Dallas Business Leaders Pick Eric Johnson as Their Candidate in Mayoral Race

Steve Bartlett. Ron Kirk. Tom Leppert. Eric Johnson? A who’s who of Dallas’ conservative business elite has made its presence known in Dallas’ mayoral race, throwing its considerable fundraising weight behind Eric Johnson. We’ll give you a minute to catch up from the cognitive dissonance. Johnson is a progressive, Democratic…

Dallas’ Three Cops per Thousand Residents Rule Was Just a Guess

One of the biggest takeaways from reporting on Dallas’ never-ending quest to calculate the level of police staffing needed to keep the city as safe and livable as possible is that so many people think they already know the answer. Cop union leaders, City Council members and the police chief…

Dallas’ Hottest Suburbs for Renters

Another report, another batch of research showing DFW is one of the nation’s hottest rental markets, whether one is looking at the region’s anchor cities or the surrounding suburbs. New data from RENTCafe, a rental market analysis website, shows that four of the 20 fastest-growing suburbs for renters nationwide are…

Surviving the Football-Free Doldrums in Dallas: A Guide

You, my football-fiending friend, have just survived the toughest weekend of the year: the first with no NFL games of any kind, and the one that stands the longest from training camps in July and the 2019 season’s first weekend in September. The Mavericks aren’t going to make the playoffs,…

Want to See the Future of U.S. Abortion Rights? Look to Texas.

If you want a preview of the road President Donald Trump intends to take when it comes to reproductive freedom at the federal level, don’t look any further than Texas. Republicans here have already proudly taken the path the president outlined during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, leading…

Texas Democrats Go After Texas SoS Over Attempted Voter Purge

Texas Senate Democrats grilled new Secretary of State David Whitley on Thursday over his office’s decision to partner with Attorney General Ken Paxton on an announcement that more than 95,000 noncitizens might be registered to vote in Texas. In the two weeks since the announcement, Whitley and Paxton’s claims have…

The End Seems Near for Downtown Dallas’ Confederate Memorial

We’ve been here before, but Dallas’ Confederate war memorial, the one that dominates Pioneer Plaza between City Hall and the convention center, appears to be in its final days. Dallas city staff gave City Council members three options Wednesday for what to do with the 60-foot behemoth. The council could…

Bob Stoops Reportedly Set to Be Named Head Coach of Dallas XFL Team

Dallas’ XFL franchise is set to make a far bigger front-office hire than anyone could’ve expected when Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment announced plans to revive its football league in December. According to multiple media reports, the league will announce that former University of Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops will be…

Beto O’Rourke Comes Out of His Cocoon With Oprah

Former El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke ended his vagabond run on Tuesday afternoon, emerging from the haze of dentist appointments, morning runs and road trips to sit for an interview with Oprah in Times Square PlayStation Theater. The interview isn’t set to air on the media maven’s Oprah Winfrey Network…

Have a Dallas Misdemeanor Warrant? Time to Raid the Pantry.

The bad news for traffic scofflaws and anyone else walking around with a Dallas C misdemeanor warrant is that it’s warrant roundup time. The good news is, this time the city’s offering a discount on your warrant fees, if you’re willing to go through a little trouble. If you’ve got…

Texas Legislature Rolls Out Its Plan to Help Victims of Sexual Assault

Sexual assault survivors and advocacy groups joined with Republican and Democratic legislators at the Texas Capitol on Monday to tout 20 filed or soon-to-be-filed bills aimed at helping victims of sexual assault seek justice in the aftermath of their attacks. The proposed changes begin in both the House and Senate…

Nearly Everyone Agrees Dallas Needs More Cops. How Many Is Enough?

Repeat the words enough times and the message becomes fact: Dallas needs more cops. Ask the mayor. “Dallas needs more cops.” Ask a City Council member. “Dallas needs more cops.” Ask the cop unions. “Dallas definitely needs more cops.” Ask Dallas’ only daily newspaper. “We’re scared, so Dallas needs more…