Early Monday afternoon, as volunteers inside the first floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center’s parking garage scurried to put together and line up 5,000 cots, two volunteers from East Texas Community Emergency Response Team sat outside on the parking garage steps, finishing off their Jason’s Deli boxed lunches…
Let’s not get fooled on the Confederate memorials question in Dallas. It’s easy to do. It’s worse than a who’s-on-first routine. This one is more like where-is-first? What may camouflage the real controversy more than anything else, especially for people who are outside the city looking in, is the recruitment…
The city of Dallas announced late Sunday afternoon that it is opening its biggest emergency shelter, adding space for about 5,000 more evacuees from Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. At the request of the state of Texas, the city is preparing the bottom floor of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention…
Last week, two court decisions came down that could change the course of electoral politics in Texas — and Dallas County — for the 2018 midterms and beyond. A U.S. District Judge in Corpus Christi tossed the state’s new voter ID law Wednesday, ruling that it unconstitutionally discriminated against the…
Want a pretty good indication where things stand at Dallas City Hall? A majority of the members of the Dallas City Council have decided the city needs to stop keeping a record of where the council gets its campaign money. Gee. What could they have in mind? I stumbled into…
Sometime late Friday or very early Saturday, a massive weather system named Harvey, possibly a tropical storm but more likely a hurricane, is going to hit southeast Texas. While it appears North Texas will avoid the brunt of the winds, rainfall and flooding expected, Harvey is still going to have…
A Dallas County Grand Jury indicted three men Thursday in the aggravated kidnapping of Lancaster 13-year-old Shavon Randle, bringing a summer saga that began with a drug robbery and ended with two murders one step closer to its end. Desmond Jones, 22; Devontae Owens, 24; and Laquon Wilkerson, 30, are charged…
The Texas Rangers have announced the sale of the naming rights for their new stadium that’s under construction to Globe Life Insurance, which owns the naming rights to the team’s current stadium. The deal runs through 2048. For the next two seasons, the Rangers will ply their trade at Globe Life Park,…
A federal district judge in Corpus Christi ruled late Wednesday afternoon that the Texas’ voter ID law, in all its forms, is unconstitutional. Her decision, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced he will appeal, says that the original 2011 law and a revamped version passed this year both…
This part is easy for any of us to get. You have a loved one, partner, spouse, kid, weird neighbor — somebody whom you love and count on to be a regular part of your life. You sit down to the dinner table, and that chair is empty because, as…
Throughout July and August, a thought has bubbled in the back of Cowboys fans’ minds. Every time Kellen Moore, the team’s de facto backup quarterback, was on the field during the Cowboys first three preseason games, committing turnovers, stalling drives and generally getting outplayed by Cooper Rush, an undrafted free…
On Tuesday, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Reginald Kimbro, who is facing the death penalty for the April murder of a Fort Worth woman, for a separate capital murder, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Kimbro, who authorities believe raped and murdered 22-year-old Molly Matheson near the Texas…
The Dallas Morning News ran a piece earlier in the week about a bad-blood feud between Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston and Bobby Abtahi, president of the Park and Recreation Board. The story made it sound like a nice guy versus mean guy thing. Make no mistake. At least…
Dallas police released video Monday afternoon of one of three suspects wanted for a robbery and murder at a Red Bird 7-Eleven. According to police, three teenagers approached Jorge Alberto Torres, 37, as he was filling up at about 10:45 Sunday night. The teens robbed and shot Torres, DPD Deputy Chief…
Three things to say about the death of the Trinity toll road project, authorized by city voters in 1998, killed by the Dallas City Council three weeks ago — Thing 1, Thing 2 and the Big Thing. The first thing, you will find obvious, the second less so. The Big…
How times have changed.The worst threat posed to poor minority kids in Dallas once came from a callous white leadership. Now poor and minority kids get shafted by a callous black Southern Dallas leadership that cares more about preserving its good-old-boy political patronage system. You may not agree with me…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings changed direction Friday afternoon on his plan for the city’s four Confederate statues and monuments. While Rawlings initially called for three months of public meetings and deliberation by a task force, the mayor says now that he wants the City Council’s Quality of Life Committee briefed on the…
The story of the 1988 Carter High School Cowboys is tough to get right. There are so many moving parts — one of the most talented high school football teams in history, a school fighting for a new grading system that leads to an eligibility scandal and a group of…
Two men carjacked a valet Sunday morning in front at the Omni Dallas Hotel on Lamar Street downtown. Dallas Air 1, the Dallas Police Department’s helicopter, picked up the Lamborghini around 8 a.m. near Kiest Boulevard and Polk Street in Oak Cliff. As Air 1 continued tracking the Lamborghini, it…
Earlier this year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it’s targeting the seat of U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, in Texas Congressional District 32. Sessions has drawn two competitive Democratic challengers, former Hillary Clinton adviser Ed Meier and civil rights attorney and former NFL linebacker Colin Allred. A little more…
One of Deep Ellum’s long nightmares is over. Dallas police have arrested a local spine doctor suspected of flashing multiple women during the past few months. Police picked up Reginald Newsome, who works for the iSpine Clinic, on Wednesday night, and he posted bail early Thursday morning. Nobody answered the…
When I saw 23-year-old Jerry Drake Varnell’s mugshot on my Facebook newsfeed, I didn’t know there’d be a single degree of separation between us. Federal authorities arrested Varnell early Saturday, Aug. 12. He’s charged with plotting an attack on one of the largest banks in downtown Oklahoma City. He also…
