Email AuthorAmy Silverstein
Here's TxDOT's Agreement with the Private Tollway Company That Has Eminent Domain Powers
November 13, 2014 in Unfair Park
A Mysterious New Landlord Is Making Life Hell for the Residents of an Irving Mobile Home Park
November 11, 2014 in Unfair Park
Dallas Homeowners' Association Turned Off Man's Sprinklers, Threatened Gunplay, According to Strange Lawsuit
November 10, 2014 in Unfair Park
Dallas Company Did Such Good Job Towing Cars It May Owe Texas $88,900 in Fines
November 05, 2014 in Unfair Park
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Texas' Only Natural Lake Is Polluted With Oil, and the EPA Isn't Paying Attention, Activists Say
November 04, 2014 in Unfair Park
Texas has exactly one good sized natural lake that we share with Louisiana, and it's totally not getting flooded with oil right now, officials have assured us these last few...
Frisco Homeowners Association Can't Kick Out Homeless Teens, Judge Rules
October 31, 2014 in Unfair Park
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Destroying the Cabana Hotel Would Not Be So Bad
October 29, 2014 in Unfair Park
Amy SilversteinEh. Every hour or so, the Save the Cabana Hotel Facebook page reminds its 900-plus followers to SAVE THE CABANA HOTEL. Dallas' luxury Cabana Motor Hotel opened on Stemmons...
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Unpopular Toll Road Idea We Said Was Dead Might Not Be Dead
October 28, 2014 in Unfair Park
Mark HaslettMichael Morris, transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, is no longer recommending Texas Turnpike Corp.'s private toll road project. But the state still sort-of is....
Some Patients Complain That Parkland Is Filing Exorbitant Hospital Liens For Medical Bills
October 27, 2014 in Unfair Park
Texas Drillers Lead the Nation in Pumping Benzene into Earth, Which Is Not Good
October 23, 2014 in Unfair Park
NCTCOG Acknowledges Public Criticism, Drops Private Toll Road Idea
October 21, 2014 in Unfair Park
Texas Construction Workers Say Aldi, Dallas Subcontractor Ripped Them Off for $20,000
October 17, 2014 in Unfair Park
Frisco Says Exide Is Being Cheap about Potential Superfund Site Cleanup
October 16, 2014 in Unfair Park
Plans for Texas' First Private Toll Road Roll On -- and Right Over People in its Path
October 16, 2014 in Unfair Park
Dallas Man Sues Former Landlord over Bedbug Infestation; Landlord Says He Planted Them
October 14, 2014 in Unfair Park
Private Tollway Will Be a Moneymaker, Say Firms Hired by Private Tollway Company
October 13, 2014 in Unfair Park
Dallas Spokesman Says Reporters Scaring Residents at Apartments Where Ebola Patient Stayed
October 02, 2014 in Unfair Park
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TxDOT Is Unmoved by Claims a Dallas Company's Guardrails Are Maiming Drivers
October 01, 2014 in Unfair Park
thisisbossiGuardrails 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...
How a Mall Fight Led to Courtroom Drama, a Prosecutor Quitting and an Alleged Cover-Up
September 29, 2014 in Unfair Park
NCTCOG Seems Pretty Enthusiastic about Letting a Dallas Company Build Texas' First Private Toll Road
September 25, 2014 in Unfair Park
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Demolishing Old Buildings in Dallas Is Easier Than Saving Them
September 23, 2014 in Unfair Park
colteraMain 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...
In Battle Pitting TxDOT Regulations Against The Ten Commandments, God Wins
September 22, 2014 in Unfair Park
Losing Texas Lotto Players Who Want to Sue Are Following an American Tradition
September 19, 2014 in Unfair Park
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Green Oaks Hospital Is Retraining Staff, Presumably to Stop Discharging Recovering Homeless Patients to Boarding Houses
September 18, 2014 in Unfair Park
Dan CoxBefore Parkland placed a patient named Todd Arko in what the feds described as "immediate jeopardy," nearly costing the hospital its Medicaid funding, there was another, lesser-known hospital that...
Texas Judge Backs School District That Suspended Boy for Refusing Handshake
September 16, 2014 in Unfair Park
