Email AuthorEric Nicholson
Five Years After Horse Slaughter Ends in Texas, Legislature Mulls Making it Legal
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
Appeals Court Says Texas' Redistricting Maps Are Discriminatory; Texas Vows to Appeal
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
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Dallas Finally Stopped Cutting Libraries, But the Damage is Already Done
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
The city is learning that if libraries are never open, people will never come.Libraries, as we already know, have not been spared City Manager Mary Suhm's budget cleaver in recent...
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Two Years After Oak Cliff Police Shooting, Victims' Families Unite in Suing the City
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
WFAAXavion Collins in 2010 after he was inadvertently shot by a police officer.On the evening of October 29, 2010, Matthew Tate and other Dallas police officers were conducting a sweep...
The UNT-Dallas Faculty Really, Really Doesn't Trust the School's Leaders
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
Business Partner Says Co-Founder of Tom Hicks' Private Equity Firm Screwed Him Over
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
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BMW For Some Reason Has Decided to "Restore the Outdoors," Including White Rock Lake
August 28, 2012 in Unfair Park
Wouldn't you like this picture a little more if there was a BMW X1 in it? And if the car company donated $10,000 to White Rock Lake?BMWs are not native...
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Two Years After Murder, Suspect Turns Himself in On DPD's Facebook Page
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
On April 2, 2010, as 36-year-old Pedro David Garcia sat in the back seat of a car at an apartment complex in Northwest Dallas, he was shot several times, dying...
Eleven Years Later After Making Prostitution a Felony, Lawmakers Realize They Made a Mistake
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
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Here's Jerry Jones Rapping His Way Through Another Papa John's Commercial
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys. He also really likes/has an endorsement deal with Papa John's. That goes some ways in explaining the existence of the above video, titled "Hip...
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It's 2012 and Dallas City Hall Just Wrote its First Sustainability Plan
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
The city of Dallas is awfully proud of its efforts to be green, what with the cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions and the garbage plan that promises zero waste...
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Dallas' Marijuana Supply Got 1,200 Pounds Lighter Over the Weekend
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
On Saturday morning, a Dallas Police Department helicopter was on routine patrol over South southern Dallas when officers spotted what appeared to be marijuana growing inside a deeply wooded area...
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On I-35, a Freight-Only Monorail Could Soon Take Root
August 27, 2012 in Unfair Park
Freight Shuttle International The drive south down Interstate 35 isn't a particularly pleasant one, but there soon there may be something to distract you, namely a 243-mile elevated rail line dedicated...
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U.N. Swears it Has No Plans to Invade Lubbock County
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is probably booking his plane ticket to Lubbock right now.Lubbock County Judge Tom Head is raising taxes just in case, steeling himself for the U.N....
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The Heroin-Dealing President of Los Homeboys Biker Gang Was Convicted Today
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
viaA year ago, John Pena Medellin, aka "Papa John," aka "Uncle John," the founding president of the Los Homeboys motorcycle club, was head of an operation that purchased large quantities...
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Republicans Begin Renewed Push For School Vouchers
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
State Senator Dan Patrick, a Houston Republican, fired something of a warning shot two weeks ago when he announced a renewed push for school choice, both in the form of...
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Let's Hope Mike Miles Can Superintend Better Than He Can Dance
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
NBC5. Note: Jump to the :35 mark for the dancing. First, a question: why do people in leadership positions in Dallas feel its a good idea to dance in public? Because it's...
Will Becker, Dallas' Retired Mosquito Fighter, Returns to Battle West Nile
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
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Randy Travis, This Time Fully Clothed, Arrested Cited This Morning at Plano Church
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
Travis, after his arrest in Grayson County earlier this month. Update at 11:47 a.m.: The AP has a few more details. Travis apparently knew the woman who was arguing with her...
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Think of Interesting Things to Do Next to Parking Meters, Because Park(ing) Day is Coming
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
Danny HurleyLast year, on a short block between Pearl and Olive, a few dozen groups hijacked some metered parking spaces downtown for a day. There was music, pop-up museums, a...
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Lance Armstrong Gives Up Doping Fight, Stripped of Tour de France Titles
August 24, 2012 in Unfair Park
Update at 10:55 a.m.: It's now officially official. The USADA has formally instituted a lifetime ban against Armstrong and erasing all competitive results since Aug. 1, 1999. That includes his...
Charles Anthony Jones, Your "Erection Connection," Indicted for Selling Fake Boner Pills Over the Internet
August 23, 2012 in Unfair Park
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Faculty Panel Pans Bain's Vision For UNT-Dallas
August 23, 2012 in Unfair Park
Last month UNT-Dallas made the rather unexpected announcement that founding President John Ellis Price was stepping down effective August 2013, leaving him in office long enough to launch the so-called...
Irony Alert: Former Head of Dallas Crime Stoppers Convicted of Wire, Tax Fraud
August 23, 2012 in Unfair Park
Land Commissioner, Liberal "Slacktivists" Bicker Over $300 Million in Public School Funding
August 23, 2012 in Unfair Park
