Last month, the daughter of Larry Gene McCollum sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. McCollum was serving an 11-month sentence at Hutchins State Jail in Dallas last summer when, after days in a cell where the temperature neared triple digits, he had a seizure. He was taken to the…
Last month, Dallas businessman Joseph Haggar Jr., the founder of the eponymous apparel company and the father, for better or worse, of the term “slacks,” died at 87 of heart disease. One of the many things I learned about Haggar from reading his obituary was that LBJ, onetime leader of…
Some consider Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest cricketer of all time. For others, it’s Sir Donald Bradman. But for my money, none can hold a candle to Sunil Gavaskar. As an opening batsmen, no one came close. There’s a reason he set world records for the most Test runs and…
We knew it already, but Ted Cruz is Texas’ next U.S. Senator. Sure, he still has to face Democrat Paul Sadler in the November general election, but this is Texas, where so long as you promise to cut taxes and put a big ‘R’ somewhere near your name, you’re good…
A controversial Farmers Branch immigration ordinance will get a second chance in court after a sound rejection back in March, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s controversial immigration bill will play a determining role. Farmers Branch has three times passed a “housing” ordinance which would require anyone renting…
I’m not, by nature, someone who spends much time worrying. I assume, more or less automatically, that I’m not going to contract that horrible disease, that ominous-looking strangers probably won’t murder me, that there will be time to swerve when that 18-wheeler drifts into my lane. My wife says I…
One time I was talking down the street and I saw Jason Roberts leap a tall curb with a single bound. No joke. He barely broke a sweat under that tweed cap. Then he shot rainbow beams from his eyes that turned all the concrete into an organic garden tended…
A friend of Unfair Park passed along an interesting email exchange between some members of the Gas Drillng Task Force in advance of tomorrow’s throwdown public hearing. Seems that some are none too happy that Councliman Scott Griggs chose task force member Terry Welch to speak in favor of tighter…
Can’t say we didn’t see this coming, but a pair of Dallas voters are alleging that the recently redrawn City Council districts illegally dilutes the Hispanic vote. The city redrew its 14 council districts following the release of the 2010 Census. It adopted the final maps in October. According to…
WFAA is reporting that the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office has just released their report on the fatal police shooting of James Harper, whose death brought hundreds of people out into the streets in protest last week. Many in the crowd believed Harper had been shot in the back. The…
It didn’t make the marquee for tomorrow’s “Thrilla on Marilla,” but there are a couple of other things the City Council will be briefed on, same day, same place. One of those is a rather dry study, the first since 2006, comparing the pay and benefits of city of Dallas…
You know Combat Zone Corp. as the illustrious production company that brought you such unforgettable cinematic experiences as Bareback Mount Him, These Feet Were Made For Fucking and Chow My Puntang” All of them are motion pictures of the first order, I assure you, but all is not well in…
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Texas politicians, still on a high from their glorious victory over the evil, job-killing dunes sagebrush lizard, turned their attention to similarly insidious threats to our economic well-being. This time, the threat comes from four species of salamander — the…
Texas will elect it’s next senator today. Odds are, you won’t vote for him. In fact, a good number of you, even if you’re registered to vote, can’t vote in the truly decisive race going down Tuesday, because you were dumb enough to vote in the Democratic primary in May…
Earlier this month, three East Texas hamlets with a collective population of fewer than 2,000 souls filed suit in a federal court in Oklahoma City to halt construction of the southern half of The International Pipeline Formerly Known as Keystone XL. The Keystone was to be a massive piece of…
Update at 11:09 a.m.: Candy Evans, just back from vacation, has more. You can snap up the Leppert homestead for a mere $5.7 mil. Movie theater included. Original post: Tom Leppert, you might have notice, did not do terribly well in his quest for U.S. Senate. He lost. Got trounced,…
Dallas police just sent word that they arrested 46-year-old Enio Cardoso Wissel for alleged indecency with an 8-year-old boy at Julia C Frazier Elementary School. Tawnell Hobbs at the Morning News has more. Wissell was a fine arts teacher with DISD from August 2011 until March 2012, when he was…
Each year, a handful of Dallas county teenagers accused of crimes are “certified,” meaning they’re being charged as adults and will appear in adult criminal court. While they await trial, they sit in Dallas county jail. We’ve learned that while in jail, these teens are kept in their cells for…
It was probably inevitable, what with the decades-long trend from AM to FM, from DJ to computer, but that didn’t lessen the shock when KKDA abruptly laid off most of its on-air staff. We mourned it at the time on our music blog as a loss for Dallas radio, now…
DART already had the longest light rail system in the country before the $1.3 billion Orange Line added another three stations and several miles with its debut this morning. Sure, DART’s soon-to-be 90 miles of track are dwarfed by the subway system in New York City, the L in Chicago,…
Nowadays every Monday morning at 7 am I’m on KNON Radio 89.3 doing a radio version of “Get Off My Lawn,” pretty much the same thing you see here except that I’m naked. If like a lot of people you find that the effect of “Get Off My Lawn” doesn’t…
First Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress has made his predictable entree into the newly opened front of the culture war centered on Chick-fil-a. “The liberals have gone into a frenzy,” said Jeffress, according to the Christian Post (via DMN). “Their first response was to try to stop the expansion of businesses…
