Thursday should’ve been — and was — a triumphal day for Dallas’ newest U.S. House representative, Democrat Colin Allred. He got his reward for beating incumbent Pete Sessions in their grueling 2018 campaign, finally being sworn in as member of the 116th Congress. Allred, who’s contributing a diary about his…
Adding insult to whatever one might call Lupe Valdez’s quixotic gubernatorial campaign, Texas Monthly announced Thursday that the former Dallas County sheriff was the second runner-up in the magazine’s annual search for Texas’ biggest bum steer. Valdez’s 13-point loss to incumbent Governor Greg Abbott, the largest for any statewide candidate,…
Texas traveled a bumpy road in 2018. We re-elected our felony-indicted attorney general, the one who’s dead set on ending health insurance coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and ending any hope of the Dreamers ever becoming citizens. Same thing with our junior Sen. Ted Cruz, perhaps the most unlikable…
If the state of Dallas’ streets leaves you in fear for your front axle, you might not want to read the rest of this story. The city’s long way back from its status as a pothole-ridden Thunderdome hasn’t even begun, might not begin for a long time and, if it…
The Cotton Bowl will be cool again in a little less than a year — literally and figuratively. Fair Park’s grand old stadium will host the NHL’s 2020 Winter Classic next New Year’s Day, becoming the 12th venue to host the league’s mid-season showcase. The Stars will be the host…
Along with the opportunity to watch the Cowboys crash ignominiously out of the playoffs, January in Dallas brings with it the chance to reflect. Like 2017, 2018 exposed Dallas and the rest of the U.S. to a relentless, ever-quickening news cycle, only with an election in November for some added…
If you’re willing to head home a little before last call, Coors Light and Dallas Area Rapid Transit are teaming up on New Year’s Eve to give everyone in DART’s service area a free ride home. Starting at 6 p.m. Dec. 31 and running through the end of service early…
Social media is a pox on humanity. It probably contributed to the election of President Donald Trump. It disregards our privacy, destroys our attention spans and makes us hate people we otherwise wouldn’t. One of the few good things about social media — beyond having millions of dog and cat videos…
For the vast majority of the 20th century, North Texas had exactly one bowl game. On New Year’s Day or somewhere thereabouts, college football fans would brave weather of varying quality and head to otherwise deserted Fair Park to watch their team play in the Cotton Bowl. In 2003, things…
A couple of Fridays ago, someone you’ve probably never heard of jumped into the Dallas mayoral race. We didn’t write about it because Lynn McBee’s announcement came at 5:30 on a Friday afternoon, prime news dump time, and because no one was kind enough to even send us a press…
Globe Life Field, the home of the 2020 Texas Rangers, took another step closer to becoming reality Wednesday, as the club debuted a new rendering of the still-being-built stadium and gave an update on the construction at a holiday party for stadium workers. Rangers Executive Vice President of Business Operations…
Steven Mark Chaney is innocent, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday, ending a three-decades-long ordeal for the Dallas man. Chaney, the court said, did not kill John and Sally Sweek, a Dallas couple found stabbed to death in their apartment in 1987. Prosecutors, who told jurors at Chaney’s 1987 trial…
If you thought Texas’ Facebook fever swamp got especially weird as the 2016 election approached, you were right. According to a couple of new, third-party reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind the country’s fake news campaign to interfere…
The air above Dallas is now home to a 5G network, AT&T announced Tuesday. You can’t use it though, at least until Friday and probably not until spring at the earliest. Dallas and 11 other cities got the speedy, mobile hookup yesterday. The first device capable of using the new…
The Cowboys appear to have escaped Indianapolis without serious injury. That’s literally the one good thing to come out of the weekend for Dallas football fans. The Colts wiped the floor with Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott and company while the two teams still chasing the Cowboys in the NFC East,…
The headline — “Fort Worth Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act” — was easy enough to understand, at least on its face, Friday evening. The potential fallout was harder to break down. Yes, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, handpicked by the Texas Attorney General’s Office to hear its claims that…
Short of spending $600 million in free agency, nothing Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels could have done this winter would have turned his team into a contender. The Rangers are simply too many pieces away from competing for the franchise’s first World Series title. What the GM needed to…
The key to likability was there all along, hiding in plain sight for Ted Cruz, Texas’ junior senator. Turns out, he didn’t need to be a fan of The Simpsons, country music or The Princess Bride in order to convince people that he wasn’t a time-traveling serial killer doing his best to…
A now-closed Dallas nightclub and former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent bear joint responsibility for the death of Brent’s best friend and former teammate Jerry Brown in a 2012 car accident, a Dallas County jury decided. During a nearly weeklong trial, attorneys for Brown’s family asked the jury to…
The bad news for the University of North Texas football team and their fans is that they have to spend the weekend in Albuquerque. The good news is that, should the Mean Green knock off 10-2 Utah State in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday afternoon, they’ll do something no…
University of Texas at Dallas senior Jacob Anderson has been banned from the school’s campus, university President Richard Benson announced late Wednesday afternoon. Earlier this week, Anderson agreed to a controversial plea deal in McLennan County following allegations that he raped a fellow student while president of a Baylor University fraternity…
While The Dallas Morning News and the rest of the lamestream media might be playing it down, saying that Dallas has just a “chance” of snow Thursday and Friday and that any accumulation of ice and snow will be “light, if any,” the Observer is here to tell you the…
