More than two weeks after running into a couple of state troopers outside Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s house in Angleton, gun rights activist Chris McNutt spoke out against Bonnen at a news conference Tuesday. He refused to take the blame for the Texas Legislature’s apparent failure to expand gun…
Dallas Stars fans experienced a Stanley Cup playoff series victory on home ice for the first time in 11 years Monday night, as the Stars defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 in overtime of Game 6 to win the series 4-2. Dallas joins a host of teams in this year’s Stanley…
Dear Indianapolis, Welcome to NRA convention week. About a year ago, we, and by we, we mean Dallas’ feisty alt-weekly, were sitting in the same spot you are now, wondering what to expect from Wayne LaPierre and his merry band of misfits. Given that we’ve already seen the other side,…
A Dallas man says the Dallas Central Appraisal District is discriminating against him and his husband because they’re gay. Keith Yonick says DCAD mishandled the couple’s paperwork for a tax exemption for their new home, refusing to process their homestead exemption until they produced records that aren’t required by law…
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot defended his recent decision to stop prosecuting certain quality-of-life crimes over the objections of members of the Dallas City Council’s Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee on Monday. The reforms, Creuzot said, are meant to make Dallas a safer, more equitable city, not to…
This week, the Texas House of Representatives is expected to take up its version of a plan to slow the growth of property tax rates statewide. School officials worry that, depending on what version of that plan makes its way to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, it could mean a major…
The king is dead, so who’s next in line? That’s the question facing Dallas sports fans following Dirk Nowitzki’s pitch-perfect Mavericks denouement two weeks ago. Since dragging the Mavs to the franchise’s only championship in 2011, Nowitzki has been the undisputed face of professional sports in the city he’s called…
Last month after federal sleuths in Massachusetts rolled up 16 well-heeled parents in an alleged college admissions and exam scam that included the University of Texas, four members of the UT-Austin student government proposed that some kind of formal apology be tendered to former UT system regent Wallace Hall of…
On Wednesday afternoon, as forecasts of baseball-sized hail and possible tornadoes rolled in, residents across North Texas scrambled to get their cars under cover and themselves indoors. At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field, hundreds of flights were canceled, leaving some passengers with time to kill at the…
To hear Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata tell it, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot’s new reforms — Creuzot’s office will no longer prosecute certain misdemeanor theft cases or first-time marijuana offenses — stereotype poor people, rather than helping them out. “I take great offense to saying that poor…
Nine months after a petition drive to get an ordinance requiring paid sick leave for everyone who works in Dallas went down in flames, the Dallas City Council will take up a similar ordinance. Wednesday, the council will decide whether city code will require all Dallas employers to credit their…
Sen. Ted Cruz learned a lesson he should’ve leaned long ago the hard way Wednesday afternoon: Mess with the mouse, and you’re going to get the ears. The story starts, as many have over the last six-years plus, with Cruz trying and failing miserably to pass himself off as human…
Sometimes you learn more about people in politics from their shadows than their faces. Serial efforts over a period of years to take down two progressive Dallas City Council members have cast the same kind of shadow consistently. In the effort, mostly failed I think, to dirty up council members…
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot would like would-be thieves to know that they can’t steal anything they like without fear of prosecution. Last week, Creuzot’s office announced a series of sweeping reforms, including declining to prosecute most low-level marijuana offenses, cases in which someone is found with trace amounts…
The Dallas Police Department Family Violence Unit is investigated a complaint made against community activist Dominique Alexander, DPD confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Alexander’s accuser called Dallas activist and pastor Jeff Hood after the alleged assault. The pair then went to the hospital, before filing a report at the Northwest Dallas Police…
Texas is set to turn a very fake problem into a very real law. Monday night, the state’s House of Representatives signed off on Plano Republican Jeff Leach’s “Born Alive Protection Act” which would create civil and criminal penalties for doctors who fail to care for babies born after attempted…
Jason Lee Van Dyke sat at a table next to his defense lawyer in a Denton County courtroom, listening as an attorney for the Texas State Bar spoke about how fearful she was when she received his email message threatening her life. At 38, Van Dyke is stocky like a…
Campus police are investigating a reported sexual assault at a fraternity house at the University of Texas at Arlington. A female student told Arlington police that she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance early Sunday, said Joe Carpenter, a university spokesman. Because the assault occurred on campus, Arlington police turned…
Texas is lagging behind other states in the education it offers to its youngest learners, according to a study released Wednesday. But a plan lawmakers are considering to fund full-day prekindergarten statewide could help turn the state’s early learning program in the right direction, one of that study’s authors said…
In 1998 when John Creuzot, now the new Dallas County district attorney, was a Dallas County felony district court judge, he established an experimental program called the Dallas Initiative for Expedited Recovery and Treatment or DIVERT. It sent first-time drug offenders into intensively monitored recovery programs rather than to jail…
A former University of Texas All-American and U.S. National Team swimmer sued a Dallas clinic Tuesday, claiming a multivitamin she bought from the clinic led to a 2018 doping suspension. FINA, international swimming’s governing body, suspended Madisyn Cox for two years in March 2018 after she tested positive for trimetazidine,…
Tuesday afternoon, all 144 of state Rep. Victoria Neave’s colleagues available to vote on the Texas House floor agreed with the two-term Dallas Democrat: It’s time, the state’s lower chamber unanimously voted, to end Texas’ rape kit backlog. “This bill is for all the women who have waited for years…
