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Sam Merten: DA Watkins' family rolling in campaign cash?
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins' little campaign office appears to be producing big returns for his family
Sam Merten: Blog comments linked to Watkins' office
James Ragland: Does Don Hill hear judge's clear message?
U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn has handed down justifiably tough sentences in Dallas' biggest public corruption trial. I hear her, but what about Don Hill and the other defendants?
Mike Hashimoto: Why Dallas needs citywide wet-dry vote
Oak Cliff always has had its beer and wine stores; they're just not in Oak Cliff. What do you think led to all those places on Industrial and Lamar, tucked right against the river?
DMN: TXU's plan could kick start home solar power
In a potential game changer for renewable energy, TXU Energy is teaming with the nation's largest designer of solar power panels to lease the equipment to homeowners
Jacquielynn Floyd: Once-elegant road needs update
Some antiques age gracefully, but not the ones you drive a quarter-million cars over every day like Stemmons Freeway
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Anne Applebaum: Chile and Haiti, earthquakes and politics
A society's ability to recover from a natural disaster is also a reflection of its economic and political culture
Alberto Fuguet: In Chile, life between the tremors
Tim Padgett: Prepared for the quake but not the tsunami
Joshua Robinson: What Haiti can teach Chile
WSJ: Differences in luck, prosperity
Debra J. Saunders: The senator who dared believe in PAYGO
Less than a month after signing, with fanfare, pay-as-you-go rules, Barack Obama and fellow Democrats are busily demonizing a lone senator for pushing Washington to spend responsibly
Dana Milbank: Bunning down to one pitch, the screwball
Harkin and Graham: Is it time to revise filibuster rules?
Michael Lind: Why Republicans insist on gridlock
Derrick Z. Jackson: No more concessions on health reform
Democrats would be wise to view this moment not with finality, but as the beginning of the journey toward the sanity of single payer, toward what most of Europe and Canada have
Timothy Noah: Reconciliation problem is in House, not Senate
Keith Hennessey: Challenges of the two-bill strategy
Peter Wehner: In her own way, Pelosi has a point
Mone and Holtz-Eakin: Use states as health reform labs