It must be codified somewhere in the Conservative’s Guide to Crisis Management: Ensnared in scandal? Come across like an uninformed buffoon? Or are you a judge whose campaign fliers dispelled any appearance of impartiality in a really important case? Just blame it on the media. Sarah Palin became a journo-castigating…
Horse racing may be a dying sport,, but it’s apparently enough of a going concern to be used by Mexico’s most powerful cartel to launder millions in drug profits. According to an indictment unsealed yesterday, Los Zetas, the notoriously ruthless organization that effectively controls large swaths of Mexican territory and…
At his odd press conference defending the $185,000 salary of his communications chief, new Dallas ISD supe Mike Miles mentioned that he’s never had coffee with Jennifer Sprague. It sounded unlikely, but you knew what Miles meant: They don’t hang out. They’re not bros. But it was only a matter…
Cathedral of Hope on Cedar Springs has been doing what you might call God’s work for 40 years now, ministering to the spiritual needs of LGBT Christians who have historically been shunned by mainstream churches. In 1993, CoH cobbled together a makeshift TV studio and eventually began broadcasting the sermons…
Seriously, NFL? First you ban the clothesline, then you move kickoffs to within field goal range, and now you’re handing out sanctions because people are trying too hard? Some background: The league’s collective bargaining agreement bans “contact work” in spring practices. Specifically, there’s no tackling, pass rushing, live blocking or…
Someone has shown the Texas Democratic Party the video creator apps on YouTube, and the results are Lego George W. Bush, a joke about santorum (the frothy kind), a version of Rick Perry that looks like a rotund funeral home director and some jabs at sweater vests. Politicians, please start…
So it’s been easy to get bogged down in the last few days with questions like “Holy shit! Jennifer Sprague is making how much?” and “Wait, you think us media types are blowing this salary thing out of proportion because Jennifer Sprague is young and blond and has boobs?” But,…
Back before I posted this piece about how DeVry — yes, that DeVry — wanted to train students from one of its Caribbean medical schools in Texas hospitals, I reached out to the for-profit university for a more detailed explanation of their plans and, perhaps, a comment. None came. But…
Speaking of Dallas as one massive Lite Brite… Photographer Mike Mezeul, who may or may not be at home right now painting some cats, forwarded along this shot taken two nights ago of the Omni looking particularly candy-like. And no, Mike says, there’s no ‘shopping done to this sucker. It’s…
Last night at the Turner House, the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League unveiled its 2012 Architecture at Risk List, its annual enumeration of properties in danger of being demolished, neglected, and otherwise relegated to the dust bin of history. They offered a sneak peek of the first item on their…
In news sure to inspire furious bickering inside your television, a Texas A&M study has found that the castle doctrine — on which Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law is based — does not deter crime and, in fact, increases murder rates. The killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by…
Back in 2006, Mayor Laura Miller joined with her colleagues across the country to sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, a promise to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012, It was just Dallas doing in its part to chip…
Meet the average modern Texas prisoner, released in 2009. He spent 2.8 years behind bars — 32 percent more time than his average prisoner predecessor released in 1990. If he was busted for a violent crime, he spent 5.3 years locked up, a 44 percent increase from his predecessor in…
There was some good news in the crime statistics presented to the City Council’s Public Safety Committee a few moments ago. Burglaries, the bane of the Dallas Police Department in recent years, are down by double-digits thanks to ongoing efforts to shut down fencing operations through which thieves turn their…
Back in July, Benino Perez was working at a cement plant on Corinth Street in Dallas when he lost his balance. He fell from a height of several feet and was knocked unconscious from the impact. And according to a lawsuit filed in Dallas County District Court by his family…
Back in December, the city of Dallas opened its Community Baby Cafe, which provides resources not for eating young children, as the easily confused might be led to believe, but for nursing them. Research has made the benefits of breastfeeding increasingly undeniable, so the city decided to launch CBC as…
Incoming DISD superintendent Mike Miles called Saturday’s sit-down with the board a retreat, but that’s probably a misnomer. The meeting was long and took place on a weekend, and there was a platter full of bacon, but Miles didn’t give an inch. In a Q&A session with media beforehand, Miles…
So, Dallas, Buzz Bissnger regrets what he said about you, and your schools, and your freeways, and your collective IQ, and more or less everything else that defines you as a city. Not what he said about that lousy book review. No take-backs on that. But everything else? Yeah, he’s…
Photographer Stephen Masker, whose work you may remember from such sites as this one, sent us this sharp, sensational photo that he nabbed from Dealey Plaza on Friday evening. Not sure if it’s the buzzing neon, but I couldn’t help but hear this. Lets you know you’re home, no? Update:…
The federal government has already accused Sam Hurd, a Dallas Cowboys receiver until a year ago, of being caught with a kilo of cocaine while trying to buy a lot more in an attempt drug-dealing network. Because a man’s got to live, right? How can a guy feed his family…
The A.P. is reporting that Heritage Auctions, the purveyor of valuable and collectible arcana, is hawking the hat and guns of Annie Oakley, the famed sharpshooter who could split a playing card, edge-on, with a bullet. The items, which are being put up for sale by some of Oakley’s California-based…
As the district announced yesterday, and the DMN reported over the weekend (paywall), DISD is accusing five private tutoring companies of more $500,000 in fraud. That’s on top of more than $140,000 the district accused two other companies of illegally taking in April after an external audit. The companies deny…
