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Yes, tomorrow would be the perfect time to put the finishing touches on that ark you've been building for this exact circumstance, because come Monday we will all be living the reality Kevin Costner so boldly hinted at in his magnum opus Waterworld.
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Boston is the smartest large city in the United States, according to a new study from New Geography. Dallas did not fare nearly as well.
The numbers behind the rankings are straightforward. Weight is given to the number of college graduates in each ...
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Happier times.
Here's another thing I like about hockey.
We've all seen in sports that moment when a highly trained athlete is made to look like a 5-year-old who just made the sort of mistake a 5-year-old might make. It's one of the reasons we ...
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The Dallas City Council's decision last week to repeal its anti-protest ordinance -- the one that has irked both the far left and far right, from the peaceniks railing against the Bush Presidential Library to the Obama-hating patriots -- was a tacit ...
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But Duncanville school officials overlooked one important maxim when it comes to selecting an electric provider: You don't fuck with TXU.
Duncanville ISD had been contracting with the electric utility since 2009. The deal, thanks to an extension sig...
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Sharon Grigsby of The Dallas Morning News editorial page posted an interesting item on their opinion blog yesterday saying the paper's pontification board had just met with Dallas school Superintendent Mike Miles, that Miles wouldn't tell them anythi...
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One thing is clear after Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings' 15-minute speech Wednesday at a Trinity Groves breakfast: It can't possibly be about what he said it was about. There is no way that after all the time, all the "balloon juice," that's been expelle...
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On Thursday, a Dallas community organization will file a formal complaint with the Department of Justice against Dallas and its police department for fostering what the group sees as an environment in which police officers can kill blacks and Hispani...
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Highland Park is OK with wide homes, but not tall ones.
Rich people, we learn time and time again, do not like living near tall buildings or lowlifes who rent their homes, even if those tall buildings are fancy condos, occupied by lowlife renters ...
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These dudes were obviously thinking of Moses and King Solomon when they made the United States.
On Tuesday, the State Board of Education met for the final hearing on the adoption of new social studies textbooks. The board intended to cast the f...
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The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority has heard your cry, trolley rider for whom 15 minutes is just too long of a wait. The Uptown transportation provider now has a live map showing where each of its vehicles is at any given time.
It is exactly what...
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Let's have a spelling bee for the people behind the Trinity toll road project, and all they have to spell is their names.
Results of the Trinity toll road public opinion poll released yesterday by State Rep. Raphael Anchia are so devastatingly ob...
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And the survey says...
The results are in from state Representative Rafael Anchia's survey of Dallas residents' feelings about the Trinity toll road. They are exactly what you'd expect.
Of 1,014 respondents who reported Dallas ZIP codes, only 42 ...
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Council member Dwaine Caraway doing his part to support A.C.'s initiative.
As we've mentioned before, City Manager A.C. Gonzalez's presentations at the end of City Council briefings are frequently excruciating and uninformative. Tuesday, though, t...
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OK, North Texas. Regional transportation planners have heard your shrill, anti-toll battle cry. They know you will not countenance a speculative private toll road that inexplicably runs from Wylie to Greenville. They also know you also hate those new...
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A debate that began more than a year ago when City Manager A.C. Gonzalez tried to slip an ordinance that would have banned car services like Uber and Lyft in Dallas will likely end December 10, when the council takes up new regulations for transporta...
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When the revolution went down, the tsar and his family were rollerskating around the decks of their yacht. That's about how clueless the people are who still want the Trinity toll road to be built.
Wednesday the mayor is holding some kind of meet...
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Last week, Highland Park ISD released its updated high school reading list. The list provided titles required for in-class reading, optional outside reading and the passive aggressive list of "approved" but not taught in the classroom reading.
Stude...
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The Desoto Police Department's first attempt to run off Sergeant James Henrise came around 1996. Henrise and a fellow cop had come forward with evidence they claimed showed that Chief John Horvath had improperly meddled in a seven-year-old murder inv...
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Brice Johnson
Shortly after midnight on September 2, 2013, Brice Johnson, then 19, began a conversation with Arron Keahey on MeetMe.com, a social-networking platform that would change both of their lives.
Over the next few hours, the two men exch...
