Politics & Government

Here’s an overview of some of the best Texas-related articles to come out of satirical news site The Onion.

Nearly 40% of Texas workers earn less than $15 an hour, according to a new report by global watchdog Oxfam.

Texas Card House had its certificate of occupancy taken from the city after operating for about two years. The city just had to give it back.

Nature advocates say green stormwater infrastructure could cut back flooding in Dallas.

Sen. Ted Cruz reportedly had law enforcement called on him after he fought with employees at a Montana airport on Sunday.

The city is trying to close sexually oriented businesses (SOB) from 2 a.m.-6 a.m. Now, Xposed Adult Theater and Megastore could have its SOB license taken away because the Dallas Police Department claims drugs were being used or dealt on the premises.

Jonathan Soukup wants to build two new sheds that could help his floral business cope with inflation and supply chain issues. But two months have passed and he still hasn’t received the proper permits from the city.

The Texas GOP is upset that Citi will provide travel benefits for employees seeking abortions.

“Legal” poker rooms are thriving in Dallas after getting the OK to open from the city two years ago, but now council members aim to close them down.

More than 90 criminal justice leaders have filed an amicus brief asking a Texas court to block efforts to criminalize parents of trans children.

Dallas QAnon cult leader Michael Brian Protzman is using children to build his following and spread his QAnon-based beliefs through live-streams on the messaging app Telegram. On Thursday evening, Protzman led an hour-long conversation with a 12-year-old girl on a Telegram livestream. Before the girl joined, the conversation’s moderators said they…

From Land O’Lakes butter to rising meat prices, Texas’ U.S. senators seem to have food on the mind.

Dallas Police say apartment complexes are sources for most of the city’s violent crime. The department has been working on a plan for months to tack this statistic.

Before, only licensed peace officers could take mental health leave after they experienced a traumatic incident on the job. Now, that will be opened up to more than 8,000 city employees.

Far-right extremism and white nationalist hate groups gained steam in 2021, even though the total number of active groups declined, according to a new report. In Texas, the number dropped from 54 to 52 compared with the previous year. On Wednesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate…

Even after the Texas midterm primaries came and went, stories from the campaign season just keep getting stranger. A former Kaufman County justice of the peace, the son of a self-proclaimed “proud white nationalist” political activist from North Texas, admitted to law enforcement last week that he stole yard signs…

This primary season was riddled with apparent contradictions and hypocrisy thanks to Texas politicians on both sides of the aisle.

A Wednesday protest at the University of North Texas saw students shouting down an anti-trans Texas House candidate.

In recent years, many community members in Dallas, Fort Worth and elsewhere have made sure far-right groups didn’t feel welcome. For instance, white nationalist stickers and flyers were defaced around North Texas, counter-protesters outnumbered neo-Nazis in Fort Worth last April, and in one case, townspeople basically ran them out of…

Dallas’ comprehensive housing policy doesn’t promote equity.

Last month, during a speech to supporters gathered in the conference room of a Hilton Garden Inn in Denton, right-wing activist Tracy Shannon threw down a challenge. In the coming weeks and months, she and a group of fellow activists in North Texas plan to push a young adult novel…

If one IT employee had more training, and if Dallas Information and Technology Services Department had better practices, over 23 terabytes of city data may not have gone mission last year.