Between North Texas Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan, the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19 and an endless series of worrisome new laws on the books, it was a hell of a year. It’s hard to know where to start, but the Observer has a few suggestion for catching up on…
Some public libraries across the state are reporting an uptick in book challenges.
Places with few or no lawyers are called “legal deserts,” and they exist all over the country.
In a perfect world, we’d right about now thank the universe that it was a slow news year. Honestly, we’d like to celebrate that Christmas is upon us. We’d like to all be enjoying the company of our relatives. We’d like to hardly feel the need to drink at all…
Before President Joe Biden ousted Donald Trump in November 2020, he famously promised his administration would not build “another foot” of the border wall. But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has other plans (to build a wall). And apparently, Biden also has other plans (to build some more wall). This week,…
Christmas in Dallas is going to be warm, but another recent year was the hottest on record.
With more than 5,700 coronavirus-related deaths in Dallas County to date, we’re just a couple months shy of the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 in Texas, and earlier this month, the state reported its first case of the new omicron variant. This week, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center warned…
Dr. Erin Carlson was “horrified” to learn that unvaccinated people had regularly been visiting her 84-year-old father, who suffers from kidney failure and other underlying conditions, without masks. When Carlson, a professor of public health at the University of Texas at Arlington, asked her elderly mother why they’d been allowing…
The first responders say they didn’t get pay adjustments when they were supposed to.
Here are the top five stupidest things Texas politicians said this year.
The Dallas County District Attorneys office obtained a warrant for Dallas Police officer Melvin Williams who is accused of shooting a protester in the face with a “less lethal” round. The shot fractured the protesters cheek, knocked out several teeth, and left him with only 40% vision in his left eye. Williams’ warrant is for misdemeanor assault.
On Monday, Texas conspiracy theorist and owner of InfoWars filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol riot select committee seeking to block lawmakers from accessing his phone records and making him testify at a deposition next month. Instead, he has offered to provide “written answers” to their questions, an offer the…
The family of a Dallas’ QAnon cult member is sounding the alarm. Multiple members of the Leek family confirmed that their relative, who left her husband and children behind in Delaware to follow a fringe QAnon cult leader to Dallas last month, has been drinking a chemical cocktail containing chlorine…
Daniel Miller, a Republican lieutenant governor candidate and “Texit” architect, has accused “cancel culture” of trying to get his Wikipedia page removed.
With weather like this week’s, you probably spent each day enjoying the 75-degree temperatures, taking long (read: short) walks (read: drives) around your neighborhood, taking in all of Mother Nature you could (read: wasting away at your office job). That all changed overnight. Friday saw a high of 77, but…
About 2,400 City of Dallas hourly employees are caught in the crossfire of a recent ransomware attack on one of the largest human resources companies: Kronos.
Airline CEOs are questioning masks on planes, but experts worry it could give passengers the green light to ramp up bad behavior.
A previous ruling on the qualified immunity defense for officers involved in the death of Tony Timpa was reversed in a successful appeal from the Timpa family.
Lavon resident and veteran Joshua Murray hopes to unseat Chris Hill as Collin County judge.
Late last month, Dallas City Council members rolled out a new plan for curbing panhandling across the city. The Panhandling Deflection Program aims to connect people asking for money on the street to social services that will keep them from panhandling in the future. To access those services, panhandlers will be…
The potential change in the hours of operation for sexually oriented businesses is being brought to City Council for discussion.
Dallas has renewed its juvenile curfew over and over again since the ’90s and is on track to do so again this year. However, some have suggested that these curfews may not be all that affective.
