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…
The Texas secretary of state’s job is a pretty good one. Whoever holds it gets an annual salary of more than $130,000 to make sure the state’s election machinery runs smoothly, which has to be satisfying. Barring any monumental screw-ups, the job is easy to keep, too. There are no…
Dallas police are continuing to investigate Dallas City Council member Kevin Felder after Felder allegedly hit someone riding a scooter in South Dallas Wednesday and didn’t wait around for police to show up. The person riding the scooter suffered minor injuries but is OK, according to DPD. Dallas Police Department…
Barring intervention from Dallas’ preservation board, the Confederate War Memorial that towers over Pioneer Plaza downtown is coming down. The Dallas City Council voted 11-4 Wednesday afternoon to remove the statue, which was built in 1896 and moved downtown in 1961 to accommodate freeway construction. “I want to be free…
The pattern has repeated itself several times even in the short period Beto O’Rourke has been a national figure. The media fawning over the former U.S. representative slows down a bit, because of fatigue or outside events, and people begin to wonder whether the El Pasoan has peaked, whether in…
Robert Jeffress made perhaps his strongest statements yet in defense of President Donald Trump Wednesday. Given what Jeffress has said about the president in past, it should come as no shock that the First Baptist Dallas pastor’s new remarks have left him teetering on the edge of the deep end…
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…
The family of the Rev. Patrick Koch, former president of Dallas’ Jesuit College Preparatory High School, is challenging Koch’s inclusion on a list of priests “credibly accused” of child sex abuse released by the Catholic Diocese of Dallas in late January. Family members from across the United States, according to…
Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall gave the public the first look at what she and her department believe Dallas’ improved Citizens Police Review Board should look like Monday. After harsh reactions from both those who want to strengthen the board and those who believe doing so would be unfair…
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…
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,…
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…
Early last Friday morning, a woman was raped in an Uptown parking garage as she walked away from her car on the Howell Street garage’s first level. Last Friday night, the police arrested a suspect matching the description given to them by the victim, thanks to a phoned-in tip. A…
Following a Dallas City Council discussion Wednesday, it seems clear that Dallas’ Confederate War Memorial is going to get removed from the park between Dallas City Hall and the convention center at some point. A majority of the council wants it gone, and there is little public resistance to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton never met a piece of the Affordable Care Act he wasn’t going to doggedly try to take off the books. The latest example, promoted Tuesday by Paxton’s office, is an attempt by Texas and seven other states to permanently block federal regulations protecting the trans…
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…
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…
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…
