A federal judge has ruled that the City of Dallas pretty much lied about every single aspect of its so-called “flow-control” trash program. Judge Reed O’Connor granted a permanent injunction against a new city ordinance that would have forced commercial haulers to take their trash to the city-owned dump instead…
Dallas ISD’s teachers are feeling beaten down, their union rep told me this morning: “Physically, emotionally and financially.” The latest blow, she said: no longer getting paid for time they spend at after-school conferences with parents. The News’ Matthew Haag had the story last night: DISD teachers used to get…
Nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a class action lawsuit filed by some 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees who say they hit a corporate glass ceiling, the plaintiffs hit a brick wall in Texas. Because the court ruled the women of Wal-Mart could not…
Houston Republican Dan Patrick — a conservative radio shock jock and founder of the Tea Party Caucus in the Texas Senate — is vowing to lead the charge in the next session of the Texas Legislature for a school voucher system that would give away tax money to private and…
In the latest bit of fallout from the doping allegations against him, several news outlets are reporting that Lance Armstrong will step down as chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, better known as Livestrong, the Austin-based cancer-fighting charity he helped found in 1997. It was also reported this morning that…
You’d think a guy with the job title “Texas land commissioner” would know a thing or two about Texas land. Little items, you know, like what the state boundaries are, what a landowner is and how to tell a Texan apart from, say, a Canadian. See also: – Keystone Pipeline…
Because of a new law passed in the last legislative session, Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates are now faced with a choice when they need to see a doctor: pay a yearly $100 fee, or don’t go in for treatment at all. As the Texas Tribune reports today, many…
Update: Steven Lawayne Nelson, who was just handed a death sentence in the suffocation of an Arlington preacher, has flooded his holding cell and the courtroom, according to Star-Telegram reporter Dianna Hunt’s Twitter feed. She said he could be heard screaming as water began seeping into the courtroom. Original item:…
On Friday afternoon, Arlington’s Michael Brutsch was catapulted squarely into his 15 minutes of fame, after a Gawker article outed him as Violentacrez, a well-known moderator and commenter on a slew of racist, misogynistic and sexually exploitative threads on the internet community Reddit. Just before Chen’s story ran, we put…
Delonte West, the Mavericks guard and most interesting man in basketball, has been suspended for “conduct detrimental to the team,” ESPN reports. Coach Rick Carlisle isn’t specifying why, nor has he laid out a timetable for West’s return. The suspension came after the Mavs’ preseason win over Houston Monday, in…
We heard last week from John Wiley Price, who responded defiantly in the feds’ ongoing effort to squeeze him on their way to a corruption case. It’s a hail mary, he said of investigators’ effort to sieze $229,000 found in a December raid, nothing more than an effort to “fill…
The Dallas police are looking for a UT Arlington professor who disappeared two weeks ago and hasn’t been seen since. Pablo Mora, an assistant professor of psychology, was last seen leaving his house in Oak Lawn on September 30. The 41-year-old’s car was found abandoned at Ray Roberts State Park…
A Dallas code inspector named Donna Garza was making her appointed rounds back in December 2010 when she came upon the home of Loyd Ferrell Ray, in a tree-lined neighborhood south of Preston Hollow. As she conducted her routine inspection of his home, Ray’s pit bull got loose somehow, and…
Last year saw the start of some big, possibly permanent changes at Dallas Animal Services: 53 full-time employees were pink-slipped and replaced with temporary workers. Meanwhile, the number of animal services officers in the field dropped from 55 to 32. And the “drop boxes” at the shelter were closed at…
Drop everything, including whatever inferior trousers you’re wearing right now. Drop them and then burn them, because the Glenn Beck-made, Glenn Beck-approved jeans you’ve been waiting for have finally arrived. See also: Glenn Beck Says American Airlines Flight Attendant Made Him Feel “Subhuman” When Beck picked up and moved to…
When it comes to funding cancer research, no entity other than the federal National Institutes of Health draws from a deeper well than the The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Since the taxpayer-funded agency’s creation in 2007, backed by Governor Rick Perry and Lance Armstrong, it has awarded…
When people look back on the Cowboys’ 2012 season, there are only two things they will be concerned with: wins and losses. Yesterday’s game falls into the latter column, but only because the Pokes violently shoved it out of the former. See also: Ravens Cornerback Tells Dez Bryant to “Be…
The latest New York magazine goes all-in on the Bush family, assessing the political hopes of Jeb before finally deciding that it’s actually George P., Jeb’s half-Mexican son and a rising star in Texas politics, who has the highest political ceiling. “George P.’s future in Texas in unlimited,” says James…
Toward the end of yesterday’s Cowboys game, there was a two-play sequence that more or less captured the career of receiver Dez Bryant. After Bryant hauled in a touchdown catch to pull Dallas to within two, Tony Romo chucked a perfect ball into Bryant’s chest, a pass that should have…
Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville’s resident pot-stirrer, now claims that the lawsuit against him, filed by neighborhood organizer Melissa Kingston, is actually an effort to silence him during her husband’s run for, and potential stint on, the Dallas City Council. See also: Lawsuit Calls Barking Dog Avi Adelman a “Neighborhood Terrorist”…
Newsflash: Reddit can get creepy. Really creepy. The hugely popular internet community has been in the news over the past few years because of various gross subreddits (message boards devoted to specific topics). Some of them, like the one devoted to sharing sexualized images of young girls, titled, “r/Jailbait,” get…
The house at 4823 Dolphin Road is a ramshackle affair in South Dallas all but engulfed by surrounding brush. For weeks, it had been the subject of near-constant complaints. Drugs were being sold there, neighbors said, and the loud music was rattling their nerves. So too was the resident who…
