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…
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…
In the aftermath of Micah Johnson’s July 7 attack on Dallas police officers, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and other city officials made it clear that fixing DPD’s attrition problem would be a top-priority. The draft version of the city of Dallas’ upcoming budgeted, presented to the city council by Dallas…
After just 289 games, Prince Fielder’s career with the Texas Rangers is over. As first reported by Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the hulking designated hitter will announce Wednesday that he is physically unable to continue playing, thanks to a damaged back that’s necessitated two disc fusion surgeries in the last…
When one reports on the 150th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan, as the Longview News-Journal did on Sunday, one must be cognizant that people reading the paper might give the cover special scrutiny. In a region with as fraught a history with the Klan as East Texas has, the burden…
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…
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…
Ezekiel Elliott first training camp as a Dallas Cowboy is going just as one would’ve imagined when the Ohio State running back was selected with the fourth pick of the 2016 NFL Draft. In the run-up to the Cowboys first preseason game on Saturday night, he’s been treated like any…
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…
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…
Mechanically, voting at Texas polling places this November is going to be the same as it was during the Texas primary on March 1. The easiest way to exercise your right is going to be by bringing one of the seven forms of photo ID — a driver’s license, state ID,…
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…
Monday, Texas public universities ushered in the first day of a new reality. Anyone on campus licensed to carry a handgun is now legally allowed to do so on portions of state owned, four-year college campuses, thanks to a bill passed during the 2015 legislative session. On Tuesday, Texas Attorney…
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…
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…
The Rangers have sold out to win the 2016 World Series. Monday afternoon, already leading the American League West by six games and just before Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline, the team acquired outfielder Carlos Beltran from the New York Yankees. They also dealt for catcher Jonathan Lucroy and…
For a while Friday night it seemed like the Next Generation Action Network’s planned protest was going to be a bust. There were more members of the media than protesters at Main Street Garden Park downtown, the gathering site for Dallas’ first organized anti-police brutality protest since the July 7…
Tuesday, July 12 was probably the biggest gathering of Dallas and Texas law enforcement in the cities’ history. Thousands of cops, city and county officials gathered at a memorial service in honor of the five cops killed by Micah Johnson on July 7 to hear words from President Barack Obama,…
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…
On Wednesday the University of Texas’ Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis debuted a remarkable online tool that catalogs and documents each of the 6,913 people who have been killed by police or while in the custody of a state law enforcement agency since 2005. The deaths can be parsed…
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…
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…
