The Observer spends a lot of time — perhaps too much time, according to some of you in the peanut gallery — trying to read between the lines. The words that politicians, preachers and Dallas Cowboys owners say often aren’t as important as the subtext. Sometimes, though, when the sun is…
For decades, American colleges and universities have seen attracting students from overseas as a benefit for both sides — those students bring diverse viewpoints and backgrounds, as well as tuition dollars, to American schools. In return, they go home with an education and work experience that could put them ahead…
So the mayor has changed his mind. After ducking crime and a soaring murder rate in his election campaign last summer, after handing it all off to a study commission when he got elected, now all of a sudden Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson sees a murder crisis in the city…
Like a lot of Cowboys fans on this otherwise lovely Friday, Jerry Jones is feeling the pain from his team’s 31-24 loss to the Bears Thursday night. Almost as soon as he went on the air with 105.3 The Fan, Jones went after hosts Cory Mageors and Kevin Hageland. “Hey,…
In 2017, art teacher Stacy Bailey spent the first day of class introducing herself to her students at Charlotte Anderson Elementary School in Arlington. She flipped through a slideshow of pictures of her family, which included a photo of Bailey and her fiancée making fish faces while dressed as Finding…
Nineteen months after former Cowboy Terrance Williams’ head-over-handlebars performance, another of Jerry Jones’ finest has taken a star turn in a Frisco Police Department video. This time around, it’s injured defensive tackle Antwaun Woods, busted by FPD for pot possession, tampering with evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia. The story,…
New words from Carolyn Davis — killed five months ago by an alleged drunk driver as she awaited sentencing on federal corruption charges — explain just how she believed things worked at Dallas City Hall. Davis’ statements, contained in a fresh court filing in the federal government’s bribery case against…
River Ranch Educational Charities, the scandal-plagued operator of the city-owned horse park in southern Dallas, is refusing to pay out a $25,000 settlement to a woman who was thrown off one of its horses in 2017. The woman, Rhonda Allen, was there on a staff-supervised ride with her daughter and…
In the midst of the Cowboys’ ongoing circus, Luka Doncic’s sublime start to the 2019-20 NBA season and the Stars’ red-hot winter, the out-of-season Texas Rangers managed to steal Dallas’ sports show for a couple of hours Wednesday afternoon, giving North Texas baseball fans their best look yet at what’s coming…
North Dallas City Council member Lee Kleinman would have me believe that his being near the end of an eight-year term limit on the council has freed his tongue. I am trying to remember Kleinman with a tongue that was unfree. In any case, he was typically iconoclastic this week…
Racially-based redlining practices divided Dallas and cities across the country for decades in ways that still impact neighborhoods today. An exhibit about the history of this practice and its effects, as well as what to do about it, will be on display in Dallas City Hall’s main lobby until December 31.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has only been on the job for about six months, but he’s already seen enough. Late Tuesday, the mayor called out Dallas City Manager TC Broadnax, demanding a plan to address violent crime in Dallas before the end of 2019. “While I believe Dallas remains relatively…
This weekend, the Dallas County will hold its third Expunction Expo and ceremony in which Dallas Criminal County District Attorney John Creuzot grants eligible individuals the removal of qualifying criminal offenses from their records.
Tuesday’s conversation about scooters at Dallas City Hall was, like a lot of discussions at City Hall, unmoored from time. The complaints about the two-wheelers — and there were many — were the same as two years ago, when the scooters made their Dallas debut, and at every point in…
A recent news story reports that the Dallas City Council is about to revisit the affordable housing issue, to which I would offer a small correction. This would actually be a case of the council re-revisiting affordable housing, possibly even re-re-revisiting. The affordable housing issue gets so many visits, you’d…
President Donald Trump’s office released his official determination for the 2020 cap on refugees to the United States and it’s the lowest number in nearly 40 year, which has Dallas area immigration advocates worried.
Dallas’ jails and emergency rooms are overwhelmed by mental health crises. These institutions have become the only option for many “high utilizers.”
Last week, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick finally followed through on a promise he made during one of the 2019 Texas Legislature’s tensest moments. Good luck figuring out what it was without any help. Here’s the announcement from Patrick’s office, made during the middle of Thanksgiving week, when no one…
The 2019 Dallas Cowboys are not a playoff team. At least, they aren’t a playoff team in the way one usually thinks about the term. They are led by one of the NFL’s worst head coaches and sport an underachieving defense and abominable special teams. They’ve lost six of their…
A few years ago, Dallas resident Adam Evans signed up for a 100% renewable energy plan in his home. This is an option available to Dallas residents who can select completely or partially green energy sources for their electricity. Evans worries about the United States’ fossil fuel usage, and he…
One Texas man’s long trip through the U.S. immigration system.
When military veterans come home, many start businesses. Those businesses, from Walmart to FedEx, are some of the largest in the world. And they’re also almost exclusively started by men. Only 3% of businesses led by female veterans have managed to hire an employee, according to research published by the National…
