The Dallas Cowboys are finishing up the week with a roster transaction, parting ways with veteran linebacker Logan Wilson. Patrik Walker of the team’s official website shared the news on social media.

Wilson was one of the team’s acquisitions at the NFL trade deadline, joining All-Pro defensive tackle Quinnen Williams as midseason defensive reinforcements.

Unfortunately, Wilson never found his groove with the team. By releasing Wilson, the Cowboys save $6.5 million in salary cap space for 2026, and another $7.2 million in 2027.

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During his brief stint with the Cowboys, Wilson appeared in seven games with one start, recording 24 tackles and one forced fumble. Now, Wilson will be searching for a new home, and the Cowboys are even thinner at linebacker, which is one of the team’s biggest weaknesses entering the offseason.

He did not record a snap in the team’s Week 16 game against the Washington Commanders, a move that head coach Brian Schottenheimer called a coaching mistake by now-fired defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.

Before he was traded away, Wilson was benched in favor of rookie linebacker Barrett Carrett so the team could get faster on defense. Wilson then requested a trade due to his reduced role with the team. Unfortunately, he never found his speed after arriving in Dallas.

Wilson, who was a tackling machine before the 2025 season, appeared to be on the decline during his final games with the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Dallas landed Wilson at the deadline in a trade with the Bengals. The Cowboys shipped a seventh-round pick to Cincinnati in exchange for the linebacker.

While the move didn’t pay off for the Cowboys, it was a low-risk move, so no long-term damage was done.

Throughout his seven-year NFL career, Wilson has tallied 565 total tackles, 5.5 sacks, seven forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, and 11 interceptions.

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The world will come to Dallas and surrounding cities on June 14 when the Netherlands faces off against Japan at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium, or as it will be temporarily known, “Dallas Stadium.” Somewhere between 1.4 and 2.7 million visitors may attend matches and flock to other World Cup-related events across DFW this summer.

The most-watched sporting event on the planet comes to North Texas at a time when international tourism to the United States has softened, amid visa delays, stricter border enforcement policies and a recent federal proposal that would require some visitors to disclose up to five years of social media history as part of the visa waiver process.

Meanwhile, concerns about immigration enforcement have sparked protests abroad and calls by some commentators and advocates to boycott World Cup matches in the United States.

If the Dallas area wants to reverse this trend, make visitors feel truly safe, and, along the way, make the city a better place to live, an important first step would be becoming a human rights city. Guaranteeing migrant rights, currently under assault, is central to that project.

Human rights cities are inspired by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted on Dec. 10, 1948, in the wake of the genocide that marked World War II. Article 1 of the Declaration proclaims that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

Articles 13 and 14 state that “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement … and the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”

Yet, in the United States, the world has watched in horror the slayings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, violence that sparked protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents providing security at the Milan Winter Olympics. According to reports, some detained migrants have also been denied due process and held by immigration authorities in solitary confinement.

The City Council could start making Dallas a human rights citadel and assure World Cup fans they can visit without fear. It should also direct police not to assist ICE when it serves civil administrative warrants or in searches for migrants not facing criminal charges.

Rosario, Argentina, became the world’s first self-designated human rights city in 1997. Responding to their nation’s tragic history under a violent 1970s military dictatorship, the Rosario City Council sought a better future by requiring human rights training for judges, police, health providers and educators.

Nuremberg, Germany, a city deeply linked to the rise of Adolf Hitler, also became a human rights city in 2001. A city that once annually hosted Nazi Party rallies now requires human rights education in its schools. Human rights cities now number in the dozens.

In 2017, Dallas County became the first human rights county, joining other American cities that made a similar commitment. If Nuremberg, Jackson, Miss. (with its history of racial violence), and Atlanta (once the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan), can join the fight for human dignity, certainly Dallas can become a human rights city as well.

The World Cup looms on the horizon, rendering the need for this declaration ever more urgent. Labor abuses, sex trafficking, and forced displacement have long poisoned the history of international sports events. Dallas must not replicate this sorry past.

Michael Phillips is an author and historian, Rick Halperin is director of the SMU Human Rights Program and Hadi Jawad is the president of Human Rights Dallas.

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Two neighboring Dallas residents are living without walls.

That’s not hyperbole. The exterior walls of their condos have been removed and replaced with a large tarp. It’s been like that for a year.

No walls, only a tarp.

The homeowners association ordered the wall removal, citing mold and other problems. But the units also suffer from serious foundation issues.

Residents say they’ve endured this open-air existence because they believe they have no choice.

Where are they going to go? Who will buy their money pits with all these problems?

Carol Sullivan considers herself the fortunate one — at least she still has her interior walls. Her neighbor, Kate Phelan, isn’t so lucky. She’s missing both exterior and interior walls.

Both women blame the HOA, which authorized the wall removal and promised to rebuild. They say that promise has since vanished.

HOA Follies

In today’s episode of The Watchdog Presents HOA Follies, we go to the Lake Highlands neighborhood of Dallas — specifically to the 72-unit Oak Hollow Condominiums off Skillman Street.

The competition to be spotlighted on HOA Follies is fierce. The battles are constant, and that includes fighting outside management companies hired to run things.

In these squabbles, lies are told, stories are made up and the mantra that there are two sides to everything is proven false. In HOA disputes, there are often eight sides to every saga.

I cannot tell you the HOA side because the management group, Veracity of Plano, declined to speak to me. Veracity also declined to allow me to speak to HOA board members.

The word veracity, by the way, is defined as a devotion to the truth.

‘Terrified’

Sullivan says one holdup is the condo bosses demanding that doors and windows be removed during repairs.

“I’m terrified,” Sullivan says, fearing that once they are removed, they too won’t get put back.

Phelan describes constant dirt filtering in — weeds, grass and bugs. She’ll clean a room, then five minutes later, it’s all back. Especially the bugs.

“It’s like National Geographic in there,” she says.

How does she deal with it? Sometimes, she explodes.

In a draft she sent to Google reviews, she called the condo bosses “evil, sadistic, harassing, bullying, delusional, incompetent.”

“I don’t know what else to do, Phelan said.

Mold

Both women complain of sickness that they attribute to mold.

Health-wise, they shouldn’t be living there.

Phelan says her insurance company told her the responsibility is with the HOA. Her insurance will not fix interior issues until the outer walls are replaced.

Under Texas law, an HOA is responsible for the exterior common areas, while a condo owner is responsible for the inside.

Because the association removed the entire rear wall, they may be responsible for the follow-through, Phelan argues.

Solutions

What do you do in a situation like this?

Unfortunately, get a lawyer. Both women have hired a lawyer to help them. Several other owners have jumped in.

Phelan admits she was out of her league when house shopping. She didn’t know what to look for. She felt rushed. She saw problems before buying but didn’t think they were this bad. She paid $143,000.

Both women still pay $475 in monthly maintenance fees.

They neglected to file a formal complaint with Dallas’ code compliance department. An inspector might come out and write up violations.

Under city code for substandard structures, property owners are required to keep structures in good repair. Violations can be written for peeling paint, leaking roof, electrical and plumbing problems, holes in the wall, floor and ceiling, and decayed wood.

In some HOA’s, residents vote out existing members, and then fire the management company. I’ve seen it happen, but it’s rare.

Mostly, what’s needed is for condo bosses to live up to their promises. They need to display a devotion to the truth.