Wednesday morning, a woman came into an Arlington pharmacy, demanded narcotics and then shot the pharmacist when he turned her down. At least that’s what Arlington Police said at first. By Wednesday afternoon, the story had changed about what happened at Remco Pharmacy on Division Street. As is apparent from…
Barely one month after the murders of five police officers in the streets of Dallas, the police and fire unions are using those deaths in a ham-fisted attempt to intimidate the City Council on pay issues. Mayor Mike Rawlings blasted the groups at a council briefing Wednesday: “That’s not the…
Eight months have passed since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans to repair a 161-footlong slide affecting the upstream side of the Lewisville Lake Dam. As heavy rains fall across the region, sources tell the Observer that the repairs are still a month away from completion. The slide collapsed…
The Dallas City Council Housing Committee may not agree on the best way to disperse affordable housing throughout the city, but they are on the same page when it comes to what they don’t want. No one wants Texas state lawmakers in Austin to tell the city of Dallas what…
There are scores of beloved Texas brands that were born here but are no longer manufactured in the Lone Star State, thanks to mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing to other countries and all that. So here we celebrate those global products — cowboy hats, pickup trucks, warplanes, guns, hot sauce — that…
When Mark Montgomery beat incumbent Wade Emmert to become the chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, it was widely viewed as a fluke. Montgomery’s short stint at the head of the local party drove the point home. The unknown Tea Partier proved unable to raise money and resigned earlier…
When you think you’ve got a done deal at Dallas City Hall, that’s when you need to check to see if you’ve still got your wallet. No, that’s when you need to check to see if you’ve still got your pants. Oh, sure, I told you here a week ago…
Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s proposed new rail line through downtown has been met with plenty of controversy. Some in Deep Ellum, though, feel they haven’t been given the same say as property owners downtown in the path of the line called D2. On Monday night, community organizations put on the…
Kenny Martin stood next to his wife’s driver side window, pointing a Colt .45-caliber revolver at her as she waited in her Jeep at a stoplight at the intersection of Central Avenue and Southlake Boulevard. Linda Martin was speaking on the phone as he aimed. A small balding man, the 52-year-old Martin often…
Let’s back off 10 feet and look at both the nose and the tail of this rat now gnawing at the city’s new downtown law school. The University of North Texas Dallas College of Law (DCL), about to begin its third year of operation, is threatened with non-accreditation by the…
The most important takeaway from the Dallas Cowboys’ 28-24 loss to the Los Angeles Rams Saturday night is simply that football is back. The result doesn’t really matter, although it had to feel good for the nearly 90,000 fans who crammed into the Los Angeles Coliseum to celebrate the return…
It’s common knowledge that the child welfare system in Texas is broken. Most advocates and professionals in foster care would probably agree that the years of severe underfunding have been the largest contributors to the flawed system. There’s nothing new on that front. Texas Department for Family and Protective Services faces…
Here’s a shoutout from Dallas to national Republicans, asking if you think your grand old party is capable of keeping a person with serious mental problems in office just to prevent a Democrat from getting the job. If you live here in Dallas, it’s an important local question. If you…
In a big first step for the city of Dallas’ nascent battle against the thousands of loose dogs believed to be roaming the city, the Dallas Police Department made its first ever felony arrest of a dog owner for an attack by their dog. Alicia Hernandez, 64, is in Dallas County…
Think of me as the guy in the safety glasses behind the window in the little wire-cage tool room, standing at the counter all day jotting stuff down on a pad as it goes out and comes back in. Only instead of “Tool Room” over the window, it says “Mayoral…
Andrew Duffey, 31, sat outside Dallas City Hall in the sweltering heat on Wednesday and smoked a cigarette. He was mulling over the city council meeting that he just witnessed, one of an estimated 200 homeless men and women who attended that morning. They arrived with hopes of speaking to…
The NFL will not bend its rules, not even to let the Cowboys support the beleaguered Dallas Police Department. Since the beginning of training camp, the Cowboys have sported a sticker on the back of their helmets signaling solidarity with the department after the ambush and slaying of 5 officers…
After more than three months, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk is retaking her post. Hawk announced Thursday morning that she has returned to her office following recent stints in mental health facilities in Houston and Tucson. Since taking office in 2015, Hawk has sought in-patient treatment for major depressive…
Dallas police and activists, thrown together to make nice during the aftermath of the July 7 killing of 5 officers, are having a very hard time balancing the right to assemble with security concerns. Wednesday began with a couple dozen members of Dominique Alexander’s Next Generation Action Network showing up…
Donald Trump, somehow, is not sure to win Texas’ 38 electoral votes in November’s presidential election. Trump needs all the help he can get just to hang onto a state that is absolutely essential to any chance he has of becoming president. Texans have been all to willing to step…
The cost of banning Three Expo’s Exxxotica porn convention from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center is still mounting. Instead of reaching an agreement with Exxxotica’s founder J. Handy to settle the suit, Dallas hired a group of the most experienced and ideological business lawyers it could find to fight Handy in…
Dallas knows a thing or two about assassination conspiracies. We know that the more important conspirator is usually the political climate, not the shooter. Properly stoked with hate, violence and dehumanizing vilification, the climate will find its shooter. A Lee Harvey Oswald will step forward to kill JFK or a…
