We were assured Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital could not have been better equipped to treat Ebola. Still, Thomas Eric Duncan died. The death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan on Wednesday morning comes as a shock, despite his infection wit...
Wonder what this could mean? Mike Rawlings has hired Laurey Peat + Associates, a Dallas-based public relations firm to handle media relations for the mayor's office. The firm replaces Sam Merten, the mayor's previous manager of public affairs and ...
THE COG! is coming for you. You are powerless to escape. THE COG! never stops cogging. The weird shadow government nobody knows about but that runs everything, called "THE COG!," headquartered near Six Flags amusement park in Arlington, is cooki...
Thomas Eric Duncan Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national being treated for Ebola at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital died this morning at 7:51 a.m.. Presbyterian issued the following statement: "It is with profound sadness and hea...
Doctors say the flu and other vaccine-preventable illnesses are a much greater health threat than Ebola, and should be emphasized in Governor Rick Perry's new infectious diseases task force. On Monday, Governor Rick Perry announced he will form ...
Clay Jenkins does not have Ebola. This week, Highland Park school district's "Nurses's Corner" is an attempt to assuage parents' fears about the Ebola risk at HPISD schools. There is no risk, the letter says, despite Armstrong Elementary parent C...
Commissioner Price is right about one thing anyway. Something or someone is missing from this picture. The commenters are already whetting their knives on Stephen Young's piece here a bit earlier reporting that Dallas County Commissioner John Wi...
Transmission electron micrograph of the Ebola virus Just before heading into a private executive session to address what he called "security issues" related to the Ebola virus' arrival in Dallas, County Commissioner John Wiley Price told his fello...
The Huey P. Newton Gun Club and the Indigenous People's Liberation Party stand across the street from the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse. In hopes of raising awareness of police brutality, two groups walked single-file together throu...
All dressed up and ready for a night in Uptown. Dallasites like to shop. We really, really like to shop. So when one of the world's deadliest viruses appears within the confines of our city, we do what comes naturally. We buy things. Several e...
Federal circuit fight! Monday morning word came down from on high, or wherever it is the Supreme Court proclamations come from, that the court would not hear any of several same-sex marriage cases it could have this term. In turning down cases fr...
Is it just me? Am I totally alone, nuts, or what? Isn't it a bad thing that everybody agrees Dallas City Hall racially discriminates? The Lockey/MacKenzie federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Dallas of deliberate racial segregation, dismisse...
Logan Michael Drumm This guy is wanted for shooting two people at a Seagoville trailer park Sunday afternoon. If you have seen him or know where he is, we apologize. You should also contact Seagoville police.
Get caught with a joint in Dallas this afternoon and you'll find yourself being chauffeured to Lew Sterrett in the back of a squad car. Get caught with a joint in Dallas this January and you may well escape with a ticket and a stern admonition to sho...
Prepare for more of the same. After each of the Cowboys last four games -- all wins, sending the team to 4-1 and its best start since 2008 -- we've heard it: The team is winning because it's running DeMarco Murray early and often. Even in the thir...
An Ebola health worker in Monrovia. DISD custodians wore similar attire when cleaning the schools this week. How much does it cost to care for a single case of Ebola in the United States? Between specialized treatment, identifying and tracking d...
We took a pretty bad hiding over Ebola here when Dallas became the first city in the United States to harbor the disease. How much of that we deserved and how much we did not will be fodder for somebody's doctoral dissertation someday. Right now it'...
The site of Jason Harrison's death. David Harrison, whose mentally ill son Jason Harrison died at the hands of Dallas police in June, filed a lawsuit on Friday claiming two officers used excessive force when they shot his son six times within minu...
Dallas Weekly, one of the city's main black-owned newspapers, just published its latest issue online. The issue date suggests the cover was designed pre-ebola, but the timing of the email blast they just put out is ... unfortunate.
For now, the occupants of the Vickery Meadow apartment where patient Thomas Eric Duncan was staying are hunkered down in their ebola-tainted quarters while a Hazmat team scrubs the unit and the rest of Dallas preps for the end times. Dallas County J...