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City Hall staff shown shortly after least real audit, about 100 years ago.
The city auditor's new bad report on a 27-year-old economic development fund in black South Dallas talks about technical problems with paperwork and mumbles on about the n...
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Thinks, correctly, that he can confuse us with jargon.
So, Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez is making his twice-monthly report to the City Council Wednesday afternoon. This time, he's going to be talking about something called the Dallas Center f...
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Texas' voter ID is back, at least for this election.
In one West Dallas neighborhood, roughly 25 to 30 percent of eligible voters do not have a valid photo identification for voting. This area, along with sections near Fair Park, have the highes...
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Here's another reason hockey is my favorite thing.
See also: Our British Texan Falls in Love With the Stars
Hockey has some real pantomime villains. Soccer, sure, there were some bad guys. Luis Suarez, for instance, is very keen on biting people, a...
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When a Dallas cop shoots someone in the line of duty, you can count on Dallas Police Association leader Ron Pinkston to leap to the officer's defense. The cop who shot a mentally ill man who, as best a surveillance video shows, stood up from a chair?...
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This ain't it.
If you aren't sure of where you're supposed to vote this morning, you're now battling more than just the rain. As of 10:00 a.m., dallascountyvotes.org, the county's guide to all things voting, isn't working.
We called the county to...
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The spill was "immediately contained," a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police told the Wall Street Journal on October 14.The Environmental Protection Agency agreed. "The oil has not reached the lake. The oil is approximately four-tenths to five-t...
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Finally facing a competitor.
In a couple of weeks, people in Dallas running a little short will have access to small loans that aren't accompanied by usurious interest rates -- provided their employer opts in to a new program from a nonprofit call...
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How much does your vote really mean?
For all you Dallasites who skip the midterm elections in favor of the presidential races, you might reconsider that strategy: For Texans, your vote in national and even state races is all but symbolic.It's lo...
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Your cry has been heard, discerning Dallas protector of the purity of the white race. November 8-9 you won't have to choose between fondly remembering the Third Reich, dressing up in your finest white linens or playing with guns. That's right, within...
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Both Republican and Democratic Denton voters are influenced by last-minute electioneering outside Denton's voting locations
On the last day of early voting in Denton, the Denton Civic Center parking lot was abuzz with one of the most controversi...
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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...
