Trey Garrison, a writer I admire and a contributing editor at D, has an op-ed piece in The Dallas Morning News today suggesting that Tuesday’s suicide at the University of Texas at Austin makes the case for allowing all students in Austin to pack heat when they go to class…
So, just for grins, let’s do this. Let’s take off our war helmets, put down our skull flails for maybe 10 minutes on this whole Dallas property tax hike issue and talk about something bigger. I like the tax increase adopted by the city council last week. But I not…
Dear Mexican: I understand NYC isn’t your jurisdiction, but maybe you have some insight, or maybe this is also a problem for other smart and successful Latinas. My question is: Why is it so hard to find an educated Mexican—or hell—even a Latino man who isn’t a pretentious hijo de…
Robert, don’t post this item, because I know you won’t, because I know you hate me, but this is something I posted as a comment on an earlier item, and then I changed my mind, and now I’ve decided it’s too important and deserves its own item. It’s about the…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Times like these make me regret that I stopped referring to Wade Phillips as “Stumbledoofus.” After missing two crucial field goals in two weeks, David Buehler should be on a short…
Wow. When did the whole topic of taxes turn into wild scary voodoo? Please. Taxes are numbers. Numbers are not snakes. A majority of the Dallas City Council has already voted once in favor of raising the current property tax rate by 4.9 cents per $100 in the value of…
Dear Mexican: What punishment could America give that would FINALLY make crossing America’s borders—repeatedly—unpalatable to Mexicans, when even Mexican natives admit that it is at least as harmful to Mexico as it is to America, and the “needless paperwork” in our immigration process is to TRY to filter out habitual…
City of Dallas Facebook pageFrom yesterday’s Pavaho Pump Station groundbreaking, though feel free to write your own captionDidn’t even get my print-edition column out the door this week before I got a major correction, and this one from a person who would know — city council member Angela Hunt. She…
I was supposed to meet Ernie Santos Saturday morning at Twin Peaks in McKinney. I’m digging into an Observer cover story on metroplex motorcycle clubs/gangs and he, being a member of the Dirty Bastards, invited me to a sort of meet ‘n greet with his crew. Seems one of their…
O.K., I’ve been laughing up my sleeve over the mayor’s whining remarks last week, complaining that certain unnamed “federal partners” aren’t being very nice to him. Hanging around City hall last week for various dumb events, I was able to chat up a couple of people who are keeping quite…
*Of all the teams that lost in Week 1 of the NFL season, betcha there’s only one that spent the last couple days explaining and defending their organizational flow chart: Your Dallas Cowboys. *On one hand I believe the Dallas Police Department officers who clubbed and beat the runaway motorcyclist should…
Dear Mexican: I work at a large hotel in Orange County where 80 percent of the employees are Latin American, primarily Mexican. I love all of them and enjoy working with them. However, the one thing that bothers me is that when they are speaking to each other, they speak…
If I tell you something weird is going on at Dallas public school headquarters, that’s not exactly a news bulletin, is it? But what if I’m talking about something deeply weird? Last week the school district headquarters staff tried to launch a major search and destroy mission to bring down…
I guess grassroots just aren’t what they used to be. Today an announced “grassroots” outpouring of support for embattled 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson amounted to a dozen preachers speaking to 20 human beings and 40 empty folding chairs in the Flag Room at City Hall. “We have come…
*If you’re Miles Austin are you more giddy about a six-year, $57 million contract or the fact that you get to look/touch/hit this on a regular basis? *Look, I’m as Muslim-skeptical as legally allowed, but I do see this as double-standardy: A couple dudes build a Mosque near Ground Zero…
Dear Readers: ¡VIVA MÉXICO, CABRONES! Happy 200th cumpleaños to America’s favorite country, to the land of pretty señoritas and eternal economic crises, to the world’s greatest, drunkest bola de hijos de la chingada! Celebrate this 16th, drive safe, and guys: Remember to wear a helmet before going into battle with…
In the last few weeks everyone has been talking about taking on a tax increase so we can give City Hall more money. I promise you this much: This story will make you wonder why on earth we would even consider giving the people at City Hall more money. Josh…
In the wake of Congressional candidate Stephen Broden’s latest bombshell about incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson’s scholar-gyp scandal, we have to wonder about the whole Congress. Is Johnson’s fiddling of some scholarship funds from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation merely symptomatic of a much broader and deeper running syndrome? Over the…
A fellow citizen sent me this picture today after visiting the city of Dallas Department of Building Inspection at 320 East Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. She reported that the sign had exactly the opposite of the intended effect on her…
*I took one thing and one thing only out of Cowboys 27, Dolphins 25 Thursday night in Arlington: I trust David Buehler. In the preseason a lot of things sputtered offensively for Dallas, but 10 of 11 field goals – including 4 of 4 against Miami – is enough for…
I could tell you that the Dallas Desire kick off their Lingerie Football League season this Friday against the San Diego Seduction. I could enlighten you that the Desire are growing up, playing in the Cotton Bowl this season after spending last year on a quasi-field in the outfield of…
Dear Mexican: I’m a naturalized citizen born in Ciudad Juarez but I work for la migra. I get a lot of shit from some of my family members because they feel I shouldn’t be doing this job. I always tell them that it’s better I got the job rather than…
