Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa filed legislation to slow institutional purchases of single family homes and create a registry to track the residential property they buy.
Moderators of the subreddit r/PoliticalHumor have a bone to pick with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and boy are they picking it. In protest of a new Texas law, HB 20, that requires social media companies to host views the companies consider objectionable, Reddit user BlatantConservative wrote that moderators now require…
Do you enjoy combing through public records? Do you keep a watchful eye on what’s happening at City Hall? Do you keep up with soaring rental costs and the impact they’re having on Dallas neighborhoods? In short, do you have your thumb on Dallas’ news pulse? If so, we’ve got…
The Dallas Observer is looking for a staff writer to join our news desk. In case that’s unclear, we are an alternative weekly newspaper looking to hire a journalist – yes, in this day and age – to cover news in one of the nation’s fastest growing cities. What do…
As some fear Texas’ power grid could fail amid summer heat, cryptocurrency businesses continue to move here in droves.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has a vision for the state, and toward that end, he sure does have a lot of ideas. He’s tried to get Texas declared a so-called Second Amendment sanctuary state. He’s started building his own border wall as part of theatric campaign to clamp down on…
As prices spike, many Dallas renters have decided to move to the surrounding cities, recent analysis shows.
This month alone, QAnon John got called out by the Anti-Defamation League and Real Time with Bill Maher for posting antisemitic content.
Four North Texas towns made it to the top 10 of a list of best places to buy a home.
As soon as Casie Tomlin found the FedEx envelope in her mailbox, she knew something looked fishy. Inside, a flyer from a group called Dallas Justice Now urged parents in Dallas’ wealthy – and largely white – Highland Park and University Park suburbs to not send their kids to Ivy…
Last week, journalist and Dallas native Barrett Brown was arrested in the U.K.
Promotional material for the event often includes an acronym that stands for “where we go one, we go all,” a popular QAnon slogan.
Robert W. Decherd, the company’s chairman, president and CEO said the proposed change is made out of respect for all of the company’s many valued constituents.
Readers of the Tyler Morning Telegraph are demanding to know how and why the East Texas newspaper published an Associated Press photo of rioters at the U.S. Capitol last week with a caption describing them as leftists posing as supporters of President Donald Trump. The caption on Page 8A of…
The Lone Star State hasn’t seen a union newspaper in three decades, but journalists at The Dallas Morning News and Al Día voted heavily in favor of union representation, the National Labor Relations Board said last week. The 84-28 vote for the union is the result of the newsrooms’ yearlong…
Mike Wilson, the editor of The Dallas Morning News, will be leaving the publication at the end of the year, he announced in a statement to his staff on Tuesday. Wilson has been in charge of the daily’s newsroom for nearly six years, leading his staff through the July 7, 2016,…
The Dallas Morning News’ newsroom is looking to unionize, journalists at the newspaper announced Monday morning. Newsroom employees, along with those from the newspaper’s sister publication, Al Dia, requested voluntary recognition of the Dallas News Guild from parent company A.H. Belo. That request marks the first major step in forming a…
Over the last decade and a half, the American press has been bloodied and battered, pushed to the end of its rope by vulture capitalism, evolving technology and economic shocks like the 2008 housing crisis. There was a time when it was hard to own a newspaper and not make…
Robert Wilonsky’s column Thursday in The Dallas Morning News will be his last as the paper’s full-time city columnist. After more than 30 years working for the Observer, LA Weekly and the Morning News, Wilonsky is moving on. He’s taking a new day job as the communications director for Dallas’ Heritage…
Among a few other things, 2019 in North Texas was the year of the crime story. On a weekly basis, cops, crime and courts took center stage, dominating local news, Dallas’ municipal elections and conversation. As the calendar turns over to 2020, let’s take a look at the stories to…
There’s a big brouhaha going on now within the journalism trade about an apology published a couple of weeks ago by editors of the student newspaper at Northwestern University. The editors of The Daily Northwestern said they regretted the way they had reported on a student protest. I really worry…
In a move that, frankly, kinda sucks from the never-too-much-to-write-about perspective, conservative yakker Glenn Beck’s Irving-based TV station is shutting down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Blaze — as Beck’s media and TV empire is known — went on the air in 2012, two years after The Blaze’s web launch…
