The Cowboys Just Released Demarcus Ware

Demarcus Ware, seven-time Pro Bowler, the Cowboys’ all-time sacks leader and all-around beast, will wear the blue star no longer. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Clarence Hill Jr. reports that Dallas released Ware today. Ware has been a Cowboy since they drafted him with the 11th pick in 2005, a rare…

Retailers Turn to Greg Abbott in Fight Against Plastic Bag Bans

The best argument against plastic bag bans like the one Dallas is set to consider very soon is that they’re not really worth the energy. Plastic sacks make up a relatively small fraction of the waste stream, hardly enough to justify inconveniencing shoppers or retailers. It’s not a particularly good…

Those North Texas Trail Life Scouts Weren’t Saluting Hitler After All

Trail Life USA, the splinter group that formed when Irving-based Boy Scouts of America decided to admit openly gay members, is many things: openly evangelical, unapologetically homophobic, generally lame. It is not, however, a modern-day incarnation of the Hitler youth. You’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Over the weekend, The…

Duncanville Is Suing Its Own Mayor

There’s something rotten in Duncanville city government. Twenty-four of the past 30 months spent without a permanent city manager, a City Council bitterly divided, and now this: The city of Duncanville is suing Mayor Deborah Hodge. Yes, that is a thing that can happen. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday…

We Get it, Greg Abbott: Your Wife’s Latina

Greg Abbott has made it clear: He is not using his Latina wife as some sort of “prop” to woo Latino voters, and he’s outraged that a Lubbock City Council member may have suggested otherwise. Never mind that the only verification of the councilman’s comment came from an anonymous source…

Texas’ Tea Party Is Alive and Well

In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s primary, there was a lot of chatter about how the Tea Party was losing its grip on Texas. It was a nice thought, that Ted Cruz’s antics and the constant demagoguing against the federal government had worn thin, nudging voters back to the…