Watch the Dallas City Council work itself up over about $1.2 million in cost overruns stemming from the continued effort to build the the streetcar line from Union Station to Oak Cliff, it’s easy to empathize with the vocal minority on the council who are critics. Jennifer Gates’ complaint that…
One of the biggest impediments against the city of Dallas stopping dog attacks like the one that killed Antoinette Brown in South Dallas last week is that the city, no matter how many reports it receives about a bad dog owner or how many dogs it confiscates from that owner,…
Costco is going to get its money and North Dallas is going to get its Costco. Despite an intense, hour-long debate Wednesday, the Dallas City Council approved a $3 million subsidy for the retail giant, which will now move onto what had been state-owned land on Coit Road near North…
The April 17, 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, destroyed more than 500 homes and left a crater 93 feet wide and 12 feet deep was caused by a fire that was intentionally set, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday. “We have…
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick showed up at the Fort Worth ISD school board meeting Tuesday night to stand in the proverbial bathroom door. Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton discovered this week that the district, in a purely administrative move made in April, clarified that students at the…
From last winter’s bizarre fight over having the Texas GOP’s 2016 Convention at Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center comes a more bizarre fight over the fact that it’s still here, beginning in earnest on Thursday. Over the past few days, a mailer has circulated accusing Texas GOP Chairman Tom…
According to Dallas Police, the reason the department took so long to publicly announce the fatal mauling of a southern Dallas woman last week was that investigators didn’t want the owner of the dogs that attacked Antoinette Brown to ditch the canines. Five days after the attack, when the department…
It looks like the Continental Avenue Pedestrian Bridge, one of the city of Dallas’ more pleasant recent additions, will be getting a new name. The city council’s transportation committee voted unanimously Monday to recommend naming the bridge after former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk to the full city council. The recommendation…
Heading into 2016, the Texas Rangers had many question marks. Despite winning American League West in 2015, last season had been a little fluky. They’d outperformed their advanced metrics and wrung the most they’d could out of a team that was beset with injury and, consequentially, occasionally haphazardly assembled. As…
Early last week, the state of Texas got a bit of good news. Despite Governor Greg Abbott’s categorical refusal to take federal funds to expand Medicaid in the state of Texas — leaving thousands of Texans without the coverage to which they were supposed to be entitled after the passage…
Just a month ago, the marshaled conservative forces against Donald Trump seemed to have a foothold. Their man, whether they liked it or not, was Ted Cruz, and Cruz had just put up his strongest showing of the 2016 primary in Wisconsin, beating Trump by a shade over 13 points…
In the months before she was murdered in Midlothian’s Creekside Church of Christ on April 18 while setting up for her fitness class, Missy Bevers was engaged in an online relationship that turned “flirtatious and familiar” Midlothian police said in a search warrant released Thursday. Beginning in January, Bevers communicated…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not going to take Target’s announcement that they want people to use the restroom of their choice sitting down — or standing up, as it were. In a letter provided by Paxton to Fox News that we managed to track down on a Breitbart…
Former Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel turned himself into Dallas County authorities Wednesday afternoon. His surrender came after a Dallas County grand jury indicted him last week for assault causing a bodily injury to a member of his household, a misdemeanor. Manziel is accused of hitting his…
Voice Media Group, the Dallas Observer’s parent company, announced Tuesday that it’s getting into the marijuana advertising business. Along with the digital marketing firm AdCellerant, VMG will back a “programmatic advertising network” for businesses in the weed industry. “We are excited to bring to market an advertising solution that has…
For supporters of equal rights and equal protection, the outcome of Monday night’s Rockwall City Council meeting was good. Despite the best efforts of Mayor Jim Pruitt, the city did not pass a bathroom ordinance that would’ve required city facilities and businesses to make sure customers use the restroom matching…
After being throttled in a make or break Indiana primary, Texas’ Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican presidential nominating contest, ceding the GOP nod to New York real estate mogul Donald Trump. “We are suspending our campaign, we left it all on the field in Indiana,” Cruz said, managing…
The Department of Justice has ended it’s long-term freeze of federal forfeiture funds from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Monday, District Attorney Susan Hawk announced that as of March 14 her office had assured the feds that it had taken appropriate measures to ensure that forfeiture funds were being…
Last winter’s Dallas City Council battle over the city’s soda contract was way more fun than it had any right to be. Cases of soda landed in council offices in a way that smelled a lot like patronage. There were long exchanges about something called pour rights, and City Council…
A Kimball High School student’s week got off to a bad start Monday, Dallas ISD police say, when he shot himself in the leg at the end of first period. The student, who has not been identified, was able to get inside with the gun because typical metal detector policies…
Tuesday, Ted Cruz will face the biggest, and perhaps last, hurdle in his campaign for the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. If manages to knock off Donald Trump in Indiana, he’ll have something approaching a 30 percent shot at keeping Trump for gathering the 1,237 delegates the New York real…
Last spring, Skip Bayless took NFL cornerback Darrelle Revis to task. Fresh off a win in the Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, Revis jumped ship and headed to the New York Jets for a $70 million contract that included $39 million in guaranteed money. Bayless was mad, as…
