A reader named Hometown Boy posted the link in the comment section of Bossman’s story yesterday examining Tuesday’s DISD board meeting, and the unwavering recalcitrance of DISD Trustee Carla Ranger. In it, board candidate Damarcus Offord appears to kind of perhaps threaten trustees. Hometown Boy clearly does not want Offord…
The city of Dallas has a bit of an issue with gas, one that anti-drilling activists call potentially silent but deadly and hydraulic fracturing proponents call a huge economic relief for the city — one that would provide an whopping amount of energy. The issue seemed to briefly and temporarily…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Rick Perry dropped by Fox News early this morning to let Steve Doocy know just how happy he is to be your governor. In less than five minutes, he also managed to find the time to diss the feds and defend the voter ID…
It was clear when A&M’s livestock economist said the drought had an agricultural toll of $5.2 billion back in August — which didn’t even really mark the nadir of the heatwave — that we hadn’t seen the worst this drought could do. Now we know: $7.62 billion in agricultural losses…
Is Texas still racist enough to warrant hand-holding by the federal government? That’s the essence of where the voter ID debate stands now and where it’s headed. Though it may seem like a straightforward question, and one that many politicos have reduced to a “yes” or “no” sound bite, the…
A while back, for reasons I happily can’t recall, I took the step of following the staunchly anti-gay pastor Lou Engle on Twitter. Engle is the founder of TheCall, a traveling circus of politically focused intolerance, and he makes his living (as much as $90,000 in a year, tax records…
The news first surfaced in the Hollywood trade press last month: The Lifetime cable network is developing a miniseries about the 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Based on a best-selling book about the tragedy, the project involves a team of heavyweight producers whose collective film…
Less than a month since an unarmed, black teen — with no criminal record and every right to be in a gated Florida neighborhood — was shot to death by some repeat 911 dialer and crime watch volunteer named George Zimmerman, we’ve been collectively stunned by the fact that the…
You’ve likely noticed that gas stations have been changing the numbers on their signs to reflect an increasingly more expensive product, over and over again. As prices creep around the $4 mark while campaign season stirs, and energy continues its rise to the top tier of our national concerns, views…
On Tuesday night, state Senator Wendy Davis’ staff announced that someone had set a small fire outside the door of her Fort Worth office using bottles filled with lighter fluid. The senator wasn’t there at the time, and no one else was hurt during the incident, which badly scorched the…
Stephen Masker, one of our contributing photographers, sent along this stunner of a photo, taken Tuesday following the wicked storms in Dallas. Notable: It was shot with an iPhone 4S…
Our friend Daniel Rodrigue, once a writer here and now a journalism teacher at DCCCD’s Brookhaven College, sent word this morning that one of his students, Derek Madrigal, was the victim of a vicious beating on the beaches of South Padre Island over spring break. The story is popping up…
I didn’t catch the live version of last night’s Dallas ISD board powwow to winnow its list of superintendent candidates, figuring it would go immediately into closed session and that if I wanted grainy, depressing footage, I’d be better off popping in Inside Job, which I’d somehow missed upon its…
It’s a common NBA refrain: Following an inactive trade deadline, a team will claim that getting a relevant player back from injury is akin to making a deadline deal. It happened with the Mavericks and Rodrigue Beaubois, and this year’s spin involves the eventual integration of Delonte West. There is…
Well, crap. Look, I’m generally pro-government. You know, down with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who said, “I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.” And like any good leftie hippie-type, I just love kitschy Main Street shops that I’d definitely ride my bike to if it weren’t…
The Texas Department of Transportation foots much of the bill for the road damage brought about by trucks traveling to and from hydraulic fracturing operations, and for the first time, the agency is collecting data with an eye to possibly recouping future funds. Short-term spending for TxDOT includes $40 million…
If there’s a storm over Dallas, local photographer Justin Terveen is spending the night chasing it, and we’re spending the morning chasing Terveen down so we can deliver his camera magic unto you, the Slightly Damp Friends of Unfair Park. Terveen reports that the shot up top is of DPD’s…
Over at the Morning News’ Trail Blazers Blog, Christy Hoppe pointed out late yesterday that Rick Perry’s Facebook page has been “inundated by angry women” unhappy about the end of the Medicaid Women’s Health Program. Perry’s Facebook bomb is actually part of a larger effort to “sarcasm-flood” the pages of…
America is in a pissy, irascible, throw-the-bums-out, anti-incumbent kinda mood. Even, apparently, if it means unseating a longtime congressman with some serious seniority and a choice committee chair. According to Charlie Cook over at the National Journal, there are some 22 House Republican primaries to watch this year. Rep. Ralph…
It costs north of a million bucks to win a U.S. House seat these days. Winning District 33, the new DFW block carved out of the totally riveting and not at all arcane redistricting process, should cost considerably less, thanks to a shortened primary and probably noncompetitive general. Still: It…
By 2008, the high price of natural gas, coupled with the novel combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, touched off a modern-day gold rush in the Barnett Shale. Regulators were caught on their heels. “They moved forward very rapidly, and state regulatory programs had a difficult time catching up,”…
Late last night, police say, four strangers broke into the home of a southern Dallas man looking to rob the house. They wound up killing him — in front of the man’s daughter. Jesse Barragan, 54, was in his bedroom when the men — three of them black, one Latino…
