Since @barackobama has forgotten how much he’s added to national debt #ForAll our kids to pay off… twitter.com/GovernorPerry/…— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 20, 2012 Rick Perry is so good at Twitter. A few days ago, he posted the gem above, complete with that extremely OG photo. Seems pretty clear, right?…
We haven’t checked in on our favorite congressman, Representative Ralph Hall (R-Antediluvian Era) lately. Not since he dove from a functioning aircraft dressed in nothing but a form-fitting American flag. Turns out, he’s been rummaging through a dusty, cobwebbed steamer trunk stuffed with contraceptives and religious freedom, the war on…
The first time I saw Mayor Mike Rawlings deliver a prepared speech, he talked about changing the culture of southern Dallas by shooting it with bullets of economic development, so I had high hopes for his lunchtime state of the city address today at the Sheraton downtown. Other than some…
The swaths of land that run underneath Oncor’s electric transmission lines are in many ways ideal spots for jogging trails. They stretch for miles, are largely free of obstructions and are controlled by a single entity, eliminating the types of property issues that would make construction anywhere else a logistical…
We all got a good chuckle when Lubbock County Judge Tom Head warned of that impending United Nations invasion of West Texas, but the laughter may have been premature. InfoWars, the website run by Austin Austin radio host/all-around crazy Alex Jones, published a low-budget, Onion-quality newscast that provides incontrovertible proof…
It was pretty much guaranteed that Dwaine Caraway’s “Saggin’ Pants Forum,” held Saturday in City Hall chambers, was going to be weird. This was, after all, almost a full afternoon devoted to the City Council member and former mayor’s ongoing crusade against men who don’t belt their pants at the…
After more than a decade as an investment banker for outfits like Merrill Lynch, John Kleinheinz struck out on his own in 1996, establishing what would become Kleinheinz Capital Partners in Fort Worth. Over the next decade-and-a-half, the hedge fund exploded, growing from basically nothing to $1.8 billion and providing…
For a dozen years, John Montford was a powerful force in the Texas Senate. He subsequently did a stint as chancellor of the Texas Tech University System before moving on to the private sector, where he served as an executive at AT&T and GM. Now, he’s found himself a new…
You know the Liberty Institute as the group that has steered Plano’s infamous Candy Cane Case through the courts. More recently, it’s championed the cause of Angela Hildenbrand, the Texas high school student who wanted to pray during her valedictory speech. As part of its work, in 2004 the nonprofit…
Judith Segura thought raising the $1 to $2 million in private donations needed to restore Dealey Plaza before the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination would be a cinch. It wasn’t. “It’s been a lot harder than I expected, frankly,” Segura said. “There was nobody who didn’t agree completely, 100…
In April 2005, the city of Dallas began an experiment. What if, rather than spraying millions of gallons of fully treated, tap-quality water on the Cedar Crest Golf Course, it used partially treated wastewater. The grass doesn’t mind water that’s a little bit dirty and, so long as it’s piped…
Tomorrow, Ann Romney will visit the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush to raise money for a “women’s lunch” to raise money for her hubby’s campaign, and it won’t be the first time she’s been invited to a house occupied by the Bushes. In a taping for…
Herschel Weisfeld is a property developer by trade, but he’s also the guy who started CorinthPark, the graffiti-covered artist’s collective that is something of a model for the Dallas Police Department. Yesterday, the Dallas Voice broke the news that he also hopes to replace Pauline Medrano as District 2’s city…
Uber-Republican billionaire Harold Simmons is Dallas’ biggest player in the presidential money game, having pledged to pump $36 million into the election by November. But Dallas has a well-heeled partisan on the other side of the aisle in Naomi Aberly, and she’s doing her part to make this the most…
It’s been all of 24 hours since Christopher Stephens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, was killed along with three others in an attack by an mob angered by a film ridiculing the prophet Mohammed. Stephens was, by all accounts, a dedicated public servant, and he had borne witness to the…
Safer Dallas Better Dallas is a local foundation that raises money to buy new equipment for the Dallas Police Department and, as they put it, “fund the priorities” of DPD, something they’ve done to the tune of $17 million since their founding in 2005. 7-Eleven is the place where you…
Back in July, the Animal Shelter Commission met for an update from city staff on the state of Dallas Animal Services (DAS). As usual, they ended up talking about a few major, unresolved issues: The air-conditioning in the shelter doesn’t really work. The shelter is still understaffed and manned with…
In June, the city of Dallas unveiled its Complete Streets Design Manual, a rather dense set of guidelines for the city as it dabbles with the idea of building certain roadways less as places that cars blow through en route from Point A to Point B and more as boulevards…
The Dallas City Council is meeting this morning to decide how it wants to divide a last-minute, $329,000 windfall in the form of additional franchise fees from Oncor. In the context of the a $2.57-billion budget, it’s peanuts, but it offers council members a way to fund their own pet…
Seems like it was only a month-and-a-half ago that Stefani Carter, the Republican state rep from North Dallas, was just another face in that Mitt Romney campaign piece about how, despite having just been booed during his speech to the NAACP, black people love him. Now, she’s a full-fledged surrogate…
The Democrats are gathered in Charlotte for the quadrennial circle jerk in which they deliver bombastic speeches and anoint their presidential nominee. Last week, the Republicans did the same in Tampa. These respective echo chambers inevitably lead to an increase in the type of one-sided political babble that is entertaining…
Twice in two months, the city’s 911 system failed, and failed badly. In July, a family watched their Oak Cliff home burn to the ground as 911 callers were put on hold. Last month, a woman called 911 as she was allegedly being murdered by her ex-husband. Police were dispatched…
