The headline — “Fort Worth Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act” — was easy enough to understand, at least on its face, Friday evening. The potential fallout was harder to break down. Yes, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, handpicked by the Texas Attorney General’s Office to hear its claims that…
The Cowboys appear to have escaped Indianapolis without serious injury. That’s literally the one good thing to come out of the weekend for Dallas football fans. The Colts wiped the floor with Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott and company while the two teams still chasing the Cowboys in the NFC East,…
A Texas speech pathologist is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Pflugerville Independent School District over a Texas law that requires contractors and businesses to sign a pledge promising not to boycott Israel. For nine years, plaintiff Bahia Amawi signed an annual contract with Pflugerville ISD without an…
The key to likability was there all along, hiding in plain sight for Ted Cruz, Texas’ junior senator. Turns out, he didn’t need to be a fan of The Simpsons, country music or The Princess Bride in order to convince people that he wasn’t a time-traveling serial killer doing his best to…
If former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro really wants to be president of the United States, maybe he’ll come back to Dallas and tell us why, when he was President Barack Obama’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, he killed our best shot at overcoming racial segregation. Castro is testing…
Short of spending $600 million in free agency, nothing Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels could have done this winter would have turned his team into a contender. The Rangers are simply too many pieces away from competing for the franchise’s first World Series title. What the GM needed to…
The bad news for the University of North Texas football team and their fans is that they have to spend the weekend in Albuquerque. The good news is that, should the Mean Green knock off 10-2 Utah State in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday afternoon, they’ll do something no…
A now-closed Dallas nightclub and former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent bear joint responsibility for the death of Brent’s best friend and former teammate Jerry Brown in a 2012 car accident, a Dallas County jury decided. During a nearly weeklong trial, attorneys for Brown’s family asked the jury to…
While The Dallas Morning News and the rest of the lamestream media might be playing it down, saying that Dallas has just a “chance” of snow Thursday and Friday and that any accumulation of ice and snow will be “light, if any,” the Observer is here to tell you the…
Here’s a challenge I put to my fellow lifelong loyal Dem libtards: Back during Lewinsky, did we ever say we didn’t care if Bill Clinton broke the law? I’m serious. I don’t think it’s an easy question. Was there ever a point during the Monica Lewinsky scandal when I told…
“What is your first memory of racism? How did it affect you?” “What most frustrates you about current race relations in America?” “Do you think your race changes the intensity of your reaction to Botham Jean’s shooting than for a person of a different race? If so, how?” These questions…
University of Texas at Dallas senior Jacob Anderson has been banned from the school’s campus, university President Richard Benson announced late Wednesday afternoon. Earlier this week, Anderson agreed to a controversial plea deal in McLennan County following allegations that he raped a fellow student while president of a Baylor University fraternity…
Dwaine Caraway’s fifth term on the Dallas City Council was just a blip on the radar. Tuesday night, Carolyn King Arnold, the former high school teacher Caraway deposed to regain the District 4 seat on the Council, won the seat back, picking up more than 59 percent of the vote…
The 2019 Dallas mayoral race is beginning to look like a bad parody of an old-time Broadway musical. I don’t know what to do but tell you about it. Real estate developer Mike Ablon filed legally required paperwork appointing a campaign treasurer a month ago for what D Magazine and The…
Whatever one wants to call the thing that’s going on in presidential politics right now — the money primary, the silly season or the greatest trick Iowa and New Hampshire ever pulled — Texas finds itself squarely in the thick of things, apparently for the long haul. Julian Castro, the…
The Spunky Squaw, a Stephenville-based online boutique that was ensnared in a controversy in October for their use of what many believe was a racist slur in their business name, recently had their website taken down, causing a collective sigh of relief from American Indian activists who were campaigning against the…
For about a half-hour Sunday afternoon, it looked like the Cowboys were going to be playing three huge games to close out the 2018 regular season. Less than 15 minutes of game time later, however, those contests in Indianapolis, Arlington and New Jersey had been rendered effectively meaningless, setting up…
As the Dallas Police Department continues to fight high attrition rates and low staffing levels, department officials said Monday they want to get rid of one of DPD’s most onerous requirements for new recruits. Assuming the Dallas City Council signs off on the change, the department will take on recruits…
The Observer owes a lot to those who just come out and say it. Whether it’s the outgoing congressman lamenting that new Texas residents cost him his office because they just don’t understand the state, or the leader of one of the city’s biggest churches explaining why it’s perfectly OK…
Last week I walked into Gilley’s in the Cedars and found a huge room packed shoulder-to-shoulder with sleek, gray-headed men in great suits or golf leisure clothes, many of them arm and arm with skinny women sporting $220 hair dyes and shoes beyond my comprehension. The event was the unveiling…
The final numbers are in and, stop us if you’ve heard this one before, Texas still had one of the United States’ worst voter participation rates in 2018, despite an 18 percentage point increase in voter participation over 2014. This November, 46.3 percent of Texas’ voting-eligible population cast ballots, according…
Anyone renting or looking to rent in Dallas won’t be surprised by this news, but the confirmation is nice at least: Apartments across DFW have gotten smaller and significantly more expensive over the last 10 years, according to new analysis from RENTCafé, a rental listing website. Between 2008 and 2018, the…
