On Friday, with only five days left until voters head to the polls for the midterm elections, Texas state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican from Arlington, announced his bid to unseat State House speaker Dade Phelan. Tinderholt broke the news that he’d filed paperwork to run for speaker of the…
The nonprofit Housing Forward and other organizations have been working to rehouse the homeless in Dallas-Fort Worth. But, through the Dallas R.E.A.L. Time Rapid Rehousing initiative, they’re also trying to keep people and families from becoming homeless in the first place.
The group’s new political ad includes a 911 call in which a child says, “Please hurry. There’s a lot of bodies.”
On Thursday, Collin College reached a settlement with Suzanne Jones, a professor who filed a federal lawsuit against the school alleging she’d been terminated for exercising her free speech rights. Jones, an education professor, was let go in January 2021 in an incident that became part of what critics say…
Poker rooms in Dallas are getting a run for their money, as the city fights tooth and nail to shut them down.
The Dallas Police Department has been training recruits at a temporary facility for over 30 years. The department hopes a new police academy will help it reach its staffing needs.
The Collin County Republican Party made light of the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in a meme shared to its Facebook page.
Ultra-conservative candidate Tim O’Hare is facing off against Democrat Deborah Peoples in the Tarrant County Judge’s race.
For decades, Dallas has been trying to dampen the noise at Dallas Love Field. An update to the city’s Voluntary Noise Abatement Program could be the solution, but some say the feel they’ve been left out of the process.
Federal authorities say they’ve charged Joseph Garza, a 79-year-old Dallas lawyer, with creating tax shelters to hide more than $1 billion of money from the Internal Revenue Service for his big-dollar clients. Arrested at his home on Oct. 25, he appeared in court the following day, facing 18 counts of…
Local eviction attorney Mark Melton came across a video from the Texas Justice Court Training Center showing a mock eviction trial. The fake tenant, who didn’t show up, was named Danny Deadbeat.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a widely criticized, state-led clampdown on migrants crossing the border, will enjoy another $359.6 million in funds, the governor announced Thursday.
For much of his reelection campaign, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has railed against challenger Beto O’Rourke and other Democrats for supposedly supporting policies that encourage crime. Now, some Texas Democrats have flipped the script, arguing that Abbott bears responsibility for violent crime in the wake of a shooting that killed…
The Dallas City Council almost unanimously approved an ordinance that bans standing on medians. City Council member Adam Bazaldua was the outlier, saying the ordinance could lead to more discriminatory enforcement than marijuana laws.
When it comes to ease of voting, Texas clocks in at No. 46 of all the states nationwide, according to a new study. Published in the Election Law Journal, an academic journal, the study found that only that only four other states made it more difficult than Texas does to…
Rents have been skyrocketing across the country. An investigation by ProPublica and a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month claim the Richardson-based software company RealPage could be to blame.
It might be an awful lot to ask of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, but the Texas Republican has an issue with consistency. When Cruz appeared on Mark Levin’s Fox News program Sunday to promote his new book, Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System, he returned to a…
Police are still investigating the killing of 45-year-old Jaqueline Pokuaa, a nurse, and a 63-year-old social worker named Katie Flowers at Methodist Dallas Medical Center this weekend.
In September 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law SB 1, legislation that rights groups say has curtailed voters’ access to the ballot box.
Sen. Ted Cruz got a not-so-warm welcome at Sunday’s baseball game between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees.
It all started as it so often does in Texas – with a half-truth. Conservative media figure Sara Gonzales, who works for right-wing BlazeTV, shared a clip of a drag performance that took place at a Plano bar. Gonzales claimed that it had been billed as an “all ages” drag…
A shift from in-person to online work at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the start of a problem Dallas is still dealing with today – long waits for building permits. To some, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.
