Dallas and other municipalities could legalize adult recreational use of cannabis under House Bill 1937. The bill was filed by Rep. Jessica González, a Dallas Democrat. The bill does have some opponents, even those are in favor of legalizing cannabis.
During remarks during a religious women’s conference over the weekend, Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado appeared to use a Bible verse to wish death upon President Joe Biden. Her appearance was a part of the SALT Conference (Spiritual and Leadership Training) held at Storehouse Church on Alpha Road…
Migrants and immigrant rights advocates in a Monday press conference petitioned Vice President Kamala Harris to fulfill promises she’d made on the campaign trail.
Over the last couple of months, several houses have caught fire in Dallas’ Tenth Street Historic District. The causes are still undetermined. The Tenth Street neighborhood is considered one of the last remaining intact Freedman’s Towns in the country, complete with its own cemetery where residents who were once slaves are buried.
Big plans for Dallas housing are in motion at City Hall this week. The city hopes to build more homes and address racial disparities in homeownership.
Fort Worth state Rep. Nate Schatzline has filed a bill that would mandate single-point entryways for Texas schools.
After spending over half a million dollars fighting poker clubs in court, Dallas is considering a legal path forward for them in the city.
Thousands of reports of missed trash and recycling service poured in from Dallas residents as the city rolled out a new schedule for sanitation workers.
If all goes as planned for the city of Dallas, a large, new park will help improve the green scene in North Dallas. The City Council has approved an application to be submitted for an Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) Program grant that could be worth up to $10 million…
Could Dallas, not Frisco, be home to Universal Studios’ new kids theme park? Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson sure hopes so. He has the perfect place for it: contaminated Hensley Field.
Texas House Rep. Elizabeth Campos’ House Bill 1292 would require cities like Dallas to provide mobile showers to the homeless.
This week, Dallas’ Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture committee heard recommendations for new rules regarding local boarding homes. The new rules aim to discipline unlicensed or bad operators of Dallas boarding homes and improve conditions for their residents.
For lawmakers from Dallas in both Austin and Washington, D.C., the early weeks of January mean gathering with their colleagues and preparing for a unique type of battle. Last week proved to be a highly active one for first-term U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas’ 30th District. She attended her…
Hannah Lebovits is an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington researching housing and homelessness through the lens of social equity and sustainability. She is one of the plaintiffs in the civil rights lawsuit against the city of Dallas challenging its new median ordinance. She…
If Dallas’ Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability (OEQS) has its way, there will soon be vegetation growing along the walls of downtown’s underground pedestrian tunnels. That’s not the only unusual place food might be grown under the proposed Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan. Vacant strip malls, empty big box stores…
Dimple Jackson lived on Audrey Street in Dallas’ Dixon Circle neighborhood for more than 50 years. When she died in 2019 at the age of 93, the street lost its guiding light, the woman her son Robert Jackson calls “the neighborhood matriarch.” Soon the street she called home for five…
Rapid rehousing programs have drummed up a lot of hope among the homeless. But, three homeless residents in the city of Dallas say they’ve been waiting months for assistance, and that rapid rehousing isn’t all that rapid.
The Texas Civil Rights Project sued the city of Dallas in December over an ordinance that would ban pedestrians, including panhandlers, from standing or sitting on medians narrower than 6 feet wide. Now, the civil rights group is asking for the city to be blocked from enforcing the ordinance until the lawsuit is resolved.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first visit to survey the border crisis in El Paso since he became president in 2021. Biden’s opportunity to see firsthand the many thousands of migrants stationed along the southern border comes after U.S. officials say they encountered more than…
A bill filed this week could allow even more Texas school teachers and employees to carry concealed handguns on campus.
An audit found issues with how the city tracks the work of the South Dallas Drug Court and South Oak Cliff Veterans’ Treatment Court.
South Oak Cliff resident Anga Sanders found out the hard way that bringing grocery stores to Dallas’ food deserts was no simple task. A bill filed this week by State Rep. Shawn Thierry, a Houston Democrat, could make it a little simpler.
