Leave it to local Democrats to play the Susan Hawk mentally ill district attorney story exactly wrong. I swear the local Dallas County Democratic Party could turn the second coming into a debate about immigration. Hawk, as you know, is our recently elected Republican DA who went on a covered-up…
University of North Texas’ athletic director, Rick Villarreal, will leave the school June 20, ending 16 years on the job. Villarreal’s time in Denton, which is coming to a mutually agreed end, according to the director and the school, was marked by improved facilities, poor hiring, hemorrhaging cash and disastrous performances on…
There’s a tunnel connecting the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to the U.S. Agency for International Development office building across the street. It’s a popular — and safe— thoroughfare for the diplomats, accountants, Foreign Service officers and non-governmental agency workers involved in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Jeff Millslagle is walking through…
First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress sure does think a lot of things. He thinks that leading his parishioners to raise $135 million to build the baptist Bellagio on St. Paul Street downtown is being a good steward of the Lord’s cash. He thinks that Catholicism represents the “genius of…
A picture is emerging — very slowly from the fog of local politics — of the way Dallas probably is going to address its desegregation problems with the federal government. The city is under major pressure to redress decades of bad behavior by putting more “affordable housing” (code for racially…
In the four years Texas Central Railway unveiled plans to link Dallas and Houston with the country’s first bullet train, officials with the private company have talked a lot about how quickly the line will whisk travelers between two of the country’s largest fastest-growing urban areas, about how darn Texan…
Anarchists were active in Denton this election season, seeking to dethrone District 4 City Council member Joey Hawkins and place their own puppets on the council. At least that’s what the Citizens for Local Governance, a political action committee, warned on its website and in hundreds of mailers appearing in…
The city of Arlington got played. So did the city of Dallas. Pretty much everyone involved, save Rangers’ owners Bob Simpson and Ray Davis, got used for the benefit of the club. That’s a win, if you care about winning baseball or have suffered on the third-base of Globe Life…
On any given day, members of the exclusive City Club can look down from the the 69th floor of the Bank of America Plaza, Dallas’ tallest building, and glimpse the Trinity River as it exists today: a rigid trickle of water confined by a straitjacket of levees, a denuded floodplain…
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk was supposed to be at Solutions Outpatient Services 21st anniversary celebration to present an award Thursday night. She didn’t show up, and the banquet’s attendees were told she was sick. Friday morning, she was slated to be the keynote speaker at the Dallas Public Library’s…
Over the past week, Dallas has been the backdrop for what is destined in short order to be made into a TV true-crime documentary. On Friday, officials responding to a North Dallas house fire found the body of Ira Tobolowsky, an attorney from a prominent local family. The fire was soon…
This week, misaligned federal priorities and warnings at the Texas Capitol made it clear that the Zika virus is going to pose a very real threat to Texas during the 2016 mosquito season. As temperatures rise and mosquitoes gather, both the state and Dallas County are going to need money…
Heading into the 2016 season, the Rangers looked set to have one of the best bullpens in baseball. They returned closer Shawn Tolleson, who converted 35 of 37 save opportunities after being named the Rangers closer in May 2015, as well as Jake Diekman, Keone Kela and Sam Dyson, the…
Don’t tell Dallas it hasn’t done anything for racial desegregation. Since 2004 a $22 million trust fund that grew out of a Dallas housing desegregation case has been used to bankroll an aggressive campaign to push integrated housing into highly resistant affluent white majority areas. Didn’t know that? Maybe you…
On Monday afternoon, The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board reached a conclusion its been building to for months. In the wake of the unspeakably horrific death of Antoinette Brown, who was fatally mauled by a pack of dogs in South Dallas, Dallas Animal Services director Jody Jones has to go. The piece raises several…
Over the last couple of weeks, the suckiness that is airline travel has become even suckier as serpentine lines leading to Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at Dallas’ airports have grown from Six Flags to Disney World length. Airlines have been forced to delay flights, passengers have been left behind and…
In an attempt to head off concerns from conservatives about the type of judge he might nominate to the Supreme Court, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump released a list of 11 people he’d consider appointing to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday afternoon. There are eight men and three…
Starting Tuesday, content on The Dallas Morning News’ two major websites, DallasNews.com and SportsDayDFW.com exists behind a metered paywall. Any reader hoping to view more than 10 articles a month on the sites can expect to be asked to pay for a digital subscription — or adopt one of the many easy…
One of the most cherished lines in American movies – “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” – may take on new and bitter meaning here in Dallas, where backers of a proposed new six-lane toll road along the Trinity River through the center of the city are about to get the…
One of the few downsides of having a real, big-girl or -boy full-time job that comes with a salary and benefits is that, no matter how many hours the job requires, workers are likely exempt from federal requirements mandating employers pay overtime wages for those who work more than 40…
Headless, that’s how Jubal Alexander was found. Sitting in his blue Chevy pickup, parked underneath a bridge near a boat ramp in Brazoria County, he hadn’t been heard from since April 27, local news reported. Even though he worked overnights as a pipe cutter at a local chemical plant, the…
Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor has been handed an eight-game suspension by Major League Baseball for landing a textbook right hook to Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista’s jaw. Odor will appeal and his suspension could be reduced, but he’ll miss at least a handful of games whenever a final…
