The Texas Legislative Study Group is a caucus of around 50 Democratic representatives from the Texas House, and they’re real buzzkills. The LSG keeps a full-time staff of policy analysts around, who almost every year since 2003 have released a report called “Texas on the Brink,” detailing all the most…
Shortly after being sued last September by a neighbor for registering melissakingston.com and using it to email anti-Walmart screeds, inveterate Lower Greenville shit-stirrer Avi Adelman did something rather unprecedented: he agreed to cut it out. The temporary injunction he signed barred him from sending emails from the domain, redirecting traffic…
Neighbors and pizza aficionados have been eagerly awaiting the opening of Jay Jerrier’s second Cane Rosso, planned for Grand and Gaston just south of White Rock Lake, since word of its existence first leaked in November. It was slated to open in the middle of April — just about now,…
The Mavericks easily dismantled the lowly Hornets yesterday, a decidedly unimpressive feat given the quality of the opponent and the fact that the Mavs are now officially out of the playoff hunt. Still, this was perhaps the biggest victory of the season, because it brings the Mavs’ record to .500,…
After Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were gunned down in their home last month, just two months after McLelland’s deputy, assistant DA Mark Hasse, was murdered in broad daylight, law enforcement officials pledged to search far and wide to bring the killer, or killers, to justice…
A lot of men convicted by Dallas County have walked free over the past dozen years — 44, according to the University of Michigan’s National Registry of Exonerations. District Attorney Craig Watkins has made the liberation of innocent prisoners his personal mission, as well as his ticket to national fame…
Congressman Steve Stockman was up late last night, wading through the flood of media accounts wondering why the media isn’t paying attention to the case of alleged late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell and putting the finishing touches on his campaign bumper sticker. He tweeted a picture at 1:44 a.m. Our…
On Tuesday, Eric told you about a DISD sixth-grader who was arrested at his school, DISD’s Learning Alternative Center for Empowering Youth, after attempting to steal $4 from a classmate. After his target felt the sixth-grader’s hand in his pocket and pulled away, the frustrated would-be thief knocked him to…
Last time we checked in, Oak Cliff urban pioneer Jason Roberts had an abdominal cavity filled with post-surgical fluid and was down to a single testicle, but he was otherwise upbeat after a successful battle with cancer. The cancer is still gone. The pile of medical bills, it seems, are…
RT @psychscriv: Make sure none of these people have seats in 2014. twitter.com/PsychScriv/sta…We are in trouble when these Rs side w/ Sen Reid— Barry Smitherman (@SmithermanTX) April 11, 2013 The U.S. Senate voted only to consider gun safety legislation Thursday, which includes expanded background checks and increased penalties for illegal…
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the advocacy group funded and founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is struggling to stoke the kind of grass-roots passion for gun regulation that has made its arch-nemesis, the NRA, such a political force. Organizing For America, the post-electoral version of Obama’s campaign machine,…
Last month, the Morning News reported that Frankie Forshee, a code enforcement worker and 13-year city employee, had been arrested and was facing a trio of bribery charges. Details were scarce at the time. Code Compliance Director Jimmy Martin told the paper only that Forshee had been placed on paid…
When a pantsless young man runs into his backyard in the wee hours of the morning and shines a laser pointer at a police helicopter overhead, criminal charges are sure to follow. But what if you’re in a Walmart checkout line fully clothed and decide to test that new light-emitting…
Update on April 16: The Morning News reports that Tovar will not, in fact, be resigning. No reason given yet for the change of heart. Original post: What’s happened at Sunset High School over the last seven years has been, if not quite a miracle, than at least proof that…
Eric’s post this morning about the shit storm controversy stirred up by Molly Forthright, a columnist for Fort Worth, Texas Magazine who came down firmly against mothers breast feeding their babies in church — or pretty much anywhere else — drew the usual pro- and anti-nip commenters. Yeah, we expected…
You may have been wondering how Delonte West has been spending his free time now that he’s on an indefinite hiatus from professional basketball. If Twitter is any indication, he’s still in the Dallas area and has mostly occupied himself by making cameos at local gyms and dropping in on…
The woman on the line was frantic. She had been kidnapped the day before and didn’t know where she was, she told the 911 operator. She just knew she was in a house with one of her captors and could see a parked Dodge pickup from the tiny bathroom window…
It should have been a time of celebration. Willie Amendola had just led his Dekaney Wildcats to Texas 5A Division 2 football title and was giving a post-game interview near the Cowboys star at midfield. Then, something rather odd happened. A driverless golf cart barreled down the field, crashing into…
Typically, Molly Forthright’s advice column in Fort Worth, Texas Magazine goes completely unnoticed by the Internet. Her insights on proper gym etiquette, obnoxiously over-involved sports parents, and snoring husbands garnered nary a comment or Facebook share. Then, Forthright went and wrote about breastfeeding, and the Internet exploded. In the column…
A few days after the Rangers sputtered into last off-season, running on fumes and whatever was left of Josh Hamilton’s CRUNK!!! stash, manager Ron Washington said what many fans and pundits had already said: “Maybe I played them into the ground.” Seven of his starters played 147 games or more…
The Lord had chosen an unlikely vehicle for his message to John Wayne. But when John learned he’d been DJing in a church, he knew it was a message from above. John grew up Pentecostal in Waco, at a church where they spoke in tongues and laid on hands. He…
Up to 50 Dallas ISD schools could have a changing of the guard next year, as principals announce their resignation or retirement. Superintendent Mike Miles has placed heavy emphasis on principal reform, including replacing those who underperform. But around a dozen principals are not going quietly into that good night…
