Next year, a little less than four years after the Dallas Police Department began issuing body cameras to its officers, all officers in the department will sport the devices as part of their uniforms, Chief U. Renee Hall said Tuesday. “We know that body cameras are a must. Right now,…
Dallas County District Judge Eric Moyé added insult to injury late Monday for the county’s Republican Party. Having already dismissed the Dallas County GOP’s attempt to keep dozens of Democrats off the November ballot, Moyé ordered the party to pay more than $50,000 in attorneys’ fees to Democrats and their lawyers. Moyé…
A little more than four years ago, in February 2014, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings launched the Mayor’s Task Force on Poverty, telling a United Way lunch crowd that he’d been preaching too much and doing to little to change the economic inequality in the city he’s led since 2011. On…
According to a new memo from the Dallas city manager’s office, the Margaret McDermott Bridge — in flux since two cables detached from its anchoring system in 2016 — still doesn’t have an opening date. Testing continues, the city says, as it awaits the first batch of results from third-party…
Repeatedly Saturday morning, Wayne LaPierre warned that the media was going to misrepresent the speech he was giving at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. The writers sprinkled throughout the Dallas Convention Center ballroom in which he spoke to NRA members had already made up their minds, he said, to…
Friday’s weather wasn’t generous to the groups counter-programming the National Rifle Association’s annual Meeting at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Rain fell throughout the day, drenching anyone spending too much time at City Hall Plaza, but that didn’t stop a committed group of about 30 from rallying with Texas…
Those expecting President Donald Trump to make news during his speech Friday afternoon at the NRA’s annual convention came away disappointed. Trump didn’t unveil any new policies, aside from a sarcastic comment that banning guns makes as much sense as banning vans or trucks. He didn’t say the name Stormy…
Turns out, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was right to think something fishy was going on when the federal government announced a series of U.S. military training exercises known as Jade Helm 2015 three springs ago. He just could not have been more wrong about what it was. Speaking on an…
Jason Witten, the greatest tight end in Dallas Cowboys history, is retiring. According to multiple media reports, Witten told the Cowboys on Thursday morning that he is leaving the team for ESPN and Monday Night Football after 15 seasons with the team. Witten is expected to provide color commentary alongside…
The results from the 2018 version of Dallas’ big community survey, the one it contracts the ETC Institute to do every year, might come as a bit of surprise — if you’ve just immigrated to the city from Norway and haven’t driven around town yet. Dallas residents who took the…
The National Rifle Association’s annual convention is in Dallas this weekend. For gun-rights advocates, it’s Mardi Gras. More than 800 exhibitors displaying acres and acres of gear, gun accessories and literature. An air-soft range. Seminars on the “guns of Vietnam” and the “survival mindset.” It’s got everything for protesters, too…
Following a federal court ruling ordering the Trump administration to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last week in Washington, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made good a threat he initially made in 2017 and sued the federal government to halt the program. DACA, an Obama-era policy that…
Until last week, Salman Bhojani was just running for Euless City Council. The Euless attorney, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006 before putting himself through law school at SMU, thought his suburb’s council could use a little more diversity, and decided to do something about. Then state Rep. Jonathan…
Unsurprisingly, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas’ Republican leaders aren’t exactly pumped about efforts in several Texas cities to guarantee sick days for workers who don’t get them as benefits from their employers. Paxton intervened in a lawsuit Monday afternoon filed against the city of Austin — the first municipality to pass…
Fifty-one individuals are in jail and six others are being sought after a massive federal investigation into methamphetamine distribution and kidnapping by white supremacist prison gangs in North Texas. According to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, federal authorities seized or diverted more than 190 kilograms…
At the end of the 2018 Cowboys season, whether it comes in December, January or February, the month of April will have been just as important as any during the season itself. This month, thanks to a personnel decision long in the works, a potential shock retirement and the NFL…
Jonathan Stickland must be bored. Without serious opposition as he seeks his fourth term representing state House District 92 in the Mid-Cities or a back-of-House chamber microphone at which to bloviate, Stickland, the id of the Texas GOP, has waded into a nonpartisan City Council race in Euless. Stickland’s attack,…
Texas’ controversial voter identification law is slated to go into full effect for the first time, following a Friday afternoon ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. According to a three-judge panel in the case, a lower court exceeded its authority when it blocked the…
The Cowboys took the easy way out Thursday night. Rather than trading up, trading down or surprising fans and pundits with their first-round selection, Jerry and Stephen Jones stayed at No. 19 and picked the player they wanted all along. Boise State linebacker Leighton Vander Esch wasn’t a shock selection,…
Monday wasn’t a great day for the Dallas County Republican Party. Already down to one countywide officeholder and a single spot on the commissioner’s court, the Dallas GOP and its new chairwoman, Missy Shorey, had its lawsuit against the Dallas County Democratic Party — the one that would’ve wiped dozens…
Kenneth Martin said it was accident. He hadn’t intended to shoot his estranged wife Linda Martin in the face when he walked up to her car as she sat at a red light near the Southlake Town Square. Wednesday afternoon, a Tarrant County jury decided they didn’t believe him and…
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has an idea to break the stalemate over what to do with City Hall’s Confederate memorial: Put Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on top of the damn thing. The Dallas City Council voted 9-6 Wednesday to put off deciding the fate of the Confederate…
