Wait. This is awesome. We just stumbled across Craig James’ new U.S. Senate campaign ad. His campaign manager, who also moonlights as his daughter, is interviewing him, asking if people in West Texas will hate him for his role in the Texas Tech football fiasco that led to head coach…
Like him or not, I’m sure we can all agree: Damarcus Offord, the 20-year-old Lincoln High grad who’s challenging Bernadette Nutall for her southern Dallas seat on the Dallas ISD school board, is making the typical snoozefest that are school board politics a lot more fun. Last week, Greg showed…
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a federal district court’s order forcing the American Cancer Society to return some $240,000 donated by Irving-based Giant Operating, an oil and gas company the Security and Exchange Commission says defrauded investors of more than $13 million. The ACS donations were…
Alternative elementary schools used for discipline are a “pipeline to prison” and a drain on Dallas Independent School District’s budget that should be closed, a group of DISD parents and activists said today. Alternative school opponents waded across the unkempt lawn at NW Harllee Elementary school in southern Dallas to…
Just in time for Easter, the irrepressible atheists over at the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason are back. You’ll recall that back in February, the group erected a South Dallas billboard in praise of black free-thinkers. This time around, for a campaign they’ve dubbed “Our Families Are Great Without Religion,”…
The FBI and Friends are at a Mutual of Omaha bank branch this afternoon, after an armed gunman made off with a plastic bag full of loot. The industrious folks at DFW Police Scanner report: An unknown suspect just robbed the Mutual of Omaha Bank at gunpoint. Susp is a…
Supporters of Ben Spencer gathered yesterday on the steps of the Frank Crowley Criminal Court Building, where he was convicted for a crime they believe he did not commit. Monday marked 25 years since his arrest for the murder of retail executive Jeffrey Young at a remote industrial complex. Spencer…
Back in December, we spent some time exalting the weirdness of Mavericks guard Delonte West, who had just signed with the team. West is known for his ongoing mental health struggles, and his non-dalliance with LeBron James’ mom. But he is also a noted weirdo whose quotes can reach Ichiro-esque…
As midterms approached on the SMU campus, as the dual stenches of Red Bull and coffee drifted through university libraries and the bars fell quiet, Jennifer, clad in an oversized sweatshirt and yoga pants, looked like an average college student cramming for midterms. Yet, as she sat at her usual…
Students, faculty and community members marched together today through the University of Texas at Arlington campus, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin’s death and the arrest of his killer, 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the UT-Arlington NAACP chapter, including students from UTD and UNT. Many held signs…
Before this morning, we had never heard of Reynolds Protection, a Dallas purveyor of bodyguards, or its owner, Chad Reynolds, who judging from his bio photo is roughly the size of a refrigerator. A very bald, imposing refrigerator. But this morning Reynolds Protection sent around a press release announcing the…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a sweeping investigation over the weekend of possible cheating on standardized tests in dozens of school districts across the country, and Dallas Independent School District made an appearance. The AJC examined test results for 69,000 schools in 49 states and found “high concentrations of suspect scores”…
Dr. Michael Economides, author, CNBC regular and University of Houston professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, says Texas lost out on some $7.7 billion between 2005 and 2011 primarily because we didn’t use natural gas for electricity. Economides, it should be noted, is a vocal industry supporter and testified before…
After Toni and Ed Allen lost their son, Brien, in May of last year, they decided to mourn him with something called the Bronze Memories Service Package from Restland Funeral Home on St. Paul Street. As funeral packages go, “Bronze Memories Service Package” sounds like the sort of thing that…
Speaking of urban drilling and gas releases in populated areas like Mansfield, the Government Accountability Office says the gathering pipelines used to collect natural gas from drill sites are unregulated, and their locations are often unknown. The GAO conducted site visits in, among other places, the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The…
I’ve worked at newspapers in six cities now, and I can say this about the Dallas Police Department: Its media alerts are by far the most candid I’ve ever read. Today’s is a great example: Today at 1:55 pm officers responded to a suspicious person call at 8401 Skillman. There…
Repercussions from the fatal shooting of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin will be felt in Austin next year, state Senator Royce West told hundreds of demonstrators who gathered at Paul Quinn College today to mourn and demand justice for the 17-year-old. “We’ve come together today, but what will we do…
So, ex-Dallas City council member Sandra Crenshaw is throwing her wig in the trash on Sunday. She wants you there. Better yet, if you’re a black woman with a Korean-made wig, she wants you to join her. (The video you see above is not about wigs, exactly. It’s just something…
The NBA’s regular season is so often discarded as an insignificant enterprise, though for reasons that are largely flimsy at best; there’s real value to be gleaned in that initial 82, whether about a team’s overall offensive or defensive aptitude, a coach’s substitution patterns, the compatibility of certain player combos,…
Yesterday I wrote up sort of a half-assed blog post. It was mostly just a short clip of Rick Perry chatting with Steve Doocy from Fox & Friends about the evil feds, the nobility of the 10th Amendment and his overall job satisfaction. At the end of the clip in…
A reader named Hometown Boy posted the link in the comment section of Bossman’s story yesterday examining Tuesday’s DISD board meeting, and the unwavering recalcitrance of DISD Trustee Carla Ranger. In it, board candidate Damarcus Offord appears to kind of perhaps threaten trustees. Hometown Boy clearly does not want Offord…
The city of Dallas has a bit of an issue with gas, one that anti-drilling activists call potentially silent but deadly and hydraulic fracturing proponents call a huge economic relief for the city — one that would provide an whopping amount of energy. The issue seemed to briefly and temporarily…
