Politics & Government

The City Council has seen its fair share of disruptors at meetings over the last year. Now, it’s looking into new ways to deal with them.

When outgoing Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley appeared on WFAA’s interview program “Y’all-itics” last month, he made an endorsement some found surprising. The longtime Republican said he wouldn’t support Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s reelection campaign. Instead, Whitley threw his weight behind Mike Collier, the Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Patrick…

The city of Dallas is working on a permanent ordinance that would offer protections to tenants facing eviction.

Dallas wants more ways to deal with what it calls “nuisance properties.” It could get them by the end of this month.

In an effort to tackle panhandlers, the city may make it illegal to stand on medians 6 feet wide or smaller.

On Wednesday, City Council finished a six-year long process of approving new zoning for the Elm Thicket-Northpark neighborhood. Some say the changes, restrictions on height and lot coverage of new homes, will help preserve the history of the neighborhood.

Up for re-election, a report by the far-right politics website Current Revolt claims Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins wore blackface when he and two others criminally trespassed on several properties in 1983.

Today, the Dallas City Council will vote on zoning changes that some say will help preserve the historically Black Elm Thicket-Northpark neighborhood.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ought to know how the law works. He’s the state’s top cop, has faced an indictment or two of his own and recently had his latest run-in with a service processor, from whom he reportedly fled. But on Monday, he bought a series of billboards…

Operation Lone Star has run up a $4 billion tab, but it’s also racking up quite the corpus of criticism.

Scooters got booted from Dallas in 2020. Their return could be delayed until 2023.

With religious jingoism on the rise, progressive faith leaders must navigate money, politics and the occasional “underground work” to support their flock

With rents up, some tenants are worried about ending up on the streets.

Oncor, the state’s largest energy delivery company, is set to increase its rates. But, it’ll have to get through the city of Dallas first.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, faced off in their first – and likely only – gubernatorial debate on Friday night. The televised debate took place at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. Ahead of the event, news broke that Abbott’s campaign had…

College Park may be renamed to Fahim J. Minkah Community Park if these activists get their way.

If Dallas says your business is causing public safety issues, it may protest your license to sell alcohol.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni spent much of her political life on the farthest fringe of the radical right. Although she now insists fascism is a thing of the past, in the early 1990s she joined the Youth Front of the Italian Social Movement, a party founded by a former chief of…

A mound of mulch stirred up some controversy in Dallas Cochran Park.

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican representing Texas’ 10th congressional district, went on Fox Friday to claim that abortion isn’t an issue most voters care about. When Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked McCaul about the importance of the abortion debate ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, he gave a…

So many Dallas Fire-Rescue vehicles are out of service that the city has turned to temporarily renting trucks for the department.

Oak Cliff Community Investment Fund has plans for a 63-acre Southern Dallas community with affordable housing, green space, grocery stores, and more