Balance. That is the best I can offer. I can’t tell you if the people whom The Dallas Morning News describes as vile malevolent slumlords are what they say they are or if they are legitimate honorable business persons targeted by forces that just want their land. But I can…
Thursday, Dr. Raymond Greenberg, the executive vice chancellor for health affairs for the University of Texas System, made it clear why fetal tissue research is so important. Despite all the knashing of teeth from the state of Texas’ Republican leadership, the research is absolutely vital to studying early human development and fighting…
Andy Seremetis likes to meditate. You might even say he needs to meditate. Too many days without meditating and his mood sours and days he would typically sail through become a slog. “It creates a feeling of being present,” he says. “I notice things around me more. I’m not thinking about…
Seeking to build a bulkhead against Donald Trump’s orange-hued rising tied, Ted Cruz took the unusual step of naming a running mate without being within even sniffing distance of the Republican presidential nomination. Trump won five primaries Tuesday night, edging closer to claiming the title of presumptive GOP nominee. Cruz…
The Dallas Morning News ran a big editorial yesterday vowing to hold the city’s feet to the fire on a new campaign to curb stray dogs. Yeah, I get all that, but the problem isn’t the stray dogs. It’s the damn stray people. Not homeless people. Not talking about that…
Anyone who’s passed the intersection of Skillman Street and Walnut Hill Lane (and who hasn’t been reading the Lake Highlands Advocate for the past dozen years) has probably wondered about the shockingly large prairie at the intersection’s southeast corner and the pseudo-urban apartment complex/parking garage that’s been weirdly deposited in the…
Tracy Murphree, GOP candidate for Denton County Sheriff, apologized for his Facebook post, claiming he’d beat a transgender woman for pissing in a restroom where his daughter was peeing. “It was a mistake for me to post that,” he told Channel 8 WFAA news in Dallas by phone. Murphree told…
Drivers who don’t pay tickets for getting caught by one of Dallas’ hated red-light cameras won’t get a bad mark on their credit reports, Dallas police assistant director Donzell Gipson told the City Council’s public safety committee Monday. Gipson said the city is being forced to find a new way to…
Big debate going on now in Dallas about a porn expo at the city convention center, but first we need to talk about eastern Oklahoma and international necrophiliacs. Necrophiliacs, as I once heard explained by a politician from the “Little Dixie” district of eastern Oklahoma who was speaking to to…
So in the way things have been done around here forever, a rich lady has suggested to a former City Council member that a bridge on the river — a major feature of the as yet unnamed Trinity River park — be named for former Mayor Ron Kirk, who for…
Incoming Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphee posted on Facebook that he’d beat the hell out of a transgender man if he tried to piss in a bathroom where Murphree’s daughter was peeing. “This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen,” Murphree wrote in an April 22 Facebook post…
I was on Channel 11 last night about the Bryan Parkway Parkway pothole. I’ll explain the hospital wristbands in a minute. Last week I apologized for writing an alarmist column in which I said I thought people might be living in a pothole in my alley. Further exploration revealed that…
It’s bad enough for a rookie politician to face the Texas Rangers’ corruption unit, but it hurts more when it’s a friend who set you up. It’s the kind of hurt that lingers long after the Rangers’ investigation is over. Flower Mound Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Itamar Gelbman found himself…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is happy that U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater refused to force the city of Dallas to schedule Exxxotica’s 2016 sex expo at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. We know because he said so. “I am pleased with U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater’s ruling that…
Exxxotica will not be coming back to Dallas — at least for the time being. U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Fitzwater ruled Thursday morning that the umbrella organization for the adult expo banned by the Dallas City Council in February, Three Expo events, had not proved that it was likely…
This moment, right now – after a rigorous Baylor economic study has blown to smithereens the “economic impact” claims the city has made for years for Fair Park and the State Fair of Texas – is an invaluable learning opportunity. This is way beyond anything to do with the Fair…
On Saturday morning, Richard Greyson and a crew of his fellow master naturalists parked off Pemberton Hill Road and hiked across a meadow to the mighty bur oak that stretches over Dallas’ historic Big Spring. They had planted milkweed there the previous fall, sustenance for the clouds of monarch butterflies…
Hey, I got this one. People online Monday were wondering why in the world the Dallas Park Department had turned down a university’s offer to do a free study of the impact that the State Fair of Texas and Fair Park have on the Dallas economy. That’s easy. They don’t…
Arguments and evidence — including a video showing some public butt sniffing — flew at Monday’s temporary injunction hearing in the Exxxotica adult expo’s lawsuit against the city of Dallas. The city’s lawyers, Tom Brandt and Scott Bergthold, told U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Fitzwater not to even look at…
As former boss of the famed Texas Rangers, Henry “Hank” Whitman surely will know where to start as Gov. Greg Abbott’s recently appointed commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services: throw a whole bunch of people, including most of the Texas Legislature, the governor and the lieutenant…
Weird. The whole phenomenon of young people supporting Bernie is dispiriting when I look at it nationally. But when I look at it in terms of what I have witnessed on the ground in my own hometown over the last 10 or 15 years, it’s enormously encouraging. When I try…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown his support behind Mayor Mike Rawlings’ and the City Council’s effort to keep the Exxxotica adult expo out of the convention center. Currently under felony indictment and facing an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the state’s top lawyer insists in a…
