Politics & Government

The Texas Legislature is back in session, but some Democrats are remaining in Washington D.C.

City Council member Paul Ridley thinks there are better people for his boards and commissions than his incumbent’s appointees.

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was running for reelection in 2018, Austin-based real estate developer Nate Paul contributed $25,000 to his campaign. Around a year later, he helped Paxton remodel his house, and hired a woman with whom Paxton allegedly had an extramarital affair as a project manager at…

In 2019, Texas State Troopers shot and killed Shandra Hodge’s son. Now, she’s filing suit against the Texas Department of Public Safety and the city of Dallas.

Texas state Rep. Joan Huffman’s bail bill is facing scrutiny from members of her own party. In a hearing held Saturday at the state capitol in Austin, Huffman’s bill weathered a string of tough questions from fellow Republican and bail reform advocates alike. If passed, Senate Bill 6 will restrict access…

Over the past decade, the Lone Star State grew more urban and less white.

Brad Cox, a Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic, kicked Kyle Vess in the face while in police custody in 2019, according to a lawsuit filed by Vess in late July.

The owner and managers allegedly chose certain dealers over others to operate in the clubs.

Dallas has used its nuisance abatement ordinance against 13 properties since it passed in 2017, according to the Dallas Police Department.

After George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin last year, police departments across the U.S. scrambled to implement reforms: moves to hold police accountable, programs to sharpen incoming officers’ training and rules barring restraints like chokeholds, for instance. Dallas joined the wave only 10 days after Floyd’s murder…

The data loss included evidence and other case files (photos, videos, audio, and case notes) the DA’s office uses to prosecute and criminal defense attorneys use to defend their clients.

Some Democratic state legislators in Washington, D.C., condemned their colleagues for returning to the Texas Capitol.

On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott called for a special second session.

Two Texas Democrats are reportedly on vacation in Portugal, attracting widespread criticism.

Sixteen percent of Dallas renters are behind on payments and now face eviction, according to a study Surgo Ventures, a nonprofit organization focused on health and social issues.

Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the El Paso Walmart massacre.

Recent complaints by residents were an attempt to clean up Floral Farms. But, after code compliance swept the area, residents received complaints directed at their properties for things like incorrect placement of trash bins.

This week, the Poor People’s Campaign is marching from Georgetown to Austin to call attention to voting rights.

City Council member Paul Ridley beat David Blewett with 61% of the vote in District 14, despite the raising a fraction of the funds. Now, Ridley is having trouble getting his opponents’ board and commission appointees to step down for his replacements.

Santos Rodriguez was killed in 1973 by a Dallas cop who tried to get him to confess to an $8 vending machine robbery with a Russian-roulette interrogation. It took 40 years for the Rodriguez family to get an apology from a Dallas mayor. It took them 48 years to get an apology from the city’s top cop. Now, people wonder if a street should be named after Santos.

Dallas Cred violence interrupters fan out to four crime-heavy areas of the city. They don’t intervene in active violent situations. Their job is to interrupt patterns that lead to violent behavior and wreak havoc on communities.

In 2019, the Dallas Police Department’s marijuana arrests and citations accounted for half of all of these referrals sent to the DA’s office for prosecution.