Last month it came to light that the Regional Transportation Council was mulling requiring three, rather than two, people per vehicle in order to use the region’s HOV lanes. You could still use the special lanes driving solo, but you’d have to pay a toll that would vary based on…
ATI Career Training Center is the type of school you see advertised on daytime TV. It prepares its graduates for “rewarding careers” in “fields such as health care, personal fitness and wellness, business technology, information technology, automotive repair, air conditioning and refrigeration repair, and welding,” per its website. Three years…
It was a question the legal system had never faced before: If the state pays a man millions of dollars for locking him up for a crime he didn’t commit, does the wife he left behind get a piece of that? There was no need for an answer before the…
Miller Lite announced yesterday that, for the second year in a row, it will partner with the Dallas Cowboys and a nonprofit called Adelante U.S. Educational Leadership Fund “to support educational programming and resources for Hispanics through the ‘Scoring for Education’ campaign.” In layman’s terms, that means that between September…
WFAA’s Brett Shipp went out to the football practice yesterday of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders. What happened was dangerous, awkward, embarrassing, and yet another example of why Sanders shouldn’t have a school, and why this state should spend a few more shekels…
On the sprawling “social news” website Reddit, there are pages and pages of user-created discussions and links, ranging from funny to poignant to vile. One of the site’s most fascinating sub-sections is r/IAmA , also known as “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA. AMAs are question and answer sessions with unique…
In 2009, Rolanda Dickerson went to Forest Park Medical Center for a tummy tuck. Instead, according to a lawsuit first reported by Courthouse News, Dr. John Alexander gave her a gastric bypass. That was a problem both because the procedure wasn’t what she had agreed to and because Dickerson had…
I’ve never played fantasy football. I like to catch a Cowboys game from time to time, but actually joining a league and drafting players and obsessively tracking them throughout the season seems like a lot of work and not a lot of fun. So I’d never really wondered or cared…
Over the last several years, California has basically existed as a tutorial for how not to run a state government. It’s faced years of crippling budget deficits, has had several of its cities declare bankruptcy, and has been hit especially hard by the recession, all with help from one of…
The Flashback, alas, is not long for this world. In less than a week, the iconic Six Flags roller coaster will take its last passengers backward and forward through its loop before being dismantled. The same fate will befall the parachute ride. Ah, well. Progress marches on. The rides will…
For the second time in three days, a federal court has called a Texas voting measure as discriminatory. Earlier today, a three-judge panel in D.C. issued an opinion striking down the state’s voter ID law, passed by the legislature last year. The law would require voters to present a valid…
Justin Bitner is a local freelance writer. He last wrote for the Observer about FC Dallas. Oh, and sandwiches. As expected, the starters were firmly entrenched on the sidelines last night, having no intention of taking the field until postgame bro-hugs. The third and fourth deep, though, had to give…
Early this morning at about 3 a.m., passersby in a Main Street parking garage became concerned when they spotted a young man walking about, allegedly waving an AK-47 in the air. They called police who, as first reported by the Morning News, confirmed that, yes, there was indeed a man…
Randy Best found his way into the pages of the Observer in the mid-’90s, when a company he founded, Voyager Expanded Learning Inc., landed some plum DISD contracts and, just after he left the district, Superintendent Chad Woolery. He gained national attention a decade later when he was criticized for…
Texas’ delegation at the Republican National Convention seems to have mostly behaved itself in Tampa this week. Soon-to-be Senator Ted Cruz lobbed overblown rhetoric at the Obama administration, and Rick Perry said he’d “absolutely” consider running again, but that’s standard fare. At least no one tossed peanuts and racial insults…
It seems that a lot of electric vehicle charging stations have been popping up in Dallas of late — at gas stations, grocery stores, possibly soon at City Hall — and now we know that yes, there are a lot. Xatori, an app-maker, released a list yesterday of the cities…
Her rhinestone-studded sunglasses shading her from the harsh July sun, Jeanie Almond purposefully paces the range, hands clasped behind her back, her short blonde hair tucked behind her ears. She’s watching her 16-year-old granddaughter, tall and blonde with purple streaks, shoot International bunker trap — an Olympic game with 15…
Last I checked, Domingo Garcia lost his bid for Congress. Marc Veasey got about 53 percent of the vote in last month’s Democratic primary runoff, which is more than half, which is what it takes to win an election. Except Garcia doesn’t see it that way. “While it may appear…
If you missed season one of Most Eligible Dallas, Bravo’s glimpse at what life is like for those Dallasites who are young, rich and telegenic enough to star in a Bravo reality show, never fear. Mixmaster can fill you in on all the juicy details, episode-by-episode. Start reading now if…
Every year, Allstate crunches its claims data from the country’s 200 largest municipalities, does a little arithmetic, then releases a ranked list showing which cities have the best drivers and, by extension, which have the worse. The insurance company just released its report for 2012, and the answer to your…
The Nasher Sculpture Center has been feuding with Museum Tower, its shiny new neighbor in the Arts District, over light, heat and reflectivity for going on six months now. At the end of July, we published a story showing that the tower isn’t the only risky real estate project the…
The Dallas Morning News’ Tumblr page is “hand-picked from among our most fascinating, interesting news and photography.” I’ll say. The photo you see here was posted there this morning, twice, along with the original poster’s description: “beautiful and classy.” The photo was reblogged from a Tumblr user named “washrangers,” whose…
