Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that if it doesn’t step in to shut down the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program before the end of June, Texas might sue the federal government to end the program. Paxton’s statement came in an amicus brief…
The first numbers for the city of Dallas’ cite-and-release program for marijuana enforcement are in, and they’re fairly consistent with the city’s marijuana arrest numbers when Dallas police officers were required to take those busted for pot possession to the county jail. Dallas officers have written 23 citations for marijuana…
A group of mayors led by New Orleans’ Mitch Landrieu, head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, skipped out on a scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday in protest of the U.S. Department of Justice’s threat to issue subpoenas and cut off some federal funds to 23 cities it…
Downtown Dallas appears set to get its first sizable block of affordable housing in nearly a decade with the building of a new residential tower near the newly reopened Dallas High School building on the Central Business District’s eastern edge. The project by Matthews Southwest, the developer behind the old…
The Harlem Globetrotters are in Dallas, preparing for a couple of their typically zany basketball exhibitions this weekend. The traveling hoops troop took advantage of some time at the Mavs practice facility Wednesday to show off their ball-handling with an assist from Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle and Dirk Nowitzki…
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued G6 Hospitality, the Carrollton-based parent company of Motel 6, in an Arizona federal court Tuesday afternoon. According to the suit, several of the company’s hotels gave guests’ names and personal information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017, leading to…
Seventeen years ago, the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots finished the 2000 NFL season in the same spot, 5-11, well out of the playoff hunt. Both teams featured first-year coaches — Dave Campo for the Cowboys and Bill Belichick for the Patriots. Both teams, although they didn’t know…
Late Monday afternoon, the Observer received a statement from the Dallas Police Department about a “civil rights video” filmed over the weekend at the department’s southeast patrol division. It sounded very serious. “The Dallas Police Department is aware of the video filmed at the Southeast Division over the weekend and takes…
Starting next Monday in the Dallas Police Department’s South Central Patrol Division, a new kind of team will respond to mental health calls placed to 911. Instead of sending just police officers or paramedics, the city will dispatch a three-person team made up of a specially trained police officer, a…
The Dallas County Republican Party wants a slew of Democrats, candidates for offices ranging from justice of the peace to U.S. House representative — kicked off the ballot ahead of Texas’ March primary. Dallas County’s Democratic Party chairwoman failed to personally sign the candidates ballot applications before they were submitted…
Late last week, 20 cities, Dallas and Austin among them, learned that they’re finalists for what’s sure to be one of the biggest corporate developments of the decade, Amazon’s second headquarters. The city or region selected by the retail giant is in line for $5 billion in economic development and…
Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax issued Dallas’ five dockless bike-share operators a warning Thursday night. The companies, Broadnax wrote in a letter to LimeBike, ofo, Spin, VBikes and MoBike, need to relocate all bikes violating a new set of rules established by the manager. According to Broadnax’s letter, the bikes…
Of the excuses typically asserted by establishment conservatives for their continued support of President Donald Trump, perhaps the most common is that the president is doing a good job with judicial appointments. Whether it’s the nomination of archconservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court or his selection of former Texas…
The world learned Thursday morning that journalist and author Michael Wolff has sold the TV rights to his searing, maybe factual, exposé of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury, for more than $1 million. For that kind of money, one can expect an A-list cast. Philip Seymour Hoffman would have…
Thursday morning, Amazon announced that it has trimmed the list of 238 communities that applied to host its second North American headquarters to 20. North Texas’ regional bid made the cut. So did Austin’s, but two other Texas cities, Houston and El Paso, did not. “Getting from 238 to 20…
The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday afternoon to pick up the tab for the now defunct Dallas County Schools’ school crossing guard program through the end of the 2017-18 school year. The city will pay $2.4 million out of its general and reserve funds to continue the program, which the…
As far as counterfactuals go, it’s one to which Cowboys fans hadn’t given much thought before the 2017 season: What if the Cowboys hadn’t drafted Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth pick of the 2016 draft and had taken the player many experts thought they would, Florida State cornerback Jalen Ramsey?…
Considering what happened in Dallas elections last year, one might’ve assumed something drastic was about to happen after seeing a “Request to Implement Policy Related to Mail Ballot Applications” on the County Commissioners Court agenda this week. Wrong. Last spring, a West Dallas City Council race was thrown into chaos…
Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s bid for Texas’ Democratic gubernatorial nomination is off to a slow start, but her campaign says she’ll get up to speed with the rest of the field as she settles into her role as a candidate. Andrew White, son of former Texas Gov. Mark…
Last week, Donald Trump allegedly used some colorful language during a diatribe about wanting more immigrants from places like Norway and fewer immigrants from “shitholes” like El Salvador, Haiti and Nigeria. While much of the media attention on Trump’s remarks has focused, appropriately, on their xenophobia, others, like Robert Jeffress, pastor…
Sometime this afternoon, snow, or, worse, wintry mix, will descend on DFW for the second time in less than a week. North Texas’ supplications to Dallas’ weather deity and WFAA meteorologist Pete Delkus have gone unheard, and not for the first time. This time, the winter weather advisory, government speak…
Texas’ fight over its congressional and legislative boundaries isn’t over. Not by a long shot. On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Perez v. Abbott, the state’s years-long fight with voting rights organizations that claim that Texas’ black and Latino populations have been unconstitutionally packed into some…
