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…
Justin Nelson took the opportunity Thursday to put the pressure on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Trailing Paxton by single digits in multiple recent polls in their race for attorney general, the Austin attorney and University of Texas adjunct professor challenged the incumbent to a series of debates. “You and…
Throughout his insurgent campaign to depose Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke has insisted that he wants to debate the incumbent as often as possible. Initially, O’Rourke suggested six debates, four in English and two in Spanish, before eventually settling on six debates in English when Cruz said…
The new $115 million bridge upon which no person may safely set foot is not going without notice or attention at City Hall. According to good sources who speak to me regularly in return for my promise of confidentiality, the city department that brought us the bad bridge is about…
The 2019 mayoral race will have the potential to make Dallas a new kind of city because it will be the first time for a whole new generational wave of voters to have a shot at anointing the city’s only citywide elected official, effectively putting their stamp on the city…
Ofo, the China-based purveyor of the yellow bikes that overwhelmed Dallas’ urban landscape during the fall and spring, announced Thursday that it’s getting out of the city. Dallas’ newly passed bike-share rules were too much for the company, said Texas General Manager Everett Weiler, who added that the company had…
Texas’ recently upheld voter ID law is one of the toughest in the nation. There is little wiggle room for those who, for whatever reason, don’t have one of the seven forms of identification deemed to be satisfactory proof of identity by the state: Either sign an affidavit under penalty…
Carrollton’s Jeff Hinkle got a lot of publicity Wednesday and Thursday from one of his business cards featuring his lawn care service business, Mow Masters. Most of the time, getting viral attention on social media for one’s business would be a good thing — advertising that money can’t buy. For Hinkle, however,…
This is coming from me, a local columnist in Dallas, Texas, so basically I bring no authority, expertise or gravitas to the subject and shouldn’t even be opening my mouth. My excuse is a column I read on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News this morning, but between…
The workers-rights groups behind the push for paid sick leave in Dallas still believe that they turned in more than enough valid signatures to get their cause on Dallas’ November ballot. If Dallas City Secretary Billirae Johnson doesn’t recount 32,000 signatures deemed previously invalid, the advocates will consider suing Johnson…
Last week, U.S. Rep Louie Gohmert, who represents a large chunk of East Texas in the House, popped off again and said something weird. We love when that happens. It happens a lot. The latest instance occurred during a congressional grilling of FBI agent Peter Strzok. Strzok was removed from…
Dallas residents, it turns out, will not be voting on paid sick leave in November. Despite finishing a petition drive with over 119,000 signatures — more than twice what’s been required to get a sick leave ordinance on the mid-term ballot — advocates for the policy couldn’t survive a review…
The hits, according to Officer Nick Novello, just keep on coming for the Dallas Police Department ‘s Central Patrol Division. Less than two weeks after being left with only a handful of officers — six by the department’s count, five by Novello’s — to respond to calls July 4 because of…
I’m not going to get all kumbaya on you, and this is not the scene at the end of the horrible 1970s movie with the slow-mo and the violins and the running through the field of poppies and the big smooch-o-rama at the end. But I need to tell you…
Late last week, President Donald Trump opened the latest front in his ever-expanding trade war, announcing 25-percent tariffs on a long list of Chinese imports. The Chinese government responded in kind, creating similar tariffs on a bevy of U.S. agricultural products. While neither the U.S. nor the Chinese economy has…
I told you Monday about the possibility — probably remote — that the new Margaret McDermott (Santiago Calatrava) Bridge over the Trinity River downtown might wind up being demolished before it can open for its first day of traffic. In some of the responses I got, I think I was…
