Earlier this week, as the post-midterm election haze receded and was quickly replaced by pre-primary gossip, we pondered the fate of Beto O’Rourke following his 2.5 point loss to Sen Ted Cruz. The Democrat’s next gig, we surmised, is probably going to be running for president, because many people seem to…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried his best to extend his voter suppression efforts outside Texas’ borders Thursday. He failed. Thursday afternoon, Paxton, one of the strongest advocates for restrictive voter ID laws in Texas, proudly touted his intervention, along with three fellow Republican attorneys general, in Florida’s ongoing recounts…
Dallas missed out on so much earlier this week when Amazon decide not to include the city in its HQ2 largess. Had the retail behemoth seen fit to shine its light on us, we could’ve had the thousands of jobs, billions in financial activity and voluminous orange signage that will…
The setup is familiar for those who are, or were once, members of the evangelical community. Pastors from out of town, preaching their version of the good news for four hours, raising the spirits and testing the stamina of the faithful. This weekend, the Red Letter Christians are having a…
Sixteen Dallas Firefighters are making their way to California to help fight three major wildfires that have recently taken the state by storm. Dallas, Collin and Tarrant counties are among 23 Texas counties sending firefighters, equipment and resources to help fight the wildfires in California. Two hundred firefighters from 47…
You know, maybe things just worked out exactly as they should have in the Amazon HQ2 story. Amazon, of course, made a big deal out of what any city would need to do and to be and to offer and to promise in order to be worthy of becoming the…
Election night was just a week ago. Votes — in Florida, Arizona and California — are still being counted and recounted.The calendar hasn’t even flipped to December and still, among a certain set of political diehards and fan boys, one question dominates the conversation: Is Beto O’Rourke going to run…
Workers at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport discovered a cache of ice-age era fossils earlier this month, airport officials announced Tuesday afternoon. A bison thigh bone and a tooth from a woolly mammoth are the first of their kind found at the airport. Officials aren’t disclosing where they were discovered “in the…
Since opening in 2012, Klyde Warren Park has been a pleasant addition to downtown Dallas. The park, filled to the brim on weekends and still busy on weekdays and nights, is a friendly patch of green between downtown and Uptown, a good place to take your dog on the far…
The Republican majority that Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals held for almost 20 years came to end after last week’s elections in what is probably the real local upset of the midterms. Overnight, the court of 13 Republican judges became majority Democrat with eight winning seats, including a new Democratic…
Barring something completely unforeseen between now and January, Dennis Bonnen, a long-serving Republican from the Houston area, is going to be the next speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. “We’re here to let you know that the speaker’s race is over,” Bonnen said at a press conference in Austin…
Few things can cause a greater sense of sticker shock in America than getting the bill for a bottle of pills not covered by insurance. A 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that Americans spend $458 more per capita on prescription drugs compared with…
Through the first 11 games of his NBA career, Mavericks forward Luka Doncic has been a revelation. He’s averaging more than 20 points and six assists per game while making weekly appearances on SportsCenter for his spectacular ball-handling and passing. Doncic appears to be worth everything the Mavericks gave up…
The nation seems to be splitting in half, so why shouldn’t journalism? Right now we seem to have two camps — the half of the craft that recognizes the kind of lying crooks they’re dealing with and knows what it will take to beat them and the other half, the…
As Beto bumper stickers and yard signs are peeled off of cars and removed from front lawns of O’Rourke supporters who are waking up hung over from the midterms, some millennials are wondering what’s next for O’Rourke and a Texas that’s a little more purple than it was a week…
Wednesday’s forced resignation of anti-cannabis hard-liner U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was welcome news to marijuana reform supporters, but the departure of another Washington veteran named Sessions could have a larger effect on federal marijuana laws in the months ahead. U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions is the GOP chairman of the…
Like a lot of things that have happened over the last two years, the idea sounded like a joke at first. President Donald Trump had just forced the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and, ha-ha, wouldn’t it be funny if he named still-indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…
Despite clear Democratic gains, much will be the same when the Texas Legislature convenes for the 2019 session. Republicans will still hold clear majorities in both the Senate and the House and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, thanks to his 4-point win in his re-election race with Mike Collier, will preside…
Monday night’s debacle against the Titans wasn’t the last game of the Cowboys’ 2018 season worth paying attention to, as it turns out. Wednesday afternoon, former Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant signed a one-year deal with the New Orleans Saints. On Thursday night, Nov. 29, Bryant and the Saints come…
The city of DeSoto declared Nov. 4 as Warith Deen Mohammad Day in honor of the late imam who led Muslim followers of the Nation of Islam into the orthodox mainstream after the death of his father, Elijah Muhammad, in 1975. An event honoring W.D. Mohammad was held at the…
Do you remember when it was fun to sit up election night watching the returns roll in? At our house we used to make popcorn. Now it’s like watching a dress rehearsal for the end times. We eat chocolate candy that’s really bad for us because why not? In fact,…
The Motel 6 hotel chain has agreed to a $7.6 million settlement with a group of individuals who sued the company earlier this year for disclosing their personal information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while they stayed at the hotel. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued…
