s charter. The reasons for the potential revocation are convoluted, the upshot isn’t. Should its charter be revoked, the school would have to stop enrolling…
On Thursday, the city of Dallas’ Fair Housing Office released a presentation outlining its specific policies regarding dress codes and other means of potential discrimination at bars, restaurants and other public accommodations. There’s nothing new in the guidelines, which were seemingly reiterated in response to the multiple charges of racism…
We’d be remiss if we didn’t start this post by saying that Unfair Park is not an entomologist. Not even close. That being said, looking at the address of locations being sprayed to combat West Nile, we think we’ve noticed a pattern. Mosquito control measures this year had focused on…
Armed with at least his Infowars.com press pass and his smartphone camera, Frisco resident Brett Sanders is staging a one-man crusade for the Bill of Rights. For each of the last three Fridays, Sanders, who says he is also involved in the Open Carry movement, has filmed a different entity…
If there’s one thing Unfair Park has taken away from the high-stakes civic lesson that’s been the Cityplace Sam’s Club case thus far, it’s this: The notices sent to homeowners telling them about proposed zoning changes in their neighborhoods are terrible. The notices are meant to let people who own…
After the conclusion of arguments that started Friday morning, District Judge Phyllis Lister Brown ruled against a neighborhood group seeking a temporary injunction aimed at stopping construction of a 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club store near the intersection of Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75. The decision means the city can issue building…
Spencer Noon thinks bitcoin is going to change the world. The cryptocurrency — currently worth about $575 per unit — was created as an anonymous, digital means to provide verifiable online transactions outside the realms of governments and regulations. Despite high profile setbacks like the Mt. Gox disaster, in which…
The second act of the East Village Association’s battle to reset the clock on a zoning change that would allow Trammell Crow to build a proposed 130,000-square-foot Sam’s Club near Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75 will not be resolved until at least Monday afternoon, after Judge Phyllis Lister Brown was…
The number of abortions being performed in Texas has dropped moderately, clinics offering abortions are vanishing rapidly and women seeking abortions must travel much farther to get an abortion, according to almost 18 months of data compiled by researchers looking at the effects of Texas’ passage of some of the…
Just about two weeks ago, all seemed lost for a group of residents who were upset about a Trammell Crow development plan that included building of a Sam’s Club near Haskell Avenue and U.S. 75. Zoning for the development had already been approved, so the City Plan Commission’s July 10…
From the realm of obvious stuff that is interesting nonetheless comes a study by UCLA’s Williams Institute that shows the simplest economic effect marriage equality would have on Texas. The study takes a look at the number of same-sex couples in the state and the effect their being allowed to…
As they’ve been doing on each third Saturday for months, advocates for the open carrying of firearms gathered — semiautomatic weapons in tow — at Dealey Plaza over the weekend. As usual the demonstrators, who call themselves Come and Take It Dallas, handed out literature and preened with their armaments…
Governor Rick Perry’s sending the National Guard to the border may not be the best idea. Sending soldiers to perform law enforcement functions usually doesn’t end well. That being said, at least there’s a certain logic to it. Perry perceives the influx of undocumented kids crossing the border as a…
Whether Prime Prep manages to stay open or not doesn’t matter to Emmanuel Mudiay. The kid who would have been king, the explosive, rangy point guard, is not going to SMU, whether he would have been eligible to play for the Mustangs or not. Athletic apparel company Under Armour –…
Remember Brad Ward? He’s the guy we told you about last month who FedEx says scammed more than $70,000 in free shipping from the company using a series of fraudulent shipping accounts. At the time, Ward told us he had no idea what FedEx was talking about. Thursday, Ward submitted…
Ahh, the post All-Star Break, post World Cup, post LeBron, post everything doldrums. The Wednesday and Thursday after the Midsummer Classic have been proven — by science! — to be, along with Christmas Eve, the deadest days on the American sports calender. Clearly, local athletes are just as bored as…
Saying Texas takes high school sports seriously is like saying it can get a bit warm here in the summer. Contests between kids make adults do crazy things, like, say, letting a certain former football player open up a state-funded charter school. Or worse. Check out some of the low-lights…
Of North Texas’ 7 million residents, 1.5 million have asthma, lung disease, heart disease or diabetes. Simply by living here those residents suffer the risk of additional complications beyond those that would normally accompany their diagnoses. According to a report by the Texas Tribune, the Dallas region has ozone levels…
It all stems from a positive thing, really. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more people have health insurance. A lot more. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, the state’s largest provider of health and accident insurance, picked up 700,000 subscribers during the ACA’s first enrollment period. In the months…
Planned Parenthood plans to open a new clinic in southern Dallas that will meet the stringent requirements imposed on abortion providers by the state of Texas, ensuring that Dallas has at least one clinic that can perform abortions under the new rules. The regulations, which were passed in the Wendy…
Ben Ferguson is a conservative commentator who hosts a show on WBAP-AM 820 from 9 to 11 a.m. on weekdays. Until today, Unfair Park had no idea who he was, but we have to say, after his segment attacking D Magazine’s “Best Dallas Suburbs” list, we’re intrigued. Ferguson took issue…
Multiple outlets are reporting that Emmanuel Mudiay, the No. 1 rated high school basketball player in the country, will forego his commitment to play for Larry Brown at SMU and instead play at least one season of professional basketball overseas before heading to the NBA. Mudiay has released the following…
