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Private Tollway Will Be a Moneymaker, Say Firms Hired by Private Tollway Company
Our transportation overlords at the North Central Texas Council of Governments have been accused of massaging numbers to justify letting a company called the Texas Turnpike Corp. build a tollway from Dallas to Greenville that no one who lives in the ...
@ Unfair Park by Amy Silverstein on October 13, 2014 @ 10:57 am
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DFW Congregations Offer Sanctuary to Prevent Low-Priority Deportations
ICE officials attempting to deport a family from a church. If you hear the word "sanctuary" and think of the scene in The Hunchback of Notre Dame in which Esmeralda pleads with the cathedral priest for shelter (or, be honest, you think of Loga...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on October 13, 2014 @ 10:20 am
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The Cowboys Are No Longer the Cowboys
This was an honest to God, no equivocations, good win. Let's enjoy it. It happened again. The Cowboys dominated the first two-thirds of a game, just as they did against Tennessee and Houston, and found themselves in a fistfight to the finish. This...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 13, 2014 @ 7:00 am
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The Money Pit: Dollars Go AWOL at the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund
For what it's worth - not much, probably - nobody's sadder than me about the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund and the saga about to unfold around it. I know the history. It was one of those crumbs that poor black South Dallas had to wrench from a f...
by Jim Schutze on November 13, 2014
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Dallas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus According to reports from multiple news outlets and the Centers for Disease Control, a healthcare worker -- reportedly a nurse -- who was in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive fo...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 12, 2014 @ 11:17 am
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Energy Future Holdings Is Fighting to Give Executives at Least $20 Million in Bonuses
W.A. Parrish Coal Power Plant As Brantley Hargrove extensively reported for Unfair Park over the previous two years, Energy Future Holdings, the largest electricity generator in Texas, is a mess. Facing $40 billion in debt, the company filed for C...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 10, 2014 @ 4:43 pm
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Thomas Eric Duncan's Fever Was in Range for Ebola During His First Hospital Visit, AP Says
Thomas Eric Duncan. Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., had a fever of 103 degrees during his first visit to Presbyterian Hospital, The Associated Press reports. The Centers for Disease Control lists a fev...
@ Unfair Park by Sky Chadde on October 10, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
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Dallas' Trinity Strand Trail Is "Finished"
Four-and-a-half years ago, Mayor Tom Leppert stood overlooking the old Trinity River channel, now a forlorn muddy course that snakes through the Design District, and unveiled Turtle Creek Plaza, a handsome semi-circle of concrete adorned with a red w...
@ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on October 10, 2014 @ 2:44 pm
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West High Football Has Long Been Terrible, but It's Coming Back Just Like the Town
It's a cliche, sure, but in the case of West, Texas' high school football team, it appears to be true. "The old saying is, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger," says David Woodard, West High School's head football coach. "Our kids have gotten m...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 10, 2014 @ 12:23 pm
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Does Clay Jenkins Really Have a Heart or Is He Scamming Us?
Before I get on my high horse, I usually check back upstream to see what sort of feet of clay I may have myself on an issue. Great thing and terrible thing about the Internet. It's all still there. So this morning before leaping to the saddle to whac...
@ Unfair Park by Jim Schutze on October 10, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
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Ebola Fear and Misinformation Is Still Weighing on the People of Vickery Meadow
Last week, the Ivy was just one of many Vickery Meadow apartment complexes that housed immigrants from all over the world. Now, the complex has an entirely different connection. Two weeks ago, the Vickery Meadow neighborhood was known as the Unite...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on October 10, 2014 @ 8:10 am
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Ebola Story Is All About Who, What, Where and Whether To Tell Anybody
Pretty much always, Americans have found ways to get the scoop on what's really going on. One great service Dallas could render to the rest of the country, should the dust ever settle on the local Ebola story, would be a thorough, no-holds-barred...
@ Unfair Park by Jim Schutze on October 9, 2014 @ 4:46 pm
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Dallas County Sheriff's Deputy Taken to Presbyterian Hospital Yesterday Doesn't Have Ebola
According to conflicting reports yesterday, Monnig may have told workers at Care Now one of the following things: he had in contact with Duncan; he had entered his apartment; or he'd been in contact with Duncan's family. Out of what Frisco Mayor Mah...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 9, 2014 @ 4:39 pm
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Cowboys DB Subject of New Attempted Rape Allegation
C.J. Spillman C.J. Spillman, the Cowboys defensive back named in connection with a September 20 sexual assault allegation in Grapevine, was accused of attempted rape in December 2013 while he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers. According to ...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 9, 2014 @ 3:15 pm
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Another Dealer Sent to Prison for His Role in a Large North Texas Meth Ring
Adiel Fuentes is one of 24 suspects ensnared in a meth ring bust. Adiel Fuentes was a cog in a much bigger machine. He started working for Gerardo Cisneros halfway through 2012, according to court documents, and he took quite well to the type of w...
@ Unfair Park by Sky Chadde on October 9, 2014 @ 2:25 pm
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Dallas Police Chief David Brown Sent Drug Tip With a Free Sample of Suspected Crystal Meth
The envelope, addressed to Police Chief David Brown, arrived at Dallas PD headquarters at 9 a.m. Wednesday. "The letter pretty much gave him some names, apparently [of] people who were dealing drugs, and it had some crystal substance," says DPD spok...
@ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on October 9, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
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Red Bull Is Giving $10 to Anyone Who Wants It
The fleet is being readied for settlement delivery. Red Bull is giving consumers $13 million dollars to settle false advertising claims. The settlement is unsurprising. Not once in all the times Unfair Park has consumed the horrid tasting energy d...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 9, 2014 @ 12:41 pm
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Dallas County Leads Texas in Women Killed in Domestic Violence Cases
Twenty women in Dallas County were killed in domestic violence situations last year. Life just got a little bit worse for women in Texas -- and particularly for women in Dallas County. The Texas Council on Family Violence released a study on Tu...
@ Unfair Park by Emily Mathis on October 9, 2014 @ 7:40 am
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Fracking Company Makes Pink Drill Bits for Cancer ... to Fight It, We Mean
Not from The Onion, we promise. Baker Hughes, a Houston-based fracking concern with three offices in Dallas, cares about breast cancer research. Just enough, in fact, that they've made 100 pink drill bits to increase awareness this month, accordin...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 8, 2014 @ 5:21 pm
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Man Showing "Ebola Like Symptoms" Has Been Isolated in Frisco
Frisco firefighters set up an isolation tent inside an ambulance. A man currently being taken from a Frisco Care Now Clinic to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is reportedly experiencing Ebola-like symptoms. The city of Frisco release...
@ Unfair Park by Stephen Young on October 8, 2014 @ 3:28 pm
