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Highland Park Will Be Having None of Your Tacky Artificial Grass, Thank You

By Anna MerlanAugust 13, 2012

Highland Park’s city council has decided to ban fake plastic grass from the town’s front yards, a scourge which according to one city official has overtaken at least three (3) properties. The Morning News reports that council members voted on the new ordinance on Monday. Artificial turf will still be…

‘The Patrick Ewing of Suing’ And His Fantastical Kardashian/Mark Cuban Fantasy Foursome Bounced From Court

By Brantley HargroveAugust 13, 2012

Gino Romano, alias Jonathan Lee Riches, alias Johnny Suenami, sued the Kardashian sisters, Kris Jenner, Lamar Odom and Mark Cuban in federal court. Why? Because they’re trying to kill him. Because he has a sex tape involving the Kardashians and Cuban. Because he witnessed it all from an air duct…

Gary Johnson, the Presidential Candidate Who ‘Agrees With You 100 Percent,’ Will Be in Dallas This Week

By Eric NicholsonAugust 13, 2012

Pop quiz: Which presidential candidate, whose name will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, paid his way through college as a door-to-door handyman? Which one earned the nickname “Governor Veto” by rejecting more than 750 bills passed by his state’s legislature? Which one competed in a re-enactment of…

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Two Brothers Swindled $1.4 Million from Nordstrom, and Now They’re Off to Prison

By Eric NicholsonAugust 13, 2012

On paper, Allen Chiu seemed to be a very big Nordstrom fan. Over the course of 22 months starting in January 2010, the Dallasite and his brother Andrew of California ordered more than $23 million of merchandise through the upscale department store’s website. That won’t go as far at Nordstrom…

Dallas ISD Will Bus 18,000 Employees for Convocation, and Teachers Are Pissed

By Eric NicholsonAugust 13, 2012

Last week, Superintendent Mike Miles proposed giving teachers $750 in incentive pay for the coming school year. “Last year, we asked the teachers for a lot,” Miles said, per the Morning News. “We asked the teachers to extend the number of minutes that they are teaching, and to increase the…

Holy Crap That’s a Lot of Kids: Woman Delivers Quintuplets at UT Southwestern

By Eric NicholsonAugust 13, 2012

It happens, on average, 12 times per year in the United States: some lucky woman gives birth to five children, not spacing them comfortably over the course of several years but getting them out all at once. It happened in the span of five minutes in Dallas on Thursday, when…

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Developer Pulls Plans For Pedestrian Mall in Lakewood Shopping Center

By Eric NicholsonAugust 13, 2012

It didn’t take long after the news came out for Stonelake Capital Partners to abandon an attempt to transform the short stub of La Vista Drive between Skillman and Live Oak in Lakewood into a pedestrian mall. Neighbors, it turns out, were none too happy with the proposal. Pat Carr,…

Here’s an Awesome Photo of the Perseid Meteor Shower from Muenster, Texas

By Nick RalloAugust 13, 2012

If you saw cascading streaks in the sky this weekend: don’t panic. It wasn’t the beginning of a Spielberg film. It was just the annual Perseid meteor shower sending space rocks through Earth’s atmosphere. Mike Mezeul, who you may remember from such sites as this one, was poised about five…

Dallas County Declares State of Emergency, Requests Planes for Aerial Pesticide Spraying

By Anna MerlanAugust 10, 2012

Dallas County escalated its war on mosquitoes today, with County Judge Clay Jenkins declaring a state of emergency and requesting that five planes be made available from the Texas Department of Emergency Management in order to begin spraying pesticide aerially over North Dallas and the Park Cities. The outbreak of…

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Dallas Police Chief Announces Policy Shifts After Fallout from James Harper Shooting

By Eric NicholsonAugust 10, 2012

On the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page this afternoon, Chief David Brown announced in a lengthy post measures to “positively impact officer safety and improve public trust and confidence.” The announcement comes in the wake of the July 24 shooting death of James Harper and a spate of other officer-involved…

Texas Plans to Use Medicaid Expansion it Rejected to Pay For Women’s Health Program

By Anna MerlanAugust 10, 2012

In early June, Governor Rick Perry was quick to announce that no state of his would be taking any of that tyrannical federal money to expand Medicaid coverage. Yet court documents filed by outgoing Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs claim that the state’s new, Planned Parenthood-free Women’s Health…

Mitt Romney Wants to Kill Wind-Power Tax Credits, Which Worries Texas’ Wind Industry

By Eric NicholsonAugust 10, 2012

Mitt Romney did himself no favors in Iowa when a spokesman told the Des Moines Register the candidate would “allow the wind credit to expire, end the stimulus boondoggles and create a level playing field on which all sources of energy can compete on their merits.” In Iowa and much…

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Revisionist Historian David Barton’s Book Yanked For Inaccuracies. Will He Still Choose Texas’ Social Studies Textbooks?

By Eric NicholsonAugust 10, 2012

NPR ran a story on Wednesday about David Barton, the Aledo-based pseudo-historian who has built a career arguing that America was established on Christian principles. It found that his claims aren’t particularly hard to debunk. For one, Barton has only a bachelor’s in Christian education from Oral Roberts University, with…

TxDOT Will Start Widening the Mixmaster Just as Soon as it Convinces the SPCA to Sell That Esurance Billboard

By Eric NicholsonAugust 10, 2012

At the beginning of the year, the SPCA moved out of its 40-year-old digs on Riverfront Boulevard and into a shiny new facility off I-30 and Hampton Road. The move served two purposes: For one, the SPCA had outgrown the outdated Dealey Animal Care Center and needed a larger, more…

After Decades of Cracking Down, the Dallas Police Want to Accomodate Graffiti Artists

By Eric NicholsonAugust 10, 2012

At the corner of Corinth Street and Park Avenue, in a neighborhood of rundown homes and produce houses a stone’s throw from Heritage Village, is the old bakery Herschel Weisfeld bought 15 years ago to convert into a live-work space for artists. The apartment units are in the back and…

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Last October’s Massive Chemical Fire Caused Death of Passing Motorcyclist, Family Says

By Eric NicholsonAugust 10, 2012

For four days last October, the Magnablend chemical plant along Highway 237 in Waxahachie burned. A flammable gas cloud had formed during the blending process and had been ignited by a spark of unknown origin. As the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality determined, “It appears that the incident could have…

The Omni Apparently Wants to Set Dallas’ Image Back Three Decades With “Texas Tycoon” Sweepstakes

By Eric NicholsonAugust 9, 2012

Last we checked, the downtown Omni is doing pretty well. Better than expected, as a matter of fact, as it finishes its first season this week after hosting conventions for such groups as the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Microbiology, salsa-swilling library scientists and presumably some non-scientists as…

Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, Texas Biggest Power Generator, Piles On More Debt

By Brantley HargroveAugust 9, 2012

The announcement that Energy Future Holdings, the biggest generator of electricity in Texas, is going to issue $750 million in debt probably could have been timed better. Earlier this week, the company announced it was going to terminate the pensions of about a third of its workforce by the end…

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The EPA Wimped Out on Cement Plants, but the Fight Continues in DFW Next Week

By Eric NicholsonAugust 9, 2012

Just south of Dallas along Highway 67 in Midlothian is perhaps the country’s largest concentration of cement plants. TXI, Holcim, and Ash Grove all operate facilities within a couple of miles of each other, and the emissions they pump into the air tend to waft over Dallas when the winds…

Receptionist Claims Dallas Doctor Fired Her for Refusing to Get an Abortion

By Eric NicholsonAugust 9, 2012

Update on Aug. 10: Got an email response from Nalini Samuel, who works in Prabhakar’s office. Haven’t been served yet. Would love to comment- completely untrue- shakedown to get money. Ask her about her criminal record- Dr. Prabhakar is pro life. Original post: Christina Garcia began working as an $11-per-hour…

There Will Be a Bloodied, 10-Foot-Tall Pig at Walmart Today. Just So You Know.

By Eric NicholsonAugust 9, 2012

Speaking of pork, the nonprofit, one might say PETA-like, organization Mercy For Animals, is none to happy with where Walmart gets theirs. Which at least partially explains why the group plans to have a caged, bloody pig at the Walmart Neighborhood Market at Central and Hall Street this morning at…

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Just When You Thought The Dust Had Settled, Susan G. Komen President, CEO Step Aside

By Eric NicholsonAugust 9, 2012

A few months back, the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, the Dallas-based, Nancy Brinker-founded organization that has single-handedly made breast cancer a cause celeb, thrust itself squarely in the middle of the abortion debate when it announced plans to cut funding from Planned Parenthood. Brinker walked the decision back,…

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