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Sarah Dodd knew something was wrong with her husband in November 2019. Though, if she’s being honest, she began to worry at least a year before that,... → Read More
Up here in northwest Dallas, there has been an upside to staying home that has nothing to do with a highly contagious pathogen. I haven’t had to drive... → Read More
Tuesday morning, a little before 8, I drove the four minutes from my house to the Han Gil Hotel Town to watch the place get torn down. At last. Thank God.... → Read More
Construction crews took down the fences surrounding Thomas Jefferson High School a few days ago, revealing not only a campus still in ruin after October’s... → Read More
A few days ago I was talking to the heads of this town’s biggest foundations about the mountains of pleas piling up on their desks. From everyone. For... → Read More
Hillcrest and Carter high schools’ varsity baseball teams should have been somewhere in the late innings Tuesday afternoon, finishing the first of two... → Read More
Monday evening, when the sky was still an appropriate shade of gloomy, I went to watch a friend close down his family’s 30-year-old business. Dallas County’s... → Read More
I went downtown last week to meet a couple of old friends for a long-scheduled work-related get-together — our last get-together for a while, I figure. A... → Read More
For almost five months now, really since Oct. 20, the night tornadoes cut through my part of town and carved up the city, I’ve been working from the house,... → Read More
I had no interest in nor intention to write anything about the panic that comes with a pandemic, even after Dallas ISD canceled my boy’s baseball season... → Read More
First, the city of Dallas came for Shingle Mountain, yet still it remains. Now the state of Texas wants it gone by no later than mid-June. That’s according... → Read More
On Monday morning, a giant piece of weedy West Dallas land buried in trash and tires was on the market for more than $1.35 million -- a steep ask for a... → Read More
The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, not long ago teetering on the edge of insolvency with an unfunded liability around $3 billion, has taken City... → Read More
Brent Jackson, who recently bought the long-ago home and service station owned by Clyde Barrow’s father, made it clear Monday he has no interest in saving... → Read More
Dallas City Hall owes gas driller Trinity East Energy $44.5 million – and counting. That’s according to the final judgement signed Thursday afternoon by... → Read More
Along Pennsylvania Avenue and South Trunk Avenue, within eyesight of the Texas Star and the Cotton Bowl, sits just another South Dallas double-cross. The... → Read More
The men and women tasked with running and redesigning Fair Park went to Dallas City Hall last week bearing good news delivered with flashy PowerPoints and... → Read More
Ninety-nine homes are planned for a slice of southeast Dallas where horses are kept in front yards and chickens wander empty streets and vacant lots. And... → Read More
Word began circulating around 2:30 Friday afternoon: Beard is dead. That was not his real name, of course. He was born Aug. 5, 1952, in Lexington, Ken., as... → Read More
This week I toured a place I didn’t think actually existed — Dallas City Hall’s broadcast studio out at Fair Park. It’s in a historic building that once... → Read More