Politics

Hundreds of thousands of voters across Texas flocked to the polls on Tuesday to decide the future of the 2020 election cycle, the stakes of which have reached enormous highs amid a period of economic and social unrest stemming largely from COVID-19.

It’s a stressful time to be a candidate for city office, as Frisco Place 6 candidate Sadaf Haq can attest.

One of the first times I sat down with Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere, it was to discuss an uncomfortable truth: a small segment of his political opposition that had begun in a place of reasonable discourse, had soured into conspiracy theories and vei

For hours, the Saturday night protest in Dallas was peaceful. Protesters started outside police headquarters, where Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall was photographed looking down at them from a window.

In 2018, Congressman Sam Johnson could see the end of his 13th term of office and he made a decision. Johnson had lived in Plano ever since he and his wife of 65 years, Shirley, settled there in 1979, shortly after he retired from the Air Force.

Duly elected by his district, Council member La’Shadion Shemwell claims he’s doing his best to serve his community, but his troubled past has come back to haunt him. Now he’s facing McKinney voters’ wrath after more than 3,000 of them signed a petition to remove him from office.

In late March, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to take a toll on the country, Business Insider announced that a study had identified Frisco as the most recession-resistant city in the country.

To hell with it, Gov. Greg Abbott seemed to be saying when he announced Thursday that Texans can no longer be jailed for violating his COVID-19 orders.

Near the end of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, the county commissioners gather in a nearly empty room at the Collin County courthouse.

The first time I met Benny Parkey in early 2015, he was dying.