All Dallas Cops to Wear Body Cameras by 2019, Chief Says

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 Faces Massive Uphill Climb to Reduce Poverty

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…

Before the Trump Show, Texas Gun Sense Tries to Find Common Ground

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…

Locals’ Guide to the NRA Convention

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…

Ken Paxton Sues To Stop DACA Once and For All

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…

Ken Paxton Is Trying to Stop Texas Sick Leave Ordinances Before They Start

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…

Texas State Rep. Jonathan Stickland: a Field Guide

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 Voter ID Law Upheld by Appeals Court

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…

Kenneth Martin Guilty in Flower Mound Love-Triangle Murder

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…