When outgoing Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley appeared on WFAA’s interview program “Y’all-itics” last month, he made an endorsement some found surprising. The longtime Republican said he wouldn’t support Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s reelection campaign. Instead, Whitley threw his weight behind Mike Collier, the Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Patrick…
The city of Dallas is working on a permanent ordinance that would offer protections to tenants facing eviction.
In post-pandemic Texas and beyond, nurses are facing long-term challenges.
Dallas wants more ways to deal with what it calls “nuisance properties.” It could get them by the end of this month.
Even as criticism has mounted, Gov. Greg Abbott has time and again doubled down on his program busing migrants to sanctuary cities. Now, the Texas Republican’s buses are reportedly facing another roadblock: the Washington, D.C., Attorney General’s office has launched an investigation. As first reported Friday by the Texas Tribune and…
In an effort to tackle panhandlers, the city may make it illegal to stand on medians 6 feet wide or smaller.
It all started a little more than two years ago after a minor nearly died from a heroin overdose, and it ended Thursday with a 30-year sentence in a federal prison for supplying the heroin that eventually led to the medical emergency. On Thursday, U.S. Judge Sean D. Jordan in…
The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization American Oversight is still locked in a court battle with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a lawsuit requesting that they release certain public records, including communications with gun advocacy groups and others related to the U.S. Capitol riot. American…
On Wednesday, City Council finished a six-year long process of approving new zoning for the Elm Thicket-Northpark neighborhood. Some say the changes, restrictions on height and lot coverage of new homes, will help preserve the history of the neighborhood.
The Texas-based conspiracy theorist has called on his viewers to cough up more dough, insisting that his legal battles are all “made up.”
Up for re-election, a report by the far-right politics website Current Revolt claims Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins wore blackface when he and two others criminally trespassed on several properties in 1983.
Today, the Dallas City Council will vote on zoning changes that some say will help preserve the historically Black Elm Thicket-Northpark neighborhood.
It’s no revelation that rental costs are up across Dallas/Fort Worth. Rent has swelled over the last year – and it has continued to do so even as real estate prices have seen a gradual decrease. According to a new report by Apartment List, Plano has the most expensive average…
A lawsuit filed in Texas seeks to halt President Joe Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan because there was no public input before its approval.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ought to know how the law works. He’s the state’s top cop, has faced an indictment or two of his own and recently had his latest run-in with a service processor, from whom he reportedly fled. But on Monday, he bought a series of billboards…
As more details of the May 24 Robb Elementary School shooting are revealed, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District sees more firings, retirings, and the suspension of its whole police force.
Operation Lone Star has run up a $4 billion tab, but it’s also racking up quite the corpus of criticism.
Scooters got booted from Dallas in 2020. Their return could be delayed until 2023.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would pardon everyone who was convicted under federal law for simple marijuana possession, calling on governors to do the same. “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” the president said in a statement, adding that imprisoning…
The hospital has suggested it will provide its own shuttles for employees, but patients may have to walk a quarter mile to the nearest mode of public transit.
On Tuesday, a Mexican citizen was shot and killed while being held in Border Patrol’s custody, prompting calls for a transparent investigation into the incident. The deadly shooting took place at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in El Paso, officials said in a press release. The incident came a week…
With religious jingoism on the rise, progressive faith leaders must navigate money, politics and the occasional “underground work” to support their flock
