Despite July’s agitation and August’s frustration, it’s hard to imagine now, at the beginning of September, that anyone’s going to remember Ezekiel Elliott’s holdout even six months from now. Wednesday morning, just as the Cowboys began game-week preparations for the New York Giants in earnest, the team announced that it’s…
It’s a familiar sight, and a sad one, for anyone who’s spent enough time at a Dallas County polling place on Election Day: Some poor sap, armed with his best intentions but the wrong address on his voter registration card, gets pulled off to the side as poll workers desperately…
To the drumbeat of blue-balls fans tortured by a quarter-century of frustrating foreplay, and the backbeat of construction clangabang violently serenading the team’s annual state-of-the-union address, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones set the tone for the 2019 season by … pretending to be deaf. Eschewing traditional softball questions for a…
Soaring property values in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods should not have to be bad news. Especially when we take into account the decades of racial oppression and red-lining that have kept a neighborhood poor, we ought to rejoice when it rebounds. Unless. Unless the people who live there…
At least Rafael Rubi is a bad shot. That’s the best that can be said after Rubi, a 24-year-old Dallas resident, pleaded guilty last week to participating in four separate drive-by shootings over a two-month span in Dallas during the spring of 2018. Tuesday, federal officials announced that they’d tied…
Postpartum depression — more properly known as perinatal mood and anxiety disorder — affects one in seven new mothers. And yet not many parents or doctors know how to recognize symptoms or treat it. A new Texas law, which takes effect on September 1, will put in place some steps to make treatment easier.
The big, macro takeaway from Dallas’ long-awaited police staffing study was pretty clear, if you read the report itself, decided to bore yourself with the City Council’s briefing on the subject or read any of the media coverage last week: The Dallas Police Department can’t hire its way out of…
Last week, I wrote about some astonishing trends in property values in what has long been one of the city’s poorest, most racially segregated neighborhoods. Old South Dallas, which extends about a mile south from Fair Park, is seeing increases of almost 100% in as little as a year. After…
Two new Texas laws aiming to protect sexual assault victims will go into effect on September 1st. One law establishes stricter guidelines for testing and sharing information about rape kits and the other expands the definition of sexual assault by a fertility doctor.
It took forever in political time — about a week in normal human time, but who’s counting — but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott finally addressed the anti-illegal immigration fundraising letter he sent out the day before Patrick Crusius allegedly murdered 22 people in an El Paso Walmart. “Address” is the…
A Dallas County Grand Jury has indicted a 22-year-old man for the murder of a woman pulled out of White Rock Lake on June 1, according to court documents. Ruben Alvarado is set to stand trial for killing Chynal Lindsey, 26. At the time of her death, Lindsey was the…
In 2017, Texas lawmakers passed a bill barring school districts across the state from placing their youngest students in out-of-school suspension. But the following year, a handful of North Texas schools continued suspending those students, according to a new report from Texans Care for Children, a nonpartisan policy organization. Fort…
Just because something is below my radar doesn’t mean it’s below yours. Maybe you knew all about this, but I was astonished, mainly because it has been right in front of my nose for so long. The part of South Dallas I’ve been writing about for years, near Jim’s Car…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott’s holdout situation — perched in the purgatory between “Don’t worry about it” and “Hey, maybe this is going to be a thing” for most of the offseason — is officially a thing. When the Cowboys wake up Friday morning, there’s going to be nothing…
Dallas is taking its next best shot at solving the food desert crisis that has plagued southern Dallas for years. Wednesday, the City Council unanimously signed off on handing $5.7 million in tax incentives and city bond funds to Kroger and grocery-delivery company Ocado Solutions if the grocery giant builds…
While the state has made improvements in the area of school safety, Texas could still do more to head off campus threats before they arise, Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a report released Tuesday. In the report, Abbott pointed to new school safety legislation, teacher training and campus security upgrades…
Fort Worth-based American Airlines tiptoed right through the dystopic tulips Tuesday, issuing a cheery press release about its newest locally available technology. Travelers flying on certain flights taking off from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal D can now board by having their face scanned, rather than going through the normal…
A visit to the Texas Department of Public Safety, whatever it’s for, is going to suck, at least a little. Thanks to cutbacks and consolidation, there’s less likely to be a DPS location nearby when you have to make your once-every-dozen-years trek to renew your driver’s license or state ID…
Cue the weird science fiction music for “THE RETURN OF RENEE.” You want to see something really scary? Go to the Dallas Police Department Twitter page, Dallas Police Dept @DallasPD, scroll down a day or two and look at the item, “Today, Chief Hall returns to duty.” It’s a cellphone…
Come Sunday, September 1, it will no longer be legal to buy cigarettes, electronic cigarettes or tobacco products in Texas, if you are under the age of 21.
The vibe coming from Dallas City Council on Monday morning as they were briefed on the long-awaited Dallas Police Department staffing study was recognizable to anyone who’s ever disappointed someone with a Christmas gift. Council members appreciated what KPMG, one of the United States’ biggest auditing firms, had done for…
Two years ago, when Texas lawmakers reworked the way the state’s colleges and universities handle remedial courses, they hoped to find a solution that would help students who weren’t college-ready get up to speed in a way that wouldn’t derail their academic careers. One year after the new model went…
