Whether you’re a young couple breezing through a Design District apartment complex or Observer freelancer Danny Gallagher acting on a whim, there’s a better than zero chance that when presented with cheap, two-wheeled motorized transportation on demand, you’ve given in. There’s also a better than zero chance that once you’ve begun…
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The 2018 Texas Rangers were supposed to be fringe contenders, hanging on to probably false wild card hope until mid-August or early September. They weren’t going to make the playoffs, but they weren’t going to be that bad, either. Instead, it has been…
For several hours in the immediate aftermath of the downtown Dallas ambush that left five police officers dead on July 7, 2016, Mark Hughes was the most wanted man in America. Now, more than two years later and with his name fully cleared, he is suing Dallas and the Dallas…
Texas voter turnout is abysmal at every level. It doesn’t matter if you’re voting in a school board election, for your next mayor, for your favored presidential nominee or for the president; you’re among the minority in the Lone Star State to show up and make your voice heard. The…
TheBlaze, the conservative cable media company established in Dallas by former Fox News host and chalkboard enthusiast Glenn Beck, seems to be struggling to stay afloat. And based on Beck’s recent CNN interview, that’s starting to get to its founding father. Beck built his media business in the old Studios…
High-speed rail, the white whale of North Texas transportation planners, has some competition, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council plans to announce Wednesday. In addition to rail, the RTC will consider Virgin’s Hyperloop One technology in an upcoming environmental impact study of a high-speed connector for Dallas, Arlington and Fort…
Late last week, President Donald Trump opened the latest front in his ever-expanding trade war, announcing 25-percent tariffs on a long list of Chinese imports. The Chinese government responded in kind, creating similar tariffs on a bevy of U.S. agricultural products. While neither the U.S. nor the Chinese economy has…
I told you Monday about the possibility — probably remote — that the new Margaret McDermott (Santiago Calatrava) Bridge over the Trinity River downtown might wind up being demolished before it can open for its first day of traffic. In some of the responses I got, I think I was…
Texas candidates in the November midterm elections were quick to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s selection of Brett Kavanaugh, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said on Twitter that he…
Hundreds of people will file into Deep Ellum’s Canton Hall on Friday night to listen to three regulars and a special guest — not atypical for a venue that’s slated to host musicians such as Lil B, The Mountain Goats and Kurt Vile over the next couple of months. This…
The Cowboys’ already thin secondary might be getting a bit thinner. Second-year cornerback Marquez White faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly brandishing a gun at a fellow driver on the Dallas North Tollway late last year. White admitted Monday to flashing the gun at…
Some people in a Lake Highlands were dismayed earlier this summer when a Hustler sex shop raised its “COMING SOON” banner at a property near the LBJ service road and Abrams Road. A middle-class neighborhood in Dallas protesting an adult store isn’t exactly shocking. More surprising is that the Dallas…
Despite finding himself in the midst of an unprecedented run of good fortune, Ken Paxton, Texas’ still-indicted attorney general, insists on making trouble for himself. If there’s litigation to be filed or glommed onto related to conservatives’ pet causes, the attorney general will be there, leading the charge against a…
The moment has arrived when we must expand our thinking about the new and troubled Margaret McDermott Bridge designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava on the Trinity River downtown. We’ve got to add at least one extreme outcome to the far end of the spectrum of possibilities. It may have…
Dallas officials reopened water activities at White Rock Lake this week after crews worked all weekend to stave off a million gallons of sewage flowing toward it from Plano. A construction crew there accidentally dug into a sewage pipe, sending the waste to Dallas along White Rock Creek. The lake…
Getting home from his holiday shift Wednesday, Dallas police Officer Nick Novello decided, not for the first time, that he’d had enough. After another understaffed stint at the Central Patrol Division, Novello sat down and wrote a letter to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, continuing a series of warnings he’s issued…
Justin Nelson hit three bars on a short pub crawl Thursday night. It wasn’t a big task. The attorney, University of Texas law school professor and Democratic candidate for Texas attorney general traversed less than half a mile visiting Shangri-la, Ah Sing Den and the Easy Tiger on East Sixth…
Rafael Palmeiro has proved something this spring and summer. It’s not exactly clear what. The Rangers legend and North Texas resident has played in about two dozen games for the Cleburne Railroaders, an independent minor league team. Palmeiro is 53 and was strongly linked to steroid use at the end…
I’m not really supposed to tell you this, but sometimes I find myself writing about a topic for a long time, and then all of a sudden I wonder what in the world I’m even talking about. Yeah, I know. You can’t believe that. Shocked and amazed. But it happens…
For Texas Democrats, the big blow came last week. Tuesday was just the insult added to the injury. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 that the overwhelming majority of the congressional and legislative districts that Democrats have claimed for decades were racially gerrymandered were perfectly fine. On Tuesday afternoon,…
By the time Luke Laufenberg sat down at Mia’s, his life was destined to get worse before it got better. “I was eating alone, hoping the pain in my bones would just sort of magically disappear,” Luke says of his lunch in December. “But before I could finish, it was…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding Fort Worth ISD show him a sixth-grade sexuality and gender curriculum that has been taught for about five years now. In a letter to the school district, the sixth-largest in the state, Paxton said the district had told some parents that their kids could…
