Joseph Randle, the guy who began 2015 as the Dallas Cowboys’ starting running back, might never play another down for the team, following reports from the NFL that the former Oklahoma State player is facing league discipline. The action stems an incident at a Wichita hotel in February that ended…
Half of the battle over moving a concrete plant out of the Trinity Groves restaurant theme park and farther into West Dallas was over in June, but we just didn’t know it. In June, as Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez and the rest of the city staff hurried the City…
The trial that could remove Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk from office is developing, but it isn’t really coming into focus. It has a judge, David Peeples, who was assigned the case after two local judges removed themselves. It has filings on both sides that indicate where the case’s…
Any who predicted last spring that donors to Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s then-nascent presidential campaign were setting their money on fire is probably feeling pretty foolish right about now. Yep, that was a boneheaded move right there. In the six-plus months between Cruz’s presidential announcement at Liberty University and Wednesday night’s third…
For a while, since April’s special Dallas City Council meeting about Trinity toll road, the two sides in the city’s never-ending fight over what, exactly, to do with the Trinity River bottoms seemed to reach a cease-fire. Both sides were still suspicious, sure, but many people seemed ready to give…
The last time Dallas Animal Services came to the Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life Committee to talk about the city’s loose dog problem, council members said they wanted substance. Scott Griggs and Mark Clayton, especially, sought numbers and an actual plan to answer complaints from their constituents about the…
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins lost the battle but he, and the families of inmates at Dallas County Jail, won the war. Last fall, Jenkins was on the wrong side of a 4-1 vote in favor of giving Dallas-based Securus Technologies a contract to provide phone service at Dallas County…
It’s time to start paying attention to the protests. Over the past month, drivers from across Uber’s platform — black-car drivers, UberSelect luxury sedan drivers and UberX drivers who just use their personal vehicles, whatever it is — have protested at the technology company’s Dallas headquarters in the West End…
It’s hard to understand what the state of Texas did to Planned Parenthood Thursday as anything but a raid aimed at intimidating the healthcare provider. Thursday morning, Texas Office of the Inspector General personnel showed up at a Planned Parenthood in Dallas and demanded documents from at least 10 different…
It doesn’t feel like it, but the 2015 Cowboys still have everything to play for. Despite the first five games of the season going as badly as they possibly could have, the Cowboys are still in decent shape to win the NFC East. They can still make the franchise’s first…
Perhaps more than anything, the ongoing skirmish at Dallas City Hall over whether and how to bump hourly pay requirements for contractors doing work for the city is an object lesson in how ideas that aren’t that controversial often whither on the vine. The way council member Philip Kingston describes…
Tuesday, the Texas State Auditor’s Office released the findings from its long-running investigation of how the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office’s used of forfeiture funds when Craig Watkins was DA. Wednesday, Watkins gave us a call to tell us why the auditor’s report wasn’t worth the (digital) paper it was…
Depending on how you looks at it, and the news media you choose to get your information, Irving is either losing one of its most promising young residents or bidding good riddance to a teenager and a family of troublemakers. Ahmed Mohamed, the kid who got arrested for bringing a…
Transgender Texans are bearing the brunt of pressure from agencies across the state that seem dead set on preserving whatever amount of legal discrimination they can. Over the course of week that’s just over two days old, transgender teens have found out that they’ll like face some of the strictest…
In news that’s late coming and not all that surprising, the Texas State Auditor’s Office announced Tuesday that the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office misused forfeiture funds during former District Attorney Craig Watkins’ time in office. Among the ill-spent cash? Nearly $50,000 Watkins’ office shelled out to a driver he…
Riding public transportation in Dallas is not nearly as bad as you may have been led to believe. One can, especially with a little help from Uber or Lyft, successfully navigate the city without owning a car. Nevertheless, DART is decidedly not great when compared with transit agencies in city’s…
Let’s not talk about the end of the 2015 Rangers season. We’ve dissected it too much already. The Rangers should not have made the playoffs. They had the American League’s seventh best run differential. They were lucky, outperforming their Baseball Prospectus third-order record expectation by almost eight wins. The Blue…
The state of Texas does a terrible job of providing sex education to its teenage residents. Ninety-four percent of the state’s school districts, according to the Texas Freedom Network, only educate kids about sex by telling them not to have it. Arguments against sex are often built around religious notions…
The Texas Rangers have never been through anything like the seventh inning of Wednesday afternoon’s ALDS Game 5 with the Toronto Blue Jays. Neither have their fans, not in the 43 years the team has been in Arlington. It was, from the first pitch thrown to Rangers second baseman Rougned…
Just after the 2015 legislative session, Texas Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a bill that would have given limited criminal immunity to good Samaritans who called 911 to report a drug overdose. That wasn’t a very nice thing to do — something we were more than happy to point out. The…
A former employee of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office has filed a petition to remove District Attorney Susan Hawk from her job. Cindy Stormer, Hawk’s former administrative chief, filed the removal suit Tuesday, claiming that Hawk is unfit to serve because of her alleged drug abuse, financial impropriety and…
Soon enough, this will officially not be happening, so let’s enjoy the possibility while we can. According to multiple reports, Dallas’ Pete Sessions has decided that he wants to be speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, assuming Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, whom Sessions would support, doesn’t toss his hat…
