This can’t be what the Republican Party wanted. With the party facing a seemingly unending string of negative media coverage and scandal, East Texas U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, basically /r/the_Donald, were the subreddit given breath and a seat in the House of Representatives, has led the news twice this week,…
In the midst of what was a busy Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn joined his fellow Texas politicians, rolling out his own plan — called the Restoring, Enhancing, Strengthening, and Promoting Our Nation’s Safety Efforts (RESPONSE) Act — to stop the mass shootings that have plagued Texas in…
At a little after 9 a.m. Wednesday, Kristen Dale was walking the halls of Thomas Edison Middle Learning Center in West Dallas, stopping groups of kids as they passed. Where are you headed? Do you know where you’re going? she asked. Some of them, being teenagers, tried to blow her…
Pine Creek Medical Center, assailed by unprofitability, failures in patient care and accusations of fraud, quietly shut down this past summer. Signs posted on the front doors of the 15-bed hospital said it had closed July 24 and directed anyone seeking emergency help to call 911. Beds, generators and medical…
Something important in local education has happened over the last few days, a story that has already slipped beneath the wave of tornado news. It is worth noting as both a harbinger of progress and a very depressing reminder why progress comes hard. Dallas school Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has announced…
Something stupid happened at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. That’s all you need to know, to know that East Texas U.S. House Rep. Louie Gohmert was right in the middle of it. Gohmert, along with several fellow acolytes of President Donald Trump, decided that the best way for them to…
The Dallas Morning News editorial page took a blindfolded backward step off the diving board Monday in an editorial asserting that police have an “obligation of deference” to armed homeowners in terms of who may shoot first. As its predicate for this insane suggestion, the paper exploits the horrible case…
Heritage Auctions, a Dallas-based auction house, was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday that took its website offline through the weekend. Many auctions were rescheduled and some Friday bids were lost, but customer data was not leaked, according to updates posted on the company’s website. The website was back…
In a state where everyone’s blind, the one-eyed cities are kings, or something like that. That’s the big takeaway from a new study from the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Texas’ cities, the only places in the state where women can actually seek out a legal abortion, lag behind cities…
When the Texas Legislature convenes for its next session in 2021, it will have a new speaker. Tuesday morning, the current speaker, Angleton Republican Dennis Bonnen, announced that, after two decades in the House and one term as speaker, he would not seek reelection. “It is with the deepest love,…
Most, if not all, of the students at Dallas ISD schools that were shut down after Sunday’s tornadoes can expect to be back in school this week. But exactly where they’ll be in school is another matter. School officials canceled classes Monday at 20 campuses where the storm had knocked…
A Dallas County jury closed the books on one of the county’s highest profile cases of the year Monday afternoon, convicting Edward Thomas of simple assault. Thomas, 29, beat up Muhlaysia Booker in April. The attack, caught on cellphone video, went viral. Thomas and Booker started fighting after getting into…
The video making social media rounds, the one that shows a Dallas Police Department officer carrying two liquor bottles in front of a tornado-damaged liquor store in North Dallas, has an innocuous explanation, according to the department. The officer, who has yet to be identified, was actually trying to prevent…
North Texas residents and officials are assessing damage Monday morning from a tornado that ripped through Dallas late Sunday evening. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in Dallas around 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Tornadoes were also reported elsewhere in Dallas County, as well as Rockwall County. The tornado…
Help me keep track of The Dallas Morning News editorial page here. I guess I’m just confused. First, let’s look at murders. The paper’s editorial page last week said the killing of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her own home by a Fort Worth police officer was one of those important…
Until Friday morning, anyone looking to report police misconduct to Dallas’ new Office of Community Police Oversight would have had a hard time figuring out how. Instructions on a Dallas police website for submitting complaints led callers to a disconnected number. A link to the office responsible for collecting complaints…
Big-time political rallies, more than anything, are about waiting. Doesn’t matter if the crowd is there to see a Republican or a Democrat, the president or the next big thing, they’re going to wait. To park, to get to the door, to get through the door and security, to find…
The least interesting person at Thursday night’s rally at the American Airlines Center was the man of the hour himself, who spent his 90 minutes predictably: trumpeting his alleged successes and condemning his perceived rivals. Outside, J.C. Cook of Cedar Creek Lake was promoting a dark horse candidate with promises…
Beto O’Rourke held a counter rally to Trump’s campaign stop in Dallas. Supporters packed the event where he called for unity.
Thursday night, in as much trouble as he’s been since his inauguration, President Donald Trump returned to Dallas’ American Airlines Center a little more than four years after his first visit to the place that Ron Kirk built. On a day in which his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney,…
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, one of the Trump administration’s biggest connections to Texas and mainstream conservatism, plans to quit his post as energy secretary, according to reports from Bloomberg and The New York Times. Despite calling President Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” during the 2016 Republican presidential primary,…
The mayor of Fort Worth says there is no relevance or importance in the fact that Atatiana Jefferson, killed by a Fort Worth police officer Saturday, had a gun. The mayor is wrong. According to the murder warrant for the former police officer who killed her, Jefferson, 28, pointed her…
