It’s taken some time — either a little over a year or a little over eight years, depending on how you count it — but the city of Dallas and the Dallas Police Department finally appear ready to arrest fewer people for marijuana possession. Since 2007, Texas law has allowed…
This is just what Jerry Jones does when he doesn’t have anyone around who will stand up to him. After one of his Cowboys teams has a bit of unexpected success, Jones begins to tinker, trying to find a way to return his beloved team to the Super Bowl promised…
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez wasn’t kidding around when she announced a change in the way her office deals with requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold some undocumented immigrants in jail until ICE can come collect them. Those charged with certain minor offenses could make bond and…
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was very upset about the New York Daily News’ Thursday cover. Released after the shooting deaths of 14 people in San Bernadino, California, the cover took issue with the claims of prominent Republicans, including Texas’ Ted Cruz, who said they were praying for the victims…
The Dallas Police and Fire Pension system is in bad shape, really bad shape. So bad, in fact, that it has affected the city’s bond rating, with both Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s bumping the city’s creditworthiness down one notch in recent months. It isn’t hopeless, though, and changes are…
This should not be hard. There is no reason the city of Dallas shouldn’t or can’t pass an ordinance that would ensure construction workers in the city get to take a break. Ten minutes every four hours, that’s all that advocates have pushed for, and that’s all that’s been in…
Saturday, The New York Times reported that Chinese real estate investors, frustrated with prices and a lack of available property in areas in which they typically invest, are turning their eyes to the United States’ interior. Specifically, they’re looking at Corinth, of all places. Zhang Long, a Beijing businessman, is…
The biggest problem facing the city of Dallas isn’t Tony Romo’s left clavicle. It’s not the Trinity toll road. It might not even be, despite a compelling case that can be made for it, the city’s crumbling infrastructure. The biggest problem facing the city is a massive looming shortfall in…
Dallas attorney and City Plan Commissioner Bobby Abtahi had a bumpy trip home from New York City Monday afternoon. He arrived to his gate at LaGuardia on time, check in to his Virgin America flight and stood in the corner of the boarding area with his headphones on, waiting to…
For the briefest of moments over the weekend, it seemed that Ted Cruz might show a little humanity when it came to assessing the shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic that left three people dead. “We don’t know … what those motives were, but whatever they were, it’s unacceptable,…
The hardest thing about talking to Roger Stone about his latest book, The Clintons’ War on Women, is figuring out how to write about anything that’s in the book. The stuff that the ex-Richard Nixon aide and all purpose Republican campaign operative has come up with is so inflammatory and insubstantially…
It was fitting, the way the 2015 Cowboys were taken out behind the barn and put out of their misery by the Carolina Panthers, who administered a 33-14. The team that dumped Greg Hardy after he was convicted for beating his ex-girlfriend took out the team that took Hardy on…
Every year, sometime around Thanksgiving, local media will trot out a list or two celebrating the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving successes. While remembering Clint Longley’s “mad bomber” game or Jason Garrett’s win against the Packers in 1994 subbing for an injured Troy Aikman is fun, we’re not here to do that. In…
Crime and more cops in the Oak Lawn neighborhood weren’t the only things on the minds of demonstrators who rallied outside City Hall this weekend. Somewhere near the end of the gathering in front of Dallas police headquarters, the demonstrators, there to protest 12 violent attacks near the Cedar Springs…
Last year, flying out of Love Field during Thanksgiving week was a disaster. Before most people were settling down to dinner Thursday, each of the airport’s 4,000 parking spaces had been filled, leaving many passengers hopelessly circling the airport or heading home to take DART back to the airport. This…
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas did what’s been inevitable for a couple of weeks and sued the state of Texas in federal court Monday. The suit comes after Governor Greg Abbott and officials at the Texas Office of the Inspector General said in October that they would stop any Planned…
Good news if you’re Rachel Dolezal or Navin Johnson. State troopers, at the direction of the Texas Department of Public Safety, are now going to classify you as being a part of whatever race you tell them you are. The change comes after an Austin TV (KXAN) station discovered that…
Eleven weeks later, the Oak Lawn community is getting the police attention it’s been demanding. Since September 1, the area immediately surrounding the gay friendly Cedar Springs strip has seen at least 12 people attacked. Some victims were robbed and many ended up in the hospital. Geoffrey Hubbard, a bartender at…
The Cowboys did not do what they needed to do after Tony Romo went down with a collarbone injury during the team’s week two win against the Eagles. They needed to win at least two of the seven games Romo would end up missing. Even one would have been nice…
As has been made abundantly clear over the last couple of weeks, some Texas Republicans are feeling pretty … well … pissy about Dallas changing some language in its 13-year-old-plus nondiscrimination ordinance. For the most part, they — here’s looking at you state Senator Don Huffines, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick…
Just talking about making any changes to Fair Park that might affect the State Fair of Texas is enough to get Dallas worked up. We do so love the fair. That explains why City Hall was packed Wednesday for a City Council briefing — just that, not even a whiff…
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s decision to change the way her office deals with undocumented immigrants held in the county jail keeps seemed simple enough. Some immigrants charged with certain nonviolent crimes would be released as soon as they made bail, even if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked for…
