A droll old English butler once told the Dark Knight that “some men just want to watch the world burn.” The ends they pursue aren’t coherent. Their objectives are inscrutable to rational men. They sow chaos, because it is a faith unto itself. Alfred was talking about the Joker, but…
We can’t make you unsee our post about Ricky Davis, the Fort Worth man who raped a 12-year-old family friend. What we can do instead is offer the heartwarming story of Dallas animal control officer Lee Pogue in hopes of balancing out some of the soul-killing negativity we just put…
Bobby Gazdzicki’s plan worked brilliantly for three months. According to federal court documents, he discovered in April 2011 that as long as he could get hold of a legit tracking number, he could call FedEx, pose as a Dell employee and have the shipping company reroute brand-new computers to whatever…
Ricky Davis had known the girl since she was a baby. He wasn’t quite her uncle, but he might as well have been. His brother fathered four of her siblings, and Davis was close with the family. On August 19, 2012, Davis and the girl’s family went to church together…
Each year, Allstate comes out with a list of America’s worst drivers, and each year, Dallas is puzzled to discover it doesn’t come out on top, an honor typically reserved for Washington, D.C. That’s not to say that drivers here aren’t terrible. In this year’s report, Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Irving,…
Consider this a public service announcement for smokers of K-2 and similar products. There’s a widely available, all-natural product — a miracle, really — that delivers that synthetic marijuana-like high you crave without any unfortunate face-eating side effects. It’s called weed, and it’s about as easy to find as a…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s “new, high-tech parking control plazas,” which cost $56 million and offer automated entry and exits for all visitors, were supposed to go live in late August, but the rollout was briefly pushed back because of minor technical hiccups. “The Parking Control System is a complex installation…
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 3 2014:Yellow Cab President’s Ideas for Regulating Uber and Lyft: Make Them Just Like Taxis UPDATED SEPTEMBER 10 2014Vonciel Hill and Michael Morris Join Forces and Seek Delay on Car-Service Regulations ORIGINAL POST: The only thing George was sure of on a hot night in July was that…
As anyone who’s ever forgotten to pay a toll bill or is capable of doing arithmetic knows, the eye-popping amounts owed by the North Texas Tollway Authority’s top toll violators is mostly fees. As an example, take reigning scofflaw champion Melissa Martinez. To rack up the $153,046.47 she owed the…
Dr. Alireza Atef-Zafarmand played a memorable role in The Dallas Morning News’ series on sexual abuse allegations at Parkland Hospital. He’s the kidney specialist who allegedly told a bedridden patient that she looked like Julia Roberts, then grabbed her breast and wrapped his fingers around her neck, asking if she…
Next time you’re in Irving, be sure to stop at ExxonMobil’s headquarters and tell the front desk you’re there to give a hug to whoever needs it, because Fort Worth-based Exxon is having a rough couple of weeks. I mean, aside from the $7 billion quarterly earnings. The company’s most…
Last time the Public Accountability Initiative put out a report on conflicts of interest it uncovered in a University of Texas fracking study, an independent review panel concluded the school should withdraw it. Now the nonprofit research group, which explores the nexus of business and government, is back with another…
In an interview with Unfair Park yesterday, and in a slew of postings on social media, recently ousted Dallas Voice Editor John Wright said he was fired for “doing journalism” by reporting on a nudity ban at this year’s Dallas Pride parade. His bosses disagree. “He’s been saying a lot…
The bloodletting that marked Sarah Colmark’s first year as general manager of WRR 101.1, the city-run classical music station, has eased in recent months. The resulting decline in revenue, on the other hand, has not. According to a memo sent to City Council members on August 30, WRR is expected…
A Dallas teenager is locked up this morning, accused of killing two people over drugs and money — and investigators have his mom to thank. Nineteen-year-old Jasper Okeith Adams Jr. was arrested by Dallas police on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant and quickly tied to a pair of murders. The…
Don McLeroy, a Bryan dentist and former Texas State Board of Education Chairman who made a star turn as the anti-science Sunday school teacher in last year’s “The Revisionaries”, was unseated from the board in the 2010 Republican primary. Yet his crusade, to use science textbooks to explain the full…
Denton, despite the best efforts of the UNT student body and its lefty professors, has managed to hold on to the attributes of your typical small Texas city. A lot of people there still enjoy pickups, which they drive to high school football games while listening to country music and…
The Texas Retailers Associations and its allies in the fight against Dallas’ proposed ban on plastic and other single-use bags have succeeded in stalling any action for the foreseeable future. So, even though Councilman Dwaine Caraway swears to us that the measure will ultimately pass, they’ve won at least a…
Luminant, Texas’ largest electricity generator, has applied to “suspend operations” at its Martin Lake coal-fired plant near Tatum. If the request is approved by grid operators, it will result in the loss of 750 megawatts hours, or enough to power about 750,000 homes. A Luminant spokeswoman says the plant would…
William Skyler Leak’s tenure as the caretaker of a small Fort Worth stable was brief. Last August, after a short time on the job, he was fired and ordered to clear out of the on-site mobile home he’d been allowed to live in. “The owner didn’t like his work performance,”…
The controversy surrounding the dress code at this year’s Dallas Pride parade was never really about nudity. It was about whether the LGBT community should voluntarily adhere to the norms of a mass culture that remains unrelentingly heteronormative, or whether it’s better to flout those standards as a form of…
We don’t mean to cast aspersions on Lewisville, which as far as we can tell is a fine suburb, home to 95,000 mostly law-abiding Texans and a fine lake to get drunk on. But the stench that wafts over Old Town, the city’s historic downtown, is unmistakable. “A lot of…
