City contract with Dallas Park Board member shows failure of common sense
We’ll leave it to others to make determinations about whether an almost-deal between the city of Dallas and…
Negotiate a path forward for DART
Dallas Area Rapid Transit has been facing bleak prospects as some of its member cities contemplate abandoning it,…
City Hall should offload or rethink Oak Cliff roller ink
Dallas has spent two decades trying to make a city-run roller rink work — one it never intended…
We recommend in Texas Senate District 9
Partisan elections in January are as rare as snowstorms in South Padre, but voters in northern Tarrant County…
Dallas City Council can get it right on high-speed rail again
The decades-old idea of connecting Texas’ biggest cities with high-speed rail is fundamentally a good one. But any…
Are efforts to fight downtown Dallas crime making a difference?
Police statistics show that crime declined in downtown Dallas in 2025.That is a welcome development after violent crime…
Good on State Fair officials for vow to lower prices
If Big Tex knew how many families are steering clear of the State Fair of Texas because of…
One last push for Dallas’ newest deck park
The vision of a space that would reconnect east and north Oak Cliff is becoming ever more real,…
Dallas, keep learning from Walt Humann
North Texans used to believe that investing in the public good could help us accomplish big things, and…
Two Dallas shingle factories, two different stories of how to shut them down
No one wants to live near an industrial site that belches pollutants into the environment, but there are…
Texas mum on cybersecurity grants
A December news release from Sen. John Cornyn felt like a missive from another time. It announced that…
Plano’s big moment belies a deeper challenge
Plano is having a moment. The news that AT&T is leaving downtown Dallas for the aging northern burb…