Texas' chief lawyer, Ken Paxton, joined attorneys general from across the country last week in urging the Food and Drug Administration to tighten electronic cigarette regulations. In a letter, co-signed by Paxton, the attorneys sharply criticize the agency's recent efforts to combat the youth vaping epidemic. "The current guidance will not...
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Dallas’ jails and emergency rooms are overwhelmed by mental health crises. These institutions of last resort have become the only option for many "high utilizers," people who return time after time in need of medication or counseling. It’s not their fault, explains Jessica Martinez, the chief clinical officer at a...
The Arlington City Council approved an $810 million expansion project on Dec. 17, 2019, for its entertainment district, which would give the city a new 888-room Loews hotel connected to a convention center, new residential and office space for small business co-working and incubator space and a 200,000 sq. foot...
May 14, Kiara Yarbrough was sent to Dallas County jail for a probation violation. Seven weeks earlier, the jail was consumed by an outbreak of COVID-19. While a pair of lawsuits have called for the release of medically vulnerable inmates, the jail has avoided responsibility for what attorneys describe as...
Heart pumping, eyes darting, Abby Cole races down the highway toward her family home. Her gaze flits between the road and the clock. As the pedal inches toward the floor, she wills time to go slower. It’s a chilly night in September 2019, and her song “Dandelion Wine” is being...
Artists, small businesses and cultural institutions are all suffering the effects of the pandemic shutdowns, and while you may not be in a position to make a big baller donation, there are small ways you can contribute so that the Dallas we know and love is still standing when the...
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Rawlins Gilliland believes in happy endings. And against recent odds, it looks like he may be getting one of his own. Friends and fans are banding together to help the local luminary, who is facing a $36,000 lien placed on his home by the IRS. A GoFundMe page that went...
Dallas got a peek at how its new City Council is going to work Tuesday afternoon. The results, giving bonus points for about half the members being new on the job and all the members being freshly returned from vacation, were a mixed bag. The council didn't hamstring its budgeting...
If it seems like just yesterday that the Iowa Democratic Party was making a mockery of their caucus' treasured first-in-the-nation status thanks to their inability to count votes or name a winner — it isn't. But it's close. Things are just getting started and, already, Texans are about to get...
Fine China will relaunch the brand with new cocktails and food, including its Bamboo Forest cocktail.
A former University of Texas at Arlington student is suing the university's chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity, saying fraternity members forced him to drink Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey until he blacked out during a hazing ritual. Plaintiff Roc Riner suffered serious injuries and received treatment for alcohol poisoning at...
On the evening of June 1, hundreds of protesters left a rally at the Frank Crowley Courts Building, just outside the city's curfew zone, and marched north on Riverfront Boulevard. They carried signs calling for justice for George Floyd, a black man killed last month by a Minneapolis police officer,...
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Henry's Majestic brings together their charged coffee with vanilla-infused bourbon and milk for a smooth, boozy coffee.
However a government might seek to restrict abortion, people with pregnancies they don't wish to carry to term are going to seek the procedure out. It's a fact one will hear again and again from pro-choice researchers and activists, and a new study from TxPEP, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project,...
In a startling example of community policing gone wrong, a drug-sniffing dog attacked a little girl after the county’s narcotics team showed up at an Arlington elementary school career day. This was in 2017. Now, the county is paying her medical bills after the girl’s mother, Yesenia Arevalo, filed suit earlier...
Dallas County's switch from traditional polling places on election day to vote centers that can be used by anyone registered to vote in the county is a good thing. The Observer is on the record saying as much. The county's transition to the new voting setup, as county commissioners and the...
There’s a legitimate reason that ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas, the documentary that premiered on Netflix last week, currently boasts a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score: It’s simply fantastic. There’s also a major reason the iconic trio with over 50 years under its belt has long been worthy...
The Dallas County Community College District will seek approval from its accreditor later this year to merge its seven schools into one in an effort to help more students graduate. Joe May, the district chancellor, said he was motivated to pursue the change after realizing that thousands of students were being...
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The pandemic has affected almost all forms of business, but it's impact on the entertainment industry has been particularly swift. Throughout the world, productions have been shut down, with major studios like Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros, and Apple closing sets and sending crew members home. Many of the year’s most...
Good times ahead for 2020 as new concert dates roll in to our market. We've got some things lined up for The Granada, The Kessler and some of the bigger sheds, too. If you haven't found your calendar filling up yet, this week might change that. Read on for the...
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed suit against the airline, claiming that she caught a pilot watching footage from a hidden lavatory camera in 2017. After she reported the incident, the lawsuit alleges, the airline covered it up. The flight attendant, Renee Steinaker, was called into the cockpit by...
The French M. Robertson Unit, a maximum-security state prison, is located off a dusty farm-to-market road about 20 minutes from Abilene. A couple of tiny hamlets dot the dry West Texas terrain near the prison, but for the most part, its population of about 3,000 inmates is surrounded by nothingness...