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Local Attorneys Gearing Up For Ebola Lawsuits

The rhetoric from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses in the last several days has been vehement. Nurses are anonymously alleging that the hospital did not take proper steps to prevent contamination and infection, which ultimately led to nurses Amber Vinson and Nina Pham contracting Ebola from ... More >>

Dallas May Soon Declare Ebola Disaster But THERE'S STILL NO REASON TO PANIC!!

On Thursday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Mayor Mike Rawlings, and members of city health authorities convened for an emergency commissioners court meeting to officially declare disaster in Dallas. But after a private debate, and a significantly tamer public discussion, the court agreed that wh ... More >>

Presbyterian's Nurses Are Pushing Back on the CDC and Hospital Over Handling of Ebola

On Tuesday, nurses at Presbyterian Hospital voiced their complaints for the first time -- in so many words. Fearful of ramifications in the workplace, nurses anonymously sent their allegations to National Nurses United, where their comments were read aloud by spokesperson Deborah Burger. The nurse ... More >>

Thomas Eric Duncan's Fever Was in Range for Ebola During His First Hospital Visit, AP Says

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 fever of greater than 101.5 degrees as one of the potential signs that someon ... More >>

John Wiley Price "Knows What Happened" at Presbyterian in Ebola Case

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 fellow commissioners and County Judge Clay Jenkins what led to the temporary release of an Ebola-stricken Thom ... More >>

How About We Very Calmly Count the Failures on Ebola So Far? Calm Enough For You?

There has been much more talk in Dallas the last few days about the dangers of panic than about the dangers of Ebola. In the meantime if we are paying attention we must notice by now that our vaunted Western industrialized defenses against contagion are riddled with holes. We know that the Dallas ... More >>

We're Safe from Ebola Because We're Rich. How Is That Working Out So Far?

A major theme -- a very dangerous one -- in the reaction here to the arrival of Ebola is the notion that we are protected by our cultural and economic superiority from the kind of contagion now in Africa and that all we need to do is remain calm. I sincerely question whether calm is our most appropr ... More >>

Many New Moms Are Eating Their Placentas. Baylor Wants Them Off the Menu.

She was recovering in a postpartum room at Baylor University Medical Center this spring, exhausted from giving birth, when her husband gave her the good news. "We got the placenta," he told her. "It's in the cooler." Now she just had to get it off the hospital property without being caught. "We wer ... More >>

Rape Is Way Up in Dallas, Only Partly Because the FBI Made Police Keep Better Count

The first three months of 2014 have been exceptionally peaceful ones in Dallas. Robberies have dropped by 15 percent compared with the same period last year. Aggravated assaults are down 12 percent, murders a whopping 30 percent. There are still nine months to go, but the city is on pace for the sec ... More >>

Adventures in a Car-Free Dallas: Cabbies Find Ways to Survive in a Tough Business

For all the complaints about taxi service in Dallas -- drivers often refuse to take credit cards, they dislike short hauls and sometimes they're slow to arrive -- making a living driving a cab in Dallas can be an iffy proposition. For our look at living car-free in Dallas, Amy Silvertstein talked to ... More >>

A 7-Year-Old Girl Was Killed Tuesday Night in a Vickery Meadow Hit-and-Run

The 6900 block of Hemlock Avenue would have been dark at 9:30 Tuesday night. There are no street lights, just whatever light spills over from the adjacent apartment buildings. It would have been hard to see a couple of kids playing in the grass on the side of the road, and all but impossible to stop ... More >>

George W. Gets a Heart Stent and Obamacare is Evil. Yeah, That Makes Sense.

Must be more to the President George W. Bush arterial stent operation than we have heard so far. About the only conclusion fair to draw, in fact, is that not all the facts have been made public. The Dallas Morning News has an op-ed page piece in the paper this morning by Dr. Marc K. Siegel defen ... More >>

Dallas Got an Early Start on Weekend Crime With Diaper Bag Robbery, a Sort-of Kidnapping, and a Craigslist Heist

Typically, Dallas saves its wilder side for the weekend. That's when, once the booze and drugs are flowing in earnest, the weird crimes tend to happen. But the weekend arrived early, with police reporting an armed diaper bag robbery, a Craigslist heist and a low-budget movie production scaring the b ... More >>

How to Survive a Rabid Squirrel Encounter

Sherri Johnson's condo butts up against a wooded creek a few blocks from Presbyterian Hospital. She likes to keep a few cats around, strays really, to keep the raccoons and possums and other creek denizens from making themselves too comfortable on her property. It works for the most part, but the ca ... More >>

Man Sues Dallas Doc, McKinney Hospital After Losing Testicle, Length of Colon Due to Allegedly Botched Hernia Surgery

Pedro Hermenegildo didn't have insurance, so he paid Dr. Ricardo Rocha in cash to repair a hernia, a fairly routine, outpatient procedure. But according to a lawsuit filed against Rocha in a Dallas County district court last week, Hermenegildo lost much more than his hernial bulge. The surgery was ... More >>

Crime Keeps Going Down in Dallas, Except for Rape. But There's an Explanation for That.

There was some good news in the crime statistics presented to the City Council's Public Safety Committee a few moments ago. Burglaries, the bane of the Dallas Police Department in recent years, are down by double-digits thanks to ongoing efforts to shut down fencing operations through which thieves ... More >>

Finally, Freddie King's in Rock Hall of Fame

98kzew.comKing at KZEW's Armadillo Festival at Fair Park on April 27, 1975​I hear jingle bells: Freddie King's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Per this morning's heads-up from Cleveland, the Gilmer-born guitarist, singer and songwriter is this year's entry in the Early Influence category; damn ... More >>

Don O.'s Gift to You on Freddie King's 77th

​Hope you read this week's piece on the indestructible KNON. Strange, though. Must be something in the air. I just got through re-re-re-re-reading David Sealey's May '85 piece about Nancy Moore -- Shaggy, that is, my old friend who threw one hell of a midnight Pajama Party every Saturday. And I ra ... More >>

John Wiley Price: "Y'all Wanted a Code of Conduct, You Got a Code of Conduct."

Photos by Sam MertenA protester across the street from the Dallas County Administration Building this morning.​The Dallas County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a new code of conduct for commissioners this morning in response to Commissioner John Wiley Price last week telling several ... More >>

Game Delay: With Fresh Snow, Fresh Problems For Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Light Rail

Dr. Chris DreilingThe DART light-rail station across the street from Presbyterian Hospital, where not much is moving at present​Morgan Lyons, director of media relations for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, says this morning that he too is "ready for some warmer weather." Certainly would take some of th ... More >>

iWatch So You Don't Have To: Liveblogging Today's Public Safety Committee Meeting

​Afternoon, Friends of Unfair Park. Here I am in bristly cold City Hall prepared to bring you the latest in how Dallas is going to keep you safe. Or, how you're going to keep your damn selves safe with iWatch. Between that and Dwaine Caraway's magic crime-reducing cameras, we should be set. See so ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Eric Clapton Was God at Dallas Convention Center in November '76, But Freddie Was Still King

​Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I've posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list -- I've listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to- ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas Cannonball Takes Over The Zoo in '75

​When we took a long, deep hit of Foghat at January Sound Studio back in April, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind to remind: Freddie King also recorded a set there in '75 for KZEW. March 31, 1975, to be exact -- about a year and a half before the Gilmer-born guitar-slinger died of heart failure at ... More >>

The Mavericks Give Thanks for the Kid Who Keeps Bouncing Back

Dallas Wants to be a Green City, So Why Not Save Some Trees?

Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch

Some call Dr. Buch a troubled genius. His ex-patients and hospital bosses call him trouble.

Headache Hotel and Other Dallas City Council SUPs and WTFs

I've yet to attend a city council meeting I didn't enjoy, and yesterday's was no exception. How can one not feel satisfied after bearing witness to important votes on the convention center hotel and gas drilling, a council member admitting to witnessing a drug deal in progress and doing nothing abou ... More >>

Marchel Ivery's Death Leaves Dallas' Jazz Scene Longing

Every Time We Say Goodbye: The Great Texas Tenor Marchel Ivery Has Died

Marchel Ivery's Death Marks "A Sad Day for Dallas"

UNT Division of Jazz Studies This photo of Marchel Ivery dates from September 2005, when Ivery performed with Stefan Karlsson, Tom Warrington and Ed Soph. Last night, local sax great Shelley Carrol was told he would need to fill in tonight for Marchel Ivery, who was scheduled to play Terilli's on G ... More >>

Saying Goodbye to Dallas Jazzer Marchel Ivery

Very, very sad news today, as Dallas has lost one of its greatest jazzers and finest people: Marchel Ivery. His wife confirms he died this morning at Presbyterian Hospital, just one day after checking in. He'd had a fever for two days and was diagnosed with pneumonia; he died around 11 this morning. ... More >>

Dallas Can't Spin Latest Jail Lawsuit

The County can't get away from the latest bad news on its troubled jail

Suit Settled in the Case of a Former Mr. America's Death

A former Mr. America, Dallas' Mike Scarcella died of GHB addiction four years ago this month. Mike Scarcella was a local bodybuilder who earned the titles of Mr. America and Mr. USA. He died on August 25, 2003, during gamma hydroxybutyrate (or GHB) withdrawal -- while he was hospitalized for a savag ... More >>

Mitchell Says No

So what about the dogfight on the Trinity River Project?

The Legacy of Lamar

The Bronco Bowl was one of many things Dallas wouldn't have had without Lamar Hunt. Now, both are gone. I am sure Richie will be along shortly to offer his thoughts on Lamar Hunt, who died last night of complications from prostate cancer at Presbyterian Hospital. Services will be Saturday at the Mor ... More >>

Narrow Escape

Plus: Havard Pleads Guilty

An Irritating Woman

Susan Diamond learned that it doesn't pay to annoy your kids' psychiatrists, even if you're a doctor

R.I.P.ped

Even former Mr. America Mike Scarcella wasn't strong enough to beat the horrors of GHB addiction

Man of Steel

Bump in the Road

You'll be drinking faster than you eat at Wahoo Grill & Cantina

We Never Close

Or so say the proponents of 24-hour child care. The facts say otherwise.

Rich Man, Poor Man

Dallas architect Tom Stanley crafted buildings that endure on city skylines across the country, but his fortune and family wouldn't survive their own shaky foundations

Good eggs

For some infertile Dallas couples, science, commerce, and a few genetically attractive women provide the next best thing to Mother Nature

Desperate Measures

Tim and Emilie Sherrod, parents of twin autistic boys, will do anything to find a cure -- even spend $14,000 to inject their sons with a hormone from pig entrails

Blues for Freddie

The family of a Dallas guitar legend fights to protect his legacy

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Hey, Pachuco!

Retro rascality or cultural imperialism?

Compulsive childbirth

Why my third time still wasn't the charm

The forgotten man

Rush to eulogize RISD icon J.J. Pearce ignores 25-year-old victim

The Arena Papers

Inside the secret City Hall files: A tale of dupes and deception