Most of us had the right reaction, as far as I can tell, when we watched the March 21 video of Austin Shuffield, a muscled up 30-year-old bouncer in Deep Ellum, pounding a young woman repeatedly as hard as he could in the head with his fists. Most of us…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott first warned of the coming scourge in 2015. Ousted Dallas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions spotted it, too, but not soon enough to stave off defeat from Democrat Colin Allred. The real threat to Texas, its economic prosperity and its way of life, at least to Republicans…
Days after a woman was beaten in an early-morning altercation in Deep Ellum, her lawyer said he was considering suing not only the man accused of punching her repeatedly, but also the bar where he worked. At a news conference this week, civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said High and…
The hits just keep on coming for acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley. He remains unconfirmed by the Texas Senate and under federal court scrutiny for his attempted purge of almost 100,000 voters from the state’s registration lists. Now, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee, he’s…
Feel free to throw this back in our face when the Cowboys are picking through the scrap heap for offensive line or secondary cover after Week 3 of the 2019 season. But for now, on the day after the team traded for former Dolphins and Rams defensive end Robert Quinn,…
Austin Shuffield, the former High and Tight bartender accused of beating up a woman in Deep Ellum parking lot last week, faces upgraded charges, the Dallas Police Department announced Thursday morning. Shuffield, initially charged with assault causing bodily injury and interfering with an emergency call, both misdemeanors, is now accused…
Opening Day, along with the hope and inevitable despair that await the Rangers this season, is here. It’s the real first day of spring and maybe the single best excuse to skip out on work for the afternoon that you’ll get in 2019. The Rangers and the Cubs playing their…
Just when you thought Dallas couldn’t possibly use another scooter on its streets, Lyft is getting in on the game, the Uber competitor plans to announce later today. The company’s dockless scooters will be available throughout the city, both for on-demand riding and through the company’s ride-hailing app, which will…
Thousands of students in the Dallas Independent School District show up to school each morning not knowing where they’ll sleep that night. Under a bill in the Texas Senate, districts wouldn’t be allowed to suspend such students if they misbehave. Senate Bill 1001 would bar school districts from suspending students…
A lawsuit, really a collection of lawsuits, has been creeping along through the local courts for years like the plot of Charles Dickens’ mid-19th-century novel, Bleak House, pitting Dallas against some members of the Topletz family, who are landlords in southern Dallas. But there is a new wrinkle in the…
On most issues, there is no bridge that’s too far between Texas’ Republican majority and law enforcement officers in the state. Whether it’s the state’s slow-to-change drug laws or special protections for peace officers, the Texas GOP loves to defer to its cops, positioning itself as the state’s law-and-order party…
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Elvis … has been left to the rebuilding. Once upon a time, in what feels like some sort of perverted, parallel universe, the Texas Rangers’ shortstop was a joyful kid playing for a nearly champion. Today, on a sun-splashed March 1 at spring training, Elvis Andrus finds…
Pew Research Center is out with an analysis of how North Texans get and consume their news, and the breakdown isn’t kind to print and paid media, be it The Dallas Morning News or your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly. (That’s us. Hi.) An overwhelming share of DFW turns to the region’s…
Maybe we need to have a little bit of Journalism 101 here. There seem to be some people around town who don’t quite know how it works. Professor Schutze is always glad to assist. A major political dust storm erupted at City Hall after my cover story appeared last week…
The early reviews for Dallas’ “End Panhandling Now” program are in and they aren’t good. Not Battlefield Earth bad, but not good. It’s going to take more than $400,000 and a Frogger-themed public service announcement, it seems, to stop people from hustling downtown residents for change and connect them with…
Texas House Democrats did everything they could to slow down their Republican colleagues’ “born-alive” bill Monday morning. But the legislation, like so many anti-abortion bills in the Texas Legislature over the last decade, chugged along as expected and looks set for a big debate on the House floor later this…
A bill that would allow licensed professionals to deny services on religious grounds advanced out of a Texas Senate committee Monday afternoon. Senate Bill 17 would bar state license-granting agencies from taking action against an occupational license holder “based on a sincerely held religious belief.” The bill passed the Senate…
Looks like marijuana decriminalization has an honest shot in the Texas House this session. Whether that will carry over to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s domain in the Senate is yet to be seen. Monday afternoon, the House’s Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill making Texans caught with small amounts of…
After my own lengthy and exacting legal analysis of positions taken by The Dallas Morning News editorial page on official actions and decisions by newly elected Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot, I have come to the following learned conclusion, which I think should be published in a legal journal,…
Over the last half-decade or so, Dallas has mostly slowly but surely done what it can to make itself a more egalitarian city. The City Council passed a comprehensive LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance, gone as far as Texas law allows with regard to marijuana decriminalization by implementing cite-and-release and required city…
High and Tight Barber Shop and Bar in Deep Ellum is closed for the weekend, according to its owners, following two days of social media rage against the business following an alleged assault by one of its employees on Thursday. The bar’s owners announced the closing in a now-deleted Facebook…
Tarrant County is the latest area in North Texas to have a resident come down with measles, county health officials said Thursday. The unnamed county resident makes 14 confirmed cases in Texas and four in North Texas so far in 2019, more than in the last four years combined. According…
