The most ominous thing for the defense after three full weeks of the federal prosecution of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is the sheer volume of evidence. This week, the Department of Justice hammered the point home again and again. It’s a smorgasbord for the jury. If they don’t…
A suspected drunk driver accidentally killed a man who stopped to help a motorist change a tire in Dallas last night. Dallas police say the man spotted the woman just after 10pm as she was struggling with a flat tire near the overpass where Walton Walker Boulevard meets Singleton Boulevard. He…
An ugly bit of street theater is being prepared for us by certain people at City Hall. When it gets here, I want you to know the real story. In the first week of June, as many as 200 poor families will be tossed out on the street in West…
On Wednesday afternoon, the state Senate signed off on the bill that one of the region’s biggest anti-abortion organizations, Texas Right to Life, has identified as a key building block to ending legal abortion Texas. Senate Bill 415, which passed its initial Senate test with a 22-8 vote, would ban…
Dallas County’s worst mumps outbreak in years has picked up steam this week, as an additional 11 cases have been reported by Dallas County Health and Human Services, bringing the county’s 2017 total to 56. Of those 56 infections of the highly contagious virus, 42 have been reported at Cedar…
Had David Newsom known that Kathy Nealy was making payments to John Wiley Price, he told the jury Tuesday, he would’ve immediately terminated his employer’s relationship with her. It didn’t matter what the payments between Nealy and Price were for, said the ex-chief counsel of Ross Perot Jr.’s real estate…
This week in the federal corruption trial of one of Dallas’ most powerful and long-tenured elected officials, an important behind-the-scenes truth has been told about how this city really operates. It raises a question about who and what we are. For at least a half century, Dallas city and county…
Over vociferous objections from the chamber’s Democratic minority, the Texas Senate voted 21-10 late Tuesday afternoon in favor of state Senator Lois Kolkhorst’s so-called “bathroom bill.” The bill requires patrons of the state of Texas’ publicly owned facilities to use the bathroom designated for the sex listed on their birth…
Two robots made debuts in Dallas last week, each promising ways to help humans with automation — or at least save them some legwork. One is called Knightscope, a police robot that serves as one part pack mule, one part guard dog. Stacy Stephens is a former Coppell PD police officer and co-founder of…
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is in trouble again after video surfaced Monday of his pawing and exposing a woman’s breast during Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dallas. There are two videos, both obtained by TMZ. One shows Elliott exposing a woman’s left breast after the woman points…
Hey, here’s an idea. If we have to do some kind of claw-back because the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund is in trouble — you know, send out the guys with the baseball bats and have them repossess those overpaid pension benefits — how about we start with the…
On Monday the Texas Senate passed a series of bills meant to remedy the problems cops and their families faced during and after Michah Johnson’s July 7 ambush on Dallas police. The bills, all passed on the first voting day for the Texas Senate in 2017, will potentially provide every patrol…
The Dallas County Republican Party treated Donald Trump Jr. like a celebrity on Saturday night at their 2017 annual Reagan Day Dinner at the Omni Hotel. More than a thousand Republicans from all across Texas filled the third-floor ballroom, all dressed in their Sunday best, cheering and hollering as he…
Last week architect and land planner Kevin Sloan told an audience to go home and Google “Bobcat City.” So I did. It’s us. If you Google Bobcat City, the first thing that pops up is an extremely cool YouTube video produced by Texas Parks and Wildlife about a study of…
SMU’s men basketball team won Sunday. It wasn’t a surprise. The Mustangs’ win over Cincinnati in the American Athletic Conference Tournament final is their 30th this year and 16th in a row. With the win, they are officially guaranteed a berth in the NCAA Tournament that was already a foregone…
Every time a vehicle passes over a pothole, as we feel ourselves bounce in our seats in slow motion, we die a little. And then we cuss the city of Dallas, the mayor, construction workers, God, etc., saying that we don’t deserve this kind of hell. Potholes seem to be everywhere in…
The president of the National Latino Law Enforcement Organizations’ greater Dallas chapter is on restricted Dallas Police Department duty as Mansfield ISD police investigate him for assault, DPD said late Sunday afternoon. Sgt. George Aranda, a 25-year DPD veteran, is assigned to DPD’s gang unit. He won’t be restored to full duty…
We know you’re busy, so here’s the week in review from the news desk of the Dallas Observer. Big Guns for Small Towns: Suburban Officers Team Up to Give Their Cities SWAT Firepower Southern Dallas and Ellis county communities formed a tactical group to provide heft to small town police…
For Bell Helicopter, this week’s Heli-Expo 2017 conference was a chance to use some home field advantage. That included a large presence at the Dallas Convention Center, several solid sales announcements and, best of all, flights for media and prospective buyers from the Dallas Vertiport downtown. Bell, headquartered in Fort Worth,…
For a while longer at least, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System board of directors is going to hold off the elephant in the room. On Thursday afternoon, by an 11-1 vote, the board agreed to continue restricting lump-sum withdrawals from deferred retirement option program (DROP) accounts. DROP accounts…
For the jury, the media and anyone else interested in a resolution to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s public corruption trial, this week was a good one. Federal prosecutors finally picked up their pace, running through a significant portion of their witnesses. The jury, unlike the previous week, remained…
The question has always been why. Why did the city of Dallas carry out a decades-long manifestly illegal campaign of persecution against a Dallas author. Now that author, a Kennedy assassination expert whose theories differ from what he says is an official city doctrine, has agreed to a modest out-of-court…
