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City Hall's Favorite Tool in Uber Crackdown: Undercover Vice Stings by Dallas Cops 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Andrea Grimes Dallas vice officers in the simpler, pre-Uber days of 2010, when they could focus on catching johns. On any given day, the Dallas Police Department's vice control unit is combing the c...
Greg Abbott, Eying Governor's Mansion, Comes Out Against 16-Year-Old Dachshunds 27 Aug 2013 | 04:29 am
Facebook Belle Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott should have learned by now that running for governor requires far more caution and cunning than suing the federal government. He's already stumbled ...
Dallas Swears It's Not Trying to Crush Uber, Just Regulate it into an Unrecognizable Form 27 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
Uber The local Twitterverse is currently exploding with people explaining why Dallas needs Uber and why City Hall shouldn't shut it down: Because cabs in Dallas suck; because it increases competition...
Railroad Commission Lets Luminant Expand Coal Mines Even as Bankruptcy Looms 27 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
Flickr user wccnds Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, Texas' biggest power generator and utility, is in danger of going bankrupt, and some believe it's quite possible that the Texas taxpayer will g...
Police: Grown Man Steals Girl's Bike, Gets Drunk, Rides Off in Search of Cars to Burglarize 27 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
Gabriel Guzman and a Kent Taboo girls' bike, much like the stolen one he was riding last night. There was something about the man that seemed suspicious. Maybe it was that he was riding a bike throug...
You Know Paul Coggins' Probe of Mike Miles Is Going Nowhere When Reporters Call Me 26 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Let me offer a disclaimer at the top. Part of what I am about to tell you here about the investigation of Dallas school Superintendent Mike Miles is tea-leaf-reading. I happen to think I'm pretty good...
The Industry Unveils a New Tactic in the Dallas Fracking Debate: Calling Its Opponents Liars 26 Aug 2013 | 10:54 pm
Environmental activists, in spite of the lobbying of the energy industry and some sleight of hand by city staff, appear to be winning the fracking debate. The City Plan Commission has twice denied Tri...
Are Insecticide Trucks Coming to Your 'Hood? Obsessively Refresh These Websites to Find Out. 26 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Flickr user Josh*m Local officials talk a good game about killing mosquitoes this West Nile season, but are they doing enough to warn us before they unleash mosquito-killing insecticides in our neigh...
An Oak Cliff Man Fought Off a Nurse and Firefighters as They Tried to Save His Dying Son, Police Say 26 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
When Lisa Decatur arrived at the West Oak Cliff apartment at 7 a.m. Saturday, the child was fine. The 43-year-old home health care nurse is part of the team that provided round-the-clock to Sergio Are...
Dallas Wants to Rewrite its Taxi Rules to Outlaw Uber, the App-Based Private Driver Service 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
The city of Dallas doesn't buy Uber's oft-repeated claim that it's simply a technology company. Its lawyers made this perfectly clear to the company 10 months ago, when they warned the California-base...
