When the Texas Legislature convenes for its next session in 2021, it will have a new speaker. Tuesday morning, the current speaker, Angleton Republican Dennis Bonnen, announced that, after two decades in the House and one term as speaker, he would not seek reelection. “It is with the deepest love,…
Until Friday morning, anyone looking to report police misconduct to Dallas’ new Office of Community Police Oversight would have had a hard time figuring out how. Instructions on a Dallas police website for submitting complaints led callers to a disconnected number. A link to the office responsible for collecting complaints…
The least interesting person at Thursday night’s rally at the American Airlines Center was the man of the hour himself, who spent his 90 minutes predictably: trumpeting his alleged successes and condemning his perceived rivals. Outside, J.C. Cook of Cedar Creek Lake was promoting a dark horse candidate with promises…
Beto O’Rourke held a counter rally to Trump’s campaign stop in Dallas. Supporters packed the event where he called for unity.
Thursday night, in as much trouble as he’s been since his inauguration, President Donald Trump returned to Dallas’ American Airlines Center a little more than four years after his first visit to the place that Ron Kirk built. On a day in which his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney,…
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…
