Politics & Government

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?…

Just when you, Dallas resident, thought you were rid of Pete Sessions, he’s doing his best to pull you back in. The erstwhile North Texas congressman and current Central Texas congressional hopeful is all over the international news, and not because of blimps, burlesque clubs or maybe living in Florida…

When President Trump arrives in Dallas next week for a rally, he will be met by a number of counter rallies and protests, including one by Beto O’Rourke.

The activist who confronted Chief U. Renee Hall at the heated police oversight board meeting on Tuesday at Dallas City Hall doesn’t live in the city. He’s McKinney City Council member La’Shadion Shemwell, a barber and activist who was voted into office in 2017 following the McKinney pool party incident that…

Next Monday, the second one in October and the one frequently celebrated as Columbus Day, will be known as Indigenous People’s Day in Dallas from that point forward. The change, passed by a 12-3 City Council vote, didn’t come easy, as several members of the council decided to put their…

Dallas has the fifth highest rates of traffic and pedestrian traffic fatalities in United States, according to statistics collected in 2017 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Ahem. One hates to be Miss Penny Pinch-Pinch, but the deadline is now two weeks gone for the outfit in charge of the proposed fancy park on the Trinity River downtown to come up with about $150 million to pay for it. They’ve had three years. One doesn’t see a…

In November, North Texas made it clear that it didn’t want longtime U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions wandering the halls of the capitol anymore, at least not on its behalf. Thursday, Sessions returned the favor, announcing that he’s running for Congress again, just, you know, not here. Sessions is moving about…

The Dallas Police Department is launching an internal affairs investigation following allegations of evidence tampering during the murder trial of former DPD officer Amber Guyger. Jurors convicted Guyger Tuesday and sentenced her to 10 years on Wednesday. “Dallas today is different than it was yesterday and definitely different than it…

Would it have been nice for the Amber Guyger story to have unfolded in the community without reference to race? Do those words, as you read them, sound as absurd to you as they do to me as I write them? Nothing is not about race. Not at the local…

Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas and reliable Donald Trump toady, made a bit of news over the weekend when he predicted on Fox & Friends that the impeachment process could plunge the United States into civil war. Responding to a question about evangelical Christians’ response to impeachment efforts…

The Dallas City Council made what had to be one of the easiest decisions its members will ever make Wednesday afternoon. All 15 council members voted to rename the stretch of road that fronts American Airlines Center in Victory Park for the greatest player in Dallas Mavericks history, Dirk Nowitzki…

Any time City Hall plays with the facts, there’s a reason. It should raise a red flag. A case in point right now is a new plan to turn over the baseball field at Reverchon Park to private interests. Think of it this way: This is about $20-$30 million worth…

U.S. House Democrats, even the most recalcitrant among them, are moving on impeachment, they made it known Tuesday, because of allegations that President Donald Trump leveraged potential foreign aid to Ukraine in exchange for potential damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi…

In a ruling a week ago, 44th Judicial District Judge Bonnie Lee Goldstein found that the Dallas City Council violated its own rules and passed an illegitimate ordinance last February in a bizarre proceeding starring former Dallas City Council member-turned-hired-gun Angela Hunt and real estate person Ralph Isenberg, who married…

The talking point Wednesday at City Hall, for almost everyone, was unity. The Dallas City Council, fractured as it’s been presented in recent years, signed off unanimously on the city’s budget, allocating Dallas’ resources to the city’s parks, libraries and social programs. The biggest chunk of the budget, as it…

In case anybody still has any doubt the city is trying to force Dale Davenport to sell his car wash, get a load of this. He’s the guy who owns a car wash on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South Dallas — the one I call the only white…

A dozen or so people gathered outside Sen. John Cornyn’s North Dallas offices Tuesday morning, urging the senator to support additional funding for election security. There were impromptu chants, cardboard signs — “Honk for Clean Elections” — and a man dressed as the Statue of Liberty whose headpiece kept flying…

On the one hand, this new story about the city screwing over some affordable housing developers is depressingly familiar. On the other hand, it’s utterly inexplicable. Every single thing I ever reported in some 15 years covering the Lockey & MacKenzie case about the city shafting affordable housing developers is…