The Democratic primary race for Dallas County district attorney is turning out to be a battle between liberal forces over who will challenge Republican incumbent Faith Johnson, whom Gov. Greg Abbott appointed after former DA Susan Hawk stepped down for mental health reasons two years ago. In one corner once…
Finally, finally, the Cowboys’ long battles with the NFL over Ezekiel Elliott’s 2017 domestic violence suspension and Commissioner Roger Goodell’s new contract seem to be coming to an end. Wednesday, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agreed to fork over nearly $2 million in legal…
Atmos Energy has shut off gas to 2,800 homes in Northwest Dallas because of gas leaks, explosions and fires; a child is dead; thousands of people remain shut out of their homes; the company acknowledges that aging steel gas pipes in shifting soil are the problem; and yet Atmos tells…
Heading into Tuesday night’s Texas primary, the state’s Democrats had plenty of reasons to be hopeful. During early voting, more Democrats had turned out than during any previous mid-term primary in the state’s 15 biggest counties, besting their Republican counterparts by more than 40,000 ballots. Beto O’Rourke, the El Paso…
Do you dream of being a writer? Do you want to push the boundaries of language to bring new insight into the human condition with your amazing, creative prose? Well, good luck with your novel, pal. Now move on. You newshounds out there, take a look at this: The Dallas…
Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez may not have been the best fundraiser or the smoothest campaigner during the 2018’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, but she did enough, and had enough name recognition, to ensure that she’ll have at least a few more months to get better on the trail. Valdez…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban denied doing anything wrong Tuesday, following the publication of sexual assault allegations made against Cuban in 2011 in Willamette Week, a Portland alt-weekly. According to Portland Police Department documents obtained by Willamette Week, a woman ran into Cuban while out on the town with her…
Heading into the 2017-18 offseason, the Rangers had one big goal on the personnel front: signing Japanese two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. The team, still a few years away from anything beyond fringe contention, wasn’t interested in any of the big domestic free agents and showed as much, electing instead to…
March 5, 2018: A headline in The Dallas Morning News reads, “Where does our poop and pee go in Dallas? Curious Texas investigates.” By Jennifer Emily. June 5, 1971: With a double partial major under his belt in English literature and something else suggested by a graduation counselor two weeks before…
“CBD Kratom” reads the large sign over Dafna Reva’s storefront on Central Expressway’s frontage road. Just south of trendy Knox Street, it sits beside a Marble Slab Creamery, two doors down from a Potbelly Sandwich Shop and around the corner from an Apple store and Kate Spade shop. “You can’t…
We talked here recently about the upcoming battle over Section 8 vouchers and how that fight may be a big factor in the larger direction of Dallas City Hall and the whole city in the years ahead. I said some progressive council members hope the city will do what it…
Fernando Cabrera needed someone with a car to take him to pick up some money that a friend known as “Pancho” in Mexico had asked the 21-year-old South Texan to collect. Cabrera, in turn, asked another friend, who asked a younger buddy whose mother wouldn’t let him use the car…
As soon as the Cowboys 2017 season ended, the team had a single priority, one thing it had to do before the 2018 season kicked off. Somehow, it had to secure the services of DeMarcus Lawrence, 2017’s breakthrough defensive star and the Cowboys’ first elite pass rusher since DeMarcus Ware…
Quite literally, judging from their lead story right now. Is it lunch yet?…
Dallas County voters easily topped their previous best turnout for early voting in an off-year primary thanks to an energized Democratic electorate. According to numbers from the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, 110,334 county residents voted early in the 2018 primary, beating the county’s previous high turnout in 2014 by…
For Eric Burton, the sidewalks of his Bryan Place neighborhood have always been a hazard. Burton, left blind by a degenerative eye condition, struggles daily with paths that are uneven, buckled and cracked, but he’s learned to deal with it. Over the past seven months, however, a new obstacle has…
This is a difficult moment for Dallas where the city’s affordable housing and economic development policies are concerned, probably even a scary moment for some people. Since most of the money in question — possibly vast sums — comes from the federal government, we should be able to look to…
This is one of those excruciatingly embarrassing moments that tend to be beyond the ability of persons of civility and good taste to resolve. That’s what I’m here for. It’s time to ask the president to stop giving his condolences in mass shootings. Of course I know how horrible, coarse,…
Slowly but surely, ever since 2004’s Democratic electoral wipeout, Dallas County has been getting bluer and bluer. Since 2006, only one Republican, frequent party switcher Susan Hawk, has been elected to countywide office. The county that voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 pivoted to overwhelmingly supporting Barack…
This week was the best of Lupe Valdez’s gubernatorial campaign. The former Dallas County sheriff announced her highest fundraising numbers since kicking off her campaign in November, picked up a key endorsement, and earned some poll numbers that are confusing but not any kind of a death knell. For a…
On Thursday, as one North Texas family sets out to bury their 12-year-old daughter who was killed in a gas explosion, Atmos Energy announced it was stopping gas service to another 2,800 homes at noon. Known as a “truly extraordinary event,” Atmos claimed that the homes will be without gas…
The gunshots erupted shortly after 2 a.m. Feb. 19. Dallas postal employee Tony Mosby, 58, had just left the Dallas Main Post Office in a United States Postal Service 11-ton box truck when a car loaded with four friends tried to pass him on the highway. The four had just…
