Here’s a Live Feed of the Texas House Debating Abortion Restrictions
It’s like listening to Bon Iver, but with slightly more uterus references…
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Showing 11199 - 11220 of 36083Elvis Andrus Will Eventually Make Adrian Beltre Drop a Pop-Up, and That’s OK*
Your browser does not support iframes. Because the way Andrus continually screws with Beltre like an annoying little brother — stealing his hat, touching his head, and constantly interfering with pop-ups clearly destined for Beltre’s glove — is the best thing going in baseball this side of the Canadian border…
How Texans Could Be on the Hook if Energy Future Holdings Goes Bankrupt
Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, Texas’ largest power generator and utility, is getting its books scrutinized by state mining regulators. The Railroad Commission of Texas is apparently worried that if the company goes bankrupt, which analysts expect it may, it could jeopardize more than a billion dollars in bonds the company…
In Saginaw Murder, Investigators Have Set Up Road Blocks, Seized Items from Girl’s Home
A week has passed since two teenagers walking through Saginaw discovered the body of 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, naked, bound and gagged and wrapped in heavy plastic. No arrests have been made. Tips continue to flood in, and the town remains baffled and on edge. Investigators have said repeatedly that the…
Rick Perry Won’t Seek Re-Election, Plans to Spend More Time with His Campaign Donors
Rick Perry will not seek a fourth term as Texas governor, he announced this afternoon. He will spend the next 18 months “working to create more jobs” and will “pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path,” he said. He did not rule out another run for…
It’s Texas Heterosexual Awareness Month, Whatever That Means
Amidst the buzz this summer about same-sex marriage and gay pride, it’s easy to lose track of the unsung victims of all these equal rights. So to bring attention to heterosexual Americans and the struggle they face, like having to see gay characters on television and not having VIP federal…
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Four Valuable Life Lessons Gleaned from a Violent July Fourth Weekend in Dallas
Our regular Unfair Park captain, Eric, is on vacation, so I had the pleasure of perusing the weekend’s police reports, to make sure Dirk wasn’t drunkenly wandering Victory Park all sad and sidekick-less. It was a nice reminder that dear Lord, humans are weird. Here’s what I learned: High Heels…
Even More Evidence You Should Never Take Your Kid to the Bar at Last Call
With last call looming, a 28-year-old mom named Diana Salinas drove to Sanchez Restaurant and Bar in Oak Cliff early Sunday morning and made a bee line for her estranged husband, police say. She left her ill-advised companion in the car: her two-year-old son. After an argument about child support,…
Whatever Rick Perry’s Plans Are, Being Tough on Abortion Seems Very Important to Them
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Later today, Governor Rick Perry will take the stage in San Antonio and tell the world of his future plans, while cable-news producers “real” and “fake” wait with bated office-coffee breath. The Morning News on Sunday laid out the pros and cons of three…
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Texans Are Tired of Rick Perry, Totally Heart Ted Cruz and Still Support Paula Deen
The Koch Bros might be emptying their change purses in order to keep Texas from tinting blue, but the state is in no danger of becoming a real battleground, new polling suggests. Also: People continue to think in large numbers that other states should not mess with Texas. Also: That’s…
“Playboy Marfa,” the Magazine’s Art Installation on Highway 90, Must Be Removed, State Says
Since it went up in late June, the giant Playboy logo alongside U.S. Highway 90 has stopped passersby and sparked debate in Marfa, the West Texas tourist town known for its modernist flair. Now it has to come down, the state says. The Texas Department of Transportation has ordered Playboy…
A 21-Year-Old Man Disappeared from a Party Boat on Grapevine Lake Yesterday
No better way for a 21-year-old to spend America’s birthday than on a boat. So yesterday in Grapevine, 60 people shoved off onto Grapevine Lake for a day of floating and partying. They made their way back around 4 p.m., pulled into the dock and disembarked, but there was a…
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Living a Dream of Murder
His ears were a good conversation starter. Misshapen, the cartilage calcified by years spent scraping against sweat-soaked wrestling mats, they looked alien, possibly malignant. Ask about them and he’d tell you: two-time freestyle All-American from Salina, Oklahoma. Runner-up in the nationals. It was one of the few stories of his…
Brooke Phillips: The Life and Death of an HBO Hooker
She was identified on the coroner’s slab by the tattoos: the wind-up angel on her shoulder, a woman resting on a flower across her abdomen, some Japanese kanji across her wrist. A purple tank top and jeans were mostly intact, reeking of petroleum. Her aunt gazed at the body covered…
Not So Minor League
Like roughly 20 million others in the free world, Andrew Seymour was watching Game 6 of the NBA Finals. He watched the Spurs take a five-point lead with 28 seconds to go, he watched the Heat pushed to the brink of a catastrophic Finals loss, and most poignantly, he watched…
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The Texas Rangers Have Signed Manny Ramirez
If you’re a fan of the web site Deadspin, you’ve been mesmerized at least once this year by Manny Ramirez and Taiwanese baseball, which seemed to have a pretty fun marriage going. But that’s over now, because your Texas Rangers have signed Ramirez to a minor league deal and assigned…
Fort Worth Representative Lon Burnam Files Texas’ First Post-DOMA Marriage Equality Bill
Back in February, when the Texas legislature was in session the first time, Representative Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, authored a bill aimed to authorize “a marriage between two persons of the same sex in this state and repealing the statutory prohibition against the recognition of a civil union or similar…
At the Rate Natural Gas Production Is Falling Dallas Will Never Get its Parkland Fracked
We can argue and cheat and take all the money we want based on all the secret side deals we can surreptitiously sign, but that doesn’t mean anyone will want to frack us: That’s the lesson from the latest numbers produced by state regulators, which show natural-gas production continuing its…
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The Conservative FreedomWorks PAC Lays Plans to Keep Texas Red [CORRECTED]]
UPDATE: FreedomWorks spokesman Julie Bodnar sent Buzz a message informing us we made an error in linking the Koch brothers and FreedomWorks in this post. Specifically: Hey Patrick, Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend! I saw your post about FreedomWorks and BGTX, and there was a major…
Deion Sanders’ Prime Prep Academy Has a New League, and Apparently a New Star Athlete
Prime Prep Academy, the sports-focused charter school founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, never quite found a home for its sports teams in its inaugural year, getting shut out of public-school play for having too many players living outside its boundaries and for poaching players from a local basketball power,…
In Luring Dwight Howard, All Dallas Can Do Is Wait, and Hope His Accountant Has His Ear
Hoping to make a long-awaited splash in free agency, the Mavericks met for a few hours with free agent big person Dwight Howard on Tuesday, one of his last stops on his semi-annual You Know You Want Me Tour. If the experts are to believed, it will come down to…
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Texas’ Proposed Abortion Restrictions Took Another Step Toward Passage Last Night
A week after state Senator Wendy Davis power-talked her way into liberal America’s heart, reality continued to set in last night in Austin, where a panel of lawmakers approved the same set of abortion restrictions that Davis filibustered, while hundreds of people who registered to testify about the bill were…