Just when you thought Dallas couldn’t possibly use another scooter on its streets, Lyft is getting in on the game, the Uber competitor plans to announce later today. The company’s dockless scooters will be available throughout the city, both for on-demand riding and through the company’s ride-hailing app, which will…
Thousands of students in the Dallas Independent School District show up to school each morning not knowing where they’ll sleep that night. Under a bill in the Texas Senate, districts wouldn’t be allowed to suspend such students if they misbehave. Senate Bill 1001 would bar school districts from suspending students…
A lawsuit, really a collection of lawsuits, has been creeping along through the local courts for years like the plot of Charles Dickens’ mid-19th-century novel, Bleak House, pitting Dallas against some members of the Topletz family, who are landlords in southern Dallas. But there is a new wrinkle in the…
On most issues, there is no bridge that’s too far between Texas’ Republican majority and law enforcement officers in the state. Whether it’s the state’s slow-to-change drug laws or special protections for peace officers, the Texas GOP loves to defer to its cops, positioning itself as the state’s law-and-order party…
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Elvis … has been left to the rebuilding. Once upon a time, in what feels like some sort of perverted, parallel universe, the Texas Rangers’ shortstop was a joyful kid playing for a nearly champion. Today, on a sun-splashed March 1 at spring training, Elvis Andrus finds…
Pew Research Center is out with an analysis of how North Texans get and consume their news, and the breakdown isn’t kind to print and paid media, be it The Dallas Morning News or your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly. (That’s us. Hi.) An overwhelming share of DFW turns to the region’s…
Maybe we need to have a little bit of Journalism 101 here. There seem to be some people around town who don’t quite know how it works. Professor Schutze is always glad to assist. A major political dust storm erupted at City Hall after my cover story appeared last week…
The early reviews for Dallas’ “End Panhandling Now” program are in and they aren’t good. Not Battlefield Earth bad, but not good. It’s going to take more than $400,000 and a Frogger-themed public service announcement, it seems, to stop people from hustling downtown residents for change and connect them with…
Texas House Democrats did everything they could to slow down their Republican colleagues’ “born-alive” bill Monday morning. But the legislation, like so many anti-abortion bills in the Texas Legislature over the last decade, chugged along as expected and looks set for a big debate on the House floor later this…
A bill that would allow licensed professionals to deny services on religious grounds advanced out of a Texas Senate committee Monday afternoon. Senate Bill 17 would bar state license-granting agencies from taking action against an occupational license holder “based on a sincerely held religious belief.” The bill passed the Senate…
Looks like marijuana decriminalization has an honest shot in the Texas House this session. Whether that will carry over to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s domain in the Senate is yet to be seen. Monday afternoon, the House’s Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill making Texans caught with small amounts of…
After my own lengthy and exacting legal analysis of positions taken by The Dallas Morning News editorial page on official actions and decisions by newly elected Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot, I have come to the following learned conclusion, which I think should be published in a legal journal,…
Over the last half-decade or so, Dallas has mostly slowly but surely done what it can to make itself a more egalitarian city. The City Council passed a comprehensive LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance, gone as far as Texas law allows with regard to marijuana decriminalization by implementing cite-and-release and required city…
High and Tight Barber Shop and Bar in Deep Ellum is closed for the weekend, according to its owners, following two days of social media rage against the business following an alleged assault by one of its employees on Thursday. The bar’s owners announced the closing in a now-deleted Facebook…
Tarrant County is the latest area in North Texas to have a resident come down with measles, county health officials said Thursday. The unnamed county resident makes 14 confirmed cases in Texas and four in North Texas so far in 2019, more than in the last four years combined. According…
Its real name on tax records is the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, but now it calls itself VisitDallas, because nowadays you have to have an ungrammatical neologism for your name if you want to be hip. I don’t know how hip it is really, but VisitDallas is maybe the…
Two-thirds of the United States, including parts of North and East Texas, are at risk for increased flooding this spring, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s spring outlook. The forecast, which identifies areas in the Trinity River Basin as being at moderate flood risk, comes on the heels…
It’s not really a surprise, but it’s still news: Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has endorsed Regina Montoya in Dallas’ mayoral race. Clinton’s endorsement is the cherry on top of an impressive couple of weeks for Montoya, who’s also picked up nods from Emily’s List and the Dallas County…
The noise, literal and figurative, is unavoidable. Downtown residents, having just been awakened by a truck driving over one of the steel plates that patch one of the neighborhood’s streets under construction, take to Facebook to commiserate about another lost hour of sleep. “Because of AT&T construction, traffic is being…
Given the narratives and media coverage that surrounded the Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that something snapped in Texas last fall. Surely, all the enthusiasm and hype — not to mention the raw numbers of voters who…
If you’re lucky enough, you may have seen one of the ads from the Texas Senate Republican Caucus on Facebook. Accompanied by the image of a white, blue-eyed little boy is a plea from the caucus for the person reading the ad to support Senate Bill 23, the “Texas Born-Alive…
You don’t know this, because you don’t read D, the city magazine of Dallas, but they’ve been running a mayoral poll on their online Frontburner page. You click to vote for your favorite candidate. This week they admitted the poll probably is being gamed. Shawn Shinneman wrote: “It’s possible —…
