The National Rifle Association is coming to Dallas in May. No matter what Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway says, no matter how many times you call your City Council member and no matter how many times reporters ask Mike Rawlings why naked ladies are bad but AR-15s are OK, it’s…
Apparently still smarting from Donald Trump’s huge, tremendous Electoral College victory in 2016, the League of United Latin American Citizens and a high-powered legal team sued four states, including Texas, challenging the way the states give out their electoral votes in presidential elections. By handing them out to the first politician…
Former Mavericks President Terdema Ussery, a driving force in the team’s front office for almost two decades, repeatedly harassed, demeaned and made unwanted advances toward multiple team employees before his departure from the club in 2015, a report released by Sports Illustrated on Tuesday night claims. Another team employee, Mavs.com beat…
Without Texas, there wouldn’t have be a Nigerian bobsled team at the 2018 Olympics. In 2016, Seun Adigun, a University of Houston track coach and former track and field Olympian, recruited Mesquite’s Ngozi Onwumere — who served as Nigeria’s flag-bearer in the games’ opening ceremonies — to form Nigeria’s first…
Two Fort Worth women are suing the federal government and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after being denied the opportunity to serve as foster parents to an unaccompanied refugee child. Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin say that Catholic Charities Fort Worth, the only organization in Texas that partners with…
Monday morning, Dallas finally rolled out its performance dashboard, which is supposed to give residents something close to a real time look at some of the things they care most about, like police response times, street repairs and homeless services. There are 35 items included on the dashboard, all part…
This week the Rangers kick off the long road toward what appears to be an inevitable also-ran finish with the beginning of spring training in Surprise, Arizona. The team’s pitchers and catchers showed up last Wednesday, as required, with position players trickling in over the rest of the week before…
Dwaine Caraway isn’t afraid of guns. In fact, he’s a big supporter of the Second Amendment, something he made clear Monday morning at City Hall. The Dallas City Council member owns guns and thinks his constituents have the right to do so, too. He just doesn’t want the National Rifle…
At a little before 1 a.m. Friday, Austin became the first city in the South to protect workers with mandatory paid sick leave. No matter their employers, any person working in Austin will get at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 worked, up to a maximum…
The Plano City Council will debate council member Tom Harrison’s fate at noon Sunday, following repeated calls from Plano’s mayor that Harrison resign. Tuesday night, Harrison reposted an anti-Muslim video on his Facebook page. The video, created by “Joined Hands Across America For Trump,” shows purportedly Muslim children engaged in…
After another assault-weapon-assisted tragedy, this time at a Florida high school, the usual actors took their usual marks quickly. Thoughts and prayers, so many thoughts and prayers, rang out from Republicans’ social media accounts while gun-control supporters retreated to the fatalism that’s come from so many mass shootings and so…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board officially signed off on a fare increase earlier this week, bringing its prices in line with the nation’s most robust transit systems. The new fare structure, initially proposed last spring and effective Aug. 1, raises the price of most fares by 20 percent but caps the…
Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall’s days as an out-of-uniform civilian administrator are over. The Dallas Police Department announced Thursday morning that Hall has passed her Texas Commission on Law Enforcement licensing exam, making her a real Texas police officer and allowing her to wear a DPD uniform. “TCOLE test done!…
Former Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel announced his return to football Wednesday, spurning a potential offer from the Canadian Football League for a spot in the Spring League, a four-game showcase of mostly former NFL players in Austin in late March and early April. “Football has…
Texas’ voter turnout has gotten slightly better over the last half-decade but remains among the worst in the country, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin. The state ranks 44th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in voter registration, and it ranked…
A Plano City Council member is under fire after posting a video to Facebook calling on President Donald Trump to “ban Islam in American schools.” The video, posted Tuesday night by Tom Harrison, first elected to an at-large spot on the council in 2015, rotates through several photos of happy…
Last week, Gloria Copeland, matriarch of Kenneth Copeland’s Tarrant County TV ministry empire, told everyone the truth they needed to hear: The flu season, the same one that’s killed more than 60 people in Dallas County and sickened thousands of others, didn’t really exist. Anyone with true faith didn’t need to…
Agents working out of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Dallas office arrested nearly 17,000 people in 2017, according to a new study from the Pew Research Group. That’s the highest number of arrests in any ICE region — the agency calls them “areas of responsibility” — and an uptick of…
Sid Miller has done it again. Over the weekend, the Texas agriculture commissioner, not content with comparing the release of sensitive intelligence information to freeing slaves, posted a glowing tribute to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, smack in the middle of Black History Month. The commissioner, best described as a cross between…
Former Texas Rangers starting pitcher Esteban Loaiza — best known for being the biggest piece in one of the best trades in franchise history — is in a San Diego County jail after being arrested on three drug felonies Friday. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s Border Crimes Suppression Team found…
As a franchise, the Mavericks have done almost everything. They won a championship in 2011. They fielded one of the worst teams in NBA history, going 11-71 during the 1992-93 season. They made one of the greatest comebacks in NBA Finals history in Game 2 of the 2011 Finals, and…
On Feb. 4, for at least the fourth time in the last three years, someone attacked a Dallas Police Department substation. This time, Gregory Simpson, 58, allegedly busted up 12 squad cars at DPD’s Deep Ellum outpost with a sledgehammer a little after 5 a.m. Simpson’s alleged act of vandalism came…
