Just when we thought we could never show our faces again, thank goodness for Chris Christie. We owe him. Only the governor of New Jersey could make Dallas look good on Ebola. Look, we won’t be bragging any time soon about the day Ebola hit Dallas. It was a mess…
Sorry, everybody else, but this is one of those times I have to go all-in, full-tilt, do-or-die East Dallas on you. East Dallas! Listen to me! They’re going to take Tietze Pool away from you! Tietze Pool! One reason you moved into the Greater M Streets Area, also known as…
Amy Silverstein’s cover story here last week, “Road Runners,” exploded one of my own favorite and time-honored paradigms; the city versus the suburbs. Silverstein exposed a scenario in which people in the boondocks are getting reamed in exactly the same way and even by the same people as folks in…
A little over two years ago The Battery Conservancy, a nonprofit support group for Battery Park at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers on the southern tip of Manhattan, decided that it needed a new chair. The conservancy wanted a new park chair that would be light enough…
Hoping it’s not bad luck to say this so soon, knocking on wood, rubbing my figurative rabbit’s foot (my wife won’t let me carry a real one), but I think this city and maybe even the nation deserve praise for overwhelming equanimity in the face of the first American Ebola…
Talk about mixed feelings this morning. On the one hand thanks to a youthful experience I would rather not recount here in colorful detail, I know exactly how Dallas school board member Bernadette Nutall feels about getting rousted by the cops earlier this week in a Dallas school building. My…
News media continue to present a picture of Ebola transmission that is significantly inaccurate by omission. They assert much more certainty than the science justifies. The version repeated like a mantra in most accounts — only direct physical contact with an infectious person — is wrong on its face and…
News that Ebola virus had escaped Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and invaded the city in the body of an infected nurse was the last straw. It’s not the virus that’s going to drive us crazy. It’s the officials who keep making stupid promises that they have no ability to fulfill…
Big teachable moment right now in the Dallas school system — huge! — and the school board and superintendent should rush to take advantage of it. I’m talking about the deal I reported here yesterday in which the superintendent called school district cops to physically evict a school board member…
Last summer, Ben & Jerry’s announced it wanted to make some new ice cream flavors based on cities across the country. The notion filled our brains with po’ boy flavored ice cream from New Orleans, and scoops of chocolate-laced chili heaped into cones in honor of Cincinnati. See Also: If…
Yesterday morning Dallas school district cops forcibly removed school board member Bernadette Nuttall from Billy Earl Dade middle school on Grand Avenue in South Dallas after Nuttall told them, “Go ahead and arrest me.” They didn’t. They just put her out of the building. But both Nuttall and a school…
Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, speaking on 7/31/2014: “It is not a potential of Ebola spreading widely in the U.S. That is not in the cards.” “We have quarantine stations at…
Before I get on my high horse, I usually check back upstream to see what sort of feet of clay I may have myself on an issue. Great thing and terrible thing about the Internet. It’s all still there. So this morning before leaping to the saddle to whack people…
Despite a modest campaign to right puffy-taco wrongs, there remains a great rift in Dallas’ puffy-taco universe. The issue centers around an impostor, a sham, a fraudulent taco promising supple puffiness that never makes its way to the plate. You’ll find this taco at many Tex-Mex restaurants, including Ojeda’s, which…
One great service Dallas could render to the rest of the country, should the dust ever settle on the local Ebola story, would be a thorough, no-holds-barred post mortem on information sharing. I am already hearing from people behind the scenes, speaking off the record, that there has been significant…
Annie Clark is having all the fun these days. She does her best to hide it, be it as a would-be cult leader or a guitar-shredding robot. But, as happened on several occasions at Austin City Limits last weekend, it still comes through with the occasional smirk or beaming smile:…
The Lockey/MacKenzie federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Dallas of deliberate racial segregation, dismissed last year because the judge said I had already blown the whistle, is back in court in all new clothes, filed Friday, this time with less of me and more of former City Council member Angela Hunt and…
The weird shadow government nobody knows about but that runs everything, called “THE COG!,” headquartered near Six Flags amusement park in Arlington, is cooking up a plan to ram a new highway down the city’s throat even if the city votes against it. Well, that would be my interpretation of…
The commenters are already whetting their knives on Stephen Young’s piece here a bit earlier reporting that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has raised the issue of racism in the treatment of Ebola Patient Zero, Thomas Eric Duncan, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. But maybe we could all acknowledge…
The Lockey/MacKenzie federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Dallas of deliberate racial segregation, dismissed last year because the judge said I had already blown the whistle, is back in court in all new clothes, filed Friday, this time with less of me and more of former City Council member Angela Hunt and…
The past few weeks have been pretty good to Texas music festival goers. The last two weekends of September saw North Texas welcome in two of its most promising events, with Oaktopia landing in Denton the first week and Index Fest taking over Deep Ellum on the next. While still…
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…
