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CNN's Dianne Gallagher reports on Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox, who captured a photo of the suspected gunman just before shots were fired at a federal building in Dallas.

And a few want to explore ways to boost the first responders’ pension system, even if it means new debt. Race for the public safety mantle This year’s contenders have tried to cast themselves as the public safety candidate in the nonpartisan race. Johnson said he plans to pay for improvements for police by growing southern Dallas — which was also a priority for Rawlings — through business developments to add to the city's tax base. Doing so could free up general fund revenue for public safety, she said. Businessman Albert Black Jr. expressed his support for more officers, a long term solution for the pension fund and Police Chief U. Renee Hall. “Once you’ve developed that kind of relationship with Dallas, we will retain more of these officers as well.” Scott Griggs, a four-term North Oak Cliff council member, last year spearheaded efforts to increase starting police pay to $60,000. Griggs, who served on the police-and-fire pension board, said he wants to consider ways to bring confidence to the retirement fund with "creative solutions now, including pension-obligation bonds." Mike Mata, the association's president, said the group is not ready to endorse a candidate just yet. Ablon said his relationship with police goes back several years. “Every candidate came in and said they need more police.

Storeowner Derek Curry confirmed with FN that he is opening a new Sneaker Politics location in Dallas. It will be surrounded by several other cool destinations such as BrainDead Brewing, baseball bat company Warstic (co-owned by White Stripes frontman Jack White) and a skate shop that’s new to the district, The Point. While making his rounds, he noticed there were no major boutiques nearby, but almost everyone was wearing great sneakers. “I asked everyone, ‘Where did you get those?’ Everyone was telling me different websites or StockX,” Curry said. “I was like, ‘There’s nothing here, but everyone wants the product. But it seems like Dallas is already up on sneakers,” Curry said. “They were talking to me about Acronym [Nike] Prestos and different brands. And a lot of the kids I spoke with knew about [Sneaker Politics] already.” Although he’s opening a Sneaker Politics store in Deep Ellum, he said he has no plans to open another Regime store, his high-end banner, in the district. (Curry opens Regime doors in cities with existing Sneaker Politics locations.) He said he would, however, consider opening a Regime storefront somewhere else in Dallas.

City officials in January held seven oft-contentious town hall meetings about the future of the Citizens Police Review Board, a City Council-appointed body that looks into complaints about officers’ conduct. Board history The Dallas review board began in the 1980s after civil rights groups and black City Council members pushed for more oversight following a series of shootings by police and a congressional hearing about the department’s use of lethal force. Her attorney has said the shooting was a tragic mistake — Jean lived directly above Guyger and she said she believed she was inside her own unit and mistook Jean for an intruder. Town halls In the community meetings over the last three weeks, members of the review board said they want an independent investigative arm and a budget for a staff. The board’s recommendations also included allowing the board to subpoena officers. Mike Mata, president of the Dallas Police Association, is against the board receiving extended powers. White attendees who suggested that residents work on improving their neighborhoods or join the citizen’s academy were met with scoffs. Williams, who shared during a town hall that he lives with post-traumatic stress disorder after treating officers the night of the July 7 ambush, believes the review board can help mend trust between communities of color and the police. That’s why I emphasize this is not a wholesale indictment of officers.” Decisions ahead Council members — many of whom voted for raises to help retain officers last year -- are set to handle the debate in an election season. Kleinman, who has often butted heads with the Dallas Police Association, said he’ll also wait on Hall’s recommendations.

"These are people with an important political background. Unlike male motivation — both white and Latino — women run with a political reason focused on helping their communities. "Not only am I the first female candidate here in Dallas, but really there has never been a Latina mayor in any of the main U.S. cities in the history of this country," Montoya said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. That means this year’s Legislature has 32 women, up from the previous total of 29. Keeping momentum "The Latino vote and African-American vote in city elections in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are the worst in the country," said Jorge Contreras, director of Working Families Party in Texas. "In cities like Arlington, just 0.5 % of Latinos vote in local elections,” Contreras said. Latinos in the ticket Even though city elections are nonpartisan — meaning candidates don’t run under a party affiliation -- some of the new Latino faces running for office have volunteered for Democratic campaigns in the past. That's the case of Giovanni Valderas, an alumnus of the Latino Center for Leadership Development, who announced in October his bid to represent north Oak Cliff in the Dallas City Council’s District 1 seat. Valderas had already worked for the campaigns of Paula Rosales, who in November was elected Dallas county judge, and current council member Omar Narváez. And most important, to not forget the people who elect us."

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Now Allred says he wants to look out for the district by becoming its public servant. Making matters tricky was that on the outside, he looked like a black kid, but the only family he ever knew was white. Allred's father, a black man who lived in Dallas, was not in his life. "It's a North Texas story," he said. Help from the village Allred was a smart kid who loved to read. "He played like every game was his last. Allred earned a football scholarship to Baylor, where he played linebacker. In his fifth season, he suffered an injury during a game against the Dallas Cowboys, with his mother, aunt and uncle in the AT&T Stadium stands. "I thought the community that I grew up in and that allowed me to do all these things wasn't getting the representation it deserved." Derek Smith, who worked at the YMCA that Allred frequented as a kid, said he would be a good congressman.

She brushed aside previous criticism that she had been apolitical, "Due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now." Later in her post, Swift named names, saying she can't back Marsha Blackburn, the Republican who is running for US Senate because of the many anti-woman measures the Tennessee representative supports. Young Americans may feel that their vote doesn't matter, or they may not know how to register. With 62 million Millennials who are voting age, they now make up the second largest generation after Baby Boomers. To assess the potential impact of Swift's post, consider her enormous social media audience: 112 million followers on Instagram, 83.6 million followers on Twitter, and 72.6 million likes on Facebook. Her combined audience of 268.2 million is 487 percent more than President Donald Trump's 55 million followers on these three social media services. Already, President Trump has responded by saying he likes her music "25 percent less." This is no doubt an important message for young people, to speak up about your convictions, even if not everyone agrees. By sharing her personal and political views, not only has Swift activated her sizable fanbase but she has also earned the respect of millions of Americans who have watched aghast at recent political events. With just one post, she has notified the world that the old apolitical Taylor Swift can't come to the phone right now.

The last time a Democrat won any statewide election in Texas was 1994 — the longest stretch for Democrats to go without winning an election than in any other state. For 24 years, longer than I’ve been alive, my home state of Texas has been under a sea of red. For over two decades, the Democratic Party in the state of Texas has been a powerless straw man, one that falls time after time at the hands of its conservative counterpart. Cruz, on the other hand, surrenders his politics and his own moral compass to President Donald Trump’s unethical, unprincipled presidency and aligns himself with a man who has repeatedly maligned his father, his wife, and himself. While many will claim that such policies in the deep red state of Texas are only going to hurt O’Rourke among voters, I would respond with the Congressman’s continued and growing popularity in polls pitting him against Cruz. O’Rourke’s campaign embraces progressive policies that many would deem unsupportable among the Texas electorate. Politics is the struggle of the possible against the waves of the probable. It is the fight, struggle, debate, and battle for the achievement of a hope, a dream, and a better imagination of what humans can create in communion with one another against the status quo. His campaign has shown me hope, progress, and success that I never believed imaginable. The politics of the possible is alive in Texas, fueled by the people who have come together to realize it.