Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to do everything in his power to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, which allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the United States without fear of deportation. Thursday afternoon, Paxton announced he’s leading a…
There aren’t many things, or people, capable of making Fox News apologize. The network is happy to let its on-air personalities and guests shill for conspiracies about the migrant caravan, Benghazi or Robert Mueller’s witch hunt. Thursday morning, however, the Observer’s favorite Republican, East Texas U.S House Rep. Louie Gohmert,…
Major League Baseball is seriously considering banning infield shifts that put more than two players on either side of second base as early as the 2019 season, according to a lengthy new report from The Athletic’s Jayson Stark. While banning the shift would be the most significant change to MLB…
Dallas confronts an enormous moral and psychological challenge in the case of former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, charged with murder in the shooting death of Botham Jean, a young accountant killed Sept. 6 in his own apartment. This is one we have to get right, and it won’t be…
A national civil rights nonprofit sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and four Texas Department of Public Safety officials Wednesday in an effort to kill a controversial Texas program that the group says has caused the suspension of 1.4 million Texans’ driver’s licenses. Texas’ Driver Responsibility Program imposes surcharges on those…
The Dallas County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved a $120,000 payment to settle a lawsuit brought against the former head of Dallas County Health and Human Services. The vote came 11 months after the county fired longtime health department chief Zach Thompson following sexual harassment allegations by a subordinate employee…
Ever since he left the FBI in a scandalous uproar in 2008, John Guandolo has made a name for himself among right-wing conspiracy theorists, especially through his special “training” programs, which he gives to law enforcement throughout the country about the so-called dangers of Islam. This month, he’s set to…
If I ask a guy to his face if he’s running for mayor and he says no, can I still write a newspaper column saying I think he’s running for mayor anyway? Yes. And you know why? Because this is America. You don’t have to believe me, but if you…
Bains Brothers LLC, owner and operator of gas stations across North Texas, will pay more than $26,000 to drivers it admitted gouging in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Texas Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday afternoon. The company, owned by Kuldip Bains, overcharged customers at its stations in…
Do their job Sunday afternoon in Arlington and the Cowboys can make the rest of their 2018 regular season pretty simple. They won’t have to worry, as they did last year, about results in Detroit, Seattle or Carolina, nor will they face the pressure of having to win out merely…
The long journey traveled by Dallas’ CW33 TV station appears to be nearing its end. Monday, the massive media conglomerate that owns the station agreed to merge with another massive media conglomerate. This comes after a merger deal between the first media conglomerate and a third media conglomerate fell though…
The Dallas mayor’s race so far is intriguing, sure, but it’s also madness. One guy has been in the race from the beginning. Other unexpected people are showing up, tossing their hats in the ring. Another person whom everybody assumed would run has just now taken her hat out of…
It turns out the nearly decade-long fight over Texas’ legislative districts didn’t actually end with the Supreme Court’s ruling against the plaintiffs in June. Late Friday afternoon, the coalition of voting rights groups that have fought the state for fairer legislative districts since the last round of redistricting in 2010…
A Dallas County Grand Jury indicted former Dallas Police Department Officer Amber Guyger on murder charges related to her shooting and killing her neighbor, Botham Jean, in early September. Guyger shot Jean in his apartment, believing he was a burglar. Guyger entered Jean’s apartment on Sept. 6 after completing her…
A 32-year-old Dallas Police Department senior corporal has been arrested on revenge porn charges, DPD announced in a brief statement Thursday. Tarrant County authorities have charged Alexander Cleland with Unlawful Disclosure or Promotion of Intimate Visual Material, a Class A misdemeanor. Cleland turned himself in to Tarrant County officials in Keller…
More adult Texans, and a higher percentage of them, are without health insurance than anywhere else in the United States, the Observer reported in September. A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families shows that kids in the state are no better off. More than 835,000 Texas…
Thursday night’s setup should be familiar for Cowboys fans. Their heroes are in the midst of a mixed bag season. They’re talented, but imperfect, getting ready to face one of the NFL’s gatekeepers. A loss wouldn’t destroy their season, and a win won’t make it, but the result of the…
The trees in North Texas are brighter and more colorful than ever — or at least that’s what some Dallas residents have determined. Dallasites on Facebook have taken notice of the colorful fall foliage, with one poster saying, “All of that rain must’ve helped because I’ve never seen such pretty…
Fifteen months after deciding that Dallas and its police department needed a study to figure out just how bad the department’s attrition and staffing woes are, the City Council signed off on funding for the survey Wednesday. The cash didn’t come without a fight over one of its sources —…
Let’s look at this just in terms of real life and normal business practice. In late November 2017, two months after Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall arrived on the job from Detroit, detectives from the department’s intelligence unit “escorted” all of the detectives in the vice unit to their…
The 55th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas has slipped behind us already. The few reminiscence stories in the daily newspaper this year all seemed like reaches. That really is the miracle of time, is it not, that it can wear, wash and smooth away…
Monday, a Dallas County grand jury heard evidence in the case against Amber Guyger, the former Dallas Police Department officer who shot and killed Botham Jean. What the grand jury heard or who they heard it from isn’t known — grand jury proceedings are secret — but attorneys for Jean’s…
