Texas Republicans in the Senate Committee on Business & Commerce were giddy with excitement Tuesday afternoon over Senate Bill 14, a massive deregulation bill that would prohibit local governments from passing or enforcing laws that create basic protections for...
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back to archiveTexas Republicans attack Mark Cuban over anthem decision
As one of the most outspoken sports franchise owners in the country, Mark Cuban has a way of generating headlines. Several Texas lawmakers are castigating Cuban after he announced that the Dallas Mavericks had recently stopped playing the national anthem at their...
School board runoff caps off election season in Dallas
Officially the presidential election ended over a month ago (tantrums from President Trump notwithstanding). In Dallas, however, there is still one local runoff race for the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees that is very much a bellwether for public...
Ten Reasons We’re Grateful Donald Trump is Fired
We’ve waited so very long to say that — not just for the four years in which you didn’t even try to represent all of America, nor the past year in which you did nothing to save more than 230,000 Americans who died of COVID-19, but also during the long ballot-counting...
Beyond “The Umbrella Academy”: The Real Life Heroine Behind Desegregation in Dallas
For fans of the popular Netflix series and comic book adaptation, The Umbrella Academy, season two, finds the Hargreeves children in an entirely different time and place since time-traveler Number Five used his powers to save them from an impending apocalypse. Without...
Mark Cuban’s dunk on Ted Cruz shows why the Right is losing the Cancel Culture Wars
In the absence of NBA action, Mark Cuban found a new sport — dunking on Sen. Ted Cruz. The recent viral Twitter exchange between Cruz and Cuban was more than just another public take down of America’s most sanctimonious senator, it was a colorful illustration of why...
Mike Pence to visit Dallas for “Celebrate Freedom” event at megachurch
Officials say that Vice President Mike Pence will visit Dallas for First Baptist Church’s “Celebrate Freedom Sunday” on June 28. Pence’s appearance will come eight days after Trump’s rally in Tulsa, the first such rally since March, where Pence is also scheduled to...
In Dallas, Trump surrounds himself with supporters, rakes it in with campaign cash
With barricades and a heavy police presence, President Trump’s first stop in Dallas was marked with protesters and supporters and dueling shouts and signs invoking “Black Lives Matter” or “Make America Great Again.” Billed as a roundtable with faith leaders, small...
In salon ruling aftermath, “liberal” judges face a harsher scrutiny
Ever since Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther decided to defy statewide orders (enacted by Gov. Greg Abbott) to reopen Salon À La Mode in North Dallas, she became a lightning rod in Texas’s new cultural war surrounding COVID-19. When Luther appeared in front of Judge...