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On Monday, the Department of Agriculture set the record straight, telling The Hill that a burger ban is “not part of the climate change plan nor the emissions targets. It is not real.” Still, many prominent Republicans took the bait, including Abbott, who assured beef-loving Texans that burgers would never be banned on his watch. “Not gonna happen in Texas!” he said in a tweet, which included a screengrab of FOX’s false claims. Of course, some on Twitter were quick to criticize Abbott for swallowing the bogus claim. “Not gonna happen anywhere, you delusional goofball, because it'...

Many parents credit monitoring systems like Frisco’s with saving their kids’ lives, but some privacy and civil liberties experts are sounding the alarm, saying well-meaning districts could be doing more harm than good. In February, Frisco ISD’s director of counseling, Stephanie Cook, told NBC-DFW that Frisco was up 200% in hospitalizations at the beginning of the year. And last fall, there was a point when there weren’t any vacant mental health beds for adolescents in Collin County, she said. Another set of Frisco ISD parents got help for their daughter thanks to the district's monito...

As police desperately tried to stop an angry mob from storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, North Texas’ Mark Middleton pushed back against the barricade, federal authorities say. Decked out in a red, white and blue Trump beanie, Middleton hurled insults at the officers. “Fuck you!” Middleton screamed, according to court documents. Three-and-a-half months later, he’d be arrested. Middleton is a GOP precinct chair in Cooke County, around 85 miles north of Dallas. His wife, Jalise, was also with him that day. But now, the Forestburg couple is facing seven charges apiece for their alleged...

Suzanne Jones never "in a million years" would have imagined she’d be a key player in a widely publicized labor struggle. Then again, it’s been a crazy couple of months for her and other Collin College professors. The school let go Jones, an education professor, suddenly in January. She's one of four female educators whose contracts the school terminated this semester. Along with advocating for faculty input in the college’s COVID-19 plans, Jones had helped create a local chapter of the Texas Faculty Association, a non-collective bargaining union. The college indicated both were reason...

Blackmon insists Keep Dallas Safe knows that rather than defunding law enforcement, City Council actually increased the police department’s overall budget last September. The group also understands that the council’s push to get 95 police officers from behind desks and back out onto neighborhood patrols isn’t anti-public safety, she said. “And yet they still put this stuff out, and they can’t even spell my name right,” Blackmon said. “I mean, it’s like, spell the name right, and maybe we’ll start there.” In an email reply to the Observer's questions, Keep Dallas Safe sa...