It may comes as a surprise, but as more of the Trinity River project becomes actually worth using, the security concerns facing the area become more complex. To that end, with help from a grant by the Caruth Foundation through the Trinity Trust, the Dallas Police Department is conducting a…

In a lawsuit filed in Dallas’ 44th District Court on Thursday, state Senator Royce West claims a resident of his district has consistently defamed him and has, more recently, begun stalking him at campaign and other events, including a pair of funerals. At the events West cites, Bennie Jeffery held…

Give U.S. Representative Pete Sessions credit for participation. In December, he met with a group of students from Richardson’s Berkner High School to answer some questions and be filmed for a C-SPAN contest in which the students were competing. The students seem well informed — or at least well prepped…

After finally worming its way onto the Dallas City Council’s briefing agenda, the newly revised transportation-for-hire ordinance, the one that’s supposed to fix the whole Yellow Cab/Uber/Lyft mess, has been put off. Despite protestations from Sandy Greyson, who headed the work group behind the new ordinance, and Dwaine Caraway, a…

In month when Texas Republicans seemingly cannot stop saying dumb things about homosexuality, the party’s finished 2014 platform makes it clear the state GOP isn’t just ignorant about gay life — it’s willfully ignorant. They even put it in writing. See also: Rick Perry Doubles Down on Stupid Talking About…

Greg Abbott debuted his first general election campaign ad Tuesday, bucking his party’s recent trend by at least attempting to appeal to Hispanic voters. The ad, which can be seen in full below and features Abbott’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law, was aired on Univision during Mexico and Brazil’s 0-0 World Cup…

We should probably be used to it by now. Governor Rick Perry went on CNBC earlier this week and said something that, were it to have come from anyone else, would’ve been stunning for its intellectual dishonesty. In the midst of an interview, which you can see in full below,…

If nothing else, Rick Perry deserves points for hubris. In California to stump up business for Texas — including a proposed factory to build batteries for Teslas — the governor responded to questions about the Texas GOP platform’s endorsement of dangerous reparative therapy for LGBTQ individuals by comparing homosexuality to…

House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor went down to ignominious defeat in his Republican primary in Virginia last night, becoming the first sitting majority leader to lose a party primary in the position’s history. In the upset’s aftermath, two North Texas representatives — Pete Sessions of Dallas and Jeb…

After a thankfully brief and largely unfocused debate this morning, the Dallas City Council amended city ordinances to allow bicycles in public buildings, remove unwieldy prohibitions against stunt riding and racing, and allow bicycle riders older than 17 to choose whether to wear a helmet. Changing the helmet requirements was…

Commissioners began considering whether to allow the installation of so-called historical racing terminals at Texas horse tracks at a Tuesday afternoon meeting of the Texas Racing Commission in Austin. The machines, which allow bettors to rapidly wager on replays of past races that have scrubbed of all identifying information, are…

Keller ISD board member Jo Lynn Haussmann was censured at a special meeting of the board last night. She was asked to resign, too, but that was never going to happen. She offered a half-hearted apology for the Facebook comment that led to the meeting — the one in which…

In a move that’s been a long time coming, the Deep Ellum Tax Increment Financing District Board met Monday to approve a recommendation to the City Council that the district be expanded to include the area that people actually think of as Deep Ellum. The core of Deep Ellum, the…