This spring, as workers’ rights advocates began their push for mandatory paid sick leave for every worker employed in Dallas, one of the biggest questions that bubbled to the surface is just how many people in the city need paid sick leave. New data from the nonpartisan Institute for Women’s Policy…
Thursday was National Black Mama’s Bail Out Day, a time for community groups around the country to raise money to get black women in county jails out on bail just in time for Mother’s Day. This year, unlike in 2017, Dallas got in on the project; a team of women’s…
Pretty soon, Frisco drivers will be heard uttering phrases like, “Holy #*$&! There ain’t nobody driving that car!” and “Are ghosts real because I think one is driving that orange van!” The city of Frisco inked a deal with the California-based tech company Drive.ai to test a new driveless car…
Two days after lamenting middle-class residents’ flight from Dallas, the City Council did something about it. By a 15-0 vote, the council passed Dallas’ first comprehensive housing policy, which it hopes will bring 20,000 new homes to 13 of the city’s 14 council districts. Through zoning and financing initiatives, the…
Let’s look at the ways Dallas sports have sucked in 2018. The year started with a Cowboys-free NFL playoffs in January. The Mavericks have been historically bad, and the Stars missed the playoffs after a hot start thanks to going 4-13 in March. Southern Methodist University missed the NCAA Tournament…
Next year, a little less than four years after the Dallas Police Department began issuing body cameras to its officers, all officers in the department will sport the devices as part of their uniforms, Chief U. Renee Hall said Tuesday. “We know that body cameras are a must. Right now,…
Interesting item in my email titled “Do you want to run the Dallas Convention Center?” My first thought: “No.” Second thought: “Thanks for asking.” Third thought: “Wait. How much do I get?” A thoughtful reader forwarded the document to me from the city of Dallas procurement page. It’s a 25-page…
Euless lawyer Salman Bhojani did it. After a losing run for City Council two years ago, he scored an apparent victory Saturday night, finishing 37 votes ahead of Molly Maddux when all the ballots were counted. While he still faces a potential recount — Maddux has not conceded, talked to…
Dallas County District Judge Eric Moyé added insult to injury late Monday for the county’s Republican Party. Having already dismissed the Dallas County GOP’s attempt to keep dozens of Democrats off the November ballot, Moyé ordered the party to pay more than $50,000 in attorneys’ fees to Democrats and their lawyers. Moyé…
You know you’re the GOAT when you give a speech at your own funeral. On April 10, the Dallas Mavericks, at the merciful end of the worst season in franchise history, drew their second-largest crowd of the year to American Airlines Center. It certainly wasn’t there to show appreciation for…
According to a new memo from the Dallas city manager’s office, the Margaret McDermott Bridge — in flux since two cables detached from its anchoring system in 2016 — still doesn’t have an opening date. Testing continues, the city says, as it awaits the first batch of results from third-party…
A little more than four years ago, in February 2014, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings launched the Mayor’s Task Force on Poverty, telling a United Way lunch crowd that he’d been preaching too much and doing to little to change the economic inequality in the city he’s led since 2011. On…
Repeatedly Saturday morning, Wayne LaPierre warned that the media was going to misrepresent the speech he was giving at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting. The writers sprinkled throughout the Dallas Convention Center ballroom in which he spoke to NRA members had already made up their minds, he said, to…
Friday’s weather wasn’t generous to the groups counter-programming the National Rifle Association’s annual Meeting at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Rain fell throughout the day, drenching anyone spending too much time at City Hall Plaza, but that didn’t stop a committed group of about 30 from rallying with Texas…
Those expecting President Donald Trump to make news during his speech Friday afternoon at the NRA’s annual convention came away disappointed. Trump didn’t unveil any new policies, aside from a sarcastic comment that banning guns makes as much sense as banning vans or trucks. He didn’t say the name Stormy…
Turns out, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was right to think something fishy was going on when the federal government announced a series of U.S. military training exercises known as Jade Helm 2015 three springs ago. He just could not have been more wrong about what it was. Speaking on an…
When the National Rifle Association’s convention kicks off Friday, its leaders, supporters and President Donald Trump won’t be the only people at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center talking about guns. The gun lobby group’s annual gathering will find protesters and marchers in Dallas from national groups such as #NoRA…
Jason Witten, the greatest tight end in Dallas Cowboys history, is retiring. According to multiple media reports, Witten told the Cowboys on Thursday morning that he is leaving the team for ESPN and Monday Night Football after 15 seasons with the team. Witten is expected to provide color commentary alongside…
The National Rifle Association’s annual convention is in Dallas this weekend. For gun-rights advocates, it’s Mardi Gras. More than 800 exhibitors displaying acres and acres of gear, gun accessories and literature. An air-soft range. Seminars on the “guns of Vietnam” and the “survival mindset.” It’s got everything for protesters, too…
The results from the 2018 version of Dallas’ big community survey, the one it contracts the ETC Institute to do every year, might come as a bit of surprise — if you’ve just immigrated to the city from Norway and haven’t driven around town yet. Dallas residents who took the…
Denton County detention officer Jason Inman lost his left eye Monday night when he tried to catch an inmate who ran off during medical treatment. The inmate, Matthew Harmon, required a visit to the hospital. When he and Inman arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Denton, medical staff needed…
Until last week, Salman Bhojani was just running for Euless City Council. The Euless attorney, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006 before putting himself through law school at SMU, thought his suburb’s council could use a little more diversity, and decided to do something about. Then state Rep. Jonathan…
