The wolf is at the door in South Dallas. The very near future could see massive dispossession and displacement there to dwarf the city’s long, ugly history elsewhere of dispossession and displacement. The elected leadership of South Dallas not only will fail to raise a hand to protect it. They…
For a few moments Sunday evening and as this week got started, we actually felt a little bad for Ted Cruz. At the Conservative Political Action Conference a couple of weeks ago, Cruz shook hands with a man later diagnosed as having been infected with the coronavirus. Cruz did the…
Robert Wilonsky’s column Thursday in The Dallas Morning News will be his last as the paper’s full-time city columnist. After more than 30 years working for the Observer, LA Weekly and the Morning News, Wilonsky is moving on. He’s taking a new day job as the communications director for Dallas’ Heritage…
A Tarrant County resident tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, health officials there announced Tuesday evening. The person is the sixth reported case of the novel coronavirus in North Texas and the 21st in the state, according to Texas Health and Human Services.
Last month, the Dallas City Council met for a daylong retreat at the city’s new Holocaust museum. It included, apparently, a dance party. “Mayor, you really did get the best dance,” said Kimberly Tolbert, the city manager’s chief of staff, at a briefing last week. “Just continue to remain light…
As Dallas ISD students and their parents get ready to head off for spring break, the district is working on a plan to keep everyone safe once they get back. The district’s spring break is next week, and officials are asking parents to fill out forms detailing any domestic or…
Given the results of last week’s primary in Dallas County, whatever’s in the mystery boxes discovered by county elections officials last week isn’t going to matter. While a few races were close, none of them were close enough that they’re going to be swung by adding 44 vote centers’ worth…
Dallas County reported its first case of the novel coronavirus after an out-of-state traveler tested “presumptive positive” for the disease, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced Tuesday afternoon. Jenkins described the person as “a 77-year-old out-of-state traveler with extensive travel history” and said the person is being treated at a Dallas-area…
The wife and child of a Frisco man who tested “presumed positive” Monday for the novel coronavirus have also tested positive for the disease, Collin County officials said Tuesday. County officials said the man traveled to Silicon Valley for business in late February. Santa Clara County, California, has been the…
On Friday, organizers from the city and several nonprofits met with a dozen volunteers outside the Dallas Farmers Market. They were there to inaugurate the city’s newest civic enhancement: its “first-ever protected micro-mobility facility,” as it’s been referred to by planners. In other words, a bike lane — which now…
During the United States’ last big infectious disease crisis, Dallas went first. On Sept. 30, 2014, Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who’d recently traveled to Dallas, tested positive for Ebola, setting off weeks of fear and uncertainty. Two nurses who treated Duncan, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, also contracted…
As much as we hate to do it, we’re about to give First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress more of the thing he loves more than anything else in the world: attention. If you’ve driven through downtown Dallas or made the rounds on the internet in the last week or…
Collin County health officials have identified a Frisco man as a “presumptive positive” case of the novel coronavirus. The man, who is in his late 30s, had recently traveled to California, where 114 cases of the virus have been confirmed, said Collin County Judge Chris Hill. The man is in…
A few minutes before 8 on a Thursday night last month, dozens of students, faculty and staff members crowded into a classroom in Baylor University’s Marrs McLean Science Building. Some stood in groups chatting. One faculty member stopped each student she didn’t already know, introduced herself and asked them about…
Many, many good candidates won their primaries last week in Texas. This story is not about those candidates. No, this story is about all the bad candidates — some with bad ideas, some with questionable moral compasses and some who are just washed up — who managed to survive Tuesday,…
If we were to be perfectly honest with each other, which we never will be, we would agree on a few things about voting in Texas and in Dallas. Rich white Republicans would prefer to see fewer, rather than more middle class and poor nonwhite Democrats show up at the…
The threat level for the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is still low for most Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But that doesn’t mean officials and the public shouldn’t take precautions, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred said during a town hall meeting Friday. Allred, as…
Sen. Ted Cruz announced Sunday evening that he’ll be spending the better part of a week at home after meeting a person later later confirmed to have COVID-19 — the disease stemming from the novel coronavirus — at the Conservative Political Action Conference week before last. Cruz is not sick…
Austin city officials announced Friday afternoon that this year’s SXSW festival has been canceled over concerns about the novel coronavirus. In a statement, festival organizers said they were “devastated” by the cancellation of the festival, which was scheduled for March 13-21, but would try to reschedule the event. Organizers said…
From 2015 to 2018, Rent-A-Center, a Plano-based rent-to-own company, signed a series of illegal agreements with its competitors to shut out competition, according to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. It will now walk away with a slap on the wrist. At the time, the company was struggling. Its…
The waiting, always the hardest part, is over for Dallas sports fans. On Thursday, YouTube TV and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, five days removed from an emergency extension that kept Fox Sports Southwest on the streaming service, agreed to a long-term contract extension. That means local broadcasts of the Mavericks, Stars…
Texas Democrats are making hay out of a Super Tuesday that saw voters wait as long as seven hours to cast their ballots after polls closed in Texas. The party, along with national Democratic campaign groups, is suing the state to allow voters to continue voting a straight ticket, if…
