Texas Senate Passes Bathroom Bill, But That May Be As Far As It Gets

Over vociferous objections from the chamber’s Democratic minority, the Texas Senate voted 21-10 late Tuesday afternoon in favor of state Senator Lois Kolkhorst’s so-called “bathroom bill.” The bill requires patrons of the state of Texas’ publicly owned facilities to use the bathroom designated for the sex listed on their birth…

Wild New Idea For Trinity Park: Do It Now, No New Money!

A truly new idea, immense in scope, revolutionary in purpose but also wonderfully simple, cheap, pragmatic and real, is suddenly on the table in the city’s most ancient and intractable unsolved problem — the damned Trinity River. It’s this: Stop. Just stop. Stop trying to stick stuff on it, spray…

Two Parks We Can Build On the Trinity River, One of Which Is Real.

Very surreal experience for me yesterday sitting at a white tablecloth luncheon among the mucketies at the annual Trinity Commons Foundation affair. I think they assumed based on my appearance I was a waiter and let me in. I sat there listening to endless blah-blah-blah from three Dallas mayors, one…

New Map Shows Full Extent of Dallas Homeless Camps

Late Friday afternoon, the city of Dallas’ weekly memo packet featured a little gift from new City Manager T.C. Broadnax to the Dallas City Council: a map, long awaited, of each of the city of Dallas’ homeless encampments. [pdf-1]Members of the council, led by Oak Cliff’s Scott Griggs, have pushed…

Paxton Backs Trump Travel Ban, But to What End?

Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted an amicus brief to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel to the United States by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. In doing so, Paxton ensured that Texas was the first state to…

Debate Over Bill Exposes Rift In Texas’ Anti-Abortion Community

Wednesday was big day in Austin for both Texas’ staunchest advocates against reproductive choice and the organizations that have fought tooth and nail at the Texas Capitol and in the courts against the advance of legislation that seeks to limit abortion to the absolute limit of what is allowed by Roe…