Texas Democratic Party Challenges New Voting Law
The Texas Democratic Party filed a lawsuit last week challenging Texas’ new ban on mobile voting, which took effect just before this election cycle. Critics say the law suppresses student voters.
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The County’s Made It Easy, So Please, Dallas, Get Out and Vote This Week
There’s evidence, from donation totals and turnout, both in the 2018 election and at rallies like the one held by President Donald Trump in Dallas a couple of weeks ago, that North Texas is more engaged than ever politically. The region is the epicenter of the 2020 fight over the…
We Bubble-Wrapped Snowflakes Must Ask Ourselves How Much to Wrap
A new term for me, a bit of an epithet I guess, was applied to me several times recently by a genial retired oil industry person sitting nearby at a wedding reception. Smart man, perfectly likeable. He suggested in the course of the evening that some people — I definitely…
Beto O’Rourke Quits the Presidential Race
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is done running for president. Friday afternoon, the former U.S. representative from El Paso, stuck polling in the low single digits, said that his campaign couldn’t win the Democratic nomination due to a lack of resources. O’Rourke did not endorse one of his Democratic competitors,…
Immigration Limitations Based on Healthcare Set to Go into Effect Sunday
This Sunday, yet another new immigration policy will go into effect: immigrants coming into the country will be required to show proof of health insurance or the ability to secure health insurance or pay for medical costs, within 30 days of entering the US.
Recovery Continues 3 Weeks After Carrollton Cyberattack
Cyber criminals struck again in Texas last month, this time in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, where officials have grappled for weeks with the impacts of an attack that took out the city’s website and paralyzed some municipal services. The attack took the city’s website and email servers offline, disabled…
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Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert Previews Just How Dumb Things Are Going to Get
The Observer promises it will no longer act as if things can’t get any stupider, no matter how stupid they get. We’ve been chastened, having watched East Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert storm a secure deposition room at the U.S. Capitol last week and initiating one of the dumbest political standoffs…
Schadenfreude Fans: Lawsuit Between the NRA and the People Behind Its Dallas-Based TV Network Is for You
The fallout from the National Rifle Association’s decision to cut ties with Ackerman McQueen, the ad firm behind its now-dead and formerly Dallas-based NRATV streaming service, continues, and it’s spectacular. In a federal court filing first reported on by The Daily Beast, the gun rights organization fumes that the product…
Report Confirms Alarming Trend: Fewer Children Are Insured in Texas
Texas has the highest rate of uninsured children in the nation and it has been getting worse at an alarming rate, according to a new report released Wednesday. Researchers at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute analyzed 2018 census data and found that the percentage of children with no healthcare coverage…
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Conservative Activists Plot to Save Texas GOP With One Weird Trick
Fresh from having pushed House Speaker Dennis Bonnen halfway out the door, Texas conservative activists are looking to rerun the 2019 legislative session in which the speaker played such a big part. Wednesday afternoon in Dallas, representatives from Empower Texans, Texas Right to Life and the Texas Eagle Forum, among…
New Book Says Birth Control Changes Women’s Brains and We Need to Understand How
Hormone-based birth control has a much more nuanced and wide-spread effect on women’s brains than we commonly think, according to a new book written by Texas Christian University Research Psychologist Sarah E. Hill.
Fort Worth Wants to Hire a Diversity Director. They Canned the Last One.
The city of Fort Worth is interviewing six finalists for the job of diversity director. The city will pay whoever gets the job between $125,820 and $207,604 a year. I know how they can get this done for free. Find out why Joel Fitzgerald got fired. I’m serious. All the…
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Josh Hamilton Arrested After Allegedly Beating, Throwing Chair at Daughter
Former Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton turned himself in to Tarrant County authorities Wednesday afternoon following charges that he injured one of his three daughters. Hamilton, according to an arrest warrant affidavit, threw a chair at his daughter, injuring her when it shattered, before dragging her to her bedroom where…
Judge Your Neighbors’ Presidential Preferences With this 2020 Donations Map
Just in case you didn’t have sufficient reason to be suspicious of your neighbors, a new report from RentHop, a New York-based apartment listing firm, has hit your friendly Observer news vertical’s inbox this week, breaking down North Texas’ 2019 presidential donations by ZIP code. No longer must anyone wonder just…
A&M-Commerce Homecoming Shootout Begs Us All for Realism About Guns and Cops
You know what else we can do about Saturday’s gun massacre related to a homecoming celebration at Texas A&M University-Commerce? Two young people died and six more were shot. I mean what we can do in addition to the terrible grieving we must bear for the dead, the injured and…
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Lawyer Known as ‘DWI Dude’ Found Guilty of Swindling Colombian Cartel
The DWI Dude would’ve gotten away with it, if not for those meddling kids at the FBI’s Dallas field office. Tuesday afternoon, a federal jury in Sherman convicted Austin-based attorney James Balagia of five federal charges related to his scamming of hundreds of thousands in cash from Colombian cocaine traffickers. Balagia’s…
Flight Attendants Claim Pilot Placed Hidden Camera in Lavatory on Southwest Airlines Flight
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed suit against the airline, claiming that she caught a pilot watching footage from a hidden lavatory camera in 2017. After she reported the incident, the lawsuit alleges, the airline covered it up. The flight attendant, Renee Steinaker, was called into the cockpit by…
Dallas Reports Large Racial, Socioeconomic Equity Gaps
In Dallas there are large gaps in access to resources and opportunities depending on your income, where you live and racial and socioeconomic background, according to a new report released by the city in partnership with the Center for Public Policy and Priorities.
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Purple Haze: Another Election, Another Round of ‘Texas Is Shifting Democratic.’ No, Really.
Amid the pomp and fervor at President Donald Trump’s latest Dallas revival on Oct. 17, there was, among many other emotions, an undertone of worry, possibly even sincere, from the event’s public speakers. Whether it was Prestonwood Baptist Church Pastor Jack Graham, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan…
Critics Say New Texas Polling Station Law Suppresses Liberal Votes
Nationwide, college student voter turnout doubled between 2014 and 2018, according to a new study by Tufts University. But in Texas and elsewhere, new efforts by Republican lawmakers are making it harder for students to vote this year. Critics say these moves are designed to suppress liberal votes. About 67%…
Greg Abbott Holds Dallas Up as Example on Homelessness. But Dallas Has Problems of Its Own.
As a part of his ongoing spat with Austin over homelessness, Gov. Greg Abbott held Dallas up last week as an example of how cities should tackle the problem. But Dallas has problems of its own. As the number of people who spend their nights on city streets and under…
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Six Takeaways From Sunday’s Tornado
The tornado that touched down near Love Field on Sunday devastated a large swath of North Dallas. Here’s what you need to know. There were actually 10 tornadoes in North Texas. The National Weather Service identified the 10th on Thursday afternoon: a smaller twister, an EF-0, with wind speeds of 80…