Politics & Government

Richard Spencer, the white nationalist whose fans give Nazi salutes, does come from here, after all.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings finds himself cornered at the OK Corral by a bunch of low-rent landlords.

Most of the time, the interests of the Texas Association of Business and Republicans in the Texas Legislature line up pretty well. Both groups want fewer government regulations on employers, expansive at-will employment and school choice vouchers for Texas parents, among other things. Over the past couple of years, however,…

Dallas attorney Faith Johnson is Dallas County’s new district attorney. Tuesday morning, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Johnson, previously a Dallas County district judge and assistant prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, will serve the rest of the term Susan Hawk was elected to in 2014. Hawk resigned…

We all know there’s only one way to keep up the city’s basic infrastructure. Pay for it.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on sued the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Monday morning. Well, sort of.  Officially, Rawlings filed his suit merely as a resident. The pension system has gone through crisis after crisis as it’s bid to escape the deep financial hole created by former fund director…

If Ben Carson takes over HUD and he’s a loon, is that really worse than what we had there before?

A little more than a month after David Brown’s last day with the Dallas Police Department, the public got its first glimpse of what the former chief will be doing next. On Wednesday, ABC News announced that Brown, who served 33 years with DPD, will be joining the network to…

The more the mayor of Dallas talks about shutting down withdrawals from the police and fie pension fund, the faster the withdrawals will come.

Three Expo Events, the company behind the Exxxotica porn convention that graced Dallas in May 2015, is again asking a federal judge to force the city to book the event at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Here’s the legal backstory. Acting at the behest of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, the…

The five finalists are in for Dallas’ open city manager’s gig and, surprisingly, people on both sides of city hall’s political spectrum seem pretty happy with the choices. Among the five are four municipal employees — one of whom is a city of Dallas employee — and one corporate executive…

More than a good city manager, Dallas needs a really politician at the helm.

That Sam’s Club, the one the neighborhood that calls itself the East Village has been fighting against for around three years, isn’t going to get built. At least not right now, after Judge Michael O’Neill threw out the zoning change that would’ve allowed the Sam’s Club in the first place…

People preach white nationalism because they hate this country and want to tear it down.

In the wake of the recent election, you may want to think about some formal rules to prevent your family from blowing up at Thanksgiving.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who called President-elect Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” and a “toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense” during the 2016 GOP primary, made a pilgrimage to Trump Tower in Manhattan Monday to pay his respects and possibly audition for a job. Perry met with Trump for…

The mayor has been talking openly about the possibility of a municipal bankruptcy in Dallas.

Former A.H. Belo CEO Robert Decherd wants to be in charge of a new park downtown, and woe betide the person who gets in his way.

The 2017 Texas Legislative session is already set to feature several high profile battles over abortion access, less than a week after filing for the 85th Legislature began. On the first day of filing, Monday, North Texas Republican state Senator Bob Hall fired the first shot in a battle that…

The general consensus growing in Dallas is that the bus and train system is broken. Routes need reworking. Wait times for buses are too long. Too many resources are being flung on lightly traveled light rail lines in the suburbs. The City Council wants Dallas Area Rapid Transit to focus…

A Trump pick for Secretary of HUD could have significant repercussions on the relationship between Dallas City hall and HUD.

Four Dallas park board members want a bidding process for taking over fair Park put on ice until they get a chance to look at it