The Cotton Bowl will be cool again in a little less than a year — literally and figuratively. Fair Park’s grand old stadium will host the NHL’s 2020 Winter Classic next New Year’s Day, becoming the 12th venue to host the league’s mid-season showcase. The Stars will be the host…
This won’t take a minute, I promise. I am writing on New Year’s Eve day, trying to peer ahead. I have this one question: Why wouldn’t President Donald Trump and his supporters interpret special counsel Robert Mueller’s relative silence on collusion in exactly the opposite way they have been interpreting…
Along with the opportunity to watch the Cowboys crash ignominiously out of the playoffs, January in Dallas brings with it the chance to reflect. Like 2017, 2018 exposed Dallas and the rest of the U.S. to a relentless, ever-quickening news cycle, only with an election in November for some added…
Looking over the few end-of-the-year prediction pieces I have composed, I am embarrassed to see that I have written about the year ahead for Dallas as if it were the white year. What about the black year? But, wait. We all know there’s no such thing as white and black…
In the heart of the Bishop Arts district, a bit of Dallas magic is stirring up in the form of a holistic boutique that opened its doors in October. SoulTopia sells crystals, elixirs, tarot cards, candles and herbs. They also offer tarot card readings and classes with names such as…
The Border Patrol is ordering medical checks on every child in its custody following the death of two migrant children as Dallas activists and advocacy groups mourn their deaths and ask why medical checks weren’t a priority as the Trump administration began its crackdown on immigrant asylum seekers. As the…
Dallas’ unemployment rate has stayed relatively stagnant this year, while statewide, Texas has seen 29 consecutive months of employment growth, according to recent data from the Texas Workforce Commission. The local unemployment rate stayed at 3.2 percent in November, the same as in October and November 2017, according to the…
If you’re willing to head home a little before last call, Coors Light and Dallas Area Rapid Transit are teaming up on New Year’s Eve to give everyone in DART’s service area a free ride home. Starting at 6 p.m. Dec. 31 and running through the end of service early…
Look, we’re sorry, OK? The last time we ventured into weather forecasting, we may have been a little overexcited at the remote prospect of snow in North Texas. We admit it now: “Snowpocalypse” and “frozen hell” were a bit over the top in describing what turned out to be a…
A 15-year-old male is under lock and key in a Dallas juvenile detention center charged with the rapes of five women and the murder of one, awaiting a court hearing at which a judge may do what no one else has been able in 15 years — turn the kid…
Social media is a pox on humanity. It probably contributed to the election of President Donald Trump. It disregards our privacy, destroys our attention spans and makes us hate people we otherwise wouldn’t. One of the few good things about social media — beyond having millions of dog and cat videos…
Black and Hispanic students in Dallas public schools are more likely to get harsher discipline, lower grades and fewer opportunities than their white peers, according to a report from ProPublica. The report, which uses numbers mostly taken from data reported by schools to the U.S. Department of Education, shows that…
A new year is about to dawn over Dallas, and it’s going to be for all the marbles. I’m writing about it in a piece that will run next week. But I want to preview that a little by sharing some things I am learning about how we elect mayors…
A couple of Fridays ago, someone you’ve probably never heard of jumped into the Dallas mayoral race. We didn’t write about it because Lynn McBee’s announcement came at 5:30 on a Friday afternoon, prime news dump time, and because no one was kind enough to even send us a press…
When community activist Keyaira Saunders finished second in a 12-person race for Dallas City Council, her supporters knew she would have to clear a tall hurdle to win the runoff against Carolyn King Arnold, who once held the District 4 seat. The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board didn’t make the…
For the vast majority of the 20th century, North Texas had exactly one bowl game. On New Year’s Day or somewhere thereabouts, college football fans would brave weather of varying quality and head to otherwise deserted Fair Park to watch their team play in the Cotton Bowl. In 2003, things…
Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia is doing a larger version of the same thing my own Dallas city council member did for people on my street two years ago – using political pressure to push a natural gas utility to clean up its act. Sometimes we have to use politics…
Steven Mark Chaney is innocent, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday, ending a three-decades-long ordeal for the Dallas man. Chaney, the court said, did not kill John and Sally Sweek, a Dallas couple found stabbed to death in their apartment in 1987. Prosecutors, who told jurors at Chaney’s 1987 trial…
Globe Life Field, the home of the 2020 Texas Rangers, took another step closer to becoming reality Wednesday, as the club debuted a new rendering of the still-being-built stadium and gave an update on the construction at a holiday party for stadium workers. Rangers Executive Vice President of Business Operations…
Tell me this. Recently I looked at the website of a prominent Dallas consulting firm and noticed they have a social media specialist on their staff who “guides paid social strategy … working with clients to generate content that educates, motivates and empowers target audiences to act in ways that…
The air above Dallas is now home to a 5G network, AT&T announced Tuesday. You can’t use it though, at least until Friday and probably not until spring at the earliest. Dallas and 11 other cities got the speedy, mobile hookup yesterday. The first device capable of using the new…
If you thought Texas’ Facebook fever swamp got especially weird as the 2016 election approached, you were right. According to a couple of new, third-party reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind the country’s fake news campaign to interfere…
