Sexual assault survivors and advocacy groups joined with Republican and Democratic legislators at the Texas Capitol on Monday to tout 20 filed or soon-to-be-filed bills aimed at helping victims of sexual assault seek justice in the aftermath of their attacks. The proposed changes begin in both the House and Senate…
The bad news for traffic scofflaws and anyone else walking around with a Dallas C misdemeanor warrant is that it’s warrant roundup time. The good news is, this time the city’s offering a discount on your warrant fees, if you’re willing to go through a little trouble. If you’ve got…
Here we go already, off to the slime pits. Bring a towel. Last week mayoral candidate Scott Griggs was one of a handful of City Council members caught with dodgy campaign donations in the past, and you’d have thought he’d shot and killed a child. The donations were dodgy, not…
Someone get Texas Secretary of State David Whitley one sequined glove, please. Last week Whitley dethroned the late Michael Jackson as king of the moonwalk, appearing to move forward while walking backward. On Jan. 25, Whitley and Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that as many as 58,000 noncitizens may have…
Dallas County health officials announced late Friday that an 89-year-old Dallas resident is the sixth person in the county to succumb to the flu this month. Dallas County Health and Human Services doesn’t release any additional information about virus or infection victims. Each of the six Dallas County deaths this…
It’s hard to overstate what the Dallas Mavericks pulled off Thursday afternoon. In exchange for disgruntled point guard Dennis Smith Jr., Wesley Matthews and DeAndre Jordan and two future first-round draft picks, the Mavs acquired center Kristaps Porzingis, Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr. from the New York Knicks. Porzingis,…
A little more than three months after promising this day would come, Dallas’ Roman Catholic diocese made good Thursday, releasing the names of 31 priests with ties to Dallas who were the subjects of credible allegations of sexual abuse. Joining with Dallas, dioceses across the state released the names of…
D Magazine’s Tim Rogers got the scoop Wednesday afternoon. Three Dallas City Council members — mayoral candidate Scott Griggs, Philip Kingston and Omar Narvaez — received thousands in campaign donations from attorney James Stanton III’s four children, who are ages 5-11, according to the Morning News. The donations don’t violate…
William Barr, nominee to become U.S. attorney general, was right. Unindicted co-conspirators don’t get enough respect. Barr said at his Senate confirmation hearing: “If you’re not going to indict someone, you don’t stand up there and unload negative information about the person. That’s not the way the [Justice] Department does…
It’s still January, a couple of months away from the meat of the 2019 Texas legislative session, and it’s already easy to see the difference in the way Dallas state representatives and senators are representing their city. Wednesday afternoon, Nathan Johnson, the Park Cities and North Dallas state senator who…
In the Tuesday morning television coverage of the four Houston police officers who were shot the night before, the most heartbreaking and infuriating words came from Joe Gamaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers Union. “We are sick and tired of having targets on our back,” Gamaldi said. “We are…
Friday afternoon came the breathless proclamation from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Secretary of State David Whitley: Ninety-five thousand noncitizens were on Texas’ voter rolls, and 58,000 of them had cast ballots between 1996 and 2018. Friday night and Saturday, progressive groups and Democrats pushed back, suggesting that…
Maybe North Texas has already sprawled too far. Tuesday morning, Frisco police issued their latest alert about a coyote attack, continuing a wave that first struck the city last year. This time, cops got a call at about 7 a.m. that a jogger had been attacked about 20 minutes earlier…
No matter who one asks, be it members of the Dallas City Council, Dallas Police Department brass or Dallas’ police unions, all involved agree that DPD has to do a better job of retaining and recruiting police officers. For the department to increase the ranks to 3,700 or 3,800 officers…
Texas’ long fight over voter ID, settled just last year, is already old news. The state’s new battlefront in the war for and against voter rights is over citizenship verification, and it looks like Texas could be in for another round of litigation. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and newly…
Cold, quiet weekday afternoon. One of my favorite East Dallas sausage and egg places, Barbec’s on Garland Road, is still as the tomb, empty but for this table, where a waitress hovers over five of us with a pot of hot coffee. Here I am, chatting up a table full…
Dallas Police Department officers are looking for a teenager they believe shot and killed an former Highland Park High School student during an apparent drug deal gone wrong. According to a description from witnesses who accompanied the victim, Joseph Pintucci, to the garage, the 18-year-old’s shooter is Latino, between 18…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped quite the bombshell Friday afternoon: Nearly a year after his office announced an extensive voter fraud initiative, the Texas Secretary of State’s office has discovered that about 95,000 individuals identified as not having documentation of their citizenship on file with the Texas Department of…
North Texas remains extremely dangerous for pedestrians even as Dallas takes steps to modernize its thoroughfares, according to the 2019 version of Smart Growth America’s Dangerous By Design report. According to the study, 1,037 pedestrians died after being struck by cars in DFW between 2008 and 2017. Put another way, that’s 1.49…
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is nothing if not a … well, even we hate to come right out and call someone a hypocrite. We’ll let you decide whether that shoe fits. During his 2016 run for president, he positioned himself first as Donald Trump’s best friend, then called Trump a…
There are certainly worse places to spend late January than Orlando, but it’s hard to imagine any of the Cowboys coaches and players currently in Florida are all that happy to be there. Like everyone else in the NFL, Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, Leighton Vander Esch and Jason Garrett would…
Some things are made for each other: peanut butter and jelly, beef tallow and fried potatoes, Jerry Jones and television cameras. Similarly, some moments are just made for Twitter, scratching the social network right where it itches. Wednesday afternoon, one of those moments fell from the sky, or was at…
