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Waymo is now ridable in Dallas. The robotaxi rideshare service launched to certain riders in Dallas. The company says certain riders who have already downloaded the app will be invited to start taking rides today. In other news, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines resumed flights to parts of Mexico on Tuesday, following two days of cancellations in connection with civil unrest sparked by the...

Entrepreneur and real estate developer Craig Hall is this week's guest on Intersections podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States warned Americans in five Mexican states to shelter in place after violence erupted in the country following the death of a notorious cartel leader. It is not known how many Americans or Texans are stranded. In other news, Dallas police on Monday released edited body-camera footage of a federal drug operation in West Dallas, showing the moments before a Dallas SWAT officer fatally...

North Texas’ hometown carriers Southwest Airlines and American Airlines canceled flights to parts of Mexico Sunday after the country’s army killed the leader of a powerful cartel during an operation to capture him. In other news, Oncor submitted an application last week to build a more than 200-mile-long 765-kilovolt transmission line from Somervell County to Howard County. Company and state offic...

This week, we're sitting with a restaurant story that's hard to shake — a local spot just trying to survive in a tough industry. We've also got fresh numbers from the Texas Restaurant Association on how Dallas diners showed up (or didn't) in Q4. Plus, a Bad Bunny inspired pop-up bar, what we're eating this week, and some personal news from our host and food editor Anna Butler. Get the latest from...

Applebee’s on-again, off-again caper returns once again the Sunday, deemed National Margarita Day, when Applebee’s 10-ounce margarita will cost $1 at 48 Applebee’s stores in Texas, including 26 in D-FW.  In other news, a 38-year-old man died Monday after he drove his vehicle the wrong way on the Dallas North Tollway and collided with another vehicle; Dallas-based developer Harwood International is...

Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have threatened sanctions against students and schools that facilitate walkout protests. Texas officials have threatened to strip funding from districts, decertify teachers and replace elected trustees with a state-appointed board of managers. In other news, what didn’t air on CBS may be doing more for James Talarico than if it had. Late-night host...

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and Shawn McFarland talk all Rangers, all the time, in a podcast that covers everything from how to pronounce "Schumaker" to Kip Fagg's draft record. Skip Schumaker's oratorical style; Joc Pederson's conditioning; the past dynamic between Corey Seager and Marcus Semien; and a make-or-break year for multiple Rangers, it's all here. Get it while it's...

According to federal records, a private school in North Dallas received checks totaling more than $28,000 from a bank account controlled by Jeffrey Epstein. The Texas Torah Institute, a Jewish school for boys, received two checks in 2008 and one in 2009. In other news, Republican controller candidate Don Huffines is scrambling to contain fallout from revelations that his family bought a New Mexico...

Lucy Billingsley on the future of downtown Dallas and real estate development in the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The owner of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. In other news, tensions erupted this month at a Frisco City Council meeting with some arguing without evidence that Indian Americans were committing visa fraud, echoing recent charges from Texas R...

Talmage Boston interviews Garry Kasparov, chess champion and founder of the cross-partisan Renew Democracy Initiative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Crockett and Talarico aren’t hurling insults at each other, their supporters, especially online, have been bickering over the candidates’ perceived failings with some of the exchanges tinged with racial overtones, even if unintentional. In other news, after more than a decade atop Texas agriculture policy, longtime commissioner Sid Miller is facing a rare, fully loaded Republican revolt; a 5...

John and Evan break down the start of camp (at least before Sebastian Walcott got hurt) before former Rangers GM Doug Melvin joins the show. With this being the 30th anniversary of the Rangers' first playoff team, the fellas will occasionally look back at key members from that team -- and Melvin put together an incredibly durable pitching staff. He also revisits some of the trades he was most prou...

Get tips on searing your best steak ever, just in time for Valentine's Day, thanks to Nick and Sam's chef John Kleifgen. The Dallas Morning News food team also discusses the newly opened Delilah, a reinvented Georgie with chef Bruno Davaillon at the helm, and the Rio Bravo video controversy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Voters in Dallas ISD will see a proposed $6.2 billion bond issue on the ballot in May. The district’s board voted unanimously Thursday to send the proposal to voters. In other news, a contractor died Tuesday after a water main break in Frisco;  a collective of 800 live music venues across the state endorsed Gov. Greg Abbott's reelection bid on Thursday; and a new class at TCU’s Neely School of Bus...

Dallas decided Wednesday to sacrifice some of its power to keep the region’s transit service alive. The high-stakes move is aimed at stopping a half-dozen suburbs from bolting from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit. In other news, the Dallas City Council turned to a new search firm Wednesday to recruit a watchdog responsible for sniffing out wasteful spending, fraud and corruption in City Hall; and af...

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and Brad Townsend discuss [00:26] exactly who made the trade that wiped away the last of Nico Harrison’s fingerprints on the Mavs. Brad also tells us of the trades the Mavs didn’t make. [22:00] The guys discuss what a bore the Super Bowl was, unless you were DeMarcus Lawrence, the other Cowboys pass rusher who got away. [33:27] And Evan, who’s alrea...

The most sweeping evaluation of Dallas City Hall in its 48-year history is nearing the finish line, with the review’s leader saying findings could be released publicly as early as Feb. 20. In other news, Dallas Police Department leadership placed the 52-year old Jaime Castro, who spent 27-years as a law enforcement officer and led the Dallas Police Association, on leave in November as part of a mo...

Nate Sheets is running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Crayola Experience in Plano was closed on Monday at The Shops at Willow Bend amid challenges at the mall and speculation about the Dallas Stars considering the site. In other news, American Airlines' flight attendants have voted no confidence in the leadership of CEO Robert Isom, the first time they have taken such an action against a sitting chief executive in its nearly 50-year history; a pr...

 More than 50 years since the last infestation, Texas cattlemen are bracing for the screwworm’s potential comeback. Cases are proliferating in a Mexican state that borders Texas, with the pest having escaped containment by an international eradication program that banished it for decades. In other news, the Dallas Police Department said two of its officers shot and killed a man Sunday evening afte...

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and Joe Hoyt [2:50] discuss what the Cowboys will do with George Pickens — franchise or sign him long-term — and how much money they’ll free up with restructures. Joe expects Jerry Jones to go all in, or as close as he’ll come, to maximize Dak Prescott’s last years. [26:30] Evan and Kevin analyze how much a pending work stoppage next year will affec...

We’re naming names! Or at least Evan Grant is. Evan, a News reporter who typically covers the Texas Rangers, is moonlighting on the food team and trying to find the city’s best burgers. Did he get it right? We want to know what you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rangers GM joins John and Evan to discuss spring training projects and prospects and also to give more insight into how the Rangers went about the acquisitions the team made during the offseason. Evan does his best to give his own spring preview, but does his best investigative journalism to uncover John's middle name. And finally, the fellas wax poetic about winter caravans gone by and whatev...