The Dallas Police Department says that there are as many as 2000 street racers in the city on any given weekend. The department has stepped up enforcement, but the city wants to do more.
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As infections of the novel coronavirus surge across North Texas and around the state, a majority of Texans now say efforts to control the spread of the virus are going badly, according to a poll released this week. The poll, conducted by the Texas Politics Project at the University of...
In case you haven’t heard, Dallas voted for Joe Biden. So did other major Texas cities, such as Austin, El Paso, San Antonio and Houston. While most of the state was seeing red, Dallas was a little blue puddle in a sea of crimson, an oasis in a red desert,...
There's not a lot of Central Asian food in the Dallas area — and there is a lot of it, at the same time. The Silk Road, threading its way across mountain ranges and deserts between Europe, Persia and China, carried recipes along with its cargo for centuries. Turkic peoples...
Three Dallas ISD schools were celebrated for receiving National Blue Ribbon Scholar awards in a ceremony Thursday.
Colleague Brian Reinhart recently put together the Observer’s “Dallas-Area Chefs and Industry Insiders Vote on Their Favorite Restaurants,” where he went on, apparently along with the entire industry, to feloniously underrate Fearing’s restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton. Brian revealed in his examination of the results that only one person in the...
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The City Plan Commission on Wednesday rejected a zoning request for a 175-acre warehouse project in southern Dallas that nearby residents said would bring more pollution, more traffic congestion and lower property values to an area already overstuffed with warehouses. City staff had recommended approval of the rezoning for Dallas-based...
Madison Shepard and her dog Lexi sit on a couch in their home in Los Angeles, where it’s 75 degrees and sunny on a late November day, just like most days of the year in California. The multi-hyphenate comedian-writer-actor is currently “unemployed” during the pandemic, but for an artist, that’s...
One of the most significant things the pandemic has altered is the sense of community and human connection. While interaction like this can’t be replaced, some restaurants are using social media pages to compensate for the lost community spirit and to connect with their customers. Before COVID-19, conversations about where...
On Sunday, an 11-story tower off Haskell Avenue was the subject of a failed demolition implosion, and as a result, it inadvertently became a new landmark and internet sensation colloquially referred to as the “Leaning Tower of Dallas.” On Monday, one of the below pictures of a Samoyed dog posed...
On Tuesday morning, the following email was sent to Dallas County government employees: “Dallas County Election Department is in need of assistance at Election Headquarters at 1520 Roundtable.” It went on to say that both day and evening shifts are available. Elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole and her staff are deep...
State Rep. Kyle Biedermann filed a bill to allow Texans to vote on independence from the U.S. The Texas Nationalist Movement sees an opportunity to push secession.
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Mubrooka Egyptian Street Food, one of the Observer's Top-100 Restaurants for 2020, has permanently closed, with its last day of service Thursday. "Koshari is one of the world's great comfort foods. A mix of macaroni, spaghetti noodles, rice and lentils, koshari gets topped with fried onions and a slathering of...
Residents in three low-income housing projects formerly managed by the Dallas Housing Authority say their complaints about poor maintenance and unsafe living conditions have been met not wit h repairs, but draconian regulations enforced by private security they believe are intended to drive them out of their homes. The authority,...
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said the city's public safety issues didn’t get here overnight. They won’t go away overnight either.
The man and his weapons were both from out of town. That's one of the first things many Killeen residents, both past and present, will remind you: He wasn't one of them. George Hennard was from Pennsylvania, and he was living in Belton, a city about 25 minutes away from...
When history called, current elected officials and city staff didn’t even pick up the phone to say they’d call back, Downwinders contends. They just left it ringing and never checked their voicemail.
Given the results of last week's primary in Dallas County, whatever's in the mystery boxes discovered by county elections officials last week isn't going to matter. While a few races were close, none of them were close enough that they're going to be swung by adding 44 vote centers' worth...
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It wasn’t long ago that one could jump on a green bike and make her way from the central business district to the eastern side of Deep Ellum — the quieter side where the beautification efforts by the city stay cleaner and there are fewer people trying to make Deep...
Dallas leadership is asking North Texans to reconsider Thanksgiving plans because of coronavirus.
Many believe the race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden is critical in determining the course of the country's future.
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke endorsed the ambitious economic recovery plan unveiled by his one-time opponent, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, during a Zoom conference call Friday. Announced Thursday, the “Build Back Better” plan aims to create 5 million new jobs in the U.S.’ manufacturing and technology sectors. It...