Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister has been fired, the Rangers confirmed Friday afternoon. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu will serve as interim manager for the remainder of the 2018 campaign, according to John Blake, the team’s longtime executive vice president of communications. Banister’s dismissal comes after rumors surfaced over the last…
Last year, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson promised that anyone caught with less than 4 ounces of marijuana would no longer be arrested on the spot, spend a night in jail and a pay an expensive bond to get out. But so far, not much has changed. In 2017,…
Amber Guyger is still getting paid by the Dallas Police Department because going through the process necessary to fire her could compromise the criminal investigation of her shooting and killing Botham Jean in his own apartment on Sept. 6, DPD Chief U. Renee Hall said Thursday. After Jean’s death —…
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz faces off against Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke tonight at SMU in their first of three debates, and no doubt Texans everywhere will be glued to their screens to learn the answer to the race’s most pressing question: Will O’Rourke say the word? You know…
CW33 no longer has a news division after a recent round of layoffs and cutbacks. The station’s parent company, Tribune Media, laid off 68 employees from its Dallas TV station, according to filings made by Tribune with the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs led to the cancellation of CW33’s morning news…
Over the last two decades, the Dallas Mavericks organization has suffered from a culture of sexual harassment, misconduct and intimidation, according to the results of an independent investigation into team culture released Wednesday. Team owner Mark Cuban will donate $10 million to women’s groups because of what the NBA calls…
The picture at City Hall is coming into focus. Almost two years ago the old city manager got kicked out. It had become too obvious that he was subverting the public interest in favor of a small cabal of private interests. We got a new guy. His job was to…
For Beto O’Rourke supporters, Tuesday had to feel a little bit like the day the air got let out of the balloon. The El Paso Democratic U.S. representative trying to take down GOP Sen. Ted Cruz got his first piece of serious bad news in weeks. O’Rourke, according to a…
Monday The Dallas Morning News made some great points in an editorial about racial segregation in the city and the Trump administration’s troubling initiative to de-emphasize desegregation in national housing policy. The defect in the editorial — the thing always left unsaid in Dallas — is that segregation is what…
When the dust settled Tuesday, just two hardliners remained at the Dallas City Council horseshoe, willing to resist pressure from their colleagues and Dallas’ undermanned police force and vote against a pay raise for all of the city’s police officers and firefighters. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and North Dallas City…
While investigators are still collecting facts for the manslaughter case filed against Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger and the outcome is unknowable, one thing is almost certain: Someone will be called upon to pay for the death of Botham Jean, if not in criminal court, then in a civil case…
There are inescapable similarities between the shooting for which former Mesquite cop Derick Wiley went on trial Tuesday and the one by Dallas Police Department Officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Botham Jean in Jean’s apartment, believing it was her own, on Sept. 6. Like Guyger, Wiley made a…
In Animal House, John Belushi’s “Bluto” and his fraternity brothers shoot a horse, throw a toga party, commence a food fight, molest an unconscious girl and get placed on double secret probation. In Old School, Will Ferrell’s “Frank the Tank” and his frat boys go streaking, tie cinder blocks to…
It’s a regular complaint from candidates every election: Someone, most likely their wicked opponent, is stealing the candidate’s signs from roads and yards. Jana Lynne Sanchez, the Democrat running to represent Texas’ 6th Congressional District, has come up with a plan to fight back. Her campaign recently started spraying road…
Sunday night’s protests before and during the Cowboys’ home opener in Arlington against the Giants and the demonstrations’ aftermath are like a Rorschach test for how one feels about the current state of policing in North Texas. If one is inclined to take the side of those protesting the recent…
Monday afternoon, the Republican Attorney Generals Association (RAGA) sent out a proud email, patting one their most prominent members on the back. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a new op-ed out, you see, in which he tells the Corpus Christi Caller-Times’ audience all the things he’s done to combat…
After four straight years of Affordable Care Act-inspired gains, Texas’ uninsured rate for adults took a step back in 2017, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. About 4.8 million Texas adults, 17.3 percent of the population, do not have health insurance, up from 4.5 million and…
Sen. Ted Cruz is still the favorite in his race for re-election. He’s got plenty of cash on hand, has yet to trail his challenger, El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, in any publicly released poll and, according to the number-crunchers at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, has about a 66 percent…
The University of North Texas football team had a chance Saturday to set the table for a season that could put the formerly moribund program on the national map for the first time in decades. All the Mean Green had to do, after starting their season 2-0 with wins over…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his challenger for re-election, El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke will hold three debates over the six weeks-plus that remain in the run-up to the Nov. 6 election, their campaigns announced in dueling press releases late Friday afternoon. The first of the debates will be…
In the hours and days between shooting Botham Jean and her name being made public, Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger appeared to scrub as much of her life as possible from the internet. By the time Guyger’s name was widely known, she and her family had disappeared from Facebook, Twitter…
Willie Nelson is going to headline a free concert for U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke at Auditorium Shores in Austin on Sept. 29. It’s an interesting headline — one that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, given Nelson’s history of support for marijuana legalization and his work for Farm…
