For more than two years, Energy Secretary and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was an anomaly in President Donald Trump’s administration. He managed, largely, to tiptoe through the tulips, staying out of the headlines and keeping his job, unlike so, so many others in the executive branch. That run is…
NorthPark Center’s parking garages would be better classified as dangerous stunt-driving tracks, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Dallas County. The suit, filed by the families of two men hit by a speeding car in the mall’s Nordstrom garage in March, calls for NorthPark’s garages to be shut down…
There’s a big brouhaha going on now within the journalism trade about an apology published a couple of weeks ago by editors of the student newspaper at Northwestern University. The editors of The Daily Northwestern said they regretted the way they had reported on a student protest. I really worry…
The National Transportation Safety Board ended its nearly two-year investigation into Southwest Airlines flight 1380 on Tuesday with a recommendation that Boeing redesign the engine casing on one of its 737 models in order to prevent incidents like the one that killed a passenger and forced a crash landing in…
Every year, the Human Rights Campaign ranks cities across the United States based on the LGBTQ friendliness of their laws and services. And every year, a few Texas cities — Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin — get perfect scores. Dallas suburbs, however, do not. Take Irving, for example: The city scored a…
The Bryan Pergola at the top of the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza has always struck me as an ugly monument to everything depressing in the history of Dallas. Built in the “early commercial style” of the early 20th century, it looks like a public restroom. It’s named for a…
When teenagers and young adults end up homeless in the Dallas area, more often than not, it’s because of instability in their homes, according to a report released Tuesday. About 60% of the area’s homeless youth told surveyors that family instability drove them into homelessness, making it an even bigger…
It sounds like the setup to a joke: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick all went to church together on Sunday. Rather than setting up some humor at the expense of two of the world’s biggest celebrities and Texas’ most powerful politician, however, the unlikely trio…
A few weeks ago, a group of out-of-town activists told their followers they were going to make a “mighty impact on Dallas” by marching through downtown on Saturday, “spreading the joys of straight pride” to all who would hear. On Saturday morning, three people showed up. The march had, in…
The most surprising thing about Mina Chang’s resignation is that it took this long. Monday afternoon, five days after NBC News outed her as a fraud, Chang quit her post at the U.S. State Department. “It is essential that my resignation be seen as a protest and not as surrender because…
Myles Garrett did something dumb last week. With his Cleveland Browns moments from finishing a 21-7 win at home over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night, the Arlington Martin and Texas A&M product got involved in a melee with several members of the Steelers offense. Garrett eventually ripped off quarterback…
The Federal Government’s newest round of proposed anti-immigration rules targets asylum seekers and will put a strain on those here in North Texas and the organizations and people who support them, advocates say. The new rule would double the wait time for a work permit.
Last week on the worst night of the freeze, Dallas police arrested 11 people on outstanding warrants when they showed up among some 300 homeless seeking shelter in the city’s Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center downtown. Clergy who had helped transport people to the center said the arrests were a…
Rodney Reed will not be executed next week. Late Friday afternoon, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas’ highest criminal court, granted Reed, convicted of capital murder in 1998, a stay of execution so that the trial court in his case can evaluate new evidence. [pdf-1] As Reed’s execution date…
If you spent any time on Dallas Twitter or sports Twitter this week, you couldn’t have helped running into the Mavericks’ new jerseys, images of which leaked Tuesday night. We’re sorry about that, but not so sorry that we’re not going to make you look at it a few more…
Ed Calderon deployed to Iraq three times as a Marine. There, driving fast was a necessity. So when he returned home, he relied on cruise control not to fall into old habits. But it didn’t stop him from getting a speeding ticket in 2007 while he was driving his wife…
All things considered, Faith Johnson is probably better off today. Sure, she got waxed by Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot in the 2018 election, losing by 20 points, but she was never expected to win anyway. Since her loss, however, the former judge has picked up a sweet partnership…
A Dallas County grand jury indicted Austin Shuffield, the bartender accused of a brutal, caught-on-video assault in Deep Ellum this spring, on four counts Thursday, according to county records. Shuffield, 31, faces one count each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, obstruction or retaliation, assault causing bodily harm and unlawfully…
VisitDallas remains an organization non grata for multiple Dallas City Council members, that much is clear after Wednesday’s City Council meeting. That didn’t stop the embattled tourism promotion firm from winning grudging support for contractual changes meant to fix the long list of problems with way the organization keeps its…
Although the number of veterans living on Texas streets has dropped drastically since 2011, that population remains stubbornly high in Dallas, according to data released this week by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Even as Dallas saw fewer homeless veterans overall, its population of unsheltered veterans — those…
Dallas saw a massive spike in hate crimes in 2018, according to FBI data released Tuesday. The Dallas Police Department reported 31 such incidents to the FBI last year, more than double the previous year’s number. Angela Hale, acting CEO of Equality Texas, attributed the rise to hateful rhetoric by…
For a brief moment in 2018, it looked like Texas might be dragged out of the dark ages and forced to fix one of its residents’ longest-standing frustrations. A decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit squashed that dream Wednesday, at least for the time being…
