At some point the grown children of the Park Cities must board ships to the Real World. When they get here, it is in our interest for them to be easy marks. "There's nothing sure. The rich get rich and the poor get poor. In the meantime, in be...
Around 490,000 eligible DFW voters won't get their stickers this November. Trust us -- you want the sticker. For the last few days, you may have been busy warding off a flurry eager people with clipboards. This weekend marked Dallas County voter...
"I have a gun in my pocketbook, and I'm not afraid to use it. Now, who wants a cookie?" Texas, the most gung-ho gun state in the country, may be getting just a little bit less infatuated with firearms. This year, the percentage of gun purchase r...
It's really easy to recycle in Dallas if you live in a house. Just dump that unsorted mass of old newspapers, empty soda cans and milk cartons into a cavernous blue bin, drag it to the curb and let one the city's lumbering dump trucks haul it away. ...
All right, guys, we get it, please stop trying. The last time Unfair Park mentioned that the Rangers were looking a little too competitive, the team proceeded to lose 14 of 20, so we decided we should speak up again. Under the temporary -- for no...
Arlington City Council member Robert Rivera can rattle off scores of reasons why his constituents think the city should pull the plug on its red-light cameras. They worry about Big Brother's growing omniscience and the privatization of policing, or o...
Main Street circa 1910. The taller building is the Praetorian, Dallas' first skyscraper, which Headington demolished in 2012. Tim Headington, the oil billionaire behind the Joule Hotel, has a weird relationship with local preservationists. On the ...
Dallas County Jail Two weeks ago, County Judge Clay Jenkins led a successful effort to change a contract that would have ended in-person visits with jail inmates while the county collected a share of the money a private company made from charging ...
Transportation projects are like the rest of life. Sure they offer benefits, but they carry costs, as well. Powerful Dallas City Council member Vonciel Hill, chair of both the council's transportation and legislative lobbying committees, stops meeti...
The Center for Public Policy Priorities released a report last week that pointed out the economic virility of the immigrant workforce. Small immigrant-owned businesses brought in $4.4 billion in revenue to the Texas economy last fiscal year.Texas has...
At least two people think the Trinity Project is being handled well. After last week's trading of contemptuous memos, Unfair Park was pretty excited about a potential confrontation between Vonciel Jones Hill and Scott Griggs at Monday's meeting of...
We're not sure all Highland Park parents understand exactly what celebrating banned books week means. Highland Park High School announced it would be suspending seven books from the high school reading list, just in time for Banned Books Week. S...
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says to make sure I get his gun-shaped tie pin in the frame. The offer comes as a surprise. "Now that I have your contact info," a nice woman from the Northeast Tarrant County Tea Party emails me after I ask a question for a dif...
Dallas firefighter Stanley Wilson burned to death May 20, 2013, when a building he and other firefighters were searching for survivors collapsed. Surviving firefighters said they were ordered to enter the building by incident commander Deputy Chief B...
A few blocks to the southeast, local preservationists are hoping to rescue a handful of historic structures standing in the way of another type of progress: a city park. In the downtown parks plan unveiled by City Hall last year, Harwood Park occupi...
Sheriff Lupe Valdez says it's time for marriage equality in Texas. Last week, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals received a letter signed by more than 50 Texas law enforcement officials who support same-sex marriage, according to the Texas Trib...
Amy Silverstein's cover story here last week, "Road Runners," exploded one of my own favorite and time-honored paradigms; the city versus the suburbs. Silverstein exposed a scenario in which people in the boondocks are getting reamed in exactly the ...
This is an example of a Ten Commandments sign that would not be OK with TxDOT, even under its newer, hipper and more constitutional sign regulations. The Texas Department of Transportation's sign regulations are so strict that the agency once said...
"X"s are places to avoid if you don't want your kids' teachers to rough them up. Since allegations surfaced that NFL star Adrian Peterson abused multiple children at his Texas home, debate has swirled between pro- and anti-spanking parents. For t...
An SMU freshman who accused a well-known fraternity brother of sexually assaulted him is now suing the school, saying it violated Title IX by acting "deliberately indifferent" to his report of sexual assault and to prior sexual harassment by his alle...