After 30 Years Together, the Old 97’s Are Anything but ‘Jagged’
Last March on a sprawling soundstage outside Atlanta, Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond, Ken Bethea and Philip Peeples stood together on an elevated drum riser with hundreds watching.
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Sex, Drugs and Farting: Here are the Rejected Texas Vanity Plates from 2022
When we’re at cocktail parties having conversations we think are smart or we’re posting thoughts to social media we think are insightful, most of us scoff at the mere mention of vehicle vanity license plates. Vanity plates are lame attempts at humor, desperate pleas for attention or a combination of…
State Rep. Hopes to Abolish Confederate Heroes Day as an Official State Holiday
State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, a Houston Democrat, announced on Wednesday morning a new bill, House Bill 51, that aims to abolish Confederate Heroes Day as an official Texas state holiday. The occasion, established in 1973, falls annually on Jan. 19, which is also Robert E. Lee’s birthday, a state holiday…
Texas Brewery Did Not Violate Kyle Rittenhouse’s First Amendment Rights, Censorship Activist Says
In an unsurprising development in this post-2020 world, Kyle Rittenhouse has become a genuine celebrity. In fact, he’s become a very specific sort of celebrity who transcends reality television and gossip sites and often lands on the front pages of news outlets. The 20-year-old from Illinois gained infamy when in…
Lawmakers from Dallas Prepare for Uphill Battles in Austin and Washington, D.C.
For lawmakers from Dallas in both Austin and Washington, D.C., the early weeks of January mean gathering with their colleagues and preparing for a unique type of battle. Last week proved to be a highly active one for first-term U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas’ 30th District. She attended her…
Urban Farms in Dallas Will Be Vital to a Healthier Population, City Officials Say
If Dallas’ Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability (OEQS) has its way, there will soon be vegetation growing along the walls of downtown’s underground pedestrian tunnels. That’s not the only unusual place food might be grown under the proposed Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan. Vacant strip malls, empty big box stores…
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Dimple Jackson Street Will Honor a South Dallas ‘Neighborhood Matriarch’
Dimple Jackson lived on Audrey Street in Dallas’ Dixon Circle neighborhood for more than 50 years. When she died in 2019 at the age of 93, the street lost its guiding light, the woman her son Robert Jackson calls “the neighborhood matriarch.” Soon the street she called home for five…
Dating App ‘Romance Scammer’ Sentenced to Three Years
A North Texas man was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in federal prison for his role in a scam that victimized many people to the tune of thousands of dollars each, according to Leigha Simonton, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Nigerian-born Emanuel…
New School Shooting Technology From North Texas Is About Kids’ Safety, Not Stopping the Shooter
With school shootings having become almost commonplace in the United States, school districts and law enforcement agencies have continued to search for ways to prevent them. A new technological program designed to assist faculty in the event of an active shooter takes the focus away from stopping the shooter by…
Biden’s Plan to Fight the Border Crisis May Not Be Enough, Some Local Immigration Activists Say
On Sunday, President Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first visit to survey the border crisis in El Paso since he became president in 2021. Biden’s opportunity to see firsthand the many thousands of migrants stationed along the southern border comes after U.S. officials say they encountered more than…
Regular Flight Schedule Has Resumed, but Frustrations Persist for Stranded Southwest Passengers
Last week, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines made the sort of national headlines no airline wants to make. It’s fair to think that goes double for the more than 1 million travelers affected by last week’s mass flight cancellations. A typical flight schedule for the airline resumed on Friday, Dec. 30, following…
New Law from Local State Senator Is About More Than Air Conditioning and Building Codes
A lot of attention at the beginning of the new year is directed toward the bills that the Texas Legislature will consider in the upcoming legislative session. But what about the bills from past sessions that have finally become law? Jan. 1 welcomed several new laws in Texas, the bills…
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Dallas Man Sold “Glock Switches” to Police Over Instagram, says U.S. Attorney
A Dallas man was charged on Wednesday for selling Glock “switches,” devices that convert semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic ones, to undercover officers. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Jeremiah Dwyen Ashley, 22, allegedly conducted sales of illegal firearms both…
State Rep. Files a Texas “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Ahead of New Legislative Session
With the 88th Legislative session set to begin in less than a week, one North Texas state representative continues to fill the docket with some rather eye-catching filings. Frisco Republican Jared Patterson, who has already filed bills to abolish the city of Austin and ban minors from social media usage,…
What to Look Out For in Dallas News in 2023
With each year, the news in Dallas seems to introduce as many questions as it does answers. Bills filed in the Texas legislature, elections, proposed ordinances, all-day city council committee hearings and things of that nature are all certainly notable in their own way, but for the most part, we…
Here Comes the Sun: Jerry Jones Keeps Dropping the Ball While the Cowboys Can’t See It
There are many traditions associated with the Dallas Cowboys. Some are fun, such as the annual Thanksgiving Day game and halftime show, and some aren’t so great, like the consistent early-round playoff exits. During Saturday’s win against the Philadelphia Eagles at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, another tradition made its unwelcome…
“Meltdown” Causes Southwest Airlines Cancellations While Travelers Try to Stay Positive at Love Field
On Tuesday morning, you didn’t have to look hard to see plenty of signs that things had not been going well for a certain segment of holiday travelers. Even if one had somehow missed seeing the headlines and social media posts generated by Southwest Airlines’ cancellation of over 2,800 flights…
As Opioid Overdoses Increase, Dallas Forms a New Partnership Designed to Prevent Deaths
The opiate crisis in America is still raging, and it has hit North Texas with a wallop. In Dallas, suspected opioid overdoses have seen a dramatic rise in number over the past three years. And with that number, the amount of Narcan administered by city EMS personnel has also skyrocketed…
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It’s Not All So Depressing: The Most Positive Observer News Stories of 2022
We’ve taken a look at the most-read Observer news stories of 2022, which provided a peek into what the year’s most hotly debated topics were. We’ve also looked at the reports we thought were the weirdest and wildest of the year. But there’s more to Dallas than controversy and oddness,…
Keeping Dallas Weird: the Most Head-Scratching News Stories of 2022
When it comes to reporting on what happens in and around Dallas, every year is weird in its own way. Perhaps weird is normal for Dallas? Even so, it seems as though each year since 2020 has only gotten weirder in Big D. Not surprisingly, in 2022 elected officials contributed…
Regardless of Title 42’s Status, Dallas Group Helps Busloads of Migrants with Compassion
Dozens of migrants arrived in Dallas on Tuesday and Wednesday after a three-hour bus ride from one of the several detention centers in Texas, where thousands of other migrants are still being processed for entry into the United States. For most, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church is but a brief…
As Dallas Prepares for Crowded Shelters and Frigid Temps, ERCOT Says the Grid is Ready
With below-freezing temperatures approaching later this week just in time for Christmas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued a press release to let Texans know that it is “closely monitoring the weather situation.” It’s certainly good to know that the ERCOT is paying close attention to the upcoming…