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In October 2012, Travis County officials promised that bringing video visitation to the local jails wouldn't affect anything else about jail visits.
"We're not changing anything else from what we're doing," Travis County Major Darren Long told the c...
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Dallas ISD has, for the moment at least, put last spring's athletic-recruiting scandal behind it. The 15 coaches and administrators Superintendent Mike Miles fired over the summer have exhausted their appeals. Madison High School's 2012-13 and 2013-1...
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In January, before many people were aware that a little-known corporation with the powers of eminent wanted to build private toll road through the rural communities east of Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Hubbard, the Texas Department of Transportation was p...
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Despite reports on climate change denialism in social studies textbooks, publishers still refuse to correct the errors.
For the first time since 2002, the Texas State Board of Education is considering the adoption of new social studies textbooks...
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Vonciel Jones Hill and Carolyn Davis in happier times.
The issue at hand is a little wonky, but not too complicated. The Dallas City Council took bids for a contract to collect fines for the city's municipal courts. In the next fiscal year, the co...
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Master of social media.
Sometimes, things are delightful for their simplicity. Cowboys' receiver Cole Beasley's response to a Twitter heckler Sunday was definitely one of those times. Beasley made his first fumble of the year Sunday afternoon agai...
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On Tuesday morning, right after an African-American principal and an African-American superintendent had finished predicting a great future for East Dallas' Lee Elementary and its new International Baccalaureate program, a woman buttonholed DISD trus...
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It was something that was inevitable once Thomas Eric Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with antibiotics on September 26. There would be legal action against the hospital for its treatment of Duncan, the first person diagno...
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Sellers of testosterone therapy play -- some say prey -- on men's insecurities.
Alex Truman didn't think something was wrong until he returned to the gym. Before fathering his two kids, he worked out regularly and even made an early career of exer...
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The neighborhoods surrounding Dallas ISD's Robert E. Lee Elementary are much like the neighborhoods surrounding nearby Stonewall Jackson and Lakewood Elementary. That is, they are predominately white and upper middle class, with just a touch of East ...
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The two-generation system pushes at-home learning, parental education and early childhood education as a method to get families out of the cycle of poverty.
In Dallas ISD, early childhood education has been a major push in the last year. It's a mo...
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How dallascountyvotes.org looked on election day.
They had one job. Last Tuesday, the one day this year most people will even think to look at the Dallas County elections website, it went down. For seven hours. Any person needing to know her polli...
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Tuesday morning, a lawsuit was filed in federal court by an anonymous plaintiff asserting that her daughter, who has Down syndrome, was raped twice by a DART paratransit driver in September 2013.
According to the plaintiff, driver Cedrick Agentdropp...
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Jason Harrison's mother's house, on the 200 block of Glencairn Drive in Dallas, where officers shot and killed Harrison in front of his mother.
After Jason Harrison's father sued the city, the Dallas Police Department and the two officers who shot...
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Sweet. Like the rest of the pictured items in this post, this bazooka round was found at DFW.
Late last week, the Transportation and Safety Administration announced on its blog that 2014 has been a record breaking year for dumbasses bringing unsec...
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Mobile home parks, at their best, offer community, safety and freedom for people who can't afford to be tied down in a regular house but don't want to be fleeced by a slumlord running a crumbling apartment complex.
A Dallas commercial real estate c...
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Denton residents passed a fracking ban, but now it's up to to city leaders to defend it against the powerful oil and gas industry.
Last week, Denton became the first city in the state to pass a citywide ban on fracking. Voters approved the ban in ...
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Wants you to pay extra for all those awful things you do on the internet.
Everything, as we all know, is about Obamacare. Your delivery pizza costs 14 cents more because of Obamacare. Your uncle's Facebook wall is a disaster because of Obamacare. ...
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"Who the fuck made you dumb duck ass crackers think I give a squat fuck about your opinions about my opinions Re: #Ferguson," she Tweeted, ignoring the grammar rules she's no doubt been dutifully teaching her students this fall. Then, her kicker: "Ki...
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Rep. Rafael Anchia and Mike Rawlings
Last week, we told you about an internet survey pushed out by Dallas state representative Rafael Anchia asking residents their opinion about the Trinity Toll Road. We speculated that Anchia's sudden interest mi...
