Apparently still smarting from Donald Trump’s huge, tremendous Electoral College victory in 2016, the League of United Latin American Citizens and a high-powered legal team sued four states, including Texas, challenging the way the states give out their electoral votes in presidential elections. By handing them out to the first politician…
Former Mavericks President Terdema Ussery, a driving force in the team’s front office for almost two decades, repeatedly harassed, demeaned and made unwanted advances toward multiple team employees before his departure from the club in 2015, a report released by Sports Illustrated on Tuesday night claims. Another team employee, Mavs.com beat…
Nothing gets attention these days like denouncing people on the other side of a social issue. It’s a thing the Russians seem to have spotted in us. They are eagerly egging us on with their bot and troll campaign. I wonder if they know about Dwaine Caraway yet. The Dallas…
Two Fort Worth women are suing the federal government and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after being denied the opportunity to serve as foster parents to an unaccompanied refugee child. Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin say that Catholic Charities Fort Worth, the only organization in Texas that partners with…
Without Texas, there wouldn’t have be a Nigerian bobsled team at the 2018 Olympics. In 2016, Seun Adigun, a University of Houston track coach and former track and field Olympian, recruited Mesquite’s Ngozi Onwumere — who served as Nigeria’s flag-bearer in the games’ opening ceremonies — to form Nigeria’s first…
Dr. Daniel Maynard was the first red flag in Dallas. Called by some a “kindhearted doctor,” he handed out cash to hungry people and pills to chronic pain sufferers. The Associated Press wrote in a June 2003 story that the 57-year-old doctor was “an institution in a part of town where…
This week the Rangers kick off the long road toward what appears to be an inevitable also-ran finish with the beginning of spring training in Surprise, Arizona. The team’s pitchers and catchers showed up last Wednesday, as required, with position players trickling in over the rest of the week before…
Monday morning, Dallas finally rolled out its performance dashboard, which is supposed to give residents something close to a real time look at some of the things they care most about, like police response times, street repairs and homeless services. There are 35 items included on the dashboard, all part…
Last weekend I caught up with the parents of Luca Romero, the 2-year-old boy mauled by a pit bull at a dog adoption event in Klyde Warren Park last December. Because I have written about the attack here before, I thought I should share with you a little bit of…
Dwaine Caraway isn’t afraid of guns. In fact, he’s a big supporter of the Second Amendment, something he made clear Monday morning at City Hall. The Dallas City Council member owns guns and thinks his constituents have the right to do so, too. He just doesn’t want the National Rifle…
Two things — something that happened in my neighborhood last week and the school slaughter in Parkland, Florida — have conspired to reignite a line of thought plaguing me on and off over the last year or so. I’m thinking about the principle of community policing. I used to believe…
At a little before 1 a.m. Friday, Austin became the first city in the South to protect workers with mandatory paid sick leave. No matter their employers, any person working in Austin will get at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 worked, up to a maximum…
Plano City Council member Tom Harrison, after listening to his united council colleagues call on him to do the “honorable” thing and resign for publishing anti-Islamic posts on his Facebook page, delivered a short, simple reply: “I will not comment about anything on the advice of my attorney, but I…
The Plano City Council will debate council member Tom Harrison’s fate at noon Sunday, following repeated calls from Plano’s mayor that Harrison resign. Tuesday night, Harrison reposted an anti-Muslim video on his Facebook page. The video, created by “Joined Hands Across America For Trump,” shows purportedly Muslim children engaged in…
You take whatever position you like on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. I will always think of him as an acolyte of Satan. Now he’s moving to suppress an effort by certain public school districts to increase voter show-up at the polls. Right. And the wolf admonished Little Red Riding…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board officially signed off on a fare increase earlier this week, bringing its prices in line with the nation’s most robust transit systems. The new fare structure, initially proposed last spring and effective Aug. 1, raises the price of most fares by 20 percent but caps the…
After another assault-weapon-assisted tragedy, this time at a Florida high school, the usual actors took their usual marks quickly. Thoughts and prayers, so many thoughts and prayers, rang out from Republicans’ social media accounts while gun-control supporters retreated to the fatalism that’s come from so many mass shootings and so…
Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall’s days as an out-of-uniform civilian administrator are over. The Dallas Police Department announced Thursday morning that Hall has passed her Texas Commission on Law Enforcement licensing exam, making her a real Texas police officer and allowing her to wear a DPD uniform. “TCOLE test done!…
Texas’ voter turnout has gotten slightly better over the last half-decade but remains among the worst in the country, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin. The state ranks 44th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in voter registration, and it ranked…
Former Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel announced his return to football Wednesday, spurning a potential offer from the Canadian Football League for a spot in the Spring League, a four-game showcase of mostly former NFL players in Austin in late March and early April. “Football has…
I’ve got a serious case of what I believe the shrinks would call cognitive dissonance going on here, involving a conflict between local news and the news from the White House. First, the local: A suburban Dallas mother and father have been sentenced to federal prison — the mother for…
A Plano City Council member is under fire after posting a video to Facebook calling on President Donald Trump to “ban Islam in American schools.” The video, posted Tuesday night by Tom Harrison, first elected to an at-large spot on the council in 2015, rotates through several photos of happy…
