Venton Hill-Jones, an election judge presiding over Dallas’ District 4 race, called the police yesterday alleging City Council candidate Johnny Aguinaga had threatened him. Aguinaga is running for the District 4 council seat.
The dispute began when Jones realized one of Aguinaga’s campaign signs was posted on someone’s property without permission, he contends. When Jones pulled up to his house Tuesday, he found a big campaign sign in the lot next door. It read, “Vote for Johnny Aguinaga. Be the change.”
Aguinaga owns the property where the originalCampRhonda homeless encampment was set up. He has said that if he is elected, homelessness in South Oak Cliff would cease to exist.
Neighbors helping neighbors: Record cold is the latest challenge that has forced North Texans to pull together
Through pandemic, political turmoil and economic strife, communities have found strength when they rely on one another for support
A tiny flower sticks out of the snow as a winter storm brings freezing temperatures to North Texas on Monday in Dallas.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
After the temperature plummeted to record lows and the power turned off across North Texas this week, Josephine Lopez Paul led more than two dozen volunteers making hundreds of phone calls to their neighbors asking them what was needed to weather the latest storm.
Facebook and Twitter are riddled with opinions and posts that sit on a shaky foundation of conspiracy and hearsay. It s only after almost four years of baseless claims, outright lies and a violent insurrection at the center of our democracy that these platforms are starting to take serious action against users promoting violence through misinformation.
There has been one place in this wasteland of racist dog-whistles, however, where the truth is enforced and some sense of common ground can be reached: The DFW Corona Connection Facebook community, founded by the Banjos and Beats show producer, co-founder and talent buyer Josh Smith and his wife, Amanda. It s become an online destination for balanced information and opinions on the coronavirus and a platform that places honesty over hyperbole regardless of political affiliation or personal influence. The founders have also been honored for their 11 months of hard work and dedication with a nomination for Dallas Reformer of the Yea
These notable figures from Dallas passed away in 2020
These notable figures from Dallas passed away in 2020 Writer and editor Mary Malouf was a larger-than-life character.
Photo courtesy of Stuart Graves It s fair to say that death loomed large in 2020, thanks to COVID-19. As of December 31, nearly 2,000 people in Dallas died of the virus, nearly 28,000 in Texas, and more than 341,000 in the U.S. But the virus was not the cause of death for most of the celebrities, performers, and activists on this list of notable Dallasites who passed on in 2020. Here s a last farewell, in chronological order:
Tony Edwards, music enthusiast and Deep Ellum dynamo, died in April. A Deep Ellum regular who d worked in Dallas music industry for many years, he was found dead in his apartment. A coroner determined he died of natural causes. He was 46.