Longtime Dallas tea-partier and President Donald Trump supporter Katrina Pierson has found herself in the middle of this week’s presidential mini-scandal, thanks to allegations made by former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault-Newman. According to Manigault-Newman, tapes exist of Trump using the racial slur “n——-.” In a taped conversation provided by Manigault-Newman to CBS…
The one thing everybody agreed on Tuesday is that the Dallas Police Department needs more cops. The fight, as Dallas goes through its annual budget process, is going to be over how to keep the officers already on DPD’s rolls in the city and how to add new officers at…
In the unlikely event that you actually get busted by Dallas police for riding an electric scooter somewhere you shouldn’t, chances are you’ll walk, or glide, away with a warning and a stern talking to rather than a ticket, Dallas Police Department brass said Monday. Giving out citations to scooter…
Eight months into cite-and-release and not much has changed for Dallas or its police department. The overwhelming majority of those being cited-and-released for possessing less than 4 ounces of marijuana — a policy approved by the City Council in 2017 — are black and Latino and in southern Dallas when…
Two percent. Not a big number if you’re talking about, say, the rain chances on your average Tuesday. A really big number, however, if you’re talking about the number of cables that could fail on a suspension bridge. If they aren’t repaired or replaced, about 2 percent of the cables…
This is too spooky. They erased Dwaine Caraway. The very recently former Dallas City Council member’s name and image were expunged from City Hall the night after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges last week. Name plaque on the horseshoe dais in the council chamber: SCRAPE! Gone! Portrait in…
This is a letter from Jim Schutze to: 42 Deep Ellum, LP, Al Rousan & Wared Corp, Clarence & Gina Anderson, Apartment Association of Greater Dallas, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ashton, Victor Ballas, Jackie Bewley, Mason Brown III, Comerica Inc. Political Action, Louis Corna, Trammell Crow, Dallas Citizen Council, Dallas…
Unless you’re lucky enough to spend a healthy, limited amount of time on the internet, you’ve surely run into QAnon. Spawned by an off-the-cuff aside about a coming storm by President Donald Trump in 2017, QAnon, ostensibly the mother of all conspiracies, is the unified theory of pro-Trump, anti-Clinton, anti-left…
For further proof that the underlying code of the simulation in which we all live is fraying, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, still under multiple felony indictments, hung out with the president of the United States in Bedminster, New Jersey, Thursday, ostensibly to discuss reform in America’s prisons. In introducing…
Despite the clear and convincing evidence, not to mention the guilty plea, showing that now-former Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway took about $450,000 in cash to push the City Council to pass Dallas County Schools’ bus stop-arm ticketing scam scheme scam, the Observer is going to miss the guy. For…
Today the Dallas City Council goes into closed-door executive session, away from the eyes and ears of the taxpayers, to decide if the taxpayers should pick up the tab for the legal defense of City Council member Dwaine Caraway, who has been accused in a lawsuit of racketeering. Get out…
Dallas state Sen. Don Huffines, along with his twin brother and former Dallas County GOP Chairman Phillip, spent much of Monday in Russia. It wasn’t a well-publicized trip — both brothers’ social media accounts are bereft of any mention of the excursion — but as photos and stories began to…
Texas’ Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Security closed up shop Monday. Its final report follows the lead of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott by urging more guns in the state’s schools and better mental health services for students who might become shooters. It shies away from recommending any…
It took a couple of weeks, but we finally know the fate of the remaining ofo bikes in Dallas. Sunday afternoon, photos of hundreds of the company’s bikes, stacked up for recycling in South Dallas, began circulating on social media.
Anybody can claim anything in any lawsuit, but the suit filed last week accusing Dallas City Council Member Dwaine Caraway of corruption is not just any lawsuit. If Caraway can’t quickly pony up some persuasive public responses to these charges, he can forget about running for mayor in 2019 —…
Last week, unless you had the good fortune of staying off the internet, you couldn’t miss it. Dallas U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions got asked about ending no-fault divorce in Texas, put his foot in his mouth and took all sorts of hell for it. Sessions’ comments, to be sure, are…
When the 2018 race for Texas governor is done and dusted, the two major candidates in the election, Democrat and former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez and incumbent Republican Greg Abbott, likely will have debated at least once. Both sides have already agreed to a debate, albeit not with each…
Dallas Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions found himself in the middle of an angry left-wing media mob Wednesday afternoon after Talking Points Memo posted a video in which the House Rules Committee chairman appears to blame a Highland Park woman for being murdered by her husband. Sessions’ trouble began when…
In the last couple of months I have been reporting here that the city still cannot open the new Margaret McDermott Bridge over the Trinity River because, a year after completion, the supervising engineer will not certify its safety. A number of readers have contacted me to say there are…
The Dallas County Republican Party is switching horses as it comes down the homestretch ahead of November’s general election. Tuesday, the party announced that it’s replacing its candidate for county judge, the county’s highest office, with a former justice of the peace kicked out of his own race earlier this…
Dallas’ shiny, new anti-abortion billboard isn’t from one of the usual suspects. It’s not paid for by Texas Right to Life or the Texas Alliance for Life, Texas politics’ twin anti-choice behemoths. Instead, the billboard, which reads “Abortion is not healthcare. It hurts women and murders their babies,” is the…
Dear Whoever It Is: Face it. The South lost the war. It was about slavery. American slavery was a monumental evil, and it will remain a monumental evil for all of time. That damned Robert E. Lee statue we tore out last year is never coming back, never ever, just…
