When you think about Tex-Mex, you probably think about crispy flautas with a dollop of guacamole, or maybe a thickly battered poblano plump with spiced beef.

Chad Burkhardt didn’t even know he was the victim of graffiti, but he knew something was up when he saw and heard the commotion outside his house.

“My doorbell rang after midnight,” Burkhardt says. “I looked outside and saw five police cars in the street. I was informed that my … more

Texas wine has never been better. This does not say that the state’s winemakers and grape growers still don’t have problems to solve, because they do.

Q: The Dallas Police Department is now responsible for the 911 emergency dispatch system, instead of the Dallas Fire Department. Can you tell us why the change happened, and what it means to our neighborhood?

A roundup of happenings in our neck of the woods.

When others are wringing their hands over financial woes, worrying about who gets elected president, and blaming people right and left of the Right and the Left for these sad times, people of faith should go maverick.

Many years ago, I was elected president of a neighborhood church council seemingly trapped in a death spiral — not enough members and not enough money.

We’re told that the problem is serious, and that something must be done, and that the people at the top are accountable. Yet the people at the top remain in charge, and nothing much changes.