This week, thanks to skewering Jerry Jones for the Cowboys owner’s national anthem hypocrisy — after demanding his players stand for the song, Jones left his hat on during a training camp rendition — WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen went viral. It wasn’t the first time either.
Art Briles, two years removed from being dumped by Baylor University amid dozens of sexual assault allegations against his players, has another job coaching football. Briles has been hired as head coach of Guelfi Firenze, a team in the Italian American Football League’s first division, the team announced Thursday. “We…
When the 2018 race for Texas governor is done and dusted, the two major candidates in the election, Democrat and former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez and incumbent Republican Greg Abbott, likely will have debated at least once. Both sides have already agreed to a debate, albeit not with each…
Three-quarters of Texans get it, according to the Texas Lyceum’s annual poll. According to the group’s poll, which drills down on health care topics in addition to Texas’ midterm races this year, 76 percent of Texans believe that the benefits of vaccinating children outweigh the risks. That figure doesn’t tell…
Dallas Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions found himself in the middle of an angry left-wing media mob Wednesday afternoon after Talking Points Memo posted a video in which the House Rules Committee chairman appears to blame a Highland Park woman for being murdered by her husband. Sessions’ trouble began when…
Former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver will be tried in Dallas, a judge ruled Tuesday, shutting down an attempt by Oliver’s attorneys to have their client’s case moved to a different county. Oliver is set to go on trial for murder later this month, after shooting and killing a…
In the last couple of months I have been reporting here that the city still cannot open the new Margaret McDermott Bridge over the Trinity River because, a year after completion, the supervising engineer will not certify its safety. A number of readers have contacted me to say there are…
The Dallas County Republican Party is switching horses as it comes down the homestretch ahead of November’s general election. Tuesday, the party announced that it’s replacing its candidate for county judge, the county’s highest office, with a former justice of the peace kicked out of his own race earlier this…
Tuesday is deadline day for Major League Baseball. After 3 p.m., players can’t be traded without first being placed on waivers. For teams in playoff contention, it’s the last chance to reload before a stretch run. For clubs that are hopelessly out of it, like the Rangers, the deadline is…
The bar that served mass-murderer Spencer Hight minutes before he killed eight people, including his estranged wife, at an NFL watch party in Plano is voluntarily giving up its liquor license on Aug. 1, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Monday. The bar, Local Public House, did not admit any…
To afford the average two-bedroom apartment rent in Dallas without spending 30 percent of monthly income on rent, a renter must make at least $56,743 a year, according to an annual report by SmartAsset, a financial information website. The median rate for a two-bedroom Dallas apartment, SmartAsset found, is about…
Dallas’ shiny, new anti-abortion billboard isn’t from one of the usual suspects. It’s not paid for by Texas Right to Life or the Texas Alliance for Life, Texas politics’ twin anti-choice behemoths. Instead, the billboard, which reads “Abortion is not healthcare. It hurts women and murders their babies,” is the…
Dear Whoever It Is: Face it. The South lost the war. It was about slavery. American slavery was a monumental evil, and it will remain a monumental evil for all of time. That damned Robert E. Lee statue we tore out last year is never coming back, never ever, just…
Jerry and Stephen Jones spent the beginning of last week mining the Dallas Cowboys training camp facility in Oxnard, California. The father-and-son leadership duo made a series of comments, about the Cowboys continued relationship with Papa John’s, President Donald Trump and the national anthem over the week that put their…
Ah, the weekend. Your time to get away from workaday drudgery, head out into the scorching heat and pay $14 for two eggs and toast because you forgot you’d rather sleep than go out to brunch. They aren’t perfect, especially in North Texas’ midsummer blast furnace, but Saturdays and Sundays…
Justin Nelson took the opportunity Thursday to put the pressure on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Trailing Paxton by single digits in multiple recent polls in their race for attorney general, the Austin attorney and University of Texas adjunct professor challenged the incumbent to a series of debates. “You and…
Throughout his insurgent campaign to depose Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke has insisted that he wants to debate the incumbent as often as possible. Initially, O’Rourke suggested six debates, four in English and two in Spanish, before eventually settling on six debates in English when Cruz said…
During Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ annual state of the team news conference Wednesday afternoon in Oxnard, California, one of the biggest questions had to do with crappy delivery pizza. It wasn’t weird or inappropriate either, it’s just where we are in 2018. Jones is one of Papa John’s biggest…
The new $115 million bridge upon which no person may safely set foot is not going without notice or attention at City Hall. According to good sources who speak to me regularly in return for my promise of confidentiality, the city department that brought us the bad bridge is about…
Last week’s heat wave wasn’t the beginning, but it wasn’t the end, either. Dallas has seen sustained extreme heat before, notably in the summers of 1980 and 2011, but the city could see months of temperatures well above 100 degrees if Texas, the U.S. and the rest of the world…
The 2019 mayoral race will have the potential to make Dallas a new kind of city because it will be the first time for a whole new generational wave of voters to have a shot at anointing the city’s only citywide elected official, effectively putting their stamp on the city…
Ofo, the China-based purveyor of the yellow bikes that overwhelmed Dallas’ urban landscape during the fall and spring, announced Thursday that it’s getting out of the city. Dallas’ newly passed bike-share rules were too much for the company, said Texas General Manager Everett Weiler, who added that the company had…
