Amid the clamor Tuesday about environmental activist Erin Brockovich’s planned visit to town and a raucous Plano City Council meeting that saw one woman tossed from council chambers for shouting that the city’s water had “more chlorine than a pool,” the city and the North Texas Municipal Water District promised…
The city’s Confederate war memorial, cozily situated between City Hall and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, could be on its way out after a slim majority of the Dallas City Council expressed support for its removal Wednesday. Late last week, it looked like the towering statue might receive a…
Monday afternoon, Cynthia Nixon, better known to most as Miranda from Sex and the City, announced that she’s challenging incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York’s Democratic primary. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Nixon’s a lifelong New York resident with a long history of supporting LGBTQ and public…
On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of North Texas students are going to try to do what adults haven’t be able to figure out. They’re going to confront America’s gun violence epidemic in a way that actually gets something done. When the students take to the streets in solidarity with the victims…
Over the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz found himself, as he has so often, near the center of the political universe. Not for a good reason, either. In a series of reports released by The New York Times and The Guardian, Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company bankrolled by Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer,…
There won’t be a recount after all. Just before noon Monday, former Dallas County District Judge Elizabeth Frizell conceded her hard-fought primary for Dallas County district attorney. John Creuzot, also a former district judge, is now officially the Democratic nominee for DA. He’ll take on Faith Johnson, Dallas County’s last…
As things stood in November, the last time the Dallas City Council took up Dallas’ Confederate statue problem, it seemed the council was ready to accept the recommendations of the task force hastily assembled by the city this summer after a woman was killed during a fight over the fate…
Presuming Democrats don’t pull off a statewide upset, Texas’ November election is going to be about the small things. Lupe Valdez or Andrew White probably won’t beat Gov. Greg Abbott, and Beto O’Rourke, however charismatic, probably isn’t going to knock off Sen. Ted Cruz. Across the state, however, there are…
Erin Brockovich, the crusading environmental activist who inspired an Oscar-winning performance from Julia Roberts with her work to ensure water safety in California in the 1990s, is taking on the water coming out of faucets in Plano and several other North Texas cities. It might not be safe to drink,…
The Men’s NCAA basketball tournament is in Dallas this weekend. It’s a big, but not huge, deal. The games being played are just first- and second-round contests, and Texas Tech, trying to advance to its first Sweet 16 since 2005, is probably the biggest draw. Barring an unforeseen miraculous performance…
Heading into the 2017-18 offseason, the Cowboys faced several large predicaments. They needed to sign DeMarcus Lawrence. They needed, and still need, to do something about Dez Bryant’s contract. They needed to do something to shore up the team’s linebacking corps and offensive lines after a series of disastrous games…
More than a week after Dallas County’s Democratic primary for district attorney, the two candidates in the race, former judges Elizabeth Frizell and John Creuzot, are still fighting it out over who will move on to challenge Republican Faith Johnson in November. Wednesday, Frizell made her strongest attack yet against…
All but one provision of Texas’ 2017 sanctuary cities law can be enforced as the law makes its long journey through the federal courts, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The bill, which is the subject of a legal challenge from the cities of Dallas, Austin, Houston,…
Joe Straus and Byron Cook, two retiring moderate Texas House Republicans, got in their last licks on their frequent opponents, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, with the release of a Straus-commissioned report on Texas’ economic competitiveness. By publicly championing legislation last year to keep transgender people from…
Seven months before the 2018 midterm election, President Donald Trump is already staffing up to run for re-election. Lucky for the media, lovers of absurdist humor and those who like necklaces made of munitions, Dallas’ Katrina Pierson made the squad Tuesday, joining Trump 2020 as a senior adviser. According to…
Rex Tillerson and his DFW ties are out at the State Department. According to the White House, President Donald Trump decided Friday, in the midst of Tillerson’s diplomatic trip to Africa, to replace the secretary of state, but a statement from the State Department on Tuesday said that the secretary had yet…
Four more Dallas County residents have died from flu-related illnesses, bringing the total to 78 dead in one of the area’s worst flu seasons in decades, Dallas County Health and Human Services announced Monday. Each of the victims, who ranged from 66-94 years old, had an underlying high-risk health condition…
The National Rifle Association’s national tent revival is coming to Dallas in May. Whether the city and its residents like it or not, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and company have a valid contract, good for a free takeover of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center on Cinco de…
A Dallas firefighter and a New York journalist with ties to North Texas died Sunday night when a helicopter in which they were taking a tour of the city crashed into the East River. A tourist from Argentina and two employees of Liberty Helicopters, the company running the tour, also…
A Phoenix-to-Dallas Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in New Mexico late Sunday night after the plane’s cabin began to fill with smoke. The Albuquerque Fire Department took two people to the hospital with minor injuries after 140 people were forced to either slide down the plane’s emergency slides…
For a time in the fall and winter, and maybe still, Texas Democrats talked themselves into thinking that maybe this year was going to be the year. Through the Virginia gubernatorial election in November, Doug Jones’ massive senatorial upset in Alabama and early voting in Texas, those who’ve wandered through…
Thursday afternoon, Republican Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson signaled that she isn’t ready to cede the role of criminal justice reformer to her Democratic opponent in this year’s general election. John Creuzot, who won a narrow lead in the Democratic primary but may face a recount, was an instrumental…
