River Ranch Educational Charities, the scandal-plagued operator of the city-owned horse park in southern Dallas, is refusing to pay out a $25,000 settlement to a woman who was thrown off one of its horses in 2017. The woman, Rhonda Allen, was there on a staff-supervised ride with her daughter and…
North Dallas City Council member Lee Kleinman would have me believe that his being near the end of an eight-year term limit on the council has freed his tongue. I am trying to remember Kleinman with a tongue that was unfree. In any case, he was typically iconoclastic this week…
Racially-based redlining practices divided Dallas and cities across the country for decades in ways that still impact neighborhoods today. An exhibit about the history of this practice and its effects, as well as what to do about it, will be on display in Dallas City Hall’s main lobby until December 31.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has only been on the job for about six months, but he’s already seen enough. Late Tuesday, the mayor called out Dallas City Manager TC Broadnax, demanding a plan to address violent crime in Dallas before the end of 2019. “While I believe Dallas remains relatively…
Tuesday’s conversation about scooters at Dallas City Hall was, like a lot of discussions at City Hall, unmoored from time. The complaints about the two-wheelers — and there were many — were the same as two years ago, when the scooters made their Dallas debut, and at every point in…
President Donald Trump’s office released his official determination for the 2020 cap on refugees to the United States and it’s the lowest number in nearly 40 year, which has Dallas area immigration advocates worried.
Last week, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick finally followed through on a promise he made during one of the 2019 Texas Legislature’s tensest moments. Good luck figuring out what it was without any help. Here’s the announcement from Patrick’s office, made during the middle of Thanksgiving week, when no one…
One Texas man’s long trip through the U.S. immigration system.
Calm down. Of course Rick Perry told President Donald Trump he’s God’s chosen one. Perry’s from Texas. He’s doing what must be done to protect Big Awl, the oil bidness. Why do people think Perry’s even in D.C.? But I forget. Most people outside of Texas probably don’t remember for…
If you were concerned about recent media reports that New York City is busing hundreds of homeless people to Dallas, don’t be. They’re lies. That’s according to the City of Dallas, which attempted to dispel the rumors in a memo released late Friday. City staff called the New York City…
There was a time, way back in 2015 and 2016, that Texas Republicans were part of the last line of defense against the looming specter of President Donald Trump. Former Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Ted Cruz and a bevy of Lone Star Never Trumpers held the line as best they could,…
For a decade and a half, Texas politics may have driven you crazy, but they were easy, or at least fairly easy, to understand. There were the radical conservatives and theocrats, motivated either by their fervor or will to power. Then there were the moderate Republicans, motivated by their belief…
For more than two years, Energy Secretary and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was an anomaly in President Donald Trump’s administration. He managed, largely, to tiptoe through the tulips, staying out of the headlines and keeping his job, unlike so, so many others in the executive branch. That run is…
It sounds like the setup to a joke: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick all went to church together on Sunday. Rather than setting up some humor at the expense of two of the world’s biggest celebrities and Texas’ most powerful politician, however, the unlikely trio…
A few weeks ago, a group of out-of-town activists told their followers they were going to make a “mighty impact on Dallas” by marching through downtown on Saturday, “spreading the joys of straight pride” to all who would hear. On Saturday morning, three people showed up. The march had, in…
The most surprising thing about Mina Chang’s resignation is that it took this long. Monday afternoon, five days after NBC News outed her as a fraud, Chang quit her post at the U.S. State Department. “It is essential that my resignation be seen as a protest and not as surrender because…
The Federal Government’s newest round of proposed anti-immigration rules targets asylum seekers and will put a strain on those here in North Texas and the organizations and people who support them, advocates say. The new rule would double the wait time for a work permit.
All things considered, Faith Johnson is probably better off today. Sure, she got waxed by Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot in the 2018 election, losing by 20 points, but she was never expected to win anyway. Since her loss, however, the former judge has picked up a sweet partnership…
VisitDallas remains an organization non grata for multiple Dallas City Council members, that much is clear after Wednesday’s City Council meeting. That didn’t stop the embattled tourism promotion firm from winning grudging support for contractual changes meant to fix the long list of problems with way the organization keeps its…
Last November, an audit of the Dallas Police Department’s off-duty work policy landed with a thud. Due to lax oversight and departmental controls, the audit said, DPD put itself at risk for officers working up to 112 hours per week when off-duty law enforcement work was factored in, officers doing…
In 1991, Saddam Hussein used tanks and helicopters to subdue rebelling Kurds in northern Iraq. Terrified that Hussein would again use chemical weapons, as he had in 1988, millions of the country’s persecuted Kurdish minority fled. Saman Gardy was one of them. He and his family were living in Erbil,…
The mainstream media analysis of Beto O’Rourke’s decision to kill his campaign is evidence that we now live in separate dimensions and speak different languages, defined mainly by generation. On the surface, it would be hard to poke even a pinprick into most of what was said by boomer analysts…
