Eight months into cite-and-release and not much has changed for Dallas or its police department. The overwhelming majority of those being cited-and-released for possessing less than 4 ounces of marijuana — a policy approved by the City Council in 2017 — are black and Latino and in southern Dallas when…
Two percent. Not a big number if you’re talking about, say, the rain chances on your average Tuesday. A really big number, however, if you’re talking about the number of cables that could fail on a suspension bridge. If they aren’t repaired or replaced, about 2 percent of the cables…
This is too spooky. They erased Dwaine Caraway. The very recently former Dallas City Council member’s name and image were expunged from City Hall the night after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges last week. Name plaque on the horseshoe dais in the council chamber: SCRAPE! Gone! Portrait in…
This is a letter from Jim Schutze to: 42 Deep Ellum, LP, Al Rousan & Wared Corp, Clarence & Gina Anderson, Apartment Association of Greater Dallas, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ashton, Victor Ballas, Jackie Bewley, Mason Brown III, Comerica Inc. Political Action, Louis Corna, Trammell Crow, Dallas Citizen Council, Dallas…
Unless you’re lucky enough to spend a healthy, limited amount of time on the internet, you’ve surely run into QAnon. Spawned by an off-the-cuff aside about a coming storm by President Donald Trump in 2017, QAnon, ostensibly the mother of all conspiracies, is the unified theory of pro-Trump, anti-Clinton, anti-left…
Thursday night, the Cowboys kicked off the preseason against the 49ers. For Dallas sports fans, at least those capable of looking past the issues that make watching the NFL problematic, it was a good thing. The Cowboys’ first-team offense was ruthlessly efficient in a first-quarter cameo. The starting defense looked…
For further proof that the underlying code of the simulation in which we all live is fraying, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, still under multiple felony indictments, hung out with the president of the United States in Bedminster, New Jersey, Thursday, ostensibly to discuss reform in America’s prisons. In introducing…
Despite the clear and convincing evidence, not to mention the guilty plea, showing that now-former Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway took about $450,000 in cash to push the City Council to pass Dallas County Schools’ bus stop-arm ticketing scam scheme scam, the Observer is going to miss the guy. For…
Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway has agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges, according to documents filed Thursday morning. Caraway, now serving his fifth non-consecutive term on the Council, accepted $450,000 from Robert Leonard and Slater Smartwood Sr., both former executives with Force Multiplier Solutions.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is about to find out if the Affordable Care Act covers cutting off your nose to spite your face. Last month, as filings in the Paxton-led lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s signature achievement piled up in federal court, the Texas attorney general slipped a new…
There must be some ancient instinct buried somewhere in our Cro-Magnon genetic roots that makes people start squealing and whining like they’re going to die if you dare suggest there might be something wrong with their kids. And not just their own kids but kids who are in their care…
After allegedly attacking his wife with a hammer after a night out, Dallas venture capitalist Stephen Hays will have to work through a host of legal issues that could land him in prison for 20 years, suspend his business licenses or at a minimum require some jail time, according to…
This hasn’t been the best offseason for the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry and Stephen Jones have been hammered for continuing their partnership with Papa Johns and supporting President Donald Trump and his stand against players kneeling during the national anthem. To make matters worse, last week quarterback Dak Prescott was ablaze…
A Northwest Dallas resident is the first person to die from West Nile Virus in Dallas County in 2018, Dallas County Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The patient lived in the 75229 ZIP code area north of Love Field Airport. DCHHS did not disclose any additional details in order…
Today the Dallas City Council goes into closed-door executive session, away from the eyes and ears of the taxpayers, to decide if the taxpayers should pick up the tab for the legal defense of City Council member Dwaine Caraway, who has been accused in a lawsuit of racketeering. Get out…
Let it never be said that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is incapable of reaction. Since the election of President Donald Trump, he’s molded his priorities in the shape of the president, focusing on issues like “sanctuary cities,” a term we’re still waiting for him to define. After eight students and…
His brain was bouncing. Eyes involuntarily darting. Left arm numb, dangling uselessly. Lincoln Coleman was in trouble. But on Thanksgiving 1993 on that memorable, sleet-covered field at Texas Stadium, he stubbornly persuaded himself not to call for medical attention and leave the Dallas Cowboys’ clash against the Miami Dolphins. He…
Dallas state Sen. Don Huffines, along with his twin brother and former Dallas County GOP Chairman Phillip, spent much of Monday in Russia. It wasn’t a well-publicized trip — both brothers’ social media accounts are bereft of any mention of the excursion — but as photos and stories began to…
Texas’ Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Security closed up shop Monday. Its final report follows the lead of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott by urging more guns in the state’s schools and better mental health services for students who might become shooters. It shies away from recommending any…
It took a couple of weeks, but we finally know the fate of the remaining ofo bikes in Dallas. Sunday afternoon, photos of hundreds of the company’s bikes, stacked up for recycling in South Dallas, began circulating on social media.
Anybody can claim anything in any lawsuit, but the suit filed last week accusing Dallas City Council Member Dwaine Caraway of corruption is not just any lawsuit. If Caraway can’t quickly pony up some persuasive public responses to these charges, he can forget about running for mayor in 2019 —…
Last week, unless you had the good fortune of staying off the internet, you couldn’t miss it. Dallas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions got asked about ending no-fault divorce in Texas, put his foot in his mouth and took all sorts of hell for it. Sessions’ comments, to be sure, are…
