The Cleveland Browns, who selected Johnny Manziel with the 22nd pick of the 2014 NFL Draft, have released the former Texas A&M quarterback. Hopefully, the wheels have not started turning in Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ head. Jones coveted Manziel in 2014. His son Stephen Jones reportedly talked Jones out making…
One of the most striking things about the run-up to the trial in Three Expo Events v. The City of Dallas — the fight over Dallas City Council’s vote to ban the Exxxotica adult expo from the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center — is the unanimity with which both sides…
Thursday morning, Mike Rawlings, for better and worse, presented the case for his term and a half as Dallas. Speaking to a crowd gathered for something called the City Makers Summit put on by The Atlantic and JP Morgan Chase, Rawlings offered a sampling of the things that make his…
Wednesday, Tarrant County announced that it’s identified its second and third Zika virus cases of the winter. One patient traveled recently to Puerto Rico, the other to El Salvador, both of which are currently in the midst of a Zika outbreak. No other identifying information about the patients has been…
Two men accused of orchestrating the killing of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, the one-time attorney for Mexico’s Gulf Cartel who was gunned down in 2013 in Southlake, have been connected by federal law enforcement to as many as a dozen additional murders. Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, 59, and his son Jesus…
It was hard to tell from the breathless news coverage of Ted Cruz’s hanging on to win the Texas primary and stay in the race with Republican front-runner Donald Trump last week, but the Lone Star State had yet another election with terrible voter turnout. Despite Texas Republicans casting a…
Last weekend was a good one for Texas’ Canadian-born junior senator, Ted Cruz. He won caucuses in Kansas and Maine — Cruz’s chief rival, Donald Trump, did note that Cruz likely did well in Maine because it was “close to Canada” — and finished closer than expected to Trump in…
Anyone from Dallas sitting down to watch the first couple of episodes of season four of Netflix’s House of Cards over the weekend was bound to have felt like they took half a step or so into the uncanny valley. Keeping spoilers to a minimum, the season begins with First Lady…
The Texas Rangers started 2015 as an abomination. That went 7-14 in April and appeared set to wander as haplessly through the season as they had in 2014. They ended the season as a revelation, reversing what, at the end of July, had been an eight-game American League West deficit…
Texas’ Super Tuesday primary featured one of the most important elections in the state’s history. We’re not talking, of course, about the presidential nominating contests, which were dominated in expected fashion by Texas’ own Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton, who won her second Lone Star State primary. Nor are we…
As with so many things — sprucing up the Trinity River, fixing Fair Park, combating domestic violence and poverty, regulating gas drilling — Dallas’ next step in dealing with the city’s lack of affordable housing should be to form a …. wait for it … task force. On Friday, the…
The battle over House Bill 2, Texas’ 2013 anti-abortion law, is really two fights. There’s the battle that’s been waged in federal courtrooms and there’s the rhetorical struggle among activists on both sides of the issue and the state’s politicians. Wednesday morning, that first clash reached its inevitable destination —…
In a move that surely has nothing to do with Texas’ primary election today, George Nash, a volunteer staff member for Dwaine Caraway, has sued Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price for assault. Nash claims that during the melee between Caraway, who’s challenging Price for his seat on the commissioner’s…
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo’s lawsuit against the NFL highlights one of the league’s essential hypocrisies – the fact that, although it is dependent on interest from gamblers and gambling interests, the league keeps visible endorsement of gambling at arm’s length.
Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is going to get a taste of the fight that’s been ringing in Texans’ ears for almost three years — the battle over the passage and implementation of House Bill 2, Texas’ latest in a long line of laws that have severely limited access to…
Marco Rubio is late. The Florida senator, the guy best positioned to take a run at Donald Trump and save the GOP from itself, had a late night in Houston on Thursday, teaming up with Ted Cruz to take repeated swings at Trump in a debate at the University of…
Former Texas A&M star quarterback and future vagabond Cleveland Browns-ex Johnny Manziel has, at least for the time being, dodged assault charges after being accused of rupturing his ex-girlfriend’s eardrum. Manziel’s case has been referred to a Dallas County grand jury by the Dallas Police. The investigation of the domestic…
There’s a lot of people and turf in North Texas, and that means a lot of politicians. We watch closely and it’s hard to keep track of ’em all. Here’s a field guide to those elected officials who, ostensibly, work tirelessly for you. Or whatever agenda keeps them in office. …
After issuing a warning to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings yesterday, Exxxotica has sued the city of Dallas, Rawlings, City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, the director of Dallas Convention and Event Services Ron King and each of the seven members of the City Council who voted to ban the sex expo from…
To hear Texas’ longest-serving governor tell it, the single biggest reason he struggled so much to get his 2016 presidential campaign off the ground was the indictment that hung over his head for the 90 days or so he was in the race. He just couldn’t shake the stigma of…
The Standing Wave — the $4 million Trinity River white-water feature for kayakers that was deemed too dangerous to traverse almost as soon as it opened in 2011 — will stay in the river for now. The City Council voted against removing it Wednesday, choosing instead to weigh other options,…
Finally, Exxxotica CEO J Handy has fulfilled his promise of presenting a completed complaint to the city of Dallas over the City Council’s decision to ban his sex expo from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Rather than dropping his suit directly on the city’s head by way of a…
