Long ago, a holy woman came to the Lakota Oyate in the Black Hills. She gave them a sacred pipe, and she taught them how to live, how to pray, how to honor the pipe, and through it, how to become a living prayer. And when they learned everything she…
You wouldn’t know it by watching the news or reading the paper, but America’s banks are on the largest crime spree the country has ever known. Let’s go to the highlight reel, shall we? In July, Wells Fargo paid a $175 million settlement after the feds caught its brokers systematically…
Electricity is so cheap right now that for some generators it doesn’t even pay to make it. At the end of August, Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, the former TXU, announced it would mothball two units at its Monticello coal-fired plant for six to seven months. ERCOT, the state’s grid manager,…
Dallas is a sadder place now that Delonte West is no longer a Maverick. The man played solid D, could score some points off the bench, and was a generally entertaining presence. Sadder still is the state of West’s job search. He took to Twitter today to beg a team…
A bizarre and still murky series of events ended yesterday when longtime DISD administrator Shirley Ison-Newsome officially stepped aside, just four days after she announced, then promptly rescinded, her resignation in favor of retirement. Ison-Newsome has been a powerful, polarizing figure during 37 years with the district, and her departure…
On Thursday afternoon, patrol officers performed a routine traffic stop in Oak Cliff. They found that the driver, 24-year-old Jesus Gonzalez, wasn’t wearing a seat belt, was driving without a license, and was in the country illegally. They also found a little bonus prize: 15 AK-style assault rifles in the…
Yesterday, speaking before a gathering of pastors in Tampa, First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress stopped short of endorsing a particular candidate in the presidential race. Such overt political advocacy could risk his church’s tax-exempt status — not that he has let such concerns hinder him in the past. That doesn’t mean…
Yesterday morning, in a vote split along partisan lines, Dallas County narrowly approved domestic partner benefits for Dallas County employees. But the historic vote was accompanied by an odd incident that most every media outlet in town commented on: County Comissioner Maurine Dickey, as you can see in the Dallas…
Late Sunday night, at 10:37 p.m., 911 operator received a call from a storage facility on Willowbrook Road, a dilapidated stretch of office and warehouse space in Northwest Dallas. The caller, 22-year-old Trevis Henderson, said he was in a fight with two men who said he owed them money. The…
The Dallas County Republican Party dropped something of a bombshell Tuesday on the campaign of Robert Miklos, the Democrat challenging incumbent Ken Sheets for Texas House District 107, covering East Dallas and slivers of Mesquite and Garland. Party chairman Wade Emmert sent a phone message to voters — and an…
When Kaitlyn Samuels was 4 months old, her parents, Mark and Jennifer, worried that she couldn’t reach for her toys. Doctors initially assured them that it was probably normal, but after two months brought little improvement they ordered a battery of neurological tests that revealed Kaitlyn had a very rare…
Thanks to Sandy, Deadspin is a shadow of its normal self right now, but it’s functioning well enough to direct our attention to a piece reported last week at TCU 360. It seems there is a controversy simmering at the school over a bronze statue unveiled earlier this month at…
Range Resources, a company that fracks shale formations across America, wants controversial former EPA regional chief Al Armendariz to shut up about what happened in Parker County. The company’s lawyer sent him a letter recently insisting that “(he) cease from making further false and disparaging comments against Range.” Armendariz spoke…
Republican state senator John Carona got himself into a bit of hot water with fellow conservatives last week, after he told Dallas Voice senior editor John Wright that he would support several LGBT rights bills during the upcoming legislative session. Those bills would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation…
Sunday night, a 25-year-old man fell to his death from a building on Main Street, the second such incident in just over a month. The Morning News posted a story online that, per Romenesko, just so happened to run next to the ad you see above, because, well, the wheel…
This morning, Dallas County joined the growing roster of local agencies (the city of Dallas, Parkland Hospital, the DFW Airport) to add domestic partner benefits, meaning same-sex partners of any of its roughly 6,500 employees are now eligible for health coverage and other benefits through the county. The measure squeaked…
The Cowboys were well into their first-quarter meltdown on Sunday when Dez Bryant, the team’s embattled wide receiver, set up to return a Giants punt. Before the ball was snapped, the radio team of Brad Sham and Babe Laufenberg calmly suggested that Bryant, known for his casual handling of the…
Last week, as a City Council discussion of the don’t-throw-stuff-at-cyclists ordinance degenerated into a litany of members’ pet peeves about cyclists (we’re looking at you, Sandy Greyson), Angela Hunt became visibly frustrated. Hunt, who rides a bike herself and has been the council’s most vocal critic of City Hall’s hesitant…
Steven Ray Milam’s long run as the “Handsome Guy Bandit” came to a sudden end on a rural Mississippi highway in January of this year, as the former casket salesman turned bank robber led local police on a chase along Interstate 10. Officers tried no less than three times to…
Ted and Shannon Skokos are heavy hitters on the Dallas philanthropy scene. Their names are engraved most prominently at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, into which they poured more than $2 million, but their largesse is wide-ranging, and they give grants that, per their foundation’s website, “positively impact society by,…
Danny Kirk, the founding pastor of Greater Sweethome Missionary Baptist Church in Forest Hill was inside the church this morning with his secretary and a janitor when car crashed through the side of the building. The precise details of what happened next are trickling out. A man exited the wrecked…
Two armed men held up the 7-Eleven on Zang and Colorado Sunday afternoon. As they made their getaway, Dallas Police were fanned out, searching for a vehicle matching the description given by witnesses. A police helicopter crisscrossed the area. It didn’t take long for officers to find them. What followed…
