We Build Trump’s All-Texas Cabinet

Donald Trump, somehow, is not sure to win Texas’ 38 electoral votes in November’s presidential election.  Trump needs all the help he can get just to hang onto a state that is absolutely essential to any chance he has of becoming president. Texans have been all to willing to step…

Lawyers Are Smiling as Dallas Throws More Money at Its Exxxotica Fight

The cost of banning Three Expo’s Exxxotica porn convention from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center is still mounting. Instead of reaching an agreement with Exxxotica’s founder J. Handy to settle the suit, Dallas hired a group of the most experienced and ideological business lawyers it could find to fight Handy in…

Dallas Police Bust Their Overtime Budget By Millions

The Dallas Police Department has been hit with everything a big city has to offer so far in 2016. There’s been a well-publicized “spike” in violent crime and the murder rate, a string of robberies in Oak Lawn and a campaign visit by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. And then…

Dallas County Reports First West Nile Virus Death of 2016

A Carrollton resident is the first person in Dallas County to die from the West Nile virus in 2016, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed Monday afternoon. The name and gender of the victim, who was more than 60 years old, will not be disclosed for “medical confidentiality and…

Zika In Dallas: Waiting for Transmission

Eventually the other shoe will drop and a Texan will catch Zika from a mosquito. It hasn’t happened yet, as it has in Miami, so public health authorities in Texas and Dallas County are in a holding pattern. Miami was always going to be one of the first cities in…

Park Board Reluctantly Signs Off On Privatized Fair Park

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings got what he wanted. After an arduous Dallas park board meeting that lasted more than eight hours, the Rawlings-pushed plan to offload the management of Dallas Fair Park to a private foundation achieved an important step, moving on to what will surely be a city council…

When Kory Watkins Hosts a Game Show, There Are Only Losers

It’s been awhile since Kory Watkins has haunted these electronic pages. Since storming through the last Texas Legislative session, the former leader of Open Carry Tarrant County has been pretty quiet. Especially compared to 2015, when we saw the gangly anarcho-libertarian intimidate state Representative Poncho Nevarez — who had the…

Texas is Trying to Get Itself Sued Again Over Abortion Rights

The group of lawyers that shepherded the plaintiffs through the case that eventually led to the Supreme Court toppling most of Texas’ onerous anti-abortion law, House Bill 2, is readying itself to take on the state again, this time over Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s under-the-radar call to require facilities that…

Rawlings Pushes Plan for Privatized Fair Park

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is doing everything in his limited power to make sure that Dallas Fair Park gets off of the city of Dallas’ ledger.  In Dallas’ system, the mayor only enjoys two privileges outside of his single city council vote:  the power to set the council’s agenda and…

5 Signs That North Texas Is Taking Pokemon Go Way Too Seriously

If you’ve spent any time downtown over the past couple of weeks, you’ve seen them. Stumbling around in packs, looking down at their phones, constantly nearly tripping over the walking dogs of downtown residents. They are the Pokemon Go zombies and they are overrunning any area with enough landmarks to…

Garland Cops Name Suspect in Journalist’s Murder

It seems that Jay Torres, the DFW-based La Estrella freelancer killed in the backyard of a Garland home last month, was not killed because he was a journalist. Garland Police announced Tuesday afternoon that they are looking for Anibal Edilfredo Chirino Mejia, 23, of Garland. Mejia, police believe, killed Torres over a…

Final Charges Dropped In Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Video Investigation

David Daleiden is not going to go to trial for filming the infamous, undercover Planned Parenthood “baby parts” videos. Tuesday, the Harris County District Attorney requested that the remaining charge against Daleiden and his partner, Sandra Merritt, be dropped. Judge Brock Thomas agreed, dismissing claims that Daleiden and Merritt had illegally…