Dallas police issued an arrest warrant for Fair Park City Council member Kevin Felder late Monday morning, almost two weeks after the council member allegedly hit an 18-year-old scooter rider in South Dallas. District Judge Tammy Kemp’s office confirmed to the Observer that the judge signed the warrant, but couldn’t provide…
A Dallas man hacked two people to death with a machete before ditching the bodies in one of the victims cars late Saturday night, according to police. Dallas Police Department officers got a 911 call around noon Sunday, after a neighbor checked out a car that had been left across…
After New York, that brazen tart, deserted poor Amazon at the altar, the brokenhearted Amazon said nobly it was done with love and would never seek a new headquarters again. But we all know how long that sort of thing lasts. The tingle returns. What we must fear in Dallas,…
Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio might have flown under the radar into Arlington if it weren’t for social media. But now? Not a chance. The controversial 86-year-old was slated for Arlington Music Hall in April, and Jambo’s Barbeque Shack restaurant owner Ashton Stauffer, who’s running for mayor, was ecstatic. “A…
The favorite to replace outgoing East Dallas City Council member Mark Clayton is out of the race. Paul Sims, a former member of the Dallas Park Board and former council member Angela Hunt’s husband, announced on Facebook Friday afternoon that he is no longer a candidate, just before the city’s…
Barring a couple of changes of heart or a couple of absences, acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley is not be confirmed, thanks to united opposition from Texas Senate Democrats. Whitley has been under fire for the last month, following his questioning the citizenship of nearly 100,000 Texas voters…
Texas House Democrats want full-day pre-kindergarten for every public school student in the state, raises for all school personnel and property tax cuts for Texas homeowners as part of their school finance reform package, they announced Thursday in Austin. The proposals would come at a big cost, some $16.2 billion…
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley may have finally found the limit on just how far a Republican official in the state can go and still keep his job. Thursday, after weeks of public debate, hearings and lawsuits, the surest signs yet that Whitley’s nomination was in real trouble emerged…
There are two possible takeaways from Collin County state Sen. Angela Paxton’s recently filed Senate Bill 860: The senator is either staggeringly unethical or incredibly politically naive. SB 860 would allow the Texas Attorney General’s Office — the same one run by her husband, Ken Paxton — to oversee a…
We were on vacation. We went to the National Butterfly Center on the Mexican border near Mission last week to see butterflies. It was coincidence my wife and I were there with friends the same day President Donald Trump declared his border wall emergency. But what a coincidence. I don’t…
Working with state and federal law enforcement agencies, the Dallas Police Department, including officers from the narcotics and newly reconstituted vice divisions, arrested four men and women as part of an investigation into potential human trafficking at four northwest Dallas massage parlors. DPD detectives also took several potential trafficking victims…
Let’s be certain about one thing. Money is always an issue in questions of sincerity and truth-telling. The fact that you’re making money on it doesn’t automatically make what you tell me untrue, but I have a big right to wonder. If money is on the table, it’s on the…
VisitDallas CEO Phillip Jones’ long-awaited appearance before the City Council’s Government Performance & Financial Management Committee ended up seeming a lot like a mock trial. There was evidence, plenty of pleas and admonitions from both sides and some political theater, but no real stakes. Jones and his organization remain, for now…
State Rep. Matt Krause rolled out a new plan Tuesday to take on one of Texas conservatives’ long-standing bugaboos, announcing a bill he’s calling the “Toll Payer Protection Act.” The bill, the Fort Worth Republican says, is intended to get local communities involved in decisions to build toll roads or…
The calendar has finally crept past February’s midpoint, and that means a bit of Dallas 2019 election-related news. The announcements — and the “she’s running, he’s running, who exactly is running” drama — are over. Across 15 races, for 14 City Council district seats and mayor office, 65 candidates will…
When the Texas Rangers’ Double-A minor league affiliate threw its first pitch in Frisco 16 years ago, it was from the ground floor of an impending phenomenon. In its infancy, Stonebriar Centre offered vacant spaces and ample parking. The “$5 Billion Mile” was just a twinkle in some developer’s eye…
According to multiple reports, the Dallas Cowboys are moving on from one of their chief headaches, Terrance Williams, having decided not to pick up the wide receiver’s 2019 option. Williams will become an unrestricted free agent. The Cowboys drafted Williams out of Baylor in 2013, hoping he’d be the speedy,…
By the time I got there Monday afternoon, a city crew with a big power-wash truck had washed away most of the paint vandals had sprayed on the Confederate memorial outside City Hall on Sunday night or early Sunday morning. Cops on the scene told me they had no suspects…
Among the many issues stemming from the Dallas Police Department’s struggles to hire and retain police officers is that it is becoming harder to get a traffic ticket in Dallas, according to city officials, DPD union leaders and municipal court data. “You cannot get a ticket in this town,” Dallas…
Monday, the 2019 Texas Rangers are going to take the field for their first full-squad workout in Arizona, kicking off the rituals that mark the return of spring, and baseball. At the end of the week, they’ll play their first spring training games and begin the process of figuring out…
Former Dallas mayor and Observer columnist Laura Miller is running for Dallas City Council. Miller filed paperwork with city Friday afternoon, just beating the 5 p.m. filing deadline, to challenge north central Dallas incumbent Jennifer Staubach Gates in District 13. D Magazine broke the news that Miller was considering taking another…
The Texas secretary of state’s job is a pretty good one. Whoever holds it gets an annual salary of more than $130,000 to make sure the state’s election machinery runs smoothly, which has to be satisfying. Barring any monumental screw-ups, the job is easy to keep, too. There are no…
