I’m at work today, and our traffic anchor came out to tell me about a major crash involving a semi-truck on I35e.The driver wasn’t hurt, but it’d be a while before they could reopen the highway, so we started talking about the best way around.There’s no, you see, there’s no exit from…
I’ve spent much of the past week in Houston. This was not by choice. I was there to cover the Texas primary.In fact, my instinct is to say that when Texas joined the union in 1846, James Polk said, “All right. We’ll let them in.” Then he leaned in to Vice President George Dallas and said, “Except…
Over the weekend, I was seeing a lot of references to “Winter Storm Jonas.” I grew up in Ohio, so facebook associates who had moved from Ohio to the mid-Atlantic were posting about how Washington TOTALLY can’t handle winter weather. Transplanted Texas facebook associates, meanwhile, were saying Washington was handling the snow just about as poorly as the…
When you spend several hours a day driving around the Metroplex chasing down the news, you start to think about all the billboards and signs you pass every day. I do, at least. For instance, I occasionally find myself sitting in traffic on I-35E in Lewisville. Each time, I gaze upon this water tower:And I think to myself…
There was a time when a man could traverse the Texas prairie without worrying about traffic. It was a time when a lone swain could wander the countryside in quiet contemplation of a goal he himself had not yet identified without the constant roar of nearby highway corridors. A time when the wide-open country beckoned to restless laborers who…
It was late afternoon, a Tuesday. I remember it vividly.I was driving home from work. I had hit an unusually slow stretch of traffic at Highway 161, but as I arrived in north Arlington, I grew more optimistic that I would soon arrive home (My commute had already been interrupted once when I was diverted to a breaking news…
I try to avoid I-635 in north Dallas because it’s under construction. I also try to avoid malls at Christmas time because there’s too many people.So, you can imagine my dismay when I needed to meet Joe Straus, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, at the Westin in the Galleria last week.I became…