Months After Prime Prep Hired Former State Board of Education Member, A...
Sometimes it seems like all we ever do here at Unfair Park is bitch about the dastardly and frivolous legislation our elected representatives concoct...
View ArticleRafael Anchia Files a Bill to Help Texas Export its Natural Gas
State Representative Rafael Anchia of Dallas filed legislation Friday that he hopes will position Texas to lead the sustainable age. He describes it ...
View ArticleWendy Davis Aims to Restrict Seizure of Private Land for Pipelines -- But Not...
You'd think in this state, property rights would be the inviolable bedrock around which damn near everything else revolves. You'd think eminent domain...
View ArticlePlan Commission Prepares to Vote for the Second Time on Fracking Along...
For Trinity East, the Fort Worth-based shale gas producer, the Dallas Plan Commission meeting this Thursday is make or break. Nearly six years ago, ...
View ArticleSyrian National Coalition's First Prime Minister Used to Be Chairman of...
Ghassan Hitto, the man elected early Tuesday morning to become the opposition Syrian National Coalition's first prime minister, also happens to be a ...
View ArticleHedge Fund Says Tottering, Dallas-based Electricity Giant is Screwing Creditors
Aurelius Capital Management, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund and perpetual pain-in-the-ass for distressed companies like Dallas-based Energy Future ...
View ArticleTrinity East Appeals Plan Commission Defeat, Will Continue Fight for Drilling...
City Council chambers erupted in applause Thursday afternoon as the Plan Commission voted to deny controversial drilling permits to natural gas produc...
View ArticleRandy Travis Proved He Hasn't Lost a Step at Billy Bob's Texas
On the main stage of Billy Bob's Texas, past the mechanical bulls and the neon lights and the line-dance floors throbbing to the "Cha-Cha Slide," Ran...
View ArticleAs the Texas Lege Tackles $2 Billion Water Legislation, Drought Records Are Set
The Texas House and Senate took up legislation Tuesday to address a drought-induced water crisis. A proposed bill out of the House would pull $2 billi...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Ruling on Lawsuit Against EPA is a Partial Loss For...
The ongoing legal war of many fronts among Dallas-based Luminant, the state of Texas, the EPA and environmentalists is mostly a war of incremental vi...
View ArticleGreg Abbott Wants To Make Texas' Interim (And Still Probably...
As you may recall, Texas' 2011 plan to redraw political boundaries was so brazenly partisan, so undeniably bent on reducing minority influence, and t...
View ArticleIn Kaufman County, Authorities Hunt for Killers as a Neighborhood Remains in...
Police had only just opened Blarney Stone Way in Forney Monday afternoon when this picture was taken. Satellite trucks were already stacked fender to ...
View ArticleDays After Slaying of Kaufman County DA and His Wife, Terrell Man Arrested...
Nick Morale, a 56-year-old man from Terrell, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making "terroristic threats" against the life of an unnamed county ...
View ArticleTouching Eulogies (and a Bomb Threat) as Kaufman County Mourned its DA and...
Inside First Baptist of Sunnyvale, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland lay in a flag-draped coffin alongside the ashes of his wife, Cynthi...
View ArticleSlain Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and wife Cynthia Laid...
In tiny Wortham, just a ways northwest of Mexia, the fire ladders on two engines from the Teague and Fairfield fire departments were crossed over 3rd ...
View ArticleAngela Hunt and Scott Griggs Want a Vote On Trinity East Drillsites in 30 Days
Before term limits and elections change the complexion of the Dallas City Council in unknowable ways, Scott Griggs and Angela Hunt want an up-or-down ...
View ArticleBarry Smitherman Retweets Image of Noose, Accompanied by Names of Senators...
RT @psychscriv: Make sure none of these people have seats in 2014. twitter.com/PsychScriv/sta...We are in trouble when these Rs side w/ Sen Reid&mdash...
View ArticleEric Williams, Suspect in Kaufman County Killings: "My Life has Taken a...
When Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse convinced a jury to convict a former Justice of the Peace on felony theft charges, Eric Lyl...
View ArticleTrinity East's Vapor Chase
No meeting was too small, too incremental for Trinity East CEO Tom Blanton, because too much was at stake. Whether it was a task force convening to sh...
View ArticleReport: Customers Have Forked Over $500 Million to Cover Oncor's Phantom Tax...
Dallas-based utility Oncor has collected half a billion dollars from ratepayers to cover federal income taxes it has never paid. Last year alone, cust...
View Article
