Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, one of the Trump administration’s biggest connections to Texas and mainstream conservatism, plans to quit his post as energy secretary, according to reports from Bloomberg and The New York Times. Despite calling President Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” during the 2016 Republican presidential primary,…
President Donald Trump will be in town this evening, and dozens of his supporters have already lined up in anticipation, some having arrived days in advance. The doors open at 3 p.m., but attendees were not allowed on the grounds until this morning. So on Wednesday afternoon, they waited on…
One thing you can’t say about President Donald Trump, and there aren’t many, is that he’s never taken North Texas for granted. Unlike basically every national politician in Texas’ blood-red era, the real estate developer turned reality TV star turned political sideshow turned legitimate candidate turned president has shown up…
The bomb, such as it was, has been detonated. Now comes the time to figure out the size of the fallout and, more important, its half-life. Tuesday, everyone who’d been waiting for months to hear Chekov’s smartphone recording — otherwise known as Texas conservative gadfly Michael Quinn Sullivan’s record of…
Tuesday morning, Michael Quinn Sullivan finally released the long-awaited tape of his summer meeting with Dennis Bonnen, the speaker of the Texas House. At first listen, the recording appears to back up the basics of what Sullivan, a conservative activist and blogger, has been saying for months: In exchange for…
Like many anti-abortion activists, Mark Lee Dixon left the 2019 Texas legislative session unsatisfied. Sure, the Legislature, deep red for at least one more election, had passed the “born-alive bill,” which mimics a federal law that requires doctors to care for a baby born during an attempted abortion, and another…
Oh, my God. Liberals. Please. I speak as one of you. What do you want to do, just hand Donald Trump a jewel-encrusted crown and let him skip the election? I thought we wanted to defeat him. Did I have it wrong? Do we just want to get on TV?…
If you’re the type of person who doesn’t have a taste for political sideshows, next week might be a good one to get out of Texas and head somewhere like Easter Island or anyplace, really that isn’t going to have to deal with Michael Q. Sullivan, his recording and President…
Just when you, Dallas resident, thought you were rid of Pete Sessions, he’s doing his best to pull you back in. The erstwhile North Texas congressman and current Central Texas congressional hopeful is all over the international news, and not because of blimps, burlesque clubs or maybe living in Florida…
When President Trump arrives in Dallas next week for a rally, he will be met by a number of counter rallies and protests, including one by Beto O’Rourke.
The activist who confronted Chief U. Renee Hall at the heated police oversight board meeting on Tuesday at Dallas City Hall doesn’t live in the city. He’s McKinney City Council member La’Shadion Shemwell, a barber and activist who was voted into office in 2017 following the McKinney pool party incident that…
Get your jokes about stopped clocks and blind squirrels ready. Ted Cruz, Texas’ Observer-beloved junior senator, is actually on the right side of a controversial issue. Late Wednesday afternoon, Cruz, along with a Star Wars cantina-like menagerie of politicians from both sides of the aisle — Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep…
Next Monday, the second one in October and the one frequently celebrated as Columbus Day, will be known as Indigenous People’s Day in Dallas from that point forward. The change, passed by a 12-3 City Council vote, didn’t come easy, as several members of the council decided to put their…
Dallas has the fifth highest rates of traffic and pedestrian traffic fatalities in United States, according to statistics collected in 2017 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Ahem. One hates to be Miss Penny Pinch-Pinch, but the deadline is now two weeks gone for the outfit in charge of the proposed fancy park on the Trinity River downtown to come up with about $150 million to pay for it. They’ve had three years. One doesn’t see a…
In November, North Texas made it clear that it didn’t want longtime U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions wandering the halls of the capitol anymore, at least not on its behalf. Thursday, Sessions returned the favor, announcing that he’s running for Congress again, just, you know, not here. Sessions is moving about…
The Dallas Police Department is launching an internal affairs investigation following allegations of evidence tampering during the murder trial of former DPD officer Amber Guyger. Jurors convicted Guyger Tuesday and sentenced her to 10 years on Wednesday. “Dallas today is different than it was yesterday and definitely different than it…
Would it have been nice for the Amber Guyger story to have unfolded in the community without reference to race? Do those words, as you read them, sound as absurd to you as they do to me as I write them? Nothing is not about race. Not at the local…
Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas and reliable Donald Trump toady, made a bit of news over the weekend when he predicted on Fox & Friends that the impeachment process could plunge the United States into civil war. Responding to a question about evangelical Christians’ response to impeachment efforts…
The Dallas City Council made what had to be one of the easiest decisions its members will ever make Wednesday afternoon. All 15 council members voted to rename the stretch of road that fronts American Airlines Center in Victory Park for the greatest player in Dallas Mavericks history, Dirk Nowitzki…
Any time City Hall plays with the facts, there’s a reason. It should raise a red flag. A case in point right now is a new plan to turn over the baseball field at Reverchon Park to private interests. Think of it this way: This is about $20-$30 million worth…
U.S. House Democrats, even the most recalcitrant among them, are moving on impeachment, they made it known Tuesday, because of allegations that President Donald Trump leveraged potential foreign aid to Ukraine in exchange for potential damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi…
