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Thomas Eric Duncan, the first ebola patient in the United States, is being treated in strict isolation quarters at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
For the most part it was business as usual at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Da...
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Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus
Live updating of this blog has moved to: Ebola in Dallas: Day 3
September 20: Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan arrives in Dallas from Monrovia, Liberia via Brussels. Duncan made an interve...
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At least one student at Emmett Conrad High School has been exposed to Ebola.
Early this morning, Dallas ISD received word from the Centers for Disease Control that five district students have been exposed to the Ebola virus. The students attend E...
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Anyone who's attempted to navigate the intersection of Preston and Northwest Highway at rush hour will have had ample opportunity while sitting through multiple cycles of the stop light to contemplate one of North Dallas' most enduring paradoxes. Her...
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This is the official portrait of CDC Director Thomas Frieden. Maybe we need to ask for a little more than that.
Today in multiple stories, our only and always comforting local daily, The Dallas Morning News, reiterates the official public line of ...
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Cop-watcher Kory Watkins squats and films a traffic stop in Arlington. Is this interfering?
Their camcorders and phones recording, about 10 cop-watchers stand on an embankment between six busy lanes and four gas pumps at an Arlington gas station, ...
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Dallas County Jail
They successfully fought contract provisions that would have banned in-person visits at the Dallas County jail while the county made money from new video visits. Now exonerated inmates, prison rights advocates and County Judge C...
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Guardrails are supposed to save you from your own poor driving, but may sometimes kill you instead.
Since 1999, the guardrails manufactured by Dallas' Trinity Industries have been credited with saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of drivers...
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Several Denton playgrounds have been found to have unsafe levels of benzene.
A new report published by ShaleTest, an independent environmental research agency in Denton, found levels of benzene in several Denton parks that exceed the Texas Commi...
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The new football Mecca (after it reopens, of course).
Saying that high school football is big in Texas will elicit a lot of "duh" looks. In fact, if you look in a mirror right now, you'll probably see what we're talking about. But there's no harm ...
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Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus
UPDATE, 3:44 p.m.: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a patient at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is the first case of Ebola confirmed in the United States....
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As part of that story, videographer Sarah Passon recently hit the streets with the group. Her video is above....
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I have a column that hasn't quite been published yet that I would like to withdraw in advance. Well, not withdraw. More like re-draw. I don't think it's possible to correct something you haven't said yet, is it? So let's think of this more in the vei...
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Most likely not the casket the man stole to prank his sister.
A little before 1 a.m. this morning, a 34-year-old man broke into a hearse at Hughes Funeral Home in northwest Dallas. He managed to take the casket out and abscond before officers arri...
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Kids who receive pre-K education are less likely to end up in jail or on welfare, and more likely to graduate high school and get into college.
"Universal pre-K" is the universal mantra of every school board member and education official in the ...
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Roughly 3,400 Dallas ISD students are homeless. Hundreds of these are LGBTQ teenagers.
When they come out, gay teens must often deal with unsupportive, even hostile parents. Sometimes, parents even go so far as to kick the kids out of their homes....
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Familial resemblance?
They've tried to beat them at the City Council, they're still trying to beat them with Michael Morris and the NCTCOG, now Yellow Cab is trying to join Uber and Lyft by offering an app that consumers might actually want to use...
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The Church of False Hope
Unfair Park certainly hopes it isn't a mirage, that the Titans, Rams and Saints aren't just bad. We really want to believe that the Cowboys victories the last three weeks are a sign of positive things to come.
But we've b...
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Breasts! Breasts!
Old hippie, nanny-state, fault-finding, problem-centric, negative-minded, knee-jerk liberals -- and I speak only of myself -- were quick enough to jump all over Highland Park school district last week for banning seven books fr...
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Highland House
Somewhere in Preston Hollow, Laura Miller is wiping clean the dagger with which she eviscerated two proposed apartment developments at Preston Road and Northwest Highway. Developer Luke Crosland has officially abandoned plans for Hi...
