Vice President Joe Biden Wows Dallas with Show of Democratic Force

If there was any doubt which presidential candidate Dallas’ elected Democrats prefer, it’s gone. Former Vice President Joe Biden, fresh off clobbering Sen. Bernie Sanders in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, rolled out waves of familiar faces for the crowd at Gilley’s in the Cedars on Monday night, before making the…

A Brief Guide to Texas’ Underwhelming Primary History

If you’ve paid any attention to the coverage of Tuesday’s presidential primary in Texas, you might have noticed a theme. Texas’ prominence on the primary calendar is treated like a novel thing, like this is the first time the state will have played a big role in choosing either party’s presidential…

WFAA Admits Blowing Car Wash Crime Story, Sorta Kinda, But OK!

Hats off, thank you, sincere gratitude, honest admiration, respect and kudos to WFAA Channel 8 for admitting publicly they were totally full of it Nov. 15 in their story about the famous notorious car wash on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South Dallas. WFAA reporters David Goins and David…

Dallas YouTube TV Subscribers Hit With Sports Blackout

The notices began filing into YouTube TV’s subscribers’ inboxes Thursday morning, just after, or just before, the streaming TV service sent out a preemptive tweet. “Starting February 29, 2020,” the email’s third paragraph read, “you will no longer be able to watch live, on demand, or recorded content from your…

DART Is Taking GoPass to Oklahoma

Dallas Area Rapid Transit has announced plans to expand GoPass, its smartphone ticketing platform, to Tulsa. It will mark the agency’s first such partnership outside North Texas. Mark Enoch, chairman of the agency’s public affairs committee, which reviewed the agreement Tuesday, called it a “great milestone.” The agency has sought to recoup…

Louie Gohmert Takes Stand Against Federal Anti-Lynching Law

Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation, already passed by the Senate and more than a century in the making, that would designate lynching as a federal crime. The vote was 410-4. One of those four was East Texas’ Louie Gohmert, a frequent subject of the Observer. Gohmert…

As Early Voting Winds Down, Let’s Look at the Numbers

The big thing, before we peer down the rabbit hole, is that none of the numbers — none of the polling, none of the early vote totals, nothing — is as important as each and every person who is eligible to vote getting out there and casting a ballot over…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Lunges Headfirst into Juul Investigation

Thanks to federal Food and Drug Administration regulations, finding flavored Juul disposable nicotine pods in Dallas became a chore earlier this year. That doesn’t mean Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is satisfied. Tuesday, Paxton announced that his office is leading a bipartisan, 39-state investigation into Juul Labs, the company behind…

ACLU of Texas Sues 7 Towns over Abortion Sanctuary Ordinances

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas made good on a threat it’s been making for months Tuesday, suing seven East Texas towns in federal court over the towns’ decision to declare themselves sanctuary cities for the unborn. Waskom, which kicked the whole sanctuary cities movement off, is a defendant,…

Texas’ Primary Looms a Week Away. Is Dallas County Ready?

When voters in Dallas County head to the polls for Texas’ March 3 primary, they’ll be using a new electronic system to cast their ballots that’s designed to combine the ease of electronic touch-screen voting with the security of paper ballots. But recent research has shown that the type of…