Just as Dallas’ skirmish over the bike-share wave of 2017 seems to be winding down, a new front is opening up in the city’s ongoing quest to prove that if you squint and tilt your head just right, you can actually maybe get by in Dallas without a car —…
White Rock Lake is officially back to normal after more than a million gallons of sewage threatened the recreation spot late last week. At 5 a.m. Tuesday, the White Rock dog park will reopen, allowing the lake’s furriest visitors to get back in the water for the first time since…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political career should be on its last legs. Throughout his first term, he’s been dogged by controversy. He’s under indictment for alleged securities violations, although his trial is unlikely to begin before 2019. His defense of Texas’ ill-fated 2013 abortion law cost the state millions…
Scot Miller is a nationally renowned nature photographer who happens to live in Dallas. His books of photography depict world-famous places like Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and Yosemite National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. His illustrated 100th anniversary edition of John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra,…
Almost three years to the day after first agreeing to a free-agent deal, DeAndre Jordan and the Dallas Mavericks are ready to take the leap again. They agreed over the weekend to a one-year contract for a little more than $24 million, according to multiple reports. If and when the…
Dallas officials cut off all water recreational activities at White Rock Lake on Thursday afternoon until further notice after 1,000,000 gallons of untreated wastewater flowed into White Rock Creek for about 12 hours Wednesday night and Thursday morning, threatening the lake. The pollution stems from a Wednesday afternoon construction accident…
Three Dallas Police Department officers — two senior corporals and a sergeant — turned themselves in Thursday afternoon on gambling promotion charges. DPD declined to name the law enforcement agency Sgt. Shannon Browning, Senior Cpl. Edward Van Meter and Senior Cpl. Roger Williams, turned themselves into. Their arrests are the latest in a…
Finally, about a year after hordes of multicolored bikes descended on the city, Dallas has definitive bike-share regulations. Electric scooters are coming to the city, too, after the City Council voted Wednesday to temporarily allow the stand-up two-wheelers. Since the bikes showed up last fall, the five companies that own…
Texas reproductive rights groups and their legal allies made a major move earlier this month. In attempt to reclaim the abortion rights that Texas Legislature has slowly chipped away over the last decade, the groups sued the state. Two weeks after the lawsuit was filed on June 14, however, the…
When you’re the kind of hard-hitting, pavement-pounding capital-J Journalist Jim Schutze is, you’re not content taking questions on Facebook Live from the comforts of your cushy (sort of), fluorescent-lit Oak Lawn office. That would be amateur and you, darling, are no amateur. No, you go straight to the people you…
This year has been something of a turning point for Major League Baseball. While it’s been almost two decades since the Chicago Cubs hosted the league’s first LGBTQ fan day at Wrigley Field in 2001, this year’s celebrations and events show that acknowledging and celebrating the diversity of baseball’s fan…
Are these strange times? Yes. These are very strange times. Here’s an example: Rick Perry is now a genius. No, in fact, it’s more than that. Our former leader, the one and only Governor Oops, is not only being called the smartest man in the White House, but people also…
A police chase that began with a suspicious person call, crossed through three cities and shut down part of a major highway ended after the man driving the car being chased won a struggle with a pursuing police officer for the officer’s gun, the Dallas Police Department said late Tuesday…
On March 10, Shellie Ross, executive director of the Wesley-Rankin Community Center, took a busload of West Dallas youthsto the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas. The purpose of the trip was to educate the students about Mexican-American history and introduce them to activists in…
The suicide of someone famous, like a Kate Spade or an Anthony Bourdain, ignites a hunt for clues in news media and in private conversations. Some can’t believe their celebrity heroes took their seemingly perfect lives. In the dash for answers to the difficult question of why a Spade or…
The Heart of Dallas Bowl, the city’s annual post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s showcase at the Cotton Bowl for two aggressively mediocre college football teams, looks likely to survive after a Monday compromise for the city to continue paying ESPN to host the game. That doesn’t mean the game’s going to be…
Mark Cuban made a mistake Monday afternoon. A TMZ camera found him outside a restaurant in California, and the Mavs owner actually stopped and talked to the paparazzo. Quickly, Cuban was talking about the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia and its decision to deny service to White House press secretary…
Just like that, Texas years-long fight over its congressional and state legislative districts is over, thanks to a Monday morning decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The GOP-led Texas Legislature, the court ruled, did not intentionally discriminate against minorities when it approved the state’s electoral map. By a 5-4 partisan…
In this case, at least, Dallas pulled its hand back before it got slapped. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state law regarding the disposal of solid waste preempted Laredo’s plastic bag ban. Similar bans in about a dozen other Texas cities are now effectively dead…
Dallas school trustee Joyce Foreman urged the Dallas City Council last week to begin using its power over real estate zoning as a sword to chop off new charter schools at the knees by denying zoning for new campuses. She accused the charters of bleeding the public school system of…
Over the weekend, the Texas Democratic Party, still big if not that powerful, took over downtown Fort Worth for its biennial state convention. The party’s full slate of statewide nominees preached to the assembled choir, and the party did its business, passing a platform calling for a bunch of stuff…
In the end, it made too much sense not to happen. Thanks to a trade with the Atlanta Hawks, the Dallas Mavericks came away from the NBA draft Thursday night with the player they’ve coveted throughout the draft process. Luka Doncic is 6-foot-8, has the ball-handling skills of point guard,…
