What's hot in Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth
Jim Schutze: After all these years, Oak Cliff is cool
Is it even conceivable that one day Davis Street could be the city's leading edge of a post-automobile urban tomorrow?
William McKenzie: What if schools can't meet higher bar?
This is the accountability part of the school reform movement, which the Obama team has signaled that it is moving away from
Patrick Williams: Do primary numbers spell GOP trend?
Turnout is the key to November, and primary voters tend to be motivated voters. In Dallas County, Republicans have the numbers
Tod Robberson: Should southern Dallas consider GOP?
Justin Keener: New taxes, old politics won't fix traffic
Texas' officials can continue to pass the buck, or they can reprioritize existing taxes and demand greater spending transparency
Flynn and Matthews: Stimulating jobs for Houston scientists
About 1,300 scientist jobs have been saved or created in the Houston area, thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
And the best of the rest of the world
USA Today: Toyota is a company that lost its way
Toyota, the world's largest automaker, forgot what had lifted it past U.S. car companies and instead repeated their mistakes
Roland Kelts: Was Toyoda's apology lost in translation?
CSM: Toyota hearing offers lesson for everyone else
The Economist: The machine that ran too hot
Nick Loris: The market should decide Toyota's fate
Kenichi Ohmae: Where a car giant went wrong
Massimo Calabresi: Why Washington can't fix itself
Government has tools for oversight, but they often suffer from the same problems as the organizations they're supposed to fix: partisanship, indifference and incompetence
Lisa Miller: Civility won't fix politics, but we still need it
DMN: Answering the civility challenge