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Dallas, TX
Dallas City Hall’s DART support may be too little, too late
By the time the Dallas City Council started talking about using DART as a piggy bank to solve its pension woes earlier this year, discontent with the transit agency and a desire for change were hardly new. Suburban leaders who support reducing DART’s sales tax funding had been having discussions about clawing money back from the transit agency for years.
But after the city council of DART’s largest member publicly broached the idea, it set off a domino effect among suburbs that had kept their discontents more or less at a low grumble. The result is likely to be an ugly spat at the 89th Texas Legislature and probably a diminished regional transit system.
Now Dallas is walking it all back. The City Council voted earlier this month to support keeping DART fully funded as part of its legislative agenda. But the council is acting as if it wasn’t the spark on dry tinder.
Dallas’ leadership on the question of DART’s future has been weak at best, and when it has led at all, it has largely been in the wrong direction. This kind of dysfunction and indecisiveness has real consequences for the city and the region.
Since it was founded in 1983, DART has been primarily funded through a 1% sales tax on every dollar spent in the 13 member cities. That collection totaled about $834 million in fiscal year 2023. The largest share of that came from Dallas – a little over $400 million.
But while Dallas pays the most in, it also gets the greatest return. Just think about the stretch of four converging light-rail lines that runs through the core of downtown. And that’s to say nothing of the city’s many bus routes and other DART modes of transit like GoLink.
According to an EY study completed earlier this year, in fiscal year 2023, Dallas contributed $407.8 million in sales tax dollars to DART. But the cost of providing service in the city was $690.2 million. That means Dallas got nearly a 70% return on its investment — or about $282 million worth of service that it didn’t pay for.
Now, look at Plano’s cost vs. benefit. It contributed nearly $110 million in FY 2023 and got $44.8 million in service, according to EY (formerly Ernst & Young). That’s the sort of disparity Dallas might not have wanted to raise a lot of attention around.
We’ve long known that the suburbs subsidize the cost of transit in Dallas, but that’s more than we imagined.
Words have consequences, especially when they come from the governing body of one of Texas’ largest cities — and the center of DART’s service area. It’s good that Dallas is singing a different tune now, but the City Council’s open discussion has created an air of permissiveness about targeting DART.
Whatever comes of this debate about DART’s future, we hope this serves as a lesson for the city. In the world of politics, it’s critically important to think before you open a can of worms.
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5 teens hurt after police chase ends in crash
Five teenagers were hurt after a crime spree ended in a crash. Police say they found multiple handguns inside the vehicle after the crash, and all five teens were taken to the hospital.
DALLAS – Five teenagers were hospitalized late Tuesday night after crashing a carjacked sedan into a traffic light pole during a brief police chase, Dallas authorities said.
Carjacking and crash
What we know:
The incident began at 10:37 p.m. in Old East Dallas, where a man was carjacked at gunpoint by a group of armed juvenile suspects in the 4500 block of Live Oak Street, according to Dallas Police Department records. The suspects left the scene in the victim’s white Honda sedan.
Just before 11 p.m., a Flock license plate recognition camera flagged the stolen vehicle at an apartment complex in the 9400 block of Bruton Road in Pleasant Grove.
Responding patrol officers spotted the Honda traveling west on Bruton Road near South Buckner Boulevard. When officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the driver accelerated and sped off, initiating a pursuit.
The chase came to a violent end at 11:02 p.m. at the intersection of Bruton Road and Second Avenue. Police said the driver lost control of the sedan and slammed directly into a steel traffic signal support pole.
Officers found five teenagers inside the heavily damaged vehicle. Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics took all five suspects to local hospitals. Police said some of the teenagers suffered serious injuries, but all are expected to survive.
Investigators recovered multiple handguns from inside the crashed vehicle.
What’s next:
Detectives from the Dallas Police Department’s robbery and vehicular crimes units, alongside crime scene investigators and patrol officers, are continuing to investigate the incident. Charges against the juveniles are pending.
The Source: Information in this article is from the Dallas Police officers at the scene.
Dallas, TX
Death penalty off the table for man accused of beheading Dallas motel manager, prosecutors say
In need of help on the edge, the Dallas Cowboys tried to make a huge move this offseason. They made multiple attempts to trade for Las Vegas Raiders superstar Maxx Crosby, but were never able to get a deal done.
Once that one was off the table, they decided to send a fourth round pick to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for veteran Rashan Gary. The move was criticized, which is rather confusing when you think about it. Dallas gave up a mid-round pick, and reworked his contract to where it hardly makes any impact on a salary cap. They also filled a position of a great need with a player who might not threaten to lead the league in sacks, but is well-rounded and can help against the run just as much as he does when rushing the passer.
Gary is entering his eighth season in the league and has 271 tackles and 46.5 sacks. He’s coming off another solid campaign, which is why he’s No. 9 on our list of top 10 players on the Cowboys’ roster.
Rashan Gary 2025 review
Gary’s numbers in 2025 were respectable, but could be misleading. He was on pace to record 18 sacks, as he had 7.5 through the first seven games of the year. He then disappeared for the final nine games, recording no sacks while struggling to generate pressure.
That led to his season as a whole being considered rather disappointing, which is why the Packers were willing to move on. It’s also why Dallas was able to convince him to take a pay cut after he joined their team. What was most frustrating for Green Bay was the fact that they needed him to step up when Micah Parsons suffered a torn ACL late in the year and Gary was unable to do so.
Rashan Gary 2026 prediction
One thing critics of the move are failing to see is the fact that Dallas doesn’t need Gary to record double-digit sacks. They need him to be the veteran voice for a group of young pass rushers who are trying to find their footing in the league.
Second year player, Donovan Ezeiruaku, and rookie Malachi Lawrence both have the talent to be game-changers off of the edge. What they don’t have, is the experience. That’s where Gary comes in.
As those two continue to develop, Gary will be the stabilizing veteran force who can make plays on early downs, while also being disruptive as a pass rusher. We can’t ignore the struggles that he had in 2025, but perhaps the change of scenery will give him some motivation to turn back the clock. And Dallas didn’t have to give up much to give him that opportunity.
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