Here’s a thing that’s getting closer and closer to being totally unfathomable. The Dallas city manager is drip-drip-dripping information to the City Council about a yearlong federal investigation of housing programs, giving the council information barely a drop at a time. The piecemeal approach is less than fathomable, because none…
Following a federal court ruling ordering the Trump administration to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last week in Washington, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made good a threat he initially made in 2017 and sued the federal government to halt the program. DACA, an Obama-era policy that…
Americans pay a high price for health care. The Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network collected data from 184 countries with similar life expectancies and found that the average American spends $9,237 per person for health care access, the most in the world. The struggle strikes both insured and…
Fifty-one individuals are in jail and six others are being sought after a massive federal investigation into methamphetamine distribution and kidnapping by white supremacist prison gangs in North Texas. According to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, federal authorities seized or diverted more than 190 kilograms…
Unsurprisingly, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas’ Republican leaders aren’t exactly pumped about efforts in several Texas cities to guarantee sick days for workers who don’t get them as benefits from their employers. Paxton intervened in a lawsuit Monday afternoon filed against the city of Austin — the first municipality to pass…
At the end of the 2018 Cowboys season, whether it comes in December, January or February, the month of April will have been just as important as any during the season itself. This month, thanks to a personnel decision long in the works, a potential shock retirement and the NFL…
Barely beneath the surface in the city’s grief over last week’s shootings of two Dallas police officers and a store security guard was bleak bitterness left behind by last year’s ugly battle over the police and fire pension system. Sure, we would all be better off if our feelings about…
Jonathan Stickland must be bored. Without serious opposition as he seeks his fourth term representing state House District 92 in the Mid-Cities or a back-of-House chamber microphone at which to bloviate, Stickland, the id of the Texas GOP, has waded into a nonpartisan City Council race in Euless. Stickland’s attack,…
Texas’ controversial voter identification law is slated to go into full effect for the first time, following a Friday afternoon ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. According to a three-judge panel in the case, a lower court exceeded its authority when it blocked the…
The Cowboys took the easy way out Thursday night. Rather than trading up, trading down or surprising fans and pundits with their first-round selection, Jerry and Stephen Jones stayed at No. 19 and picked the player they wanted all along. Boise State linebacker Leighton Vander Esch wasn’t a shock selection,…
A lot of side-of-the-mouth talking took place during this week’s Dallas City Council debate on removal of the shabby Confederate war memorial next to City Hall, but let’s not lose sight of the big thing: The vote to keep that ugly monstrosity in place was led by three of four…
Monday wasn’t a great day for the Dallas County Republican Party. Already down to one countywide officeholder and a single spot on the commissioner’s court, the Dallas GOP and its new chairwoman, Missy Shorey, had its lawsuit against the Dallas County Democratic Party — the one that would’ve wiped dozens…
Kenneth Martin said it was accident. He hadn’t intended to shoot his estranged wife Linda Martin in the face when he walked up to her car as she sat at a red light near the Southlake Town Square. Wednesday afternoon, a Tarrant County jury decided they didn’t believe him and…
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has an idea to break the stalemate over what to do with City Hall’s Confederate memorial: Put Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on top of the damn thing. The Dallas City Council voted 9-6 Wednesday to put off deciding the fate of the Confederate…
Every once in while, we should take a little trip to the Outermost Thought Ozonosphere, if for no better reason than we need a vacation. And on a recent visit out there, guess what I found! Dallas! At the global cutting edge. No, I mean really. C’mon, I’ll take you…
A 27-year-old Dallas Police Department officer injured in a shooting in Northeast Dallas Tuesday afternoon has died, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings confirmed during a Dallas City Council meeting. Rogelio Santander died at 8:11 Wednesday morning, Rawlings said. Santander’s partner, 26-year-old Crystal Almeida, remains hospitalized at Texas Presbyterian Hospital on Walnut…
Someday, perhaps when your grandchildren have grandchildren and the Cowboys have been pried away from some Jones scion’s cold, dead hands, Texas will adopt statehouse and congressional maps that are minimally acceptable to all interested parties. Until that day, however, the state’s political parties, voters and interest groups will continue…
Dear Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall: You and I have an issue in common, but I get the sense that you may not have gone through the difficult and deeply personal process of dealing with yours yet. We’re both from Detroit, but that’s not exactly what I’m talking about…
The Dallas Police Department confirmed late Tuesday afternoon that an unknown suspect shot two DPD officers near a the Home Depot at U.S. 75 and Forest Lane. According to the department, both officers are critically wounded. The suspect also shot a third person. That person’s condition is unknown, according to…
Dallas County Democrats avoided a crisis Monday afternoon when Dallas County District Judge Eric Moyé dismissed a lawsuit that would’ve kicked dozens of Democratic candidates off November’s general election ballot. Moyé dismissed the suit — brought by the Dallas County Republican Party and its chairwoman, Missy Shorey — for lack of standing…
Dallas City Hall is like Washington. We have a Deep State, and for all the same reasons. A new regime is in charge here, too. It’s making big policy changes. Those new policies have serious consequences in the real world. Some people in the real world are very unhappy, so…
There was clearly something wrong on David Irving’s Twitter account Monday morning. Rather than the stream-of-consciousness ramblings that can usually be expected of the Cowboys’ budding defensive star, a series of statements that read an awful lot like accusations began spilling out. “Domestic vilance [sic] again,” the first tweet read…
