Frequently, when we write about Dallas’ lack of affordable apartments, stagnating median wage or unattainable mortgages, we’re talking about those costs in reference to Dallas’ quickest growing demographic — millennials. They’re the generational cohort, roughly ages 23 to 38, that can’t afford their student loans, can’t buy a house and…
At times this year, your faithful Observer sports correspondent was deeply wrong about the Cowboys. Like most of the media, local and otherwise, I declared Dallas’ heroes dead and buried after their Nov. 5 loss to the Titans dropped them to 3-5. Before the season started, I even chided the Cowboys…
A half-dozen or so candidates remain in Dallas’ mayoral race, hoping to navigate the rocky path to a one-on-one showdown and a runoff. Friday morning, former Dallas City Attorney Larry Casto announced he is no longer one of them. Casto, a North Oak Cliff resident, said he believes his remaining…
Apologies in advance, but we’re going to have to take another long look at Beto O’Rourke’s Medium blog. Late Wednesday afternoon, O’Rourke took to the blogging platform with another journal entry right out of a graduate creative writing workshop — Doesn’t the University of Iowa have one of those? —…
The weather gods have heard us, disparaging our mild winter, our complaining that it’s been marred by rain and have decided that they shall smite us for our blaspheming. This weekend, they are summoning the worst of their winter tricks — the mighty blue norther — to awaken us from…
It’s hard to blame DFW Airport’s Transportation Security Administration agents for being unprepared at this point. For federal workers, a government shutdown is always looming, an event out of their control that can be forced on them at any time. Those employed by the TSA and other federal agencies around…
Looks like it’s going to be eight. Former state Representative Jason Villalba added his name to Dallas’ long list of mayoral candidates Tuesday morning, becoming the eighth, and likely final, candidate to join the race. Villalba is trying his hand at municipal politics after being ousted from his seat in…
Oprah, teeth cleanings and nascent beards. Among a few other tidbits, that’s where we are in Beto O’Rourke’s presidential flirtation. The maybe candidate still isn’t doing anything that actually means anything, so social media gawkers and the media are left to project their own meaning onto everything the newly out-of-a-job…
Greg Abbott gets away with a lot. He’s a firebrand, far-right conservative in a state that’s tilted significantly more liberal over the last five years. He didn’t get much done during his first term — the state’s property tax and school finance system are still in shambles — and, unlike…
The Texas State Capitol’s ahistorical Children of the Confederacy plaque is finally coming down after a unanimous State Preservation Board vote Friday morning. The plaque, which features the “Children of the Confederacy Creed” has long been a source of controversy at the capitol. Over the last year, Democratic Dallas state Representative…
Saturday is one of the nights that’s happened far too little for Cowboys fans over the last decade. Their team takes the national stage in prime time in Los Angeles, one upset away from playing in its first NFC Championship Game since January 1996. Defense travels, and the Cowboys have…
As of last night, it’s official. Scott Griggs, North Oak Cliff’s long-serving City Council member, is running for mayor. “Dallas needs a new kind of mayor, a mayor we can trust to champion our neighborhoods and our diverse communities and lead us to reclaim Dallas for the people of Dallas,”…
Two adults are the first Dallas County residents to die from the flu this season, Dallas County Health and Human Services officials announced Wednesday afternoon. The two victims were 59 and 66 years old, according to the county, which does not provide any additional identifying information about those who succumb…
As rumors surrounding Dan Patrick and a potential White House job reached a fever pitch, the Observer’s thoughts turn, naturally, to Henny Youngman. “Take our lieutenant governor … please.” Patrick, the most powerful politician in the state, couldn’t be a better fit for the White House. Throughout 2016, he was…
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Here we are, 65 days from being totally sure that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was going to dump head coach Jason Garrett after the season, and things have done a 180. Up is down, left is right, cats are chasing dogs and Garrett has…
As is typical for the first day of any session of the Texas Legislature, there was a lot of ceremony in Austin on Tuesday. Dozens of kids and other visitors were at the Capitol, gathered to see their parents and loved ones take the House or Senate oath of office…
For two or three weeks before November’s midterm election, there was no better parlor game in Texas than trying to figure out what the daily early voting numbers coming in from the Secretary of State’s Office actually meant. Was 2018 going to be politics as usual in Texas or was…
The events followed a familiar pattern for newsrooms around the country that are slowly suffocating. A tweet from Dom DiFurio, one of the surviving staffers in The Dallas Morning News’ newsroom, broke the word just as the paper’s employees heard it: Layoffs were coming again. Word trickled out slowly for…
And then there were six. Or is it seven? Nine maybe? Whichever it is, former Dallas ISD School Board President Miguel Solis announced Monday morning that he’s joining Dallas’ burgeoning herd of mayoral contenders. Solis, rumored for months to be looking at a run, officially kicked off his campaign on…
As recently as Friday afternoon, the TEXRail, Trinity Metro’s new rail project, was supposed to start taking paying customers from Fort Worth and other points west of DFW Airport to the hub’s Terminal B on Saturday. The Tarrant County transit agency was practically counting down the hours on its social…
Dallas’ airports are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump’s government shutdown but aren’t likely to face any serious pain for another couple of weeks, Transportation Security Administration union officials say. Quoting unnamed local sources, CNN reported Friday afternoon that “call-outs” (sick days) by DFW Airport TSA agents are up…
Saturday night’s the thing for the Cowboys. Put together a solid performance — nothing out of line with what they’ve done over the last couple of months — and they’ll get a shot at making 2018 a truly special season. Succumb to history, their worst impulses or the turnover monster,…
