On Tuesday morning, you didn’t have to look hard to see plenty of signs that things had not been going well for a certain segment of holiday travelers. Even if one had somehow missed seeing the headlines and social media posts generated by Southwest Airlines’ cancellation of over 2,800 flights…
The city has been working to divert non-emergency services from the Dallas Police Department to other city staff to increase efficiency. Starting next year, the city’s Department of Transportation will begin taking over street blockage enforcement.
The opiate crisis in America is still raging, and it has hit North Texas with a wallop. In Dallas, suspected opioid overdoses have seen a dramatic rise in number over the past three years. And with that number, the amount of Narcan administered by city EMS personnel has also skyrocketed…
We’ve taken a look at the most-read Observer news stories of 2022, which provided a peek into what the year’s most hotly debated topics were. We’ve also looked at the reports we thought were the weirdest and wildest of the year. But there’s more to Dallas than controversy and oddness,…
When it comes to reporting on what happens in and around Dallas, every year is weird in its own way. Perhaps weird is normal for Dallas? Even so, it seems as though each year since 2020 has only gotten weirder in Big D. Not surprisingly, in 2022 elected officials contributed…
Angela Smith says her husband will not be happy about this story. She launched a GoFundMe, too, and he wasn’t too keen on that. “We both have a hard time asking for help,” she says. “He doesn’t want our burdens to become anyone else’s.” But the 55-year-old says she felt…
Dozens of migrants arrived in Dallas on Tuesday and Wednesday after a three-hour bus ride from one of the several detention centers in Texas, where thousands of other migrants are still being processed for entry into the United States. For most, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church is but a brief…
Although large irregularities were found in Harris County, an audit of how the state ran the 2020 General Election found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
With below-freezing temperatures approaching later this week just in time for Christmas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued a press release to let Texans know that it is “closely monitoring the weather situation.” It’s certainly good to know that the ERCOT is paying close attention to the upcoming…
Dallas Animal Services has been offering $150 gift cards to people who foster medium or big dogs to help stop the spread of canine upper respiratory infection.
A pair of North Texas residents pleaded not guilty on Dec. 16 to charges they defrauded insurers of more than $7 million via fake COVID-19 tests. A statement released by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Leigha Simonton, claims that Terrance Barnard, 39, and Connie Jo Clampitt,…
Since 2007, school districts across Texas have been adopting the “guardian plan,” a rule that allows select faculty to carry guns on campus in the hopes that teachers can defend their students in the event of a school shooting. Many rural districts in Texas have adopted the plan over the…
Dallas bought a luxury apartment complex called The Briscoe in an attempt to provide affordable rents to teachers, first responders and nurses.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is fighting for faith-based adoption agencies to have the right to discriminate on the basis of gender-identity, sexual orientation, and same-sex marriage status.
All too often, Dr. Amite Dominick receives letters containing some variation of the sentence, “I don’t think I’m going to make it.” Dominick, the founder and director of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, is in frequent contact with incarcerated people, their families and beleaguered corrections officers. Each of these groups has…
Despite constitutional concerns, Dallas passed an ordinance banning people, including panhandlers, from standing on medians. Now, the city is getting sued over it, with the Texas Civil Rights Project claiming it violates the First Amendment.
If it wasn’t obvious before, we can say it’s official now: We like reading about polarizing public figures. They really move the needle. Perhaps it’s a schadenfreude thing, or perhaps we just want to keep tabs on the people who seek to have more power over others. Either way, the…
Police maimed protesters with less-lethal ammunition during the 2020 protests against police brutality. Ever since, states and municipalities across the country have considered bans on these types of ammunition. Texas will take up the issue in the upcoming legislative session after the filing of House Bill 974 by Rep. Erin Zwiener.
Rafael Munoz understands the importance of the issue facing “Dreamers” in the federal courts. He’s a first-generation child of an immigrant family from a border town near Del Rio, where he was born. It was a personal journey for him and his family, and one he’s been trying to help…
If passed, a permanent eviction ordinance in Dallas could give tenants up to 20 days to settle late rent with their landlord and stay in their home.
Last week a Texas court handed abortion-rights advocates a victory when it dismissed a lawsuit against a San Antonio doctor who provided an abortion in September to a woman who was more than six weeks pregnant. It’s a significant win for those who oppose Texas Senate Bill 8, also known…
While one recent report suggests that the City of Dallas is putting too much of its money into arresting, prosecuting and jailing its citizens, and not enough on providing what it calls Systems of Community Care, a different, new report says that Dallas is doing well in another area of…
