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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...
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Beneath Turtle Creek's placid surface, tension, anger and turned off sprinklers.
At a condominium near Turtle Creek, there is a bitter, strange battle brewing between the building's homeowners' association and the domestic partner of one of the HO...
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He played! Yay?
London games, at least from the various couches I've watched them on, are always odd. English fans, to their credit, are always enthusiastic, but their cheers are usually half-a-beat off. The extra quarter-of-a-second they need to ...
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There are 40 more pages of Dallas-based cameras.
Insecam is a super-creepy Moscow-based website that is currently streaming footage from 73,000 unsecured IP cameras. The site says it's doing it to promote security -- it is able to access the camer...
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Plano in 1891
Density is good. Regionalism is bad. Dallas' city government should focus on the city itself, not on getting in good with our suburban neighbors by forming partnerships that hurt the city itself. These are things Unfair Park has hear...
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Amber Vinson hugs her doctors as she leaves Emory University Hospital near Atlanta.
Amber Vinson, the second nurse from Thomas Eric Duncan's treatment team to contract the Ebola virus, had her engagement ring incinerated along with many of her oth...
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But enough about me. I spent a good deal of yesterday trying to see this story as others might, especially the individuals at City Hall who were singled out by name as complicit in acts of racism. Having tasted that lash once or twice myself, I know ...
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There's a long and sordid history of notorious American criminals cashing in on their fame by publishing books, selling prison artwork or hawking their personal effects. Nowadays, the macabre "murderabilia" market has mostly migrated online, where an...
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The Dallas Cowboys, complete with their famous silver trousers, play their first game in London on Sunday. You should tear yourself away from Swansea vs. Arsenal (or as they would call it in America, "Swans - Gooners") and watch a man with a malfunct...
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It's on the way!! RT @RyanMaue: Next week's Arctic blast will threaten 41 States and 250,179,444 people pic.twitter.com/MR78ssJVVL
-- Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) November 6, 2014
Suck it, boring sunny weather. Now we have something to live in fe...
