President Donald Trump’s office released his official determination for the 2020 cap on refugees to the United States and it’s the lowest number in nearly 40 year, which has Dallas area immigration advocates worried.
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…
Last week, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick finally followed through on a promise he made during one of the 2019 Texas Legislature’s tensest moments. Good luck figuring out what it was without any help. Here’s the announcement from Patrick’s office, made during the middle of Thanksgiving week, when no one…
The 2019 Dallas Cowboys are not a playoff team. At least, they aren’t a playoff team in the way one usually thinks about the term. They are led by one of the NFL’s worst head coaches and sport an underachieving defense and abominable special teams. They’ve lost six of their…
A few years ago, Dallas resident Adam Evans signed up for a 100% renewable energy plan in his home. This is an option available to Dallas residents who can select completely or partially green energy sources for their electricity. Evans worries about the United States’ fossil fuel usage, and he…
One Texas man’s long trip through the U.S. immigration system.
When military veterans come home, many start businesses. Those businesses, from Walmart to FedEx, are some of the largest in the world. And they’re also almost exclusively started by men. Only 3% of businesses led by female veterans have managed to hire an employee, according to research published by the National…
Thanksgiving Day dinner is nowhere near the food fight it ought to be, if you ask me, and I’m not sure how to feel about it. I’m a little bit appalled. Before Thanksgiving, everyone who wrote about it was promising civil war. A certain amount of that genre may be…
The more sentimental among us would tell us that Thanksgiving is, in addition to carbohydrates, about looking back on the year that’s past in gratitude. Gratitude for loved ones, employment if you’re lucky enough to have it and little things like the fact that, at least so far, we’ve avoided…
It’s too soon to say for sure, but at least so far it doesn’t look as if impeachment will push the 2020 presidential vote tally very far in either direction. But impeachment still seems to push every other story off the table, including one, school reform, that may offer a…
Three days into Thanksgiving week, you have to have seen them. Whether by sheer accident, social media or, God help you, because you actually need one, there are guides everywhere. “How to talk to your family about the economy on Thanksgiving,” is the first of a quarter-billion Google search results…
Calm down. Of course Rick Perry told President Donald Trump he’s God’s chosen one. Perry’s from Texas. He’s doing what must be done to protect Big Awl, the oil bidness. Why do people think Perry’s even in D.C.? But I forget. Most people outside of Texas probably don’t remember for…
Members of a labor union representing airline catering workers picketed outside Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, demanding better pay and affordable healthcare coverage. The demonstration was the latest in a series of protests held this year by the union representing workers at LSG Sky Chefs, a catering company…
A Dallas County grand jury has indicted community activist Dominique Alexander on family violence charges, according to court records. Alexander was arrested in April, following accusations that he injured his longtime domestic partner, Keyaira Saunders. Saunders called Dallas activist and pastor Jeff Hood after the alleged assault. The pair then…
If you were concerned about recent media reports that New York City is busing hundreds of homeless people to Dallas, don’t be. They’re lies. That’s according to the City of Dallas, which attempted to dispel the rumors in a memo released late Friday. City staff called the New York City…
There was a time, way back in 2015 and 2016, that Texas Republicans were part of the last line of defense against the looming specter of President Donald Trump. Former Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Ted Cruz and a bevy of Lone Star Never Trumpers held the line as best they could,…
Food is medicine, the adage goes, acknowledging that you can’t address many health problems without tackling the underlying issues of poverty and food insecurity. A new Dallas initiative is about to take a stab at doing exactly that, thanks to a $250,000 grant and a resource-sharing agreement between some of…
For a decade and a half, Texas politics may have driven you crazy, but they were easy, or at least fairly easy, to understand. There were the radical conservatives and theocrats, motivated either by their fervor or will to power. Then there were the moderate Republicans, motivated by their belief…
In a neighborhood with problems, the last thing anybody needed was a big, bad abandoned building. Something like that is a scary billboard warning people away. All the more appalling for the owner of it to have been the public school system, whose No. 1 priority ought to have been…
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…
While the internet was worried about a cop who looked like he might have been taking a bottle of tequila from a liquor store in the aftermath of Dallas’ October tornado — a story that turned out not to be true — two Dallas County Sheriff’s Office deputies really were…
First things first, before we get all mealymouthed and try to make the case for the Cowboys, still in the wilderness after all these years, slaying Goliath on Sunday afternoon, we should all be thankful. This weekend, the last one before the three-day, pre-holiday slog and the feast that hopefully…
