Two Years After El Paso Massacre, Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Persists
Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the El Paso Walmart massacre.
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As Schools Gear Up, COVID-19 Protocols Are in the Spotlight
As COVID-19 cases rise, some Democratic lawmakers want to see schoolwide mask mandates and virtual learning options.
In Dallas’ Floral Farms, Residents Feel Under Attack
Recent complaints by residents were an attempt to clean up Floral Farms. But, after code compliance swept the area, residents received complaints directed at their properties for things like incorrect placement of trash bins.
Bail Reforms Reduced False Convictions. The Texas GOP Wants to Scrap Them.
Allegedly, Maranda Odonnell was driving with an invalid license. After being taken into custody in Harris County Jail in 2016, officers told her she could leave immediately if she paid $2,500 in cash bail. In a hearing lasting less than 60 seconds, during which Harris County sheriff’s officers told her…
Everyone Is Wrong About Vaccine Hesitancy
The real story about employer vaccine mandates isn’t about the people fighting them. It’s about how successful they’ve been.
‘Moral March’: Texans Trek 28 Miles for Voting Rights
This week, the Poor People’s Campaign is marching from Georgetown to Austin to call attention to voting rights.
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In Texas, Exotic Dancer Under 21 Sues Ken Paxton to Get Her Job Back
In their lawsuit, Amada Man and the others argue Senate Bill 315 is unconstitutional.
Paul Ridley Won the District 14 Race. Now, the Old Appointees Won’t Leave.
City Council member Paul Ridley beat David Blewett with 61% of the vote in District 14, despite the raising a fraction of the funds. Now, Ridley is having trouble getting his opponents’ board and commission appointees to step down for his replacements.
Arlington Police Went to Conduct a Welfare Check. It Ended Fatally.
Just about everyone around Arlington’s Seville Commons shopping center knew Margarita “Maggie” Brooks and her dog. Brooks, 30, and her boyfriend had been living on the streets, but she had earned a reputation in the area as a “good hearted person,” said Larry Hamilton, who lives nearby and knew her…
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Will Dallas Also Name a Street After Santos Rodriguez?
Santos Rodriguez was killed in 1973 by a Dallas cop who tried to get him to confess to an $8 vending machine robbery with a Russian-roulette interrogation. It took 40 years for the Rodriguez family to get an apology from a Dallas mayor. It took them 48 years to get an apology from the city’s top cop. Now, people wonder if a street should be named after Santos.
Flyers Threatening White HP Parents Who Send Their Kids to the Ivy League Reek of Fakeness
As soon as Casie Tomlin found the FedEx envelope in her mailbox, she knew something looked fishy. Inside, a flyer from a group called Dallas Justice Now urged parents in Dallas’ wealthy – and largely white – Highland Park and University Park suburbs to not send their kids to Ivy…
Louie Gohmert Takes On the Criminal Justice System, Kind Of
America’s criminal justice system is rigged, exacting punishment and inhumane imprisonment disproportionately upon certain targeted groups, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert contends. The victims of this oppressive system? Trump supporters like him, of course. In a Monday tweet, Gohmert wrote, “Sadly, two systems of justice exist in America today: one for…
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Dallas Cred Wants to Help the City Heal
Dallas Cred violence interrupters fan out to four crime-heavy areas of the city. They don’t intervene in active violent situations. Their job is to interrupt patterns that lead to violent behavior and wreak havoc on communities.
‘Suffocating’: Why a Black Professor Quit Collin College
A former Collin College professor says she left after enduring years of racial harassment.
Dallas Is Prosecuting Fewer People for Weed Offenses
In 2019, the Dallas Police Department’s marijuana arrests and citations accounted for half of all of these referrals sent to the DA’s office for prosecution.
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Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Puts Spotlight on Dallas
Health officials are reporting a deadly fungus spread among patients in two Dallas-area hospitals.
As ICE Broke Its Own Healthcare Protocols, Dozens of Immigrants Died in Detention
By all accounts, Mauro Rivera Romero was clearly ill. After U.S. Border Patrol officers arrested him on a Greyhound bus near El Paso in 2011, he complained of persistent abdominal pain. He told officers he’d been hospitalized for a stomach infection only days before. On his second day in Immigration…
‘More Crimes Than a Hollywood Script’: Dallas Raid Turns Up Cocaine, Meth and $1.6 Million
Law enforcement uncovered significant amounts of drugs and cash at a southeast Dallas home last week.
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‘Viruses Are Going to Virus’: COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans
Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called “breakthrough cases.”
Will Fort Worth Get a Citizen Review Board to Oversee the Police?
The Fort Worth Police Chief said he sees few benefits in a civilian police review board. Others only see benefits.
AT&T Donated $100k to Abbott on Same Day He Vowed to Pass Voting Restrictions
Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign received a $100,000 donation from AT&T on the same day he vowed to pass restrictive voting laws during Texas’ special legislative session. AT&T’s CEO has said the company supports expanding voting rights nationwide.
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Something to Carp About: Plano Fisherman Finds Invasive Fish in Texas Waters
These fish are massive. Silver carp can reach approximately 3 feet in length and can weigh nearly 60 pounds. Bighead carp can be up to 4 and a half feet long and weigh nearly 90 pounds. Now, they’re in Texas waters.