Texas Senator Ted Cruz continued his Donald Trump-supporting tour Tuesday morning, stopping by right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show to insist his formal rival won the first general election debate on Monday night. The senator earlier called Trump a “sniveling coward,” “serial philanderer” and “pathological” this spring. But these days he’s…
The Dallas City Council’s transportation committee left no doubt Monday about what the city wants DART to do as the transit agency moves forward toward its new 20-year plan: Build a subway downtown and fix the dysfunctional bus system. And the committee had one “don’t” as well: Don’t allocate a ton of…
Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin, the new temporary leader of Dallas Animal Services, didn’t hide the grim reality of what his department is going to have to do to stem the tide of the more than 8,000 loose dogs currently roaming southern Dallas. Dallas Animal Services is going…
The first draft of Dallas’ surprisingly controversial southern Dallas deck park is out. Phase one of the proposed $118 million park build-out looks an awful lot like its cousin, Klyde Warren Park. Spanning I-35 between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the park — assuming it gets funded — will initially feature…
This week the Dallas City Council completed its single most important task of 2016 when it passed the city of Dallas’ budget for the next fiscal year. Like the city itself, the new budget was heavily influenced by Dallas’ formative event of 2016, the July 7 police ambush that killed…
Construction cranes rise all over the skyline, traffic jams rush hour, so many apartment/condo projects crowd the city’s older neighborhoods that you can hardly see the neighborhoods. With this sheer volume of economic activity that we can see in this city with our bare eyes, how does City Hall still…
Years go by. I’m OK. Sleep great. Steady hands, no shakes. Then out of nowhere I awaken one night from a dead slumber covered in a cold sweat with eyes like silver dollars and a throbbing heart. And I know. Somewhere out there in the black of night, the beast…
Too many times I tell you how City Hall doesn’t have a single desk where the buck stops, how you can’t get City Hall to do anything for you, and I always forget to mention the exception. There is one thing you can do to make City Hall work like…
Dallas Police officer Jesus Martinez, over the last two-plus years, has been charged, fired, let go by a grand jury and rehired by the Dallas Police Department. Thursday afternoon, the saga of this officer continued as he announced that he was suing outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Brown and the…
Last week, a woman waking her dog in the Ash Creek neighborhood of northeast Dallas noticed something amiss — all of the books were missing from the curbside Little Free Library box. The neighborhood quickly rallied. “She called another neighbor who drove around to check the other LFLs in our neighborhood,” says…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council granted landmark status to the iconic Lakewood Theater. It wasn’t exactly a fight. Everyone, from neighbors to the theater’s owners to city officials, wanted the theater, its marquee and phallic purple tower to stick around, so it was a sense of relief that greeted the 15-0…
First Baptist Church of Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress wants to repeal the Johnson Amendment. The mega-church pastor, leader of a flock of more than 12,000 parishioners, is pushing for America’s churches to be allowed to make political donations and endorsements. “I want to say this very clearly, I am for…
Friday afternoon, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed the county’s second 2016 death from the West Nile Virus. The victim, whom the county did not name, was in their late 50s and lived in the 75248 zip code in far North Dallas. Forty-two Dallas County residents have contracted the…
Politicians and social media have opened up a new low in the art of political discourse. Late Thursday night and early Friday morning, Dallas Republican state Representative Jason Villalba took to Twitter — something he does often with inconsistent results — to say that he plans to push for an…
After nearly ten years of marriage, Marlena’s husband left her. This would not be the first time he had left her and their two young children — many times he had disappeared for days with no explanation. He was always in and out of jail. But this time, it would…
The city of Dallas got poured out of court again yesterday in its decades long extra-legal persecution of Kennedy assassination expert Robert Groden, making the 82nd time the city has lost against Groden in its own municipal courts, not counting a major slap-down suffered by the city in the 5th…
I’ve given up proposing that we kill the homeless. No one ever takes me seriously. Some wag like Tim Rogers at D Magazine always chimes in saying I’m copying Jonathan Swift (“A Modest Proposal,” 1729) – in other words, it’s satire – in spite of my very best efforts to speak…
The entire dilemma faced by the national Republican Party – all of it, top to bottom, start to finish – can be explained through the prism of one small news item: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry will appear on the upcoming season of the television show Dancing with the Stars…
Dallas Police Chief David Brown is retiring from the Dallas Police Department. His last day on the job will be October 22, according to letter from Brown posted on DPD’s DPDBeat.com blog. “After much prayer, I am announcing my retirement from the Dallas Police Department after 33 years as a…
One good indication an institution is up to no good and probably guilty of the sin you suspect it of is an extremely thin-skinned response to your complaint. If they’re not feeling guilty, they wouldn’t be thin-skinned. With thin skin as my scale, I don’t know who measures up as…
There are a lot of the recommendations contained in the report the Boston Consulting Group regarding the loose dog problem in southern Dallas. To a member, the city council members at Tuesday’s specially called meeting voiced approval for all seven of the recommendations made in the BCG report. What became…
Maybe this is all moot. Letters and emails are flying around all over town, one side accusing or attacking the other in the debate about privatizing Fair Park, but I think the deal is done already anyway. No matter what anybody says about it, Mayor Mike Rawlings probably has the…
