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Gun Purchases Drop in Texas, but More Really Old People May Be Packing
"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...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on September 24, 2014 @ 12:46 pm
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Dallas Apartments and Hotels Are Terrible at Recycling
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. ...
@ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on September 24, 2014 @ 10:59 am
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Tanking Update: Time Is Running Out For the Rangers to Start Losing Again
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...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on September 24, 2014 @ 8:52 am
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Arlington's City Council Won't Abolish Red Light Cameras, But Its Citizens Might
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...
@ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on September 24, 2014 @ 8:10 am
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Demolishing Old Buildings in Dallas Is Easier Than Saving Them
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 ...
@ Unfair Park by Amy Silverstein on September 23, 2014 @ 4:28 pm
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After Preserving In-Person Visits, Clay Jenkins Takes Aim at County Jail Phone Commissions
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 ...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on September 23, 2014 @ 4:23 pm
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Vonciel Hill Loves on a Road for Rich People While Projects in Her Backyard Suck Wind
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...
@ Unfair Park by Jim Schutze on September 23, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
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Entrepreneurs and Educated Workers Changing the Face of Texas' Immigrant Population
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...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on September 23, 2014 @ 11:18 am
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One Drained Pond, a Few Chopped Trees Aside, Trinity Project Doing Great, Carolyn Davis Says
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...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on September 23, 2014 @ 8:07 am
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Highland Park ISD Bans Books Because Sex
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...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on September 23, 2014 @ 7:37 am
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My 20 Minutes with Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff and a Future Job Reference
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...
@ Unfair Park by Sky Chadde on September 22, 2014 @ 5:22 pm
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Will Dallas Fire Chief Louie Bright's Leadership Philosophy Ever Be Etched in Stone?
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...
@ Unfair Park by Jim Schutze on September 22, 2014 @ 3:23 pm
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Dallas Preservationists Gear Up to Save Old Buildings From Downtown Park Plans
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...
@ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on September 22, 2014 @ 1:54 pm
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Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez Signs Letter Supporting Same-Sex Marriage. So We Pop the Obvious Question.
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...
@ Unfair Park by Sky Chadde on September 22, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
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In Battle Pitting TxDOT Regulations Against The Ten Commandments, God Wins
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...
@ Unfair Park by Amy Silverstein on September 22, 2014 @ 10:00 am
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The North Texas School Districts That Still Allow Corporal Punishment, Mapped
"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...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on September 22, 2014 @ 8:00 am
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City and Boondocks Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose but Sprawl.
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 ...
by Jim Schutze on October 23, 2014
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Another Student Is Suing SMU Over its Handling of an Alleged Sexual Assault
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...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on September 19, 2014 @ 4:37 pm
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Dallas Libraries Attempt to Raise Money the City Won't Give Them
The city pays for library "buildings and bodies," but anything else the libraries need must be provided by donors. If the city won't give money to Dallas libraries, maybe the community will. Thursday was North Texas Giving Day, which means Fri...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on September 19, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
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Vonciel Hill's Loony Memo to Scott Griggs Versus the Facts on the Ground
Here's a nice little moment when the truth comes home to roost: Yesterday Stephen Young shared with you here a memo sent to Dallas City Council member Scott Griggs by council member Vonciel Hill in which Hill basically called a Griggs a liar. Hill a...
@ Unfair Park by Jim Schutze on September 19, 2014 @ 2:38 pm
