Until Friday morning, anyone looking to report police misconduct to Dallas’ new Office of Community Police Oversight would have had a hard time figuring out how. Instructions on a Dallas police website for submitting complaints led callers to a disconnected number. A link to the office responsible for collecting complaints…
Big-time political rallies, more than anything, are about waiting. Doesn’t matter if the crowd is there to see a Republican or a Democrat, the president or the next big thing, they’re going to wait. To park, to get to the door, to get through the door and security, to find…
The least interesting person at Thursday night’s rally at the American Airlines Center was the man of the hour himself, who spent his 90 minutes predictably: trumpeting his alleged successes and condemning his perceived rivals. Outside, J.C. Cook of Cedar Creek Lake was promoting a dark horse candidate with promises…
Beto O’Rourke held a counter rally to Trump’s campaign stop in Dallas. Supporters packed the event where he called for unity.
Thursday night, in as much trouble as he’s been since his inauguration, President Donald Trump returned to Dallas’ American Airlines Center a little more than four years after his first visit to the place that Ron Kirk built. On a day in which his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney,…
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, one of the Trump administration’s biggest connections to Texas and mainstream conservatism, plans to quit his post as energy secretary, according to reports from Bloomberg and The New York Times. Despite calling President Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” during the 2016 Republican presidential primary,…
The mayor of Fort Worth says there is no relevance or importance in the fact that Atatiana Jefferson, killed by a Fort Worth police officer Saturday, had a gun. The mayor is wrong. According to the murder warrant for the former police officer who killed her, Jefferson, 28, pointed her…
President Donald Trump will be in town this evening, and dozens of his supporters have already lined up in anticipation, some having arrived days in advance. The doors open at 3 p.m., but attendees were not allowed on the grounds until this morning. So on Wednesday afternoon, they waited on…
One thing you can’t say about President Donald Trump, and there aren’t many, is that he’s never taken North Texas for granted. Unlike basically every national politician in Texas’ blood-red era, the real estate developer turned reality TV star turned political sideshow turned legitimate candidate turned president has shown up…
Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in the DFW area went up a startling 27% per person between 1990 and 2017, according to new data released from Boston University’s Database of Road Transportation Emissions and analyzed by the New York Times.
It’d been too long, we guess, since anyone had done anything truly stupid on the freeways that surround and knife through downtown Dallas. About 6 p.m. Saturday, according to media reports, a caravan of street racers stopped traffic on Woodall Rodgers Freeway just before the Klyde Warren Park underpass. They…
Teams from schools across Collin and Dallas counties met up last weekend to play in front of a screaming crowd at a stadium in the shadow of Globe Life Park in Arlington. They were playing Nintendo. Mixed into the crowd were parents, classmates, coaches and district administrators. This tournament, they…
The bomb, such as it was, has been detonated. Now comes the time to figure out the size of the fallout and, more important, its half-life. Tuesday, everyone who’d been waiting for months to hear Chekov’s smartphone recording — otherwise known as Texas conservative gadfly Michael Quinn Sullivan’s record of…
The same questions being asked now of the Fort Worth Police Department, mayor and city manager in the shooting death of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson were asked last June in a lawsuit against the city filed by former Fort Worth Chief Joel Fitzgerald, who is demanding reinstatement after being fired last…
A local movie fan Facebook page was taken down. The owner wants to know why.
Tuesday morning, Michael Quinn Sullivan finally released the long-awaited tape of his summer meeting with Dennis Bonnen, the speaker of the Texas House. At first listen, the recording appears to back up the basics of what Sullivan, a conservative activist and blogger, has been saying for months: In exchange for…
While he called statements made by Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and interim police Chief Ed Kraus “positive,” the lawyer for the family of a woman shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer said responsibility for the killing lies with the entire department, not just a single officer…
Working through the Cowboys’ schedule before the season, it was difficult for anyone but the most hardened cynics to imagine the team doing any worse than 4-2 through the first six games. A trip to New Orleans to play the Saints and a home tilt against the Packers looked daunting,…
Three federal judges have issued nation-wide preliminary injunctions that block a new rule targeting low-income immigrants, that was set to go into effect today. Advocates say that the temporary block on the rule is a huge relief.
The family of Atatiana Jefferson, the woman shot and killed by Fort Worth police during a wellness call early Saturday morning, spoke out for the first time since the shooting Monday morning, calling for a federal investigation of Jefferson’s death. A still-unnamed white police officer shot Jefferson, who was black,…
Like many anti-abortion activists, Mark Lee Dixon left the 2019 Texas legislative session unsatisfied. Sure, the Legislature, deep red for at least one more election, had passed the “born-alive bill,” which mimics a federal law that requires doctors to care for a baby born during an attempted abortion, and another…
Oh, my God. Liberals. Please. I speak as one of you. What do you want to do, just hand Donald Trump a jewel-encrusted crown and let him skip the election? I thought we wanted to defeat him. Did I have it wrong? Do we just want to get on TV?…
