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…
The last mechanic standing on Ross Avenue is taking his final bow. Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to deny Hinga Mbogo’s request for another two-year extension, citing, with a heavy heart, that he had broken his promise given two years ago to close down his auto repair shop in the 3500…
After a very bad night’s sleep, I felt I owed it to you, the reader, to revisit the pothole in my alley yesterday morning. The day before I had posted here what I now realize was an alarmist and poorly reported piece suggesting there might be people living in it…
For the last two months, the city of Dallas has been pumping about $4,000 a day into a case that outside observers and many members of the City Council view as an obvious loser — the city’s fraught attempt to ban the Exxxotica adult expo from using the Kay Bailey…
Bridget Turner emerges from her tent and shuffles slowly but purposefully across Tent City’s southernmost section. She’s halfway across the sandy dirt when she stops short and looks around, face scrunched up in bewilderment. Lee Cadena, a street preacher who moved to Tent City two and a half months ago…
Why does it suck so much to ride DART? Anyone who’s tried to get from point A to point B in Dallas using public transit (with the possible exception of 9-to-5 commuters who live near a rail stop and work downtown, for whom the system works fairly well) has asked…
I think someone may be living in a pothole near my house. Usually I eschew using this space to pursue private matters, but today I think this particular problem may rise to the level of general public interest. If you are reading it, that means my editors must have agreed…
State troopers and Dallas County sheriff’s deputies will help the Dallas Police Department serve domestic violence and drug warrants, Dallas Police Chief David Brown and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced Thursday. The goal is cutting off the source of a recent increase in violent crime in the city. Last week,…
The easiest takeaway from the revised plan for the private takeover of Fair Park is that it isn’t going to cost the city quite as much as was initially thought. In November, when Ray Hunt buddy and “father of DART” Walt Humann first told the City Council how much the…
Congratulations, Dallas citizen, on your recent decision to examine the nuts-and-bolts operations of your local law enforcement agency(s)! A well-informed citizenry is vital functioning of democracy and, as we all know, crime stats is a particularly dusky corner of local government. Your thirst for knowledge and community spirit are a…
The deadline, May 4, set by the city to clear the Dallas homeless encampment known as Tent City was not hard and fast. That much is clear after Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting. Adam Medrano desperately wants to get rid of Tent City. His district — which covers the Cedars…
Jeffrey Handy, the guy promoting Exxxotica porn conventions under the name J Handy, says in a new court filing that Dallas knew exactly what it was getting into when it allowed the porn convention to come to the city’s convention center last summer. Nevertheless, the City Council banned Handy and…
Is there another Dallasite who has made the national news as often as Dr. Robert Jeffress this year? The 60-year-old pastor of 12,000-member Dallas First Baptist has become the most prominent evangelical leader supporting Donald Trump, earning him rebukes from other church leaders, such as when he commented last month…
If we ever needed proof, we got it when Donald Trump opened his mouth at Liberty University and made his infamous reference to “2 Corinthians.” After wiping off the drool from laughing so hard, evangelicals knew with certainty that he was not one of us. Every American evangelical spanning the…
