Domingo Garcia

Despite Dumping $2.6 Mil into Campaign, David Alameel Is Going to Lose

With the race for the 33rd Congressional District by all accounts a two-man race that is growing pettier by the day, it's easy to forget that nine other Democrats are jostling for third place in the May 29 primary. Unless, of course, you happen to glance up from the bumper in front of you to see Dav ... More >>

This Ain't Detroit: Ron Natinsky Goes After Mike Rawlings For His Union Endorsements

Via.Speaking of...too early? No. Never.​It'll be a shame to see this mayoral campaign season come to an end a week from Saturday now that it's getting so...campaigny. Take, for instance, this email that just arrived in the in-box with the all-caps subject header: "RAWLINGS PLEDGES TO SUPPORT THE R ... More >>

Constable Jaime Cortes Calls It Quits Because "My Family Has Been Through Enough"

​For more than 40 years, Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes says, he led an exemplary life, rising up through the ranks of law enforcement in the last decade without running into trouble. But over the course of the last nine months, Cortes claims his reputation has been "smeared tremendously ... More >>

Embattled Constable Jaime Cortes: "A True Company Man" Who's "Sure" DA Watkins is Investigating the Constables

Cortes says Ken Mayfield's admission that he's helping his opponent reinforces his latest campaign e-mail.​When Republican Ken Mayfield admitted to us that he's been recruiting volunteers to help Democrat Beth Villarreal defeat Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes in Tuesday's upcoming Democratic ... More >>

Belo Attempts to Break News One Week Late; Lawyer Cites "Cloud of Suspicion" Surrounding West-Watkins Relationship

If the story about DA Craig Watkins refusing a second attempt by the OAG to help investigate the constables was news, that's news to us.​For those who didn't read our cover story last week, the Office of the Attorney General made a second attempt on February 23 to lend a helping hand to Distri ... More >>

Constable Cortes Countersues Deputies Who Called For His Removal From Office

Constable Jaime Cortes​Had a brief but interesting talk a little while ago with Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes, during which we touched on a couple of things, among them a counterclaim filed in a Dallas County court on Wednesday in which Cortes is suing the three deputies who filed court papers ... More >>

Was County Judge Jim Foster Really the Disaster His Own Party Claimed. Maybe, Maybe Not.

At the Don Hill Trial, the Definition of "Walking-Around Money" (Now, a Live Blog)

So I am here, back in the overflow room at the Federal Palace of Justice downtown watching the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial, and I see that we have come to one of the most fundamental and time-honored traditions of Dallas politics: that fine old institution called "walking-around money. ... More >>

Dallas' Political Designing Woman

When Dallas' political elite need a win, Carol Reed cheers them on and calls the plays

In and Out

Jim Foster is a hard man to find

Last Men Standing

Leppert and Oakley show that what you think about Dallas politics could be wrong

Don Hill Goes Down the River with Sam Coats and Angela Hunt. Say What?

Max Wells: Mayoral Candidate and Amazing Coward

You Know Who Likes the President's Immigration Reform Plan? Nobody, That's Who.

Conflict? What Conflict?

Hispanic leaders on DISD's payroll go mum about segregation at Preston Hollow

The Hunted

Minutemen train their sights on a new target: Hispanic day laborers

Slow Tide Rising

Did the Latino vote push Democrats over the top?

Remember Vote Fraud?

The DA was hot to do something about it until his own campaign got going

Selling Ron

A pro-business black Democrat who appeals to white voters, Ron Kirk is the sport utility vehicle of Senate candidates. But will voters buy him?

Vote for Dad

Plus: Golden Gramms

Eyeball to Eyeball

Why the Mexican bus-company owners went from hating Laura Miller to endorsing her

Hate Crime

The DMN's unctuous editorializing for Dunning conceals the real agenda--its hatred of Miller

SNAFU

Buzz looks back on 2001 and proves once again that the boy just ain't normal

The Star Chamber

Why is unsuccessful politico Brenda Reyes deciding who gets minority contracts? Because Adelfa Callejo says so.

Absentee Minded

Hey, Mr. Zillionaire Developer, got a big public project you want to sell? Black Dallas has the votes you need--dirt cheap.

Brave New City

What if people downtown actually got smart?

Bare Knuckles and Bare Breasts

Forget talk of a settlement. Bachman Lake homeowners vow to fight their war against bare nipples to the bitter end.

Walk the Walk

Can shoe leather and signs change immigration law?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of February 15

Miracle Whipped

Fifty gets you 70 in the mysterious world of TAAS

One honest man

How come the Dallas schools can't find him?

The kids aren't all right

The Americanized culture of undocumented immigrants finds the doors to higher education closed

Lost and found

Poor, brown, and inner-city. These Adamson High School kids weren't supposed to make it. They did anyway.

The girl can't help it

Laura Miller says she'd "love" to run for mayor

Anatomy of a smear

When people started asking why Dallas' finest were losing the war on slumlords, someone reached for the bag of dirty tricks

Buzz

Paid endorsement; Tagged; Foul ball

Lost in Translation

Dallas judges say unqualified Spanish translators are hindering the course of justice, but county commissioners are hearing another story altogether

Peep-hole power

It's a scary world out there, but someone's gotta keep it under control. Jim Schutze uncovers the secret agony of the Dallas Citizens Council.

Hispanic enough

Dallas' new city manager steps from Mr. Inside to role model

Spinning wheels

Fahim Minkah cleared one set of hurdles to build a South Dallas skating rink, only to have the city put more in front of him

Bad boys

The voters could care less. But someone's gotta win the runoff for the last lowly DISD board seat

Born of El Sol

Germinated in the rich tradition of El Sol de Texas, the Spanish-language press takes root in Dallas

Year of the weasel

From Al Lipscomb to Paul Fielding, it was hard to find straight talk in '96

Arena games

City Hall finds $35 million--and toys with turning Reunion into a reflecting pool

Blood sport

There are two to blame for the Kirk-Fielding feud

Who ya gonna call?

City Hall's top brass use taxpayer-provided mobile phones to call sweethearts, power brokers, and Pizza Hut.

How to renovate Reunion

Architect details low-cost plan to save arena--and poll shows public wants it done

The Arena Papers

Inside the secret City Hall files: A tale of dupes and deception

Who's the boss?

Council needs to take charge in arena debate

Whose city is it, anyway?

Arena documents, discussions remain hidden from the public