In March 2017, Neeraj Jindal had a problem. He ran a Richland Hills staffing agency that provided home health care agencies with therapists to do house calls. One of those agencies had just informed him that it was reducing the amount it would be paying for each house call. Jindal knew if…
Have you ever wondered if those “Ozone Action Day Tomorrow” signs actually do anything, if people change their well-worn patterns just because of an orange and black sign flashing past the window? We did too. But the answer, it turns out, is complicated.
It’s been about a week and a half since Deadspin, the sports-adjacent piece of what used to be Gawker’s media empire, died. Deadspin.com, the website, still exists, and some Vichy-ass version of the blog is sure to take its place, but Deadspin, which had become the daily go-to for internet denizens…
In 1991, Saddam Hussein used tanks and helicopters to subdue rebelling Kurds in northern Iraq. Terrified that Hussein would again use chemical weapons, as he had in 1988, millions of the country’s persecuted Kurdish minority fled. Saman Gardy was one of them. He and his family were living in Erbil,…
University of North Texas officials are condemning a university system attorney’s use of a racial slur during a campus forum on First Amendment protections Thursday evening. Caitlin Sewell, assistant general council for the UNT System, used the word as an example of protected speech during a panel discussion titled “When…
A Baylor University professor is apologizing to students this week after a guest speaker in his class promoted conversion therapy during his presentation. During a Tuesday session of professor Lewis Lummer’s American Sign Language III class, the Rev. Jari Saavalainen, pastor of a deaf church near Chicago, gave a guest…
In a move that, frankly, kinda sucks from the never-too-much-to-write-about perspective, conservative yakker Glenn Beck’s Irving-based TV station is shutting down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Blaze — as Beck’s media and TV empire is known — went on the air in 2012, two years after The Blaze’s web launch…
Landlords have long complained that red tape prevents them from accepting federal housing vouchers, limiting the places that low-income tenants can live. Those in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods tend to turn voucher-holders away, driving segregation. One bureaucratic slowdown that has particularly frustrated landlords is how long it can take for inspectors from…
Patrick Murphy, one of an infamous group of prison escapees who became known as the Texas 7, will not be killed by the state next week. Thursday, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas gave Murphy, who’d been set to die on Nov. 13, his second…
Several Southern Methodist University researchers were part of the team of scientists who published a study on Monday which indicates that earthquake activity in West Texas has significantly increased as oil and gas production has gone up in the region.
The mainstream media analysis of Beto O’Rourke’s decision to kill his campaign is evidence that we now live in separate dimensions and speak different languages, defined mainly by generation. On the surface, it would be hard to poke even a pinprick into most of what was said by boomer analysts…
In a different world, or maybe just a different time, Rick Perry, the ex-governor of Texas and soon-to-be ex-secretary of energy, would still be in the news this week. He would have testified Wednesday, as he was asked to do by House investigators, about his role in conducting President Donald Trump’s…
Another election night is over in Texas, but don’t expect to feel it, at least not for awhile. Voters in Dallas and around the state gave the legislature a big thumbs-up Tuesday night, overwhelmingly signing off on nine of the 10 amendments to the Texas Constitution on offer. Both of…
On the first day back in class after a tornado tore through North Dallas and left her school in shambles, the list of things algebra teacher Kristen Dale’s classroom didn’t have was quite a bit longer than the list of things it did. It had about a half-dozen circular tables,…
Two drivers for Irving Holdings, the Dallas transportation company that owns Yellow Cab, have filed suit, alleging that they worked unpaid overtime and sometimes earned less than minimum wage. Didyme Kalenga and Arnold Bankete, the two employees named in the lawsuit, both drove company-owned paratransit vans that served the elderly…
Dallas County homeowners hit by October’s tornadoes will get a little tax help from the county, thanks to the Dallas County Commissioners Court. Tuesday morning, commissioners decided by a unanimous vote to allow the Dallas County Appraisal District to revalue property hit by the tornado. Owners of properties given new,…
In a recent editorial, The Dallas Morning News praised Gov. Greg Abbott for ordering the state highway department to begin clearing out homeless encampments in the state capital. “True compassion isn’t turning a blind eye,” the paper said. “It’s demanding change and then providing the help to make that change…
Over the last couple of weeks, a certain U.S. representative from East Texas has popped up a couple of times in your friendly neighborhood news vertical. It’s been with good reason, too. He’s stormed a secure facility at the U.S. Capitol, threatened civil war over the potential impeachment of President…
If you’re looking for a lesson to take away from last month’s tornado that flattened homes and demolished businesses in North Dallas, try this: get insured. That’s according to Rocky Vaz, Dallas’ emergency management director, who said getting apartment dwellers signed up for insurance is a big priority in the…
It took the better part of two decades and a death row confession, but Texas’ highest criminal court found Quintin Lee Alonzo actually innocent of a 2001 murder Monday, opening the door to restitution and the rest of Alonzo’s life. A Dallas County jury convicted Alonzo of murder and two…
The Dallas Police Department plans to address crime problems at convenience stores it’s identified as some of the toughest in the city with an extensive package of new technology, according to the department. Three gas stations — a 7-Eleven in Oak Cliff, a Texaco in East Dallas and a 7-Eleven…
On Saturday, a federal judge issued a temporary order blocking the Trump administration’s proposed new requirement that all immigrants entering the country must show proof of medical insurance in order to be granted entry.
