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  Feral Hogs Still on the Loose After Dallas Has Second Thoughts About Hired Trapper

  Last fall, the fate of Dallas' destructive, hyper-sexual feral hog population rested in the traps of just one man, Osvaldo Rojas, who runs a feral hog business called City Trapping. He'd been hired to capture hogs on some city property before, but Se...

  @ Unfair Park by Amy Silverstein on March 27, 2014 @ 1:27 pm

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  84-Year-Old Oak Cliff Woman Says Her HOA Filed a Lien Against Her for Feeding Two Cats

  Shirlee Perry doesn't get out much anymore. Eighty-four years old with ailing legs, going outside usually is too much of a challenge, so she spends her days mostly watching TV at her Oak Cliff condo and caring for the two semi-feral cats that were bo...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 27, 2014 @ 12:34 pm

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  Decriminalizing Weed Might Actually Reduce Violent Crime, UT Dallas Researchers Find

  No one seriously believes anymore in the Reefer Madness depiction of marijuana use, in which this new-fangled devil weed transforms otherwise upstanding teenagers into murderous sociopaths. Even some otherwise staunch social conservatives (e.g. Rick ...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 27, 2014 @ 10:20 am

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  Dallas Will Pay $1.1 Million to Man Jailed for 15 Months After Police Beating

  The way he described it, Dallas police officer Matthew Antkowiak could have very easily been killed on the night of December 18, 2009. It started just before midnight, when the officer spotted 62-year-old Ronald Bernard Jones in the 300 block of Re...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 27, 2014 @ 8:58 am

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  Dallas Councilman Lee Kleinman's Incredible Plastic-Bag Flip-Flop

  Make no mistake, though. Kleinman has a very strong opinion on the matter. It's just changed completely over the past several weeks. Check it out. Here's Kleinman at a meeting back in August:See also: Dallas Won't Ban Plastic Bags at Stores, But You'...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 27, 2014 @ 8:00 am

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  Dallas Won't Ban Plastic Bags at Stores, But You'll Have to Start Paying for Them

  Under the ordinance, retailers will be able to keep giving out single-use plastic and paper bags, but they have to register with the city and charge customers a nickel for each bag. They will get to keep 10 percent of the fee, rather than the 50 perc...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 26, 2014 @ 1:09 pm

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  Cockrell Hill's Police Chief Resigns After Investigation Finds He Improperly Sold Impounded Cars

  As a general rule, it's probably best to avoid driving through Cockrell Hill. Police in the tiny hamlet, a .6-square-mile splotch in the middle of Oak Cliff, wrote 7,890 traffic tickets last year, nearly two for each of its residents. That's doubly ...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 26, 2014 @ 12:31 pm

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  Texas Now Just Fifth to Last In Per-Student Education Spending

  Once upon a time, when public schools could afford art. The Texas legislature's decision to cut $5.4 billion from the public education budget three years ago had some rather predictable consequences: fewer teachers, larger class sizes and a sizabl...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 26, 2014 @ 9:41 am

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  Dallas Executive Airport's Neighbors Say The City's Been Tight-Lipped About Renovation Plans

  Dallas Executive Airport Karen Cameron doesn't spend much time in her front garden anymore. Her yard, though separated from Dallas Executive Airport by Ledbetter Drive and a winding, tree-lined front driveway, is made unbearable, or at the very le...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 25, 2014 @ 4:38 pm

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  Dallas Euthanized 77 Roosters Seized From a Pleasant Grove Cockfighting Ring

  Just yesterday, Johnson County officials were boasting of breaking up a cockfight outside Alvarado. It was, by most measures, a respectable bust, with 17 people involved and 97 birds seized. But Johnson County? Johnson County's got nothing on Pleasa...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 25, 2014 @ 2:26 pm

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  Keith Olberman, Texas Motor Speedway Feuding Over "Big Hoss TV"

  Clearly, ESPN's Keith Olberman doesn't get it. During his show on Friday, the journeyman pundit declared Gossage that day's "Worst Person in the Sports World." Yes, they call it Big Hoss -- of course they do! it's 218 feet long, it's 94.6 feet high -...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 25, 2014 @ 11:56 am

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  DART Will Open its Long-Awaited DFW Airport Train Station in August

  That problem will be solved on August 18 when, four months ahead of schedule, DART is set to open an Orange Line station at the airport. The station is located between International Parkway and the North Service Road, near Terminal A.The Orange Line,...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 25, 2014 @ 11:09 am

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  Former Kimball/SMU Star Quinton Ross Not Actually Dead, Just Living In Desoto

  Quinton Ross: Not dead, also probably not thrilled this is his Wikipedia photo. You might have heard the news yesterday: Quinton Ross, the former Kimball and SMU basketball standout-cum-NBA journeyman, was found murdered, his body found stuffed in...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 25, 2014 @ 8:00 am

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  Why do Mexicans Say Mande?

  Even though throughout the years since I came to the U.S. 20 years ago I have seen it happening with less frequency, the use by Mexicans of the expression Mande? (Command me) has always struck me. I personally see it as a symbolic legacy of submiss...

  by Gustavo Arellano on April 10, 2014

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  At Orr-Reed Wrecking, Hannah Hargrove Inherited Treasure in a Junkyard

  One day in 2013 Hannah Hargrove stopped being a kid. She had been out of college a year, working in the family business. On the day her father, John Hargrove, was killed in a bar fight, the business became hers to run. She was 23. One of the firs...

  by Jim Schutze on April 10, 2014

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  Texas Refugees' Courtroom Nightmare - Dallas immigration judge Dietrich Sims was notoriously tough on the most vulnerable immigrants. Then they sent him the kids.

  They arrived by Beast. It was the summer of 2011, and Juan and Jose, twin brothers from Honduras, had decided to flee to the United States. Thousands of young Central Americans make the journey every year, riding the roofs of freight trains that chu...

  by Joe Tone on April 10, 2014

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  Baseball Jesus Has Forsaken the Texas Rangers

  O Baseball Jesus, why hast thou forsaken us? Just since yesterday, we have learned that Jurickson Profar will be out 10-12 weeks, Geovany Soto will be out 10-12 weeks and Yu Darvish, the projected Opening Day starter ... might not be available Openi...

  @ Unfair Park by Michael Gruber on March 24, 2014 @ 4:23 pm

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  Rape Is Way Up in Dallas, Only Partly Because the FBI Made Police Keep Better Count

  There's one exception, and it's a big one: Sexual assaults have jumped an alarming 37 percent over last year, from 82 to 112. Not to worry, Dallas Police Chief David Brown told the City Council's Public Safety Committee this morning. This is "not a ...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 24, 2014 @ 2:14 pm

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  Mark Cuban Says the NFL Will Implode In a Decade

  So when Cuban predicts that, within 10 years, the NFL will go the way of Toygaroo, it's hard to tell whether Cuban is demonstrating incredible foresight or simply spouting off nonsense to reporters.His use of swine metaphors suggests nonsense: "When...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 24, 2014 @ 1:57 pm

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  Buddhist Says Plano Telecom Company Fired Him for Refusing to Quote Bible Verses

  During eight years working for Plano-based Goodman Networks, Jef Mindrup's Buddhism was never really an issue, and why would it be? Serving as the marketing director for a large-ish telecom company requires allegiance to no specific creed. Mindrup s...

  @ Unfair Park by Eric Nicholson on March 24, 2014 @ 12:28 pm