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More Proof That Police Kill Young Black Men Far More Than Anyone Else

In the past few months, Dallas activists have been working to raise awareness about the number of black men police have killed over the years. The Huey P. Newton Gun Club has taken to the streets armed with rifles, and Dallas Communities Organizing for Change has analyzed data on police shootings ov ... More >>

Texas Leads the Nation in Illegally Injecting Diesel into Wells, Which Is Not a Good Thing

Regulation of the mysterious chemicals used in fracking fluid used in drilling for oil and gas has been pretty much off limits to the Environmental Protection Agency ever since Congress in 2005 stripped the EPA of its authority to regulate fracking fluid under the Safe Drinking Water Act. In a meag ... More >>

Demon Possession or Just Good Thinking, the News' Segregation Editorial Was a Good Thing

Yesterday The Dallas Morning News carried a really tough, plain-talking editorial condemning City Hall policies that have produced deliberate racial segregation in Dallas. It was the kind of editorial that should be applauded and really doesn't deserve to be nitpicked. But when did that ever stop me ... More >>

Dallas Doesn't Have To Be the City Portrayed in the HUD Segregation Complaint

As the full implications gradually become better known, the federal investigative report released late last month accusing Dallas of segregation will shine a bright national light on the city. One housing policy watcher is already calling the case "Westchester on steroids," a reference to the last ... More >>

In the Fracking Debate, Residents and Politicians Are Turning Up the Heat on the EPA

We wrote last week about how the Environmental Protection Agency is catching heat from both sides of the fracking debate, for its continued backing away from research suggesting that drilling for natural gas can contaminate drinking water. It's happened in Parker County, Texas, as well as in the P ... More >>

Congress Wants to Know Why the EPA Keeps Backing Off its Own Fracking Research

The Environmental Protection Agency has a tendency to walk away from its own research suggesting that fracking pollutes drinking water. A Congressional hearing scheduled for today will look into why that is. The hearing, called "Lessons Learned: EPA's Investigations of Hydraulic Fracturing," will b ... More >>

It Seems Mediocre Grades, Not Ethnicity, Kept Abigail Fisher Out of UT Austin

The future of affirmative action in American universities could be decided within weeks, in a Supreme Court case with Texas roots. But a new report from the investigative journalists at ProPublica suggests that the story of Abigail Noel Fisher's fight against the University of Texas ultimately has v ... More >>

Texas Leads the League in Bad Nursing Homes, Partly Because It Won't Regulate the Offenders

In March 2011, after federal inspectors visited Keeneland Nursing and Rehab, a Weathorford nursing home, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a report detailing a laundry list of concerns. The report concluded that staff were medicating patients unnecessarily so they'd be easier to d ... More >>

Dallas News Publisher Jim Moroney Talks to UT Students, Profs About the Future of His Paper

On Thursday, Jim Moroney paid a visit to Austin, where he told an audience of University of Texas journalism students and professors: Only The Major Metropolitan Newspaper can preserve, protect and defend democracy ... or something like that. The Dallas Morning News's publisher spoke of rapidly shri ... More >>

Fracking Chemical Disclosure Bill Blasts Through Texas House, Enviros Unimpressed

From the rapidly spreading "Fracking Song" from ProPublica and Studio 20 NYU.​In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer's bill that'd require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of t ... More >>

Where Are Kenneth Copeland and His Private Fleet Spreading the Good Word Today? That's Hard to Say.

Flickr user jacksnellAmong the Kenneth Copeland Ministries planes with hidden flight plans: a 1953 North American T-28B Trojan​Say what you will about Kenneth Copeland, but the Wise County televangelist isn't one to over-share. Copeland, with wife Gloria, was one of six televangelists ha ... More >>

DynCorp Ex Claims He Was Fired For Blowing Whistle on Wasted Millions

​Over the weekend, Newsweek and ProPublica co-published a piece that says, in short: The $6 billion the U.S. government has spent since '02 training the Afghan police force has gone to waste, and the entire program -- which has involved "buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defens ... More >>

He Worked for the U.S. Military in Iraq. Now, He Suffers Alone in an Arlington Apartment.

The motto of the 89th Military Police Brigade, with whom Hadi worked in Iraq​This morning's Los Angeles Times visits Arlington to the story of Malek Hadi, an Iraqi who lost all of his right leg, some of his left leg and several of his fingers in September 2006. At the time the explosive shattered ... More >>

Texas Monthly's President, Evan Smith, Will Now Be CEO of New Texas Tribune

Evan SmithRemember how, earlier this week, we mentioned that Austin venture capitalist John Thornton was starting an online newspaper, the intention of which is to cover Texas and specifically Austin? Well, now we know who the CEO of that paper's gonna be: none other than Texas Monthly's president a ... More >>

The T. Boone Pickens Alternative Energy Show Rolls Across America

Whatever Happened to That Presidential Library Disclosure Bill, Anyhows?

Speaking of the George W. Bush library and think tank bound for the SMU campus -- as we were this morning and will be tomorrow, after university president Gerald Turner addresses the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdictional Conference at the Hilton Anatole -- ProPublica this afternoon ... More >>