Dallas-based Luminant, the electricity generation arm of Energy Future Holdings, and a number of other utilities that own coal-fired fleets are attempting to head off an EPA rule that would curb the amount of nervous system-disrupting mercury, cancer-causing dioxin, arsenic and lead emitted from their smokestacks. At a time when…
Twenty years ago, White Rock Lake was a dump. The park was run-down. The lake itself was half-filled with silt. The main activity out there at night was people having intercourse in cars and then going to the bathroom on the lawns of nearby houses. Good times. The strong souls…
First, it was the president of Mongolia, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, who cried foul when Dallas’ own Heritage Auctions auctioned off a rare Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton for a bit over $1 million. Said that there was no way the specimen could have come from anywhere but Mongolia and that, since there are…
For the past three and a half years, Benny Barrett taught Latin at a Catholic high school in Waco. Now he’s living on the streets and in homeless shelters in downtown Dallas. Except, that is, when he needs a break. “My job was killing me,” Barrett says, sitting at a…
So. We stumbled on this photo on Tumblr a while ago and had to ask: “Hey Texas Rangers. Why are so many of you holding assault weapons?” Rangers spokesman John Blake sent word from the road a few moments ago: “Several of the Rangers visited the Navy Seals Training Facility…
I had lunch with Rev. Peter Johnson yesterday. He walked into CT’s Real Deal Barbeque in South Dallas, shook my hand, and smiled. “How was your holiday?” he asked me. “Great!” I said. It was. I told him I spoke to my father for about 15 or 20 minutes, and…
At about 2 p.m. Sunday, a Latino man in his early 30s, his head bald and both arms covered with tattoos, pocketed a $10 T-shirt, a pair of Starter tennis shoes and a DVD player from Walmart on Cockrell Hill Road. On his way out of the store, he was…
Update at 4:54 p.m.: JC Penney just sent me a statement. As expected, it makes no mention of One Million Moms: Michael’s departure does not signify a change to jcpenney’s long-term transformation plans. We remain focused on our vision to becoming America’s favorite store through great product and exciting new…
Corpus Christi Congressman Blake Farenthold appeared on CNN yesterday to tell Soledad O’Brien that he disapproves of President Obama’s recent executive order, which will keep the Department of Homeland Security from deporting some undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children (for now, anyway.) “The president needs to come to…
Last night, just as the sun sneaked behind the horizon, Stephen Masker was at the Cityplace trolley turntable in Uptown with a friend, doing what he’s usually doing: shooting photos. Masker, 23, graduated from UNT last year, and has been busy building a little freelance career, shooting photos for the…
Update at 12:15 p.m.: I’ve posted a copy of the affidavit below. Original Post:Twice in the span of about a week, a young woman walking near the DART bus stop at Walnut and Audelia in Northeast Dallas was approached by a young black man, forced to a secluded area and…
The Dallas City Council loves art. Sure, council members like getting dressed up all fancy and going to look at the pretty pictures as much as the next person, but they aren’t so simpleminded as to think art is purely for aesthetic enjoyment. This is Dallas, remember, where our leaders…
Update at 3 p.m.: Rangers communications chief John Blake sends out the following update: San Diego, CA–Texas Rangers television play-by-play announcer Dave Barnett will miss the final two games of the team’s series in San Diego. He will undergo an evaluation over the next few days after experiencing on-air issues…
You might remember Dr. Jacques Roy. Back in February, the feds fingered him as the leader of one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in history, alleging that he bilked the federal government of nearly $375 million. To recap: Between 2005 and 2011, Roy referred more than 11,000 individual patients…
Parkland Memorial Hospital was almost shut down last year after federal inspectors threatened to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars of Medicare and Medicaid funding after finding “deficiencies that represent an immediate and serious threat to patient health and safety.” Because of its size and importance to the community,…
You have always been able to walk from the site of the Convention Center Hotel over to, say, police headquarters, but why would you? That stretch of Lamar Street has never been particularly inviting to non-motorized transport, but some long-delayed street improvements designed to make the stroll less daunting are…
Once upon a time in the last legislative session, Arlington state rep Bill Zedler tried and failed to introduce a law requiring a whole slew of new information that abortion-seeking women and their doctors would have to provide to the state. His bill failed, but as we told you a…
President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer attempt to deport young undocumented immigrants brought here as children, signaling a compassionate shift in an immigration policy whose hallmark was aggressive enforcement and record-shattering deportation numbers. With a few big caveats, undocumented immigrants meeting…
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a magic wand you could wave and — voila — a keg or three of small-batch craft beer from a local microbrewery. The city of Dallas is working on its own version of the trick which, this being the city, happens in slow…
It’s been almost three years since the Wyly Theater and Winspear Opera House had their glitzy launch, but, largely overshadowed by the fanfare and intermittently forgotten if you don’t frequent the corner of Routh and Flora or keep your finger on the pulse of with small- and medium-size arts groups,…
Do you agree with #Obama’s decision to stop deporting illegal immigrants? chron.com/news/houston-t…— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 15, 2012 Today, President Barack Obama announced an executive order effective immediately that will protect undocumented immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought here as children from deportation for up to two…
Back in 2004, just after Superintendent Mike Moses leaped from DISD with his golden parachute, Lorenzo Garcia, the district’s chief of instructional services, was a hair’s breadth away from becoming interim superintendent. Maybe not a hair’s breadth, since the board of trustees voted down his nomination 7 to 1, but…
