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Not exactly a bastion of civic responsibility, says Dallas.
Digging through the this year's community survey, which you can see in full below, is like looking at one of those magic eye posters. You have to look past it to see what is really going ...
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BY ANGELICA LEICHT
Houston Press
The last we'd heard from Renee Petro, the Florida pot advocate whose story was highlighted in our recent feature on medical marijuana refugees, the pint-sized parent was still fighting to obtain cannabis for her son,...
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New York Times media writer David Carr, who's almost always right about everything, has a piece in today's paper about sponsored (paid-for) journalism, in which he singles out The Texas Tribune in Austin for having avoided the obvious pitfalls. I'm n...
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Dallas City Council members were treated to the Commemorative Air Force's cinematic masterpiece "If These Planes Could Talk."
There are known knowns about Dallas Executive Airport. These are things we know that we know. One of the known knowns, co...
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One of the realities of the salary-cap era in the NFL is that flawed teams can still win Super Bowls. The 2011 Giants lost seven games. The 2012 Ravens lost six, as did the 2010 Packers and the 2007 Giants. If a team can do one thing really, really ...
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For shame, sir, for shame.
Halloween might be considered by some as a holiday for little kids who want candy or as just another excuse for college kids to get plastered, but on Friday the Tea Party took it as an opportunity for its costuming to s...
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You want to live in Frisco's Plantation Resort 2 neighborhood, you better keep your property looking good and fancy. Because Plantation Resort 2 isn't going to put up with your shit. Here are Plantation Resort 2's hardcore summer lawn-watering instru...
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Dirk Nowitzki as Rev from Run D.M.C.
.@swish41 & friends dressed up (and rapping) like Run DMC? Yes, please!
http://t.co/FoTpM1f2Ta #Mavs #AllBall pic.twitter.com/aRlFD1SIli
-- NBA.com (@NBAcom) October 31, 2014
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Maybe we should leave them alone.
As of Tuesday, Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, the two Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses to get Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, are Ebola-free. It's remarkable, inspiring news. Seeing the two speak at...
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Developer Luke Crosland's dream of redeveloping Preston Center has been crushed by bureaucracy and neighborhood opposition.
On Thursday evening in a spacious meeting hall at University Park United Methodist Church, neighborhood leaders and local b...
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You want to walk alone down the street during the day? Better prepare yourself.
The other day, while I was at Kroger buying laundry detergent and frozen waffles, a man came up to me, leaned in close, and said, "Come on now, baby. Let's see a smi...
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One of these is cheaper than the other two. Probably a little too cheap.
About a week ago, on October 23, Uber announced that it was cutting prices for its UberX service in Dallas for the third time since the service made its Dallas debut in Novem...
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Dear Arlington Martin High School Parents: Your children are sneaky, conniving savages. They have the morals and senses of humor of ... well ... pirates, and will, if you so much as blink, do their best to make you -- adults -- look like fools.We don...
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Five years ago this month, a Dallas County justice of the peace signed an order evicting Clifford Holland from the $1.2 million home he was renting on Caruth Boulevard, a block outside of University Park. Aside from the eye-popping $6,000-per-month r...
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A careful researcher might have included a few more ticks on that timeline, like the time Craig Watkins admitted his office made a mistake.
For three years, a confessed attempted murderer roamed the streets of Dallas, going on a crime spree that e...
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Cowboys running back Joseph Randle, he of the post-Seattle Seahawks victory underwear theft and subsequent underwear endorsement, had what can best be described as an amusing experience being booked by Frisco police.
See also: Cowboy Joseph Randle ...
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Dentonites are turning out more than ever for early voting, many in response to the proposition to ban fracking in the city.
As early voting wraps up this week, Denton County has seen a surge in voters, as well as campaign spending. Much of that...
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Tierce, whose vet license was suspended last week, was initially arrested on a charge of animal cruelty. Somehow, though, a misdemeanor, as animal cruelty is classified under Texas law, didn't seem sufficient for so grotesque a crime. Which may expla...
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Eh.
Every hour or so, the Save the Cabana Hotel Facebook page reminds its 900-plus followers to SAVE THE CABANA HOTEL. Dallas' luxury Cabana Motor Hotel opened on Stemmons Freeway in 1962, and photographs on the fan page show legends like John Bo...
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(Editor's note: This week's cover story comes courtesy of our sister paper, the Houston Press. Visit here for more stories by reporter Angelica Leicht.)
BY ANGELICA LEICHT
Sitting cross-legged on the floor in her apartment outside of Houston, Fait...
