The official logo of Gun Barrel City, a small town on the banks of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, is a pair of crossed revolvers. Its slogan is “We Shoot Straight With You.” One of its main drags is Gun Barrel Lane, where you’ll find the Carry Right Gun Shop. Its…
At first glance — and second, and third — Attorney General Greg Abbott’s opinion on Monday that cities, counties, and school districts are barred by the Texas Constitution from offering health benefits to the domestic partners of employees would seem to be a stumbling block on the road toward equal…
They say the devil can quote scripture as well as the righteous, which helps explain the confusion sown by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who whipped out his New Testament this week and rained thunder down on Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles. Price is burning with holy…
We’ve always assumed that The Dallas Morning News’ white-on-rice coverage of the Museum Tower dust-up has been the product of good shoe-leather reporting on the part of Steve Thompson and Gary Jacobson: combing through open records, studying up on the arcane world of public pensions, developing sources on the Dallas…
Mireya Villareal is the junior member of CBS 11’s crack squad of investigative reporters, the I-Team for short. She’s a tough, no-bullshit type, as is clear by the Serious Face she dons in her photo, and she’s dedicated her career to sniffing out government corruption and waste and protecting consumers…
Last year, the Arlington Police Department bought a pair of teeny tiny adorable drones, which the FAA gave them the go-ahead to fly back in March. The APD was stoked, dubbing their new toys their “Aviation Unit” and issuing an FAQ about how the drones would never be used for…
Last night, a bill to fund water projects across the state died an ignominious death in the Texas House of Representatives. This was strange because it looked like the rails had been thoroughly greased. During his State of the State back in January, Gov. Rick Perry made the case for…
The Dallas Morning News, you may have noticed but probably didn’t, is in the middle of a mammoth, months-long effort to pick the best neighborhoods. First came the safest neighborhoods, then the best schools, then those best suited for empty nesters. It’s all leading up to the June 16 reveal,…
After sneaking this creepy mirror pic at the gym, Cuban says the photo-sneaker promised to delete the photo. It showed up on Twitter instead. What are those, anyway? Twenty-fives? Shoulder lifts, I’m thinking. First in an occasional series, What is Mark Cuban Lifting?…
John Wiley Price first inserted himself into the debate over school reform in Dallas ISD when he showed up at a November board meeting to lambast Superintendent Mike Miles’ heavy-handed attempts to enact change. His specific complaint then was the departure of longtime administrator Shirley Ison-Newsome, but Price made it…
You didn’t seriously expect Ron Paul to disappear into a quiet, uneventful retirement, did you? If you did, you probably weren’t watching as over a couple of decades in Congress and a pair of long-shot presidential runs, Paul became the outspoken face of unapologetic libertarianism, and you probably didn’t listen…
Voters didn’t mince words in 2005, when they added Article I, Section 32 to the Texas Constitution. “Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman,” it says. “This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any…
The 16-year-old girl who accused a former Highland Park baseball star of rape is now countersuing him in civil court. In March, after a grand jury declined to indict Ryan Romo on rape charges, the Romo family sued his accuser and her family, claiming, among other things, defamation and negligent…
On the morning of March 18, police were called to Gerald Canepa’s modest brick home in Oak Cliff. Inside, they found the 68-year-old’s body, naked and lifeless. It was clear from the stab wounds that he’d been murdered. His TV, two computers and DVD collection were gone. The friend or…
Public Policy Polling is a new but fairly well-respected outfit that churns out an impressive quantity of high-quality snapshots of public opinion on political races and the important issues of our time. But PPP doesn’t let that stop them from putting out equally authoritative figures on the percentage of Americans…
Meet Linda Harvey, a talk radio host on a Christian station in Columbus, Ohio. In her free time, she’s the founder and main opinion-spewer behind Mission: America, which promotes itself as “Christian commentary on the culture.” Harvey is deeply concerned with pressing social issues like “paganism” (she means Halloween and…
Ryan Ball didn’t know that porn legend Jenna Jameson was having her birthday party at Le Vu on Friday night, or so he claims in his recap of the night on Reddit. He and a pair of friends just wanted to have a couple of drinks and settled on the…
From time to time, when police have a particularly busy weekend, we like to compile some of the more interesting happenings into a quick crime digest. We think of it as a public service. How else would readers know not to visit the Stults Elementary playground at 1 a.m., or…
Earlier this year we introduced you to Mike Bishop, the irascible ex-Marine with 20 acres in the path of the Keystone pipeline, just east of Nacogdoches. When we met him, the retired chemist and bio-fuel tinkerer was livid, cataloging the insults to his land — the ‘dozed crops, the clear-cut…
When the city, AT&T and golfing legend Lee Trevino gathered at City Hall last November to announce plans for a PGA-caliber golf course in southern Dallas, they were long on such adjectives as “game changer” and “world-class” but short on details, like where the tens of millions of dollars to…
We’ve written about Kaitlyn Samuels twice: Once last February when her parents went before a military judge to argue that Tricare, the Department of Defense’s health insurer, should cover therapy costs for their severely disabled daughter, and again in October after Tricare ignored the judge’s order to do so. Kaitlyn…
“I am pretty sure I am not a sick human being,” California comic artist Jack Ohman wrote on his blog this week. But some folks in Texas, including the governor, are pretty sure he is. Ohman published the above comic this week in the Sacramento Bee, the daily newspaper in…
