On Valentine’s Day, the University of Texas System regents named University of Alabama-Huntsville Provost Vistasp M. Karbhari as the lone finalist to succeed James Spanioloas as president of the University of Texas at Arlington. Less than a week later, though, regents have decided their decision needs a bit more discussion…
Update at 3:19 p.m.: City spokesman Doug Adolph provides the disappointing news that the city has turned down SugarDaddie.com’s $4.6 million offer. “We decided to agree to disagree,” he says. “Sugar Land is not for sale.” Mayor Thompson did, however, provide a counter offer: If the dating site would relocate…
Texas’ 20-cent-per-gallon gas tax hasn’t changed since 1991. That’s despite the erosion of the tax’s purchasing power — the Wall Street Journal estimates that the gas tax buys half as much concrete, steel, and other materials as they did 20 years ago — and a glaring need — the state…
Deyfon Pipkins has spent a lot of time in the Dallas County jail over the past decade, having been arrested a half dozen times on theft charges since 2003. Police say he was back at it again at 4:15 p..m. on Monday afternoon, when he targeted a house in the…
Longtime Collin County Sheriff Terry Box made it clear in January that he would not be party to President Obama’s attempt to disarm the Real America and, presumably, pave the way for a permanent Marxist dictatorship through a handful of modest gun control proposals. Never mind that or that a…
In December Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a measure banning the adoption of Russian children to American families. The move was widely considered, and tacitly acknowledged as, a retaliation against a new U.S. law targeting accused Russian human rights abusers. Russian officials portrayed it somewhat differently, however, as a way…
Ron White spent nights during his eight-month tour in Afghanistan in 2007 holed up in his bunk with his laptop, poring over lists of words and numbers until they were committed to memory. It struck his Navy comrades as unusual, but memory is what White does. He founded a memory…
In yet another piece of bad publicity for SMU’s fraternities, the university’s police department reports there was a “hazing incident” at Sigma Alpha Epsilon over the weekend. Two reports were filed from the Sigma Alpha house on February 17, one around 9:30 a.m. for the hazing, and another at 10…
We tried not to hold it against Josh Hamilton for his occasional trip to Sherlock’s, his ridiculous energy drink addiction, his snooze-worthy line of Christian clothing, and last year’s collapse. And while that bungled fly ball — you know the one — was hard to forgive, that didn’t change the…
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow is scheduled to speak at First Baptist Dallas at 9:15 a.m. on April 28. Tebow is very open about the role religion plays in his life (good for him), and First Baptist Dallas Reverend Robert Jeffress is also very open about his beliefs, like…
For the past three years or so, the city has been actively seeking a private developer to take the Farmers Market off its hands. It finally found one last summer, but details were kept tightly under wraps as a final deal was hashed out. Those details were released, very quietly,…
George Martin and Marty Harrell used to be friends. They live 800 miles apart but swim in the same professional circles, the former heading Corsicana-based Navarro Pecan Company, one of the world’s largest pecan-processing companies, and the latter in charge of the Harrell Nut Company, which shells and sells pecans…
Last week, Unfair Park got its hands on long-hidden proof of what a lot of people already suspected: that Mary Suhm had cut a secret deal to help Trinity East Energy drill on city parkland while telling the City Council the exact opposite. Suhm’s initial response was to downplay the…
Abe Spear came to Dallas on September 20 to back Nashville musician Josh Thompson at a gig at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill. The 30-year-old Spear is a veteran banjo player who’d tasted modest success as part of the bluegrass group King Wilkie before joining up with…
If there is one thing I hate, it’s talking about morality with people who agree with me. But this has been one of those weeks. I’m your basic anti-gas-and-oil-fracking-in-parks type of guy. Call me soft. I’ve just always been against major petro-chemical operations where the children play. So generally speaking…
The way she tells it on her website, Delsa Thomas decided to launch her own investment firm after Citi Smith Barney, where she worked, merged with Morgan Stanley. She left in February 2011, taking a decade’s worth of experience as a stockbroker and financial advisor to her new outfit, The…
In October, Turkish developer Mike Sarimsakci unveiled his plan to transform the long-vacant Butler Brothers Building at 500 S. Ervay St., caddy-corner to the library and directly across the street from City Hall, into a large mixed-use development complete with 250 apartments, a 200-room Hilton hotel and 25,000 square feet…
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of all the city and state entities who have applied for a license to fly unmanned aerial drones. That list was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), an organization that champions…
At 8:15 last night, Uthit Worawut and a friend were walking toward DART’s Hatcher Station in South Dallas when police say Traymill Cherry walked up to them pointing a .40-caliber handgun. Worawut, whose is listed on police reports as a resident of The Bridge, was carrying $230 cash, but Cherry…
Melba Ketchum has by now established herself as a voice in the scientific wilderness, proclaiming, loudly and often, that Bigfoot is real. That role was cemented in November when Dr. Ketchum — she’s a Nacodoches veterinarian-turned DNA researcher — announced that her “Sasquatch genome study” had found conclusive evidence that…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was scheduled to testify this morning at a hearing on whether he abused his office to perform a favor for a political donor. As you know by now, he didn’t show up, explaining through a proxy that, though he was at work, he was…
When we last left the beleaguered members of the City Plan Commission, they were opting to once again delay a vote on energy company Trinity East’s application to drill for natural gas in the floodplain along the Trinity River. This morning, the CPC was subjected to a four-hour workshop on…
