The most restrictive part of Texas’ new. controversial abortion law isn’t its ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy — only 1 percent of abortions occur after this time anyway. It’s the “ambulatory surgical center” regulation that requires all clinics that perform abortions to become ambulatory surgical centers, which…
The New York Times opens its sweeping, front-of-the-webpage piece on upward mobility in America with an anecdote about Stacey Calvin, a woman in Atlanta who spends hours each day on buses and trains commuting to and from her part-time job at a daycare center, barely making it home on time…
Typically, a $219,700 contract aimed at boosting parent engagement would sail past Dallas ISD’s Board of Trustees with barely a murmur. It represents, after all, a vanishingly small speck of the district’s $1.2 billion budget, and its goal — getting parents involved in their children’s education — is hardly controversial…
We’re still not sure exactly what caused Rosy Esparza’s fatal plunge from the Texas Giant at Six Flags on Friday evening. Witnesses told The Dallas Morning News that the Dallas resident told the ride operator that she wasn’t properly secured, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram talked to a couple who…
The Federal Aviation Administration has unveiled its official stance on Americans shooting at drones: You shouldn’t do that. According to the Associated Press, the FAA announced today that anyone discharging a weapon at a drone runs the risk of causing it to crash, thus injuring people or property, thus risking…
Tobacco and alcohol, like milk and cookies, Jay Z and Beyonce, and emphysema and liver disease, are perfect companions. There’s just something about going out for a drink that makes you want to light up a cigarette, and something about going out for a smoke that makes you want a…
The hydroponic marijuana-growing community has suspected for a while that they’re being watched, and for good reason. By the DEA’s own account, law enforcement has turned its attention increasingly toward indoor growing operations as a quarter century of an aggressive eradication campaign has forced an increasing number of pot farmers…
Just when you thought the shark-jumping Museum Tower imbroglio couldn’t get any more absurd, The Dallas Morning News’ Steve Blow goes and writes a column comparing the spat that has riveted the Dallas Arts District for the past year and a half with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has claimed tens…
On Thursday morning, as much of Dallas was commuting to work, a family squabble broke out in the alley behind the 1800 block of Angelina Drive in West Dallas. It’s not clear from police descriptions what sparked the fight nor, a police spokesman said, did responding officers note the family…
It hasn’t even been 24 hours since Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 2, the infamous abortion clinic-killing bill, into law, and three Planned Parenthood clinics are already making plans to shut their doors. The Huffington Post reports that Planned Parenthood clinics in Bryan, Huntsville and Lufkin will close down…
Mavericks were first introduced to Flula Borg way back in 2011, when the German DJ released a song, “His Name is Dirk,” and heaped praise upon his basketball-playing countryman. “He has dominated the NBA with a smooth jumper and intelligent plays,” he explained at the time. “He is like a…
Yesterday afternoon, In-Sync Exotics announced in a somber Facebook post that the canine distemper outbreak currently ravaging the Wylie animal sanctuary had claimed its fourth victim, a white tiger named Harley. “He has been very sick with this hateful virus for quite some time, and we finally made the decision…
Here’s how the Dallas Police Department described last night’s officer-involved fatal shooting in Pleasant Grove in 1:44 a.m. Facebook post: On July 17, 2013, at approximately 10:00 pm officers responded to a burglary in progress at the 1600 Block of Conner Dr. Upon arrival, officers observed one suspect inside of…
Police had a weird and somewhat wild Wednesday. Here are some highlights from yesterday’s police activity: Dining In: At some point between 1 and 7 a.m., someone broke into the banquet hall of Skyline Ranch on Wheatland Road and helped themselves to $30 worth of food. They dined in, then…
Property rights in Texas are supposed to be sacrosanct, practically God-given. So the ease with which pipeline companies seize private land through eminent domain is curious. The law here is anything but settled. That’s where landowners like Freddy Davenport come in. Increasingly, disputes between citizens like Davenport and huge pipeline…
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on FacebookLast month, Rick Perry unveiled a one-minute ad trashing New York for its high taxes and excessive regulations and inviting its people and businesses to come down to the Lone Star State. Comedian Lewis…
When center Dwight Howard spurned the Mavericks and decided to take his talents to the Bayou City, it marked the second straight year the team had epically flamed out in free agency. And, for the second straight year, Mark Cuban is trying to rewrite history. “I think we’ve put ourselves…
A powerful ex-oil industry executive has proposed a new energy plan for Texas, and it may not surprise you to learn that his plan involves oil. Lots and lots of oil. Leonardo Maugeri used to be a top executive at Eni, a company that has the double honor of being…
Stephen Paulsen is, for a few more seconds at least, the principal of Morton Elementary School in Arlington ISD. He’s spending part of the summer in Florida, partly to visit his mother and father, who has Alzheimer’s, and partly, according to Boynton Beach police, trying to seduce someone he thought…
Luminant, the Dallas-based electricity generator, doesn’t have the greenest public image. It’s aging fleet of coal-fueled power plants includes some of the dirtiest in the country. It pumps millions and millions of tons of greenhouse gases and other pollutants into the atmosphere. Then, when pushed to modernize its coal plants,…
We’re not sure how much Fort Worth-based Altego proved when it enlisted aeronautical engineering students at Texas A&M to attach its Polygon Sunfire laptop bag to a weather balloon and launch it into space. They were trying to make a point about durability, but I’m pretty sure my neon green…
USP Labs’ Dallas headquarters doesn’t actually look much like a laboratory. It’s more of a nondescript warehouse in a sea of nondescript warehouses off Stemmons Freeway and Northwest Highway. That’s where the company keeps its stock of its bodybuilding supplements for shipping to retailers like GNC or directly through its…
