The Metroplex Civic & Business Association is launching its new crime statistics comparison between downtown Dallas and Downtown Ft. Worth, and one of the reasons became clear why the โCity of...
City Council Vote First Step Towards a Safer Dallas
When Keep Dallas Safe first started, the city was under siege. Rioters seemed destined to burn downtown to its foundations, and city leaders worked to โreimagine the police forceโ by cutting...
What Are the Lingering After Effects of COVID on Small Businesses?
Last time we looked at the essential workers that stayed on the job throughout the epidemic but have been ignored and even penalized for continuing to work while other people received all the...
Essential Workers Overworked and Overlooked
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, could you define an essential worker? Few of us could, and that was a learning experience for all of us. The government, at different levels, decided that nobody could...
What Idiots
Think about it. Our federal government spends trillions of dollars every year on all types of programs. Some of them are really dumb. They spend billions and billions on health alone, whether it be...
How Californiaโs Failed Gubernatorial Recall May Help Texas
California Governor Gavin Newsom appears to have survived a recall effort led by Republicans and conservatives critical of policies largely related to COVID-19. Tuesdayโs special election was...
How About a New Way to Calculate Property Taxes?
In the Augustย edition, it was suggested thatย Texas eliminate the propertyย taxes because they are so high. They are the seventh highest in the nation, and they are no longer fairly justified. At the...
Unemployment Benefits Abused in Texas
The new Federal and State restrictions put in place to combat COVID-19 affected everyone. These restrictions caused changes to people and their lives due to what was inflicted by the government....
The Bully Media – D Magazine Edition
The media is chock full of bullies.ย Self-righteous bullies.ย Why is that?ย Just look at the appellate case that D Magazineย lost.ย Their โeditorโ Tim Rogers sees himself as some kind of crusader -...
Dallas ISDโs Mask Mandate Is Illegal and Ineffective
On Monday, the news broke that Dallas ISD,ย in defiance of Governor Abbottโsย executiveย order, was requiring all of its students, faculty, and staff to wear masks. The rationale for this policy was...
By Jackson Paul | Aug 11, 2021
Itโs Time for Texas to Eliminate Our Property Taxes
During the 2020 presidential primaries, Senator Elizabeth [Warren] was widely lambasted for her proposed wealth tax, that is, a tax on assets that are owned rather than the income or revenue that is...
By Jackson Paul | Aug 6, 2021
Dallas Justice Nowโs โCollege Pledgeโ for White Parents Is Absurd
On July 25th, Kathleen McKinley, a political blogger for The Houston Chronicle, tweeted a picture of a pledge from Dallas Justice Now that a friend from the Dallas area sent to her. A letter titled...
By Chris Schlak | Aug 3, 2021
Is It Time to Require People to Get Vaccinated for COVID-19?
Can you imagine what the highways would resemble if there were no requirement for driving? Having traffic lights, stop signs, and other signals enables people to drive safely on the roads. These...
Electric competition works โ will Texas let it?
It has been 20 years since Texas introduced competition into its electricity market. And except for a few bumps along the way, competition proved wildly successful for consumers. Investors flocked...
By Bill Peacock | Jul 14, 2021
Jack County Commissioners should vote โnoโ on wind farm tax abatement
On July 12, the Jack County Commissioners will decide how to react to a foreign company coming to town looking for a handout. French company EDF Group is looking to build their Lasso Wind project within the northern portion of Jack County and is asking the county to provide a tax abatement. One local group, the […]
Inside the misinformation campaign targeting Texasโ energy industry
You might have seen a questionable new study in the New York Times raising concerns about methane emissions and several Texas-based companies in the energy industry. While itโs important to ensure that industry stakeholders address environmental concerns โ and the energy industry has fundamentally transformed itself over the last decade to do just that โ […]
Op-ed: Dallas media biased and mean when covering City Council elections
Running for office is not easyโIโve done it twice. It consumes most of a candidateโs time, resources and energy. Most people know this and thank candidates for trying to make their community better,...
Homeschool perspective: How my life was impacted by extracurriculars
Although home-school parents pay taxes for public schools and school facilities, Texas law currently prohibits home-school students from participating in University Interscholastic League (UIL)...
By Jayla Ward | May 12, 2021
Prioritizing reliability is the only way to stop the blackouts
If the February blackouts werenโt a wakeup call to the Texas Legislature, this weekโs electricity conservation alerts โ unheard of in mild April weather with demand nowhere close to peak levels โ...
By Jason Isaac | Apr 28, 2021
A Letter from the Publisher
Truth has become a casualty in todayโs media world. News has become a vessel to promote favored world views, and objectivity has been sacrificed. There are many publications in our wonderful city,...
Op-Ed: ‘Wind power did fail us’
In the late hours of this past Sunday, an unprecedented winter storm swept across the state of Texas. As temperatures reached record lows in various areas across the state, utilities began to falter...