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The city pays for library "buildings and bodies," but anything else the libraries need must be provided by donors.
If the city won't give money to Dallas libraries, maybe the community will. Thursday was North Texas Giving Day, which means Fri...
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Here's a nice little moment when the truth comes home to roost: Yesterday Stephen Young shared with you here a memo sent to Dallas City Council member Scott Griggs by council member Vonciel Hill in which Hill basically called a Griggs a liar.
Hill a...
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Shan Shariff, the world's foremost expert on Texas.
It's been a banner week for the DFW sports media brain trust. First, the Star-Telegram's Mac Engel told us why we were stupid for thinking Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was a child abuser ...
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Adults in Texas briefly thought they had won the lottery. Now they are struggling with disappointment, an unpleasant emotion. The Dallas Morning News reported about the plight of an Ellis County woman who felt "cautiously optimistic" that she was in...
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"We just flunked the AP U.S. History test! What, Moses wasn't a founding father?"
It's been a rough week for State Board of Education members, who have upheld their loyalty to TEKS social studies requirements despite bipartisan opposition (althou...
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This is not an abortion clinic.
Vice magazine posted a video expose of crisis pregnancy centers to its YouTube channel earlier this week. Beyond the standard stuff -- like anti-abortion activists admitting that the best crisis centers are ones tha...
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This morning, the Texas Public Interest Research Group adds another drop with the release of its report, "Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America's Transportation Future." The Trinity Parkway, according to the group, is one of the 11 stupidest ...
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You say you can't see the forest for the trees? City Hall can fix that.
There were several points on Thursday when City Plan Commission members came dangerously close to debating whether City Hall should be allowed to get away with eviscerating se...
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Rather than, you know, enunciating her concerns at the city council briefing both she and Scott Griggs attended on Wednesday, Vonciel Jones Hill fired off a memo Wednesday morning chastising her fellow council member for his "inaccurate, incomplete a...
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Scott Hochberg
Monday, I look at The Dallas Morning News, and I see a headline, "Dallas ISD likely breaking attendance law, former lawmaker says." So immediately right there in the same headline I see a lawmaker and a lawbreaker. I've already got ...
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Arlington cop-watchers film police on a recent Saturday night.
Less than two weeks after three people were arrested for filming Arlington police officers conducting a traffic stop, the Dallas Police Department announced Wednesday it will offer a ...
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Before Parkland placed a patient named Todd Arko in what the feds described as "immediate jeopardy," nearly costing the hospital its Medicaid funding, there was another, lesser-known hospital that the feds say also placed a patient in immediate jeopa...
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Do it A.C.. We dare you.
A.C. Gonzalez took the time at the end of Wednesday's City Council briefing to at least wink in the direction transparency. He didn't jump into the open government pool by any means, but he took about 15 minutes at the end...
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-- Sonny L (@sonnylebythebay) September 17, 2014
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Hey Yum! Brands: Just slap a sickle and hammer on tha...
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Mireya Villareal
Our apologies to WFAA's Brett Shipp. After a lengthy run as our favorite local investigative TV journalist -- occasionally prone to hyperbole, sure, but a fantastic reporter with the proper evening-news mix of charm and obnoxiousn...
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When these cars start rolling, they won't really go anywhere.
In a memo prepared in advance of Dallas City manager A.C. Gonzalez' first of what he promises to be periodic progress report to the City Council, council member Scott Griggs outlined mu...
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Theologically, can one church have gay pews, non-gay pews and pews for people who have been cured of being gay? Or just forget it?
The saga of Highland Park Presbyterian Church and gaydom reached another milestone last week when the church agreed...
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A similar scene takes place in the DeSoto High School principal's office.
The internet has gone wild over the past few days with news that Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings is facing child abuse charges after disciplining his 4-year-old son...
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The kind of stuff that makes it on ISIS forums, apparently.
Vocativ, a website that claims to publish "news from the deep web," has a post up showing pipe-bomb making instructions and suggested targets, including several tourist sites in Texas.
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Their life here on Earth is not yet complete.
As they have since Midlothian ISD first received a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation about the overtly Christian plaques that adorn two of its elementary schools, community members at...
