Texas Gov. Greg Abbott talked tough on rioters during a press conference at the Dallas Police Association building yesterday, laying out proposed legislation for a crackdown on protests gone awry. “Texas is not going to tolerate violence, vandalism or rioting,” Abbott said. The Constitution guarantees the right to peaceably assemble,…
No one left City Hall completely satisfied last night – not the protesters outside chanting “No justice! No peace!,” nor the city council members who’d spent the last month debating Dallas’ budget. It’s been a long and winding road, but the city council finally found its way to a final…
It’s been about 20 days since electric scooters got the boot in Dallas. Citing public safety concerns and compliance issues, council members Adam Medrano and David Blewett and transportation director Michael Rogers banded together to implement a temporary ban of the scooters. But, scooterless Dallas might not be so temporary…
One factor keeping people in Dallas from getting better medical treatment is how complicated it is to navigate the health care system, particularly in neighborhoods that are home to the city’s neediest populations, Parkland Hospital executives told a City Council committee Monday. Supporting new mothers immediately after they give birth…
Sandra Anchondo Hansen studied accounting in school. She became an attorney and a small business owner, but she says she goes home every day feeling like a landscaper. At the end of the day, Hansen and the workers at her auto repair shop, Motorwerkz of Dallas, often go home covered…
Texans have been good, so it’s time for more openings, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday, but don’t count on raising a glass with friends to celebrate. The governor said businesses in the state’s 19 hospital regions where COVID-19 cases compose less than 15% of hospital admissions will be allowed to…
Murders in Dallas are up and the Dallas Police Department has fallen short in trying to decrease the overall violent crime rate. While the mayor and the rest of the City Council argue about where to make appropriate cuts to improve public safety, there is one point of agreement: DPD…
If Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua gets his way, people in Dallas will be able to possess less than 2 ounces of marijuana without the worry of being cited or arrested by Dallas police. Next month, Bazaldua intends to propose the “decriminalization” of low-level marijuana possession in the city…
Marsha Jackson is relieved when the rain rolls through her Dallas neighborhood off of Highway 30. She’s lived there since 1995. Twenty-five years ago, the area was more rural. It was greener and breathing was easier back then, she says. Jackson bought the land where she lives largely for her…
Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall abruptly announced yesterday that she will leave her post at the end of the year. As she gets ready to close out her tenure with the department, city leaders and residents reflect on Hall’s track record and contemplate what they want out of their…
As protesters crossed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge toward a wall of cops on June 1, they chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” Members of the media were among the protesters. Photographers’ camera shutters snapped, writers scribbled in their notebooks and some streamed the event live on their phones. Then, the…
Dallas District Attorney John Creuzot has launched an investigation into police treatment of protesters during demonstrations in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday. The DA’s office reached out to demonstrators involved in the protests, as well as their lawyers ahead of the…
Starting today, you won’t see people on electric scooters zipping down the streets of Dallas. Citing public safety worries, the Dallas Transportation Department halted the city’s scooter program this week. All scooter operators are ordered to cease operations today and the scooters themselves must be removed from city streets by…
Pieces of furniture were scattered on the sidewalk outside U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s office building Tuesday as 10 protesters waved signs that read “Stop All Evictions” and “Let Us Live” at passing cars on Spring Valley Road. The furniture was meant to show Cornyn the reality of the eviction crisis…
Local animal rights advocates say they have some worries about proposed $380,000 cuts to Dallas Animal Services’ budget. The cuts in the recent draft city budget being worked on by the City Council include $50,000 to DAS’s body camera budget, $249,000 in salaries for one vet and one manager III position,…
Marvin Dulaney says he came out of high school as one of the victims of the American education system. “It did not teach me one thing about any African or African-American person who had ever done anything in history,” he says. But Dulaney says the miseducation of Americans about the African-American…
About one in six children ages 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year, according to the National Association on Mental Illness, numbers that likely have increased because of stresses brought on by the pandemic and collapsing economy. At Dallas Independent School District, the demand for mental health services was…
The internet is a tool people can use to reach their full potential, says Jaime Resendez, vice chair of the Dallas City Council’s Workforce, Education and Equity Committee. It has become vital to employment and education. But some areas of Dallas don’t have adequate access to this important tool, and…
Dallas has already furloughed hundreds of city employees because of the pandemic, but as the City Council works on drafting a budget for what promises to be a tight 2020-’21 fiscal year, the mayor is proposing further cuts to civilian employee salaries. In an email updating the city on budget…
Until recently, Aaron Escajeda had never been to Dallas. He grew up in El Paso and worked at a settlement home, surrounding him in the flow of immigrants. So, when he came to the Big D with 15 of his classmates from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs…
The Dallas Police Department stood by the claims made in its after-action report on the response to police brutality protests despite friction from the Public Safety Committee at a special called meeting on Tuesday. The department, as well as the Office of Community Police Oversight, is investigating 50 use-of-force complaints…
Rubin Sasavi, a Dallas activist, lay on his stomach with his hands in front of him. Sasavi had come out on the evening of June 1 to protest police brutality following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. Now a cloud of tear gas was…
