Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – AAA reports the price of gasoline in Texas has dropped for the second week in a row. It’s down an average 8 cents in Dallas at $2.43 a gallon. It’s $2.42 in Fort Worth. The national average is $2.57 a gallon. The AAA report says there are several reasons for that. Chief…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2017
Some Dallas Schools Could Be Renamed Faster Than Expected
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees votes tonight on a proposal to jump-start the process of renaming four elementary schools that bear the names of confederate generals. The board has set its sights on the schools named for Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, and William L. Cabell. Its proposal…… MORE
Russian Internet Trolls Continue to Stir Up Trouble in the United States
Washington, DC (WBAP/KLIF) – A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee says Russian internet trolls are stirring up the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. Oklahoma Senator James Lankford says the Russians are hashtagging “take a knee” and “boycott NFL” to amplify the issue on social media, and make it seem…… MORE
Dale Hansen and Grant Stinchfield go toe-to-toe on whether or not NFL players are doing the right thing by kneeling during the national anthem.
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Earlier this week WFAA sports anchor stated “that NFL players, and all of us, should protest how black Americans are treated in this country. And if you don’t think white privilege is a fact, you don’t understand America.” Here is a link to his comments. KLIF’s Grant Stinchfield disagreed with many of Hansen’s remarks…… MORE
Puerto Rico Crisis: What the Jones Act Controversy is All About
(CNN Money) — The Jones Act is an obscure, century-old law that requires all goods ferried between U.S. ports to be carried on ships built, owned and operated by Americans. Now critics say it’s making it difficult to get critical supplies into Puerto Rico. The Jones Act, when it was established in 1920, was meant…… MORE