If former first lady Betty Ford didn’t make it cool to go to rehab, she certainly helped erase some of the stigma associated with admitting to drug and alcohol abuse. She struggled publicly with alcoholism and painkiller addiction and, as a result, established the Betty Ford Center in California. The…
Governor Rick Perry and the Republican leadership in Austin have made Texas a rhetorical model for the nation, an economic dynamo that has soared despite the federal government’s meddling. Our obsession with low taxes, small government and a lean social safety net has led others call us the best state…
DPD just passed along more details on the sequence of events that led to the fatal shooting of 31-year-old James Harper. According to DPD’s description of events, officer Brian Rowden and two cops were responding to a kidnapping call at 5316 Bourquin. There were four black men inside the house,…
Last Tuesday, four men smashed the front door of Southern Staple Supply in the 7000 block of John Carpenter Freeway, stole 30 air guns and an air compressor worth a combined $14,000, then drove away in a white van. You can see the video here All four suspects are described…
Offering benefits to the partners of LGBT workers is gradually becoming a standard thing for large public employers in North Texas. The city of Dallas included domestic partner benefits in 2004, DFW Airport in 2010 and Parkland this year. Dallas County is poised to follow suit at the first of…
Last week, Gregory London got his job back. The Precinct 1 deputy constable had been fired in 2011 along with 16 of his peers after a county audit of the constabulary’s GPS units concluded that the officers had lied about their whereabouts, saying they were serving, say, an eviction notice…
Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Mike just had to see if there were any new sweater vests at Neiman’s, so he strolled downtown and tweeted the picture you see above. (Okay, so it wasn’t the mayor, who now signs his tweets MR, but a staffer under the handle @DallasMayorsOfc. It’s great to…
Michael Morton skyrocketed into national headlines last year when he was exonerated of his wife’s murder after 25 years in prison. A bloody bandana found near the crime scene was a key to Morton’s release when DNA testing implicated another man. The Observer included his case in a recent article…
In March 2011, the Exciting Greater New St. John Primitive Baptist Church closed on a modest white clapboard building on 56th Street in South Oak Cliff. The church, led by the Reverend Vincent Davis, appointed three trustees to handle the financing of the purchase and later put Sandra Diamond Taylor…
A southern Dallas neighborhood flooded the streets in outrage late yesterday, after a 31-year-old man was shot dead by a Dallas police officer during a chase from a suspected drug house. Police say they believe the suspect-turned-victim, a veteran criminal named James “G-Code” Harper, was shot in the stomach and…
The University of North Texas at Dallas has come along way since it was founded in 2000 as a 55-student extension of UNT’s Denton campus. In 2007, it moved onto its permanent campus and three years later became a standalone institution that now boasts a shade over 2,000 students. Not…
Just before 2 p.m. today, the conference room in state senator Royce West’s law office looked like a game of journalist Tetris, as some two dozen reporters and ten news cameras crammed around a long table to hear what Dez Bryant had to say about his recent arrest for allegedly…
The Dallas Morning News recently took some time from its very important schedule to film this slick little video declaring that “Journalism Lives.” But not just any journalism. In fact, not any other journalism. Just the journalism of the Dallas Morning News, which is “the most important news source in…
@MitraSalasel @mimiswartz #txhealththat’s is doctor choice if he chooses I repeat it is not in our bill or required-— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) July 24, 2012 @DanPatrick @MitraSalasel @mimiswartz #txhealthplease don’t act like we are stupid SenatorIt is insulting to all involved— Rita Lucido (@rlucido) July 24, 2012 Texas Monthly editor…
Update at 9:55 a.m. on July 25: Police sent word this morning that Beltran has been found. Promising more details later. Original post:Early this morning, just after the bars closed, Elia Beltran, 20, and a friend were walking from Club Rio along S. Walton Walker Boulevard. They were nearing Beltran’s…
Back in February, I wrote about a heavily publicized report released by the University of Texas Energy Institute that billed itself as the authoritative guide for regulators wrestling with the extraction of natural gas from shale formations and the novel combination of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Injecting…
Since they were put in place a decade or two ago, use of Dallas-area HOV lanes has required having only two people per vehicle. The idea was to encourage carpooling but not make the requirement so onerous that the lanes would sit empty. In that regard at least, the plan…
There was never much to Bankersmith, Texas — little more than a post office and general store at its peak — but it wasn’t a ghost town. Maggie Montgomery made sure of that. Maggie — she promptly disabused me of the notion that I would call her Mrs. Montgomery when…
Dallas and Fort Worth are similar. They’re both in Texas, both have oversized conceptions of themselves, and both came of age in the automobile era. The cities also developed similar bike plans, involving miles of designated bike lanes, at about the same time. And that’s where, transit-wise at least, the…
Update at 8:42 a.m.:The guy with the gun has been identified as 23-year-old Todd Canady. Original post: It’s Monday night and you’re out of milk. Mornings just aren’t the same without the chocolate milky dregs of your Cocoa Puffs, so a trip to Walmart is in order. Keys? Check. Wallet?…
The Associated Press has news for the people who live above the shale formations experts say have transformed America’s energy terrain: Critics of the gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing are as guilty of hyperbole, or downright dishonesty, as the industry’s most ardent defenders. To wit: Josh Fox, director…
I wouldn’t have known it by watching two over-muscled and under-clothed men pummel each other senseless, in a cage no less, but mixed martial arts has rules. Surprising, too, that one of the rules is that you can’t have too much testosterone in your system. I learned these things from…
