Cold, quiet weekday afternoon. One of my favorite East Dallas sausage and egg places, Barbec’s on Garland Road, is still as the tomb, empty but for this table, where a waitress hovers over five of us with a pot of hot coffee. Here I am, chatting up a table full…
Dallas Police Department officers are looking for a teenager they believe shot and killed an former Highland Park High School student during an apparent drug deal gone wrong. According to a description from witnesses who accompanied the victim, Joseph Pintucci, to the garage, the 18-year-old’s shooter is Latino, between 18…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped quite the bombshell Friday afternoon: Nearly a year after his office announced an extensive voter fraud initiative, the Texas Secretary of State’s office has discovered that about 95,000 individuals identified as not having documentation of their citizenship on file with the Texas Department of…
North Texas remains extremely dangerous for pedestrians even as Dallas takes steps to modernize its thoroughfares, according to the 2019 version of Smart Growth America’s Dangerous By Design report. According to the study, 1,037 pedestrians died after being struck by cars in DFW between 2008 and 2017. Put another way, that’s 1.49…
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is nothing if not a … well, even we hate to come right out and call someone a hypocrite. We’ll let you decide whether that shoe fits. During his 2016 run for president, he positioned himself first as Donald Trump’s best friend, then called Trump a…
There are certainly worse places to spend late January than Orlando, but it’s hard to imagine any of the Cowboys coaches and players currently in Florida are all that happy to be there. Like everyone else in the NFL, Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, Leighton Vander Esch and Jason Garrett would…
Some things are made for each other: peanut butter and jelly, beef tallow and fried potatoes, Jerry Jones and television cameras. Similarly, some moments are just made for Twitter, scratching the social network right where it itches. Wednesday afternoon, one of those moments fell from the sky, or was at…
Wednesday I decided to go out and check on my two favorite issues in the upcoming mayor’s race. Yup, still there: 1) The trashy mess where the city finally tore out the $6 million never-used fake whitewater feature it built in the Trinity River, and 2) the $115 million never-used…
Late Wednesday afternoon brought another twist for May’s municipal election, as Dallas City Council member Mark Clayton announced he will not seek a third term. Clayton has represented portions of East and northeast Dallas since 2015, when he cruised to an easy victory by winning almost 60 percent of the…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rolled out the state’s next big plan to save Texans from U.S.’ ongoing opioid epidemic Tuesday afternoon: A website and some seriously weird stock photography. “The misuse and abuse of prescription opioids cost lives and devastate Texas families in every region of our state,” Paxton…
Tuesday brought the first true surprise of the nascent race for Dallas mayor, with state Rep. Eric Johnson announcing that he was making the field an even 10, further muddying an electoral picture that’s still a long way from shaking itself out. Johnson is a serious candidate — even if…
Citizens Matter. Yeah, right. We all know what that means. Citizens Matter is what the group opposed to reforming the Dallas Citizens Police Review Board is calling itself. So the name is contrapuntal to Black Lives Matter. Citizens Matter means White Lives Matter. And, look, far be it from me…
Turns out, former Texas state Rep. Jason Villalba wasn’t the last person to squeeze himself onto Dallas’ large field of mayoral candidates. Tuesday morning, West Dallas state Rep. Eric Johnson surprisingly threw his own hat into the mayoral ring, bringing the number of candidates running for the city’s most visible…
The siren song of early-morning Whataburger appears to have been a bit too much for former Cowboys running back Darren McFadden, according to the McKinney Police Department. Employees at the Whataburger on West University Drive in McKinney called police shortly after midnight early Monday to report a man sleeping in…
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Monica Alonzo is looking to retake her spot on the Dallas City Council, two years after being unceremoniously dumped out of her District 6 seat in a June 2017 runoff by Omar Narvaez. While she has apparently yet to speak to the English-language press about…
What started as a legal battle between Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Aliens: Colonial Marines) CEO Randy Pitchford and his company’s former legal counsel, Wade Callender, has boiled over into the public sphere thanks to a number of shocking details in a recent lawsuit.
At times this year, your faithful Observer sports correspondent was deeply wrong about the Cowboys. Like most of the media, local and otherwise, I declared Dallas’ heroes dead and buried after their Nov. 5 loss to the Titans dropped them to 3-5. Before the season started, I even chided the Cowboys…
Frequently, when we write about Dallas’ lack of affordable apartments, stagnating median wage or unattainable mortgages, we’re talking about those costs in reference to Dallas’ quickest growing demographic — millennials. They’re the generational cohort, roughly ages 23 to 38, that can’t afford their student loans, can’t buy a house and…
I liked the previous session of the Texas Legislature a lot better. The Republicans concentrated on what I consider to be their innate concerns – dehumanizing women, disenfranchising minorities and putting Big Brother in the bathroom. I didn’t like what they did, but I did like that they wanted to…
A half-dozen or so candidates remain in Dallas’ mayoral race, hoping to navigate the rocky path to a one-on-one showdown and a runoff. Friday morning, former Dallas City Attorney Larry Casto announced he is no longer one of them. Casto, a North Oak Cliff resident, said he believes his remaining…
Apologies in advance, but we’re going to have to take another long look at Beto O’Rourke’s Medium blog. Late Wednesday afternoon, O’Rourke took to the blogging platform with another journal entry right out of a graduate creative writing workshop — Doesn’t the University of Iowa have one of those? —…
It’s hard to blame DFW Airport’s Transportation Security Administration agents for being unprepared at this point. For federal workers, a government shutdown is always looming, an event out of their control that can be forced on them at any time. Those employed by the TSA and other federal agencies around…
