Work crews are dismantling a Dallas statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a Dallas park bearing his name. The statue had nearly been taken down last week, but a court order and fatal traffic accident delayed the statue’s removal. The Dallas Observer’s Facebook Live coverage is here. You…
Selena Gomez has been laying low this summer. We’ve occasionally seen her out with her boyfriend, The Weeknd, or promoting her new handbag with Coach. Her last big appearance was in May, at the Met Gala in New York City. Now we know why. The North Texas native revealed on…
All this online nattering about how much money the Dallas mayor and City Council are wasting on taking down the Robert E. Lee memorial is just insipid. True, the takedown, estimated to cost about $500,000, is taking too long. But the delays have been unavoidable, and the penny-pinching argument is…
Meredith Hight was just trying to host cookout to celebrate the Cowboys with her seven friends. She invited them over early Sunday afternoon, and a neighbor later reported hearing them laughing as they grilled. A few hours later, all were dead. Nine people were killed Sunday night, with one critically…
Rachel Vergara has no plan as she approaches the security checkpoint for the Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex on Monday afternoon. She’s simply trying to get someone from the Bureau of Federal Prisons to hear her concerns about what she hears is happening inside the federal prison in Beaumont…
We hate to do this to you and possibly ruin your morning, but Texas Sen.Ted Cruz liked a pornographic video on Twitter earlier this morning. @SexuallPosts published the tweet Monday and Cruz liked the tweet for about an hour before unliking it. The porn account then retweeted an account using…
A bloodbath erupted at a Dallas Cowboys watch party Sunday night in Plano when a gunman shot and killed seven people and wounded two others before police killed him. It was the largest murder scene Plano police have ever seen, according to the department. Witnesses claimed that the shooting erupted…
The city’s star-crossed efforts to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee took a tragic turn Sunday night when a crane on its way from Houston was struck by an 18-wheeler, killing the driver of the truck and badly damaging the crane. Before the accident a small crowd…
The 2017 Rangers are the platonic ideal of a mediocre baseball team. Through the first five-plus months of the season, they’ve never dipped more than seven games under .500 — they were 13-20 on May 8 — nor have the Rangers ever climbed more than three games above .500 —…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will not begin serving his six-game suspension until the resolution of his federal lawsuit, which could last well into 2018. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III issued a preliminary injunction Friday afternoon, essentially agreeing with Elliott and the NFL Players Association that Elliott has…
The Robert E. Lee statue at Lee Park will not be coming down today. Late Friday morning, Michael Van Enter, the art conservator charged with preserving the statue as it’s removed, said that work couldn’t continue on the statue until a crane was in place and an appropriate work crew could…
Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Next Generation Action Network head Dominque Alexander on Thursday morning at his home in North Dallas on theft charges stemming from a 2016 dispute with an employer. Police took Alexander to Denton County Jail, where he was booked and released on $1,500 bail. Alexander is…
A federal judge dissolved a temporary restraining order Thursday that barred the city of Dallas from removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from Lee Park. U.S. District Judge Sydney Fitzwater approved the order yesterday, halting the work crews that had started the demolition at Lee Park. Plaintiffs argued that their…
Hiram Patterson, whose name is on the federal complaint that stopped the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Dallas Wednesday, is a Confederate history buff who has very little idea what his own complaint is about. In fact, at the end of the day Wednesday, even after a…
They began gathering well before noon Wednesday, greeted by police and gathered around barricades surrounding Lee Park. They wanted action, either to see the statue of Robert E. Lee taken down after a Dallas City Council vote that seemed preordained, or to see it saved at the last minute. Around…
Even as work crews began dismantling the Robert E Lee statue, it seems a court has intervened. Councilman Scott Griggs posted on Facebook that a Temporary Restraining Order has been granted in federal court preventing the statue of Robert E. Lee from coming down. “Case filed by Hiram Patterson against…
After an hour spent listening to the public and another hour stating their own positions, the Dallas City Council voted 13-1 today to pull down an equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in an upscale neighborhood near downtown. Within hours of the vote a crane appeared at the…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will not begin serving his potential six-game suspension until at least week two, when the team plays the Denver Broncos, after a federal court hearing in Sherman on Tuesday night. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant III did not rule on Elliott’s request for a…
On Tuesday, U. Renee Hall officially took over as Dallas’ chief of police in an atypical way. Traditionally, Dallas’ chiefs have been sworn in on their first day in a public ceremony. Thanks to Hall’s background, she was unable to do so. Officers coming to Texas from outside the state…
Today Dallas comes to a wonderful and terrible crossroad. All indications are that the City Council will vote, probably 14-1, to pull down the city’s many Confederate monuments to white racial privilege. If we have only one council member still in favor of white racial privilege, that will be just…
It was a long weekend, so there was plenty of time for sleuths to pour through the thousands of pages of exhibits that accompanied Ezekiel Elliott and the NFL Players Associations’ request for a temporary restraining order against the league. While Elliott’s lawsuit is intended to cutoff the six-game suspension…
Last March, over breakfast, Bobby Abtahi learned Mayor Mike Rawlings appointed him to replace Max Wells as president of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board. The position is more political than it sounds, but “I’m not a politician,” Abtahi maintains during a recent interview with the Dallas Observer. “I’m a public…
