Consider this a supplement to all the coverage we’ve done of Texas’ midterm election and all the voters who’ve shown up early to cast ballots. Like Creatine, whey protein or Weight Gain 4000, it shouldn’t be taken without considering the warning label: These numbers might mean something, or they might…
It’s remarkable we’re here. For decades, Texas political junkies looking for action on the eve of a general election either had to look really small, to one of the few competitive Texas legislative races that might crop up now and then, or outside the state to one of the national…
The Dallas Cowboys fired offensive line coach Paul Alexander on Monday, continuing the bye week shake-up that began with the team trading its 2019 first-round draft pick for Oakland Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper last week. Alexander got the ax seven games into his Cowboys tenure, following a number of…
A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke closing in on incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz as the two candidate embark on their last full week of campaigning. Quinnipiac’s previous poll two weeks ago showed O’Rourke trailing Cruz by nine, seemingly having lost his momentum…
If you did what I do for a living, you might get a little down-in-the-mouth once in a while, too. But I want you to know that I also get wonderfully optimistic about where the city is headed. That’s what this will be about, after I get done whining and…
U.S. Representative John Lewis had some cautionary words for his Dallas supporters on Saturday. “We must take our country back and save our democracy,” Lewis said. “I don’t want to go back. I want to go forward and create one America.” Lewis said our differences don’t matter because we’re all living…
Like their counterparts across the state, Dallas County voters have voted early and often throughout the state’s early voting period. Throughout Texas, voters are showing up as if the Nov. 6 election was for president, rather than a midterm. According to numbers released by the Texas secretary of state Sunday…
The family of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old accountant shot and killed in his own apartment by an off-duty Dallas police officer on Sept. 6, sued the city in federal court late Friday. The suit alleges that Amber Guyger, the police officer who shot Jean, used excessive force and violated Jean’s…
Maybe Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is feeling the heat. Maybe he’s just making sure to empty his campaign coffers ahead of the Nov. 6 general election, but, whatever the reason, Paxton has gone negative for the first time in his campaign against Democrat Justin Nelson. In a 30-second spot…
Local and national organizations are teaming up to fight a portion of a proposed social studies standard before the Texas State Board of Education that opponents say is biased toward Israel and anti-Muslim. The 17 groups, which include Muslim, Jewish and Christian organizations, are particularly campaigning against this line: “Explain…
After less than three hours of deliberation Thursday afternoon, a Dallas County jury convicted Kristopher Love, 34, for the 2015 murder of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher. Prosecutors in the case successfully argued that Love took drugs and cash from Brenda Delgado in exchange for shooting Hatcher in the head as…
Three days. That’s how quickly it would’ve been over if Dallas had just let Jeff Handy have his convention in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Instead, here we are two-and-a-half years later with no end in sight to the legal battle between Handy and the city. Wednesday, the 5th…
In some areas of Dallas, student loan debt burdens are 12 percent higher than the national average, according to new data from Generation Progress and Higher Ed, Not Debt. The data show that nationally, students typically put 6 percent of their paycheck toward student loans but in Dallas, many areas…
Kevin Felder, the Dallas City Council member I have been calling King Cuckoo, cuckooed me big-time Wednesday I guess, winning a 13-2 vote against the South Dallas car wash that I have been defending from time immemorial. Another big winner in the deal — this one really sticks in the…
Dallas is out of the business of managing Fair Park. By a unanimous vote Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas City Council voted to turn over the reins of the city’s biggest vein of untapped potential to the Fair Park First Foundation, which will oversee management of the park. Spectra — a…
Dallas County residents kept up the momentum and then some on day two of early voting. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said more than 55,000 registered voters cast ballots at polling places throughout the county Tuesday, eclipsing 53,000-plus who voted the second day of early voting during the 2016 presidential…
An Instagram boutique based in Stephenville caused a storm on social media last week over their name, “The Spunky Squaw,” which eventually led to the company’s Instagram account disappearing. The word “squaw” is considered derogatory and has long been an ethnic slur used to demean American Indian women. “It’s been used against…
Amazon and FedEx are beefing up seasonal hires in North Texas as the holiday season approaches. Amazon is looking to hire 3,000 new warehouse workers in DFW, according to the corporation, while FedEx is hiring 50,000 seasonal employees across the country, 4,200 of them in DFW, the company announced this…
Today the Dallas City Council will be asked to vote to commit a form of public fraud. The council will be asked to launch a process that would shut down a private business as a public nuisance, even though years of extraordinary effort have failed to prove it’s a nuisance. But…
If you’ve been to a political event this election season, there are two dates that speakers have tried to sear into your memory. The first is obvious. Nov. 6, two weeks from Tuesday, is Election Day, the first chance Texas and the rest of the United States will have to…
Mary Jane preferred animals to people “10 out of 10 times,” she says. She grew up in southern Louisiana, a place of winding swampland roads where family ties run deep. She studied wildlife management with a focus in aquaculture at Louisiana State University. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents…
After dropping to 3-4 following a dismal performance against the Redskins on Sunday afternoon in D.C., the Cowboys were seemingly left with two choices. Go in the tank, get the best possible pick in the 2019 draft and reload with more than $70 million in salary-cap space during the off-season…
