On Tuesday afternoon, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced a plan to help President Trump build the multi-billion dollar wall along the Mexican border that both politicians insist is essential securing America. Cruz’s proposal would fund the wall with cash seized from illegal drug proceeds and identified the assets of drug…
Flying taxis are coming to DFW, and Mayor Mike Rawlings and Ross Perot Jr. are waving them in for a landing. In Dallas on Tuesday, Uber announced plans to expand its ride-ordering app to the skies, with customers ordering helicopters as easily as they send for ground vehicles. The rides…
Certainly Matt Wood, the challenger in the District 14 City Council race, would have had a better shot on May 6 without the baggage of a clumsily heavy-handed negative ad campaign against his opponent, incumbent Philip Kingston. The fact is that the presence in the race of a richly funded…
“Sorry I’m sweaty,” Mark Cuban says, shaking hands with the ESPN China correspondents waiting for him outside the Mavericks locker room at American Airlines Center. He’s wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt, just minutes removed from the stair machine he habitually exercises on while taking pregame questions from basketball beat reporters. The two-person…
The city of Dallas ongoing public safety is at risk after missing hiring targets and increasing officer attrition, interim Dallas Police Chief David Pughes said Monday. According to the chief, Dallas could dip below 3,000 police officers this summer, a staffing level Pughes identifies as a tipping point for the…
A key marking executive of American Airlines is leaving “to spend time with his family, according to a copy of his resignation obtained by the Chicago Business Journal,” a move made in the aftermath of several high-profile missteps. Those include a messy roll-out of uniforms that employees lambasted as unwearable…
Note: This article will be updated as more information is available. The Dallas police and fire departments evacuated an office building at 8330 LBJ Freeway Monday morning following reports of multiple gun shots in the building. Just before 1 p.m., Dallas police confirmed that the building is safe. One police…
Monday morning marks the beginning of the fourth day of jury deliberations in the federal corruption case against Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and his executive assistant, Dapheny Fain. Price is accused of accepting about $1 million in cash and other benefits in exchange for confidential information and influence,…
The mayor, who has steadfastly denied any role or interest in West Dallas gentrification, is now actively working behind the scenes as a real estate broker to get a major West Dallas landholder to sell $20 million worth of land at what appears to be 10 percent of its current…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wants to snuff out attempted voter fraud in Dallas before it starts during this Dallas City Council election season. Friday, Dallas state Representative Eric Johnson joined Rawlings to call attention to Dallas County’s efforts to investigate media reports of dozens of voters receiving mail-in ballots they…
A Dallas County jury found former Dallas Police Department officer Bryan Burgess not guilty Friday afternoon of criminally negligent homicide in death of Fred Bradford Jr. In 2013 Burgess hit and killed Bradford, who was riding on a bicycle, with his police car after a brief chase in South Dallas…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has a lot of problems with Texas state Representative Dan Flynn’s bill to fix Dallas’ failing police and fire pension system. On Thursday afternoon, he aired them in a letter aimed at Dallas residents. The letter also laid out the fixes he believes can save the bill,…
For the second month in a row, a U.S. district court panel on Thursday afternoon found that a Texas district map illegally discriminates against minority voters. In March, a three-judge panel ruled that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally limits the effects of votes cast by Texas’ ethnic minorities. Thursday, a…
A group of middle school-aged boys laughed as their friend jumped a smaller boy at T.W. Browne Middle School in Oak Cliff. At least one of the onlookers whipped out his cell phone and filmed a video of the incident, which began circulating on Facebook Tuesday night. As the victim…
Texans of all stripes came out in force against the Texas House’s bathroom bill Wednesday night, stretching a late-night public hearing for House Bill 2899 well into Thursday morning. City leaders from Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso called the bill discriminatory and transgender Texans from across the state…
Yesterday, the Middle East’s largest airline announced a 20 percent cut in flights to the United States. One can almost hear the applause coming from the airlines and union headquarters here in North Texas. For years, airlines and unions have argued that carriers from the Persian Gulf have been taking…
Lackluster staffing and network issues between T-Mobile and the city of Dallas are to blame for the city’s recent spikes in 911 wait times, Dallas police officials told the City Council Wednesday, and work is still needed to fix the problem. Wait times, according to Dallas Police Chief David Pughes and…
Rapt jurors heard head-snappingly different narratives Tuesday in closing arguments by prosecutors and defense lawyers on the last day in the eight-week trial of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. The city’s highest profile black politician is accused by the federal government of bribery and income tax cheating. Price, the…
Muffled by a silencer, the gunshots from the killer’s 9mm made no more noise than a six-pack opening as he fired into a parked Range Rover. Wearing a hoodie, his face covered by a bandanna, the drug cartel hit man tattooed the front passenger side window with at least seven…
What happened to Dallas Fire Station 57? Dallas Fire-Rescue announced its closure in early April after an inspection by the city revealed asbestos in the floor tiles. City officials claimed that it was a precautionary measure until further testing could be conducted and that a number of stations have been…
The saga that ended with Steric Paul Mitchell getting 35 years of federal prison time began nearly four years ago with a 911 call. The woman on the line, as the Observer’s Eric Nicholson reported at the time, was frantic. She told the dispatcher she’d been kidnapped the day before. She…
After spending much of the beginning of the 2017 Texas legislative session refusing to take a position on his state’s controversial “bathroom bill,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced his support for the legislation Tuesday afternoon. “As the debate on this issue continues, I will work with the House and Senate…
