7-Eleven: Scooting DPD’s Downtown Patrol Into The Future

The Dallas Police Department’s downtown patrol is about to get a whole lot more, well, motorized. That much we can safely say. DPD announced yesterday that 7-Eleven was donating four new T3’s to the department, bringing the total to eight. They were so excited about the whole thing that we…

Medicaid Women’s Health Program Is One Step Closer To Death

The Medicaid Women’s Health Program provides some 130,000 Texas women with vital medical care: family planning, birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams. And for that, of course, it must die. That, at least, has long been the case as far as Republican lawmakers are concerned. And after last week,…

How To Not Get Deported

So, you’re an undocumented immigrant. Your great hope is to stick around, make a living and, some day, become naturalized. Unfortunately, our immigration laws are a tangled morass of inscrutability, insensible to the realities of a globalized world. You may have watched last week’s Republican debate in Arizona with a…