North Texas’ municipal elections are just more than a month away. Anyone who’s lived here long enough knows that means a couple of things: 1. Thanks to Texas’ voter-access unfriendly laws, it’s time to register if you aren’t already. Anyone not on the books by a month before the election…
Feel free to throw this back in our face when the Cowboys are picking through the scrap heap for offensive line or secondary cover after Week 3 of the 2019 season. But for now, on the day after the team traded for former Dolphins and Rams defensive end Robert Quinn,…
The hits just keep on coming for acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley. He remains unconfirmed by the Texas Senate and under federal court scrutiny for his attempted purge of almost 100,000 voters from the state’s registration lists. Now, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee, he’s…
Austin Shuffield, the former High and Tight bartender accused of beating up a woman in Deep Ellum parking lot last week, faces upgraded charges, the Dallas Police Department announced Thursday morning. Shuffield, initially charged with assault causing bodily injury and interfering with an emergency call, both misdemeanors, is now accused…
Opening Day, along with the hope and inevitable despair that await the Rangers this season, is here. It’s the real first day of spring and maybe the single best excuse to skip out on work for the afternoon that you’ll get in 2019. The Rangers and the Cubs playing their…
Just when you thought Dallas couldn’t possibly use another scooter on its streets, Lyft is getting in on the game, the Uber competitor plans to announce later today. The company’s dockless scooters will be available throughout the city, both for on-demand riding and through the company’s ride-hailing app, which will…
On most issues, there is no bridge that’s too far between Texas’ Republican majority and law enforcement officers in the state. Whether it’s the state’s slow-to-change drug laws or special protections for peace officers, the Texas GOP loves to defer to its cops, positioning itself as the state’s law-and-order party…
Pew Research Center is out with an analysis of how North Texans get and consume their news, and the breakdown isn’t kind to print and paid media, be it The Dallas Morning News or your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly. (That’s us. Hi.) An overwhelming share of DFW turns to the region’s…
The early reviews for Dallas’ “End Panhandling Now” program are in and they aren’t good. Not Battlefield Earth bad, but not good. It’s going to take more than $400,000 and a Frogger-themed public service announcement, it seems, to stop people from hustling downtown residents for change and connect them with…
Looks like marijuana decriminalization has an honest shot in the Texas House this session. Whether that will carry over to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s domain in the Senate is yet to be seen. Monday afternoon, the House’s Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill making Texans caught with small amounts of…
Texas House Democrats did everything they could to slow down their Republican colleagues’ “born-alive” bill Monday morning. But the legislation, like so many anti-abortion bills in the Texas Legislature over the last decade, chugged along as expected and looks set for a big debate on the House floor later this…
Over the last half-decade or so, Dallas has mostly slowly but surely done what it can to make itself a more egalitarian city. The City Council passed a comprehensive LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance, gone as far as Texas law allows with regard to marijuana decriminalization by implementing cite-and-release and required city…
High and Tight Barber Shop and Bar in Deep Ellum is closed for the weekend, according to its owners, following two days of social media rage against the business following an alleged assault by one of its employees on Thursday. The bar’s owners announced the closing in a now-deleted Facebook…
Two-thirds of the United States, including parts of North and East Texas, are at risk for increased flooding this spring, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s spring outlook. The forecast, which identifies areas in the Trinity River Basin as being at moderate flood risk, comes on the heels…
Tarrant County is the latest area in North Texas to have a resident come down with measles, county health officials said Thursday. The unnamed county resident makes 14 confirmed cases in Texas and four in North Texas so far in 2019, more than in the last four years combined. According…
It’s not really a surprise, but it’s still news: Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has endorsed Regina Montoya in Dallas’ mayoral race. Clinton’s endorsement is the cherry on top of an impressive couple of weeks for Montoya, who’s also picked up nods from Emily’s List and the Dallas County…
Given the narratives and media coverage that surrounded the Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that something snapped in Texas last fall. Surely, all the enthusiasm and hype — not to mention the raw numbers of voters who…
The noise, literal and figurative, is unavoidable. Downtown residents, having just been awakened by a truck driving over one of the steel plates that patch one of the neighborhood’s streets under construction, take to Facebook to commiserate about another lost hour of sleep. “Because of AT&T construction, traffic is being…
The Texas House of Representatives’ Public Education Committee unanimously signed off on the chamber’s education package Tuesday, but not before stripping a Dallas ISD-supported provision that would have allowed school districts to give teachers raises based on student performance. Teachers unions have lobbied hard against the merit-pay portion of the proposed…
If you’re lucky enough, you may have seen one of the ads from the Texas Senate Republican Caucus on Facebook. Accompanied by the image of a white, blue-eyed little boy is a plea from the caucus for the person reading the ad to support Senate Bill 23, the “Texas Born-Alive…
DeSoto’s Errol Spence Jr. is in a tough spot. Saturday night, the IBF welterweight champion of the world will take the long walk from one of AT&T Stadium’s locker rooms to the stadium’s 50-yard line before stepping into the ring for the biggest fight of his life. Spence is 24-0…
’Four years ago, the last time Dallas elected a mayor, the anonymous online high jinks were limited and mostly amusing. The dumb/brilliant Mayor Mike Rawlings Twitter parody @fauxmayormike and some enterprising cyber-squatting by opponents of then-candidate Casey Thomas livened things up. Wylie H, the website commenter turned social media soothsayer,…
