Just because something is below my radar doesn’t mean it’s below yours. Maybe you knew all about this, but I was astonished, mainly because it has been right in front of my nose for so long. The part of South Dallas I’ve been writing about for years, near Jim’s Car…
Big changes are coming to The Dallas Morning News’ website in September, as the struggling newspaper company teams with the Washington Post in an effort to improve its website. Word of the change came as the Morning News’ parent company A.H. Belo Corp. released its second-quarter financial statement. The good…
North Texas picked up more new apartment renters than any area in the United States during the second quarter of 2019, according to data released last week by RealPage. As of July 1, DFW has 10,446 more occupied apartments than it did three months ago, the biggest quarterly jump in…
NRATV, the most provocative arm of the National Rifle Association, a group that is all too happy to provoke, is no more, the gun-rights organization announced in a message to supporters Wednesday. Prior to the mother ship pulling the plug, NRATV broadcast from studios in Uptown. “Many members expressed concern…
Don’t forget. Early voting has begun in the Dallas June 8 mayoral and City Council runoff election. Now is your chance to go to the polls and vote against The Dallas Morning News. I’m serious. A little over a year ago, the Morning News hired a political propaganda writer from…
Those who believe that Dallas state Rep. Eric Johnson is a stalking horse candidate, the tool of a cabal of wealthy people opposed to Scott Griggs as mayor, might be called paranoid — if they weren’t so damned right. We have audio to prove it, thanks to an anonymous source…
For the last year or so, it’s been like watching watching an aunt or uncle’s gradual descent into madness as he or she consumed a little too much Fox News. Slowly but surely, The Dallas Morning News’ editorial page, the one that purports to speak for the city it serves,…
Pew Research Center is out with an analysis of how North Texans get and consume their news, and the breakdown isn’t kind to print and paid media, be it The Dallas Morning News or your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly. (That’s us. Hi.) An overwhelming share of DFW turns to the region’s…
Let’s be certain about one thing. Money is always an issue in questions of sincerity and truth-telling. The fact that you’re making money on it doesn’t automatically make what you tell me untrue, but I have a big right to wonder. If money is on the table, it’s on the…
The events followed a familiar pattern for newsrooms around the country that are slowly suffocating. A tweet from Dom DiFurio, one of the surviving staffers in The Dallas Morning News’ newsroom, broke the word just as the paper’s employees heard it: Layoffs were coming again. Word trickled out slowly for…
If you thought Texas’ Facebook fever swamp got especially weird as the 2016 election approached, you were right. According to a couple of new, third-party reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind the country’s fake news campaign to interfere…
The long journey traveled by Dallas’ CW33 TV station appears to be nearing its end. Monday, the massive media conglomerate that owns the station agreed to merge with another massive media conglomerate. This comes after a merger deal between the first media conglomerate and a third media conglomerate fell though…
CW33 no longer has a news division after a recent round of layoffs and cutbacks. The station’s parent company, Tribune Media, laid off 68 employees from its Dallas TV station, according to filings made by Tribune with the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs led to the cancellation of CW33’s morning news…
Ivan Garcia was born in Dallas and lived in the city for most of his life, but he was still shocked when he began apartment hunting in February. He didn’t know that his first apartment would cost so much — especially in his own hometown. North Texas has seen the…
OK, this just in, we’ve got the playbook now for the next Dallas mayor’s race, and it falls somewhere on a line between, “Oh, no, not again,” “Tell me you’re kidding,” “Wait, wait, this might be cool” and “Bring it!” Monday, The Dallas Morning News fired the opening salvo with…
This week, thanks to skewering Jerry Jones for the Cowboys owner’s national anthem hypocrisy — after demanding his players stand for the song, Jones left his hat on during a training camp rendition — WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen went viral. It wasn’t the first time either.
To afford the average two-bedroom apartment rent in Dallas without spending 30 percent of monthly income on rent, a renter must make at least $56,743 a year, according to an annual report by SmartAsset, a financial information website. The median rate for a two-bedroom Dallas apartment, SmartAsset found, is about…
Facebook announced last week it will begin expurgating from its pages types of speech that the site believes may lead to actual violence, as opposed to just offending the hell out of people. I’m thinking thanks, Mr. Zuckerberg. I get it. I see why you’re doing it, but I wish…
TheBlaze, the conservative cable media company established in Dallas by former Fox News host and chalkboard enthusiast Glenn Beck, seems to be struggling to stay afloat. And based on Beck’s recent CNN interview, that’s starting to get to its founding father. Beck built his media business in the old Studios…
Conservative media yakker Tomi Lahren had such a rough week that even Kathy Griffin came to her defense. The pummeling began Sunday. Lahren, a Dallasite and contributor to Fox News, was having brunch in Minneapolis when fellow brunchers heckled her, calling her, among other things, a racist. Lahren said later that…
Suicide is still a taboo in our society. That was what Steve Blow, retired longtime columnist of The Dallas Morning News, tried to convey in a piece he wrote in 2010 that landed him and the News in court, sued for defamation. Last week, Blow and the News won the libel…
Dear Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall: You and I have an issue in common, but I get the sense that you may not have gone through the difficult and deeply personal process of dealing with yours yet. We’re both from Detroit, but that’s not exactly what I’m talking about…
