Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that if it doesn’t step in to shut down the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program before the end of June, Texas might sue the federal government to end the program. Paxton’s statement came in an amicus brief…
Downtown Dallas appears set to get its first sizable block of affordable housing in nearly a decade with the building of a new residential tower near the newly reopened Dallas High School building on the Central Business District’s eastern edge. The project by Matthews Southwest, the developer behind the old…
A group of mayors led by New Orleans’ Mitch Landrieu, head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, skipped out on a scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday in protest of the U.S. Department of Justice’s threat to issue subpoenas and cut off some federal funds to 23 cities it…
Let’s not you and me try to answer the question of whether 2018 will see a huge, biblical, roaring, wrathful, tsunami-sized day of reckoning for Republicans in which they will be abraded from the surface of the earth. For the sake of conversation, we’ll take that as a given. And…
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued G6 Hospitality, the Carrollton-based parent company of Motel 6, in an Arizona federal court Tuesday afternoon. According to the suit, several of the company’s hotels gave guests’ names and personal information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017, leading to…
Now that the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is on the list of 20 finalists for the new Amazon second headquarters, I feel compelled to offer two observations: First of all, there is no such thing as a second headquarters. Companies are like people. It is in their nature to have…
The Dallas County Republican Party wants a slew of Democrats, candidates for offices ranging from justice of the peace to U.S. House representative — kicked off the ballot ahead of Texas’ March primary. Dallas County’s Democratic Party chairwoman failed to personally sign the candidates ballot applications before they were submitted…
A heterogeneous mass of marchers espousing support for women’s rights paid little mind to the blustery conditions muffling their chants of, “Women! United! Will never be divided!” Hovering nearby, however, were women threatening unity with ideas out of step with traditional feminism — they oppose abortion. Wind did not prevent…
You don’t have to be a parent to get this, but if you are a parent, it will help. You need to look at this video. If this were a movie, it would be called “Saga of the Dumbest Cop on Earth.” This video, released by the Dallas Police Department, is of…
Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax issued Dallas’ five dockless bike-share operators a warning Thursday night. The companies, Broadnax wrote in a letter to LimeBike, ofo, Spin, VBikes and MoBike, need to relocate all bikes violating a new set of rules established by the manager. According to Broadnax’s letter, the bikes…
The world learned Thursday morning that journalist and author Michael Wolff has sold the TV rights to his searing, maybe factual, exposé of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury, for more than $1 million. For that kind of money, one can expect an A-list cast. Philip Seymour Hoffman would have…
The new Dallas city manager gave the City Council a briefing Wednesday on his new scientific analysis tool for the city. I watched. I have a prediction. At some point in the not-too-distant future, the new city manager will be burned as a witch. Sorry, I am not actually taking…
At some point after Dallas recovers from the current crisis of life-threatening 40-degree temperatures and snow dustings, work should begin on removing the fake kayak rapids that the city built in the Trinity River near downtown in 2011 at a cost of $4 million. And our struggle to figure out…
The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday afternoon to pick up the tab for the now defunct Dallas County Schools’ school crossing guard program through the end of the 2017-18 school year. The city will pay $2.4 million out of its general and reserve funds to continue the program, which the…
Considering what happened in Dallas elections last year, one might’ve assumed something drastic was about to happen after seeing a “Request to Implement Policy Related to Mail Ballot Applications” on the County Commissioners Court agenda this week. Wrong. Last spring, a West Dallas City Council race was thrown into chaos…
Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s bid for Texas’ Democratic gubernatorial nomination is off to a slow start, but her campaign says she’ll get up to speed with the rest of the field as she settles into her role as a candidate. Andrew White, son of former Texas Gov. Mark…
Last week, Donald Trump allegedly used some colorful language during a diatribe about wanting more immigrants from places like Norway and fewer immigrants from “shitholes” like El Salvador, Haiti and Nigeria. While much of the media attention on Trump’s remarks has focused, appropriately, on their xenophobia, others, like Robert Jeffress, pastor…
From this far away, Washington is all kabuki theater. President Donald Trump appears in elaborate makeup with flamboyant hand gestures and pronounces that black nations are shitholes. Behind him, a chorus line of lovely liberals fan themselves elaborately and swoon. Please. Here, where we live, we see this stuff all…
Barring a last minute appeal, the Arlington Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade that’s stirred controversy for choosing Texas Governor Greg Abbott as its honorary grand marshal will not go forward. The organizers of the parade failed follow the steps necessary to get an events permit for the parade, the…
If white supremacist protesters want to defend the Confederate monuments at the Texas Capitol, they’re going to have to do so without their tiki torches. With one notable exception, the Texas Department of Public Safety is doing everything it can to prevent violent protests at the Capitol in 2018, banning…
Almost four months have passed since we tore down the Robert E. Lee statue in Dallas, and I haven’t noticed any ominous rebel armies forming on the horizon, unless you count people with Dixie flag decals on the back windows of their pickup trucks. If that’s all it’s going to…
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted 98 7-Eleven locations across the U.S. on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into illegal immigration. Six of the stores targeted are in Dallas-Fort Worth. According to ICE, the agency arrested 21 people suspected of being in the United States illegally during…
