Last June, things got pretty busy around Joe Bankson and Gena Charlton’s farmhouse in Hardin, what with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, DPS and a half-dozen media outlets stopping by, as you see in the AP video above. What were they looking for? A mass grave containing 25…
If you’re like me, you associate DeVry with grainy daytime TV advertisements from the mid-1990s hawking cut-rate degrees in things like medial records and mechanical drafting. But the for-profit college has apparently been moving up in the world, now training not only your stenographer but your doctor. DeVry entered the…
Dallas police just announced that they’ve arrested one of the two men suspected in the May 28 robbery of a Metro PCS store. That man is George Tucker, and he can be seen in the video above waving a gun at the store employees, a male customer, and, at one…
Here’s a question for all you MBAs in Unfair Park Land: Why would an independent retailer operating in a free, deregulated market want the state to take steps to suddenly raise the retailer’s costs? For example, say you own a mom-and-pop store that sells tomatoes. The government suddenly wants to…
When 21-year-old John Husband was shot in the back around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday after a traffic stop turned ugly, everyone assumed the worst. Dallas police officer Leland Limbaugh pulled Husband over for not hitting his turn signal as he pulled into the Spring Ridge Apartments at 3600 Folklore Trail…
It’s been almost a month since renowned car maker Carroll Shelby died in Dallas at the age of 89, but he’s not exactly at rest. According to TMZ, his body remains on ice in the medical examiner’s office while his estranged wife and children fight over who has control of…
Until recently, if you walked along the eastern wall of the Dallas Public Library, you would have to weave your way through a gathering of homeless people idling there. Never gave me much of a problem, but apparently something went down because, as Rudy Bush noted yesterday, Downtown Dallas, Inc…
The other day, Unfair Park chatted with filmmaker Bentley Brown about his film Faisal Goes West, the tale of a Sudanese family moving to America and settling in Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood. Brown mentioned his friend who convinced him to film in Dallas (and acted as script supervisor) started Refugee…
Former EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz was the designated whipping boy at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing this week, though it proceeded in absentia. Armendariz totally blew it off, to the supreme indignation of Chairman Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican, and the assembled GOP congressmen. Maybe Armendariz decided…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wasn’t merely skeptical; he appeared contemptuous of the Justice Department’s argument trying to stop Arizona’s cops from deporting undocumented Mexicans. “But if, in fact, somebody who does not belong in this country is in Arizona, Arizona has no power?” asked the incredulous Scalia. “… Are…
Today in America, one in four Latino voters knows someone in deportation proceedings. The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court don’t care. What else can be concluded from their questions and comments during oral arguments over Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s notorious stab at ethnic cleansing? And Latinos shouldn’t expect any…
Around noon on a windy fall Sunday, the motorcade began forming. Dozens of black people, ages 5 to 85, poured from the three-story New Covenant Baptist Church and into a coughing 20-year-old bus, a cramped church van and their cars. The caravan snaked down Rio Grande Avenue, turned onto Kaley…
A couple of years back, I put four white supremacists in prison. They had made the mistake of going into the Slater Slums of Huntington Beach, the city’s traditional barrio, to kill a random Mexican. They got as far as stabbing a man before the Slater Slums smackdown began: The…
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this month on legislation that forces police to scrutinize Latinos, both immigrants and citizens. President Barack Obama has deported 1.5 million people. And 41 states are attempting to limit the voting rights of young people and minorities. In “Crossing the Line,” Village Voice Media…
Going in, I was assuming the Pride Month event at City Hall was for celebrating the previous days’ revelation that the Green Lantern is gay. It’s not Batman or Superman, but baby steps, right? But no one — not Councilwoman Delia Jasso, not any of the half dozen speakers, not…
Big front-pager in today’s Morning News about how Mike Miles, Dallas ISD’s new superintendent, will pay his new communications chief, Jennifer Sprague, $185,000 a year. The general consensus among those interviewed for the story: Holy hell that’s a lot of money for that job. Which makes sense because, well, holy…
The blogger and a crew of friends have a simmering, long-standing series of gripes against the site
Councilman Dwaine Caraway announced this morning at the City Council briefing that despite his half-decade long effort to get young men to pull ’em up, Dallas’ sagging epidemic is only getting worse. “It’s a doggone shame,” he said. Seems that Caraway recently spotted two young men strolling through the meat…
When Joseph Drake, a fourth grade teacher at Central Elementary School, fired off a testy email to DISD Trustee Edwin Flores (Sample line: “People like you destroy morale, beat us down into the ground, and make us wish we had been greedy enough to go into the business world as…
Last month, five families sued the crime-scene cleanup company Aftermath Inc. and three of its north Texas employees. Three families had hired Aftermath to clean up after the suicide of a loved one, while the two others brought in the company after their family members were found dead several days…
The Dallas Voice has been on this for a while now, but it deserves a belated mention. According to the Plano Police Department, two women were holding hands as they walked with an teenage friend through the parking lot of the Plano Sports Authority (a rec center) at about 2…
There were some cries yesterday to ignore the sweaty, out of breath one-man show performed by Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger. Yeah, ignoring him would be cool. Nothing more fun than denying someone the attention they so badly crave. But this was a train wreck you couldn’t look away…
