Morning News reporter Jennifer Emily is tweeting that Judge Tracy Holmes has suspended Constable Derick Evans from office pending a decision on his appeal. Evans was convicted of a felony count of engaging in organized crime. Typically, that’s grounds for being removed from office, but Evans promptly appealed, and he…
So on the radio this morning I hear all about the spike in West Nile deaths in Dallas and how the county health department will be on the job tonight protecting us by sending the pesticide trucks through three more neighborhoods, this time in North Dallas. I just hope we…
At some point last week, the Dallas Cowboys surpassed five million “likes” on Facebook. They’re the first NFL franchise to hit the mark, which I suppose is worthy of a Tweet, or maybe a Facebook post. But during Garrett’s daily press conference on Friday, Cowboys beat writers, apparently out of…
If you’ve played a round of golf at one of Dallas’ half dozen municipal golf courses, you may have skipped out on the state-mandated 8.25 percent sales tax on your green fee. The city contracts with independent golf pros who collect green fees but haven’t traditionally collected sales tax. It’s…
It was uncomfortably warm inside the Maple Avenue Boxing Gym on Friday afternoon, and the air wasn’t moving despite the industrial-sized fan rattling loudly in a corner. No one noticed. They didn’t pay any mind either to the bags hanging motionless from the ceiling or the or the TV news…
Dallas PD just passed along word that former City Councilwoman Sandra Crenshaw was arrested today at about 4:45 p.m. at the downtown library on a theft warrant for a rental car. According to CBS 11, Crenshaw claimed she was having medical issues when officers arrested her and was taken to…
The folks over at the Morning News’ City Hall blog alerted the world yesterday to County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s Youtube channel, namely a video in which he calls out the “mainstream media” for running a “character assassination on our Black elected officials.” He’s not talking about the reporting many…
Last month, the Advocate quietly reported on Lincoln Property Co.’s plans for the intersection of Garland Road and Gaston Avenue. Starbucks, Freebird’s and a grocery store all look to be in the cards. Also — and this might rile some certain neighbors — the developer wants to change the name…
A U.S. District Court judge in Galveston yesterday blocked five parts of Texas’ new voter registration laws, all of which were aimed at curtailing large voter registration drives. Voting for America and Project Vote, two affiliated national projects that hire canvassers to register new voters, had sued Galveston County Tax…
Katherine Seale officially ended her five-year tenure as executive director of Preservation Dallas early this year, but she didn’t stop working. Instead, she’s been hanging around as a volunteer until the nonprofit found a new leader. That just happened. The nonprofit announced in a press release today. that David Preziosi,…
Lester Smith was a deputy under Constable Derick Evans until earlier this year when, according to him, he was fired with several others for blowing the whistle on his boss’ illegal activities to the FBI and DA’s office. Smith protested that his termination was straightforward retaliation, and he, like many…
It’s been almost a month since Beau Chandler and Mark “Major” Jiminez walked into the Dallas County Records building to apply for a marriage license. Chandler and Jiminez being men, and this being Texas, they were denied, but the couple had the foresight to bring handcuffs, which they placed on…
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Farmers Branch’s voting system is depriving the Latino population of representation on the City Council. City leaders have 60 days to address the violation of federal voting law. Farmers Branch’s ethnic history has been troubled over the last six years or so. The town…
Six Flags was a summer ritual when I grew up in North Texas. Getting dropped off by parents as far from the gate as possible, stuffing oneself with overpriced, sticky-sweet funnel cakes, trying to get a basketball through an undersized and slightly lopsided hoop for the plush Looney Toons character…
You remember Craig James, right? The SMU football star-turned ESPN broadcaster-turned stick-pin doll of Red Raiders everywhere? And how he ran for Senate and lost in embarrassing fashion? Well, losing that badly isn’t cheap, and seeing as he doesn’t really have a job at the moment, he’s having trouble paying…
The recent police shooting on Dixon Circle and the circumstances surrounding provided a reminder, if one was needed, that Dallas has large pockets of extremely concentrated poverty. As CitySquare’s Gerald Britt wrote, average income in that particular ZIP code is $8,000 per year and has all the problems one associates…
When you set aside any aesthetic hangups and knee-jerk assumption that any vehicle without an internal combustion engine is a piece of junk, it’s pretty hard to argue that electric cars aren’t a good idea. If we’re are going to drive anyway — and current habits and decades worth of…
As of Wednesday, the wholesale price of electricity generators can charge during times of peak demand goes up 50 percent. And as it turns out, that’s probably a waste of money. Regulators are worried because it looks like we won’t have enough generating capacity to meet Texas’s growing needs. Problem…
We promised you a throwdown during yesterday afternoon’s gas drilling hearing before the city council, the first step towards an updated ordinance on drilling within city limits. Dallas Drilling, meanwhile, guaranteed a “smackdown.” It’s possible in retrospect that those were slight overstatements, designed to interest you in an issue that’s…
Bobby Ruffin, Jr. was only 14 when a recruiter from Ashford University called. The Birmingham, Michigan, boy thought he’d clicked on a link promising help finding money for college. It was actually just a lead generator for the for-profit, online school’s sales staff. At the time, Bobby was an A…
The American press continues to report the body count in Mexico’s “War on Drugs” at more than 50,000 dead. But Molly Molloy, a researcher at New Mexico State University, tallies more than 100,000 Mexicans killed to wage a war financed and mandated by American authorities and led by Mexican President…
Editor’s Note: Molly Molloy, Border and Latin American Specialist at the New Mexico State University Library, has made it her mission to document the number of people killed in Mexico’s wave of violence. Using official government reports as well as press accounts, Molloy has created a detailed record of the…
