1Last December, a youth program issued a call seeking 50 local men to go to Dallas’ Dade Middle School for a mentorship breakfast to inspire boys. About 600 showed up, and the positive response made national headlines for a heartwarming viral story of men serving as role models to boys…
Less than a week after its biggest bike-share competitor, ofo, announced that it’s abandoning the Dallas market, Lime, the company behind all the green bikes and scooters in Dallas, says its business in the city is thriving. Over the seven months since the company last released ridership statistics in the…
This week, the hopes, dreams and chatter begin. The 2018 Dallas Cowboys, talented and burdened by expectations and history, are making their way to Oxnard, California, for training camp. Practices begin Thursday, with the team looking to wash the taste of an abysmal 2017 out of its mouth. Real football’s…
The latest trial in Texas’ ongoing battle against women’s personal autonomy wound down Friday afternoon, with the state arguing that it’s in Texas’ best interest that all tissue obtained from abortions and miscarriages in the state be cremated and buried. After a week of testimony, U.S. District Judge David Ezra…
Texas’ recently upheld voter ID law is one of the toughest in the nation. There is little wiggle room for those who, for whatever reason, don’t have one of the seven forms of identification deemed to be satisfactory proof of identity by the state: Either sign an affidavit under penalty…
Facebook announced last week it will begin expurgating from its pages types of speech that the site believes may lead to actual violence, as opposed to just offending the hell out of people. I’m thinking thanks, Mr. Zuckerberg. I get it. I see why you’re doing it, but I wish…
Less than a day after laying off 70 percent of its U.S.-based employees, dockless bike rental company ofo confirmed to the Dallas Observer on Thursday that it is pulling out of Dallas after less than a year in the city. The China-based company behind the thousands of yellow bikes that have…
Carrollton’s Jeff Hinkle got a lot of publicity Wednesday and Thursday from one of his business cards featuring his lawn care service business, Mow Masters. Most of the time, getting viral attention on social media for one’s business would be a good thing — advertising that money can’t buy. For Hinkle, however,…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport makes one of the worst chores in the world easy. Drivers doing their friendly or familial duty and picking up flyers can drive onto airport property, follow the signs to the appropriate gate and idle at the curb until their passenger shows up. Starting Sept. 8,…
For the fifth consecutive day, temperatures at DFW Airport easily cracked 100 degrees Wednesday, topping out at 106 just after 5 p.m. As the relentless heat pummeled North Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the nonprofit that oversees 90 percent of Texas’ electric grid, felt the stress as well…
This is coming from me, a local columnist in Dallas, Texas, so basically I bring no authority, expertise or gravitas to the subject and shouldn’t even be opening my mouth. My excuse is a column I read on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News this morning, but between…
The workers-rights groups behind the push for paid sick leave in Dallas still believe that they turned in more than enough valid signatures to get their cause on Dallas’ November ballot. If Dallas City Secretary Billirae Johnson doesn’t recount 32,000 signatures deemed previously invalid, the advocates will consider suing Johnson…
Defensive end Randy Gregory, one of the hardest of all the hard luck Cowboys, is back, just in time for training camp. The NFL announced Tuesday that Gregory, suspended for all but two games of the Cowboys’ 2016 and 2017 seasons, is eligible to join the Cowboys at the team’s…
During a mid-day game Tuesday at the College Park Center in Arlington, Dallas Wings center Liz Cambage put up the best stat line any Dallas pro basketball player has ever put up. Playing just 37 minutes, Cambage scored a WNBA record 53 points, pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked five…
A doctor in a white coat walks into a examination room. The patient’s diagnosis: veisalgia. There is no cure, only treatments. The patient will have to live with nausea, lethargy, muscle aches and a sensitivity to bright light and loud noises. Doctor leaves the room. Next patient. Relax, dude, it’s…
Last week, U.S. Rep Louie Gohmert, who represents a large chunk of East Texas in the House, popped off again and said something weird. We love when that happens. It happens a lot. The latest instance occurred during a congressional grilling of FBI agent Peter Strzok. Strzok was removed from…
Dallas residents, it turns out, will not be voting on paid sick leave in November. Despite finishing a petition drive with over 119,000 signatures — more than twice what’s been required to get a sick leave ordinance on the mid-term ballot — advocates for the policy couldn’t survive a review…
The hits, according to Officer Nick Novello, just keep on coming for the Dallas Police Department ‘s Central Patrol Division. Less than two weeks after being left with only a handful of officers — six by the department’s count, five by Novello’s — to respond to calls July 4 because of…
Dallas Park Board member Jesse Moreno believes the way for the city to achieve a better tomorrow is by facing up bravely to some very bad yesterdays. In particular, he wants the city to remember and understand July 24, 1973, the day 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez was murdered by Dallas police…
The fallout from former Papa John’s chairman John Schnatter’s use of the word “n——” during an internal conference call reached Dallas on Friday afternoon. The Texas Rangers, without any comment, ended a longtime promotion that offered fans half-price pizza the day after the team scored seven runs in a game…
There’s a thing Texas Republican leadership could do. It would save the state money, keep its residents healthier and make Texas a more attractive place to live. It’s never going to happen, however, unless the politics in the state change drastically, enough that elected officials can swallow accepting one of…
I’m not going to get all kumbaya on you, and this is not the scene at the end of the horrible 1970s movie with the slow-mo and the violins and the running through the field of poppies and the big smooch-o-rama at the end. But I need to tell you…
