Email Author ANNA MERLAN

2012 Stories by ANNA MERLAN

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rick Perry and State Health Commissioner Insist Obama Hates Women, Loves Abortion

  published Mar 02, 2012

  A few days ago, we told you that Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program appears to be on death's door, which could leave some 130,000 low-income Texas women without vital medical care. We also mentio... More >>

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  On the Calatrava For a Sneak Peek at the Weekend's Doings and a Giant Puppet Head

  published Feb 28, 2012

  The first thing we need to remind you about the impending Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Celebration this weekend is that there will be "mammoth puppets." If this information makes you feel the need to sta... More >>

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  Medicaid Women's Health Program Is One Step Closer To Death

  published Feb 27, 2012

  The Medicaid Women's Health Program provides some 130,000 Texas women with vital medical care: family planning, birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams. And for that, of course, it must die.... More >>

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  "Urgent" Vacancies at Dallas Animal Services Still Vacant, But More Pets Are Finding Homes

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Just last month, we learned that Dallas Animal Services had around 30 vacancies in shelter and field operations that urgently needed to be filled -- this, despite a RIF process in October that saw 53 ... More >>

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  LGBT Group to Remind Mayor Mike Tomorrow It's Still Upset Over That Marriage Pledge

  published Feb 23, 2012

  It's not often we get invitations to flood the mayor's office with phone calls -- we tend to do that all on our own -- but LGBT rights group GetEQUAL TX is planning a different sort of mass phone-in t... More >>

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  No, Seriously, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Wants To End Chronic Homelessness By 2015

  published Feb 21, 2012

  President and CEO of Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance Mike Faenza said as much yesterday: He knows he's "at risk of looking like Don Quixote" here, but he really, really believes Dallas can end its chro... More >>

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  Bandele Tyehimba, Owner of South Dallas Gallery Pan African Connection, Has Died

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Bandele Tyehimba, who, with his wife Akwete, owned Pan African Connection, a 23-year-old South Dallas art gallery and meeting space, died in his sleep Wednesday night. He was 58 years old. We wrote ... More >>

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  Passing Out Coins, And Thank-Yous, To World War II Veterans at the Dallas VA

  published Feb 16, 2012

  "When do we get to go homer" Alice Gossett inquired, a little irritably. She wore brown pajamas and soft purple booties. Tiny in her wheelchair, her feet didn't quite reach the ground. "As soon as w... More >>

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  Rawlings: We Must "Take Notice" of High Number of Dallasites So Close to Asset Poverty

  published Feb 16, 2012

  If you need a new benchmark to measure just how broke you are, try "asset poverty." Asset-poor households would be unable to survive for three months at the federal poverty level if some crisis cause... More >>

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  GetEQUAL TX Will Occupy County Records Building Once a Month For Marriage Equality

  published Feb 14, 2012

  The bride wore a strapless dress in shades of blue and white. The other bride wore a battered leather jacket, a shiny, pale pink tie and a snug gray beanie. Hendrix Scott and Jennifer McCluskey rode u... More >>

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  Mayor Mike Rawlings: "South Dallas Is Not a Charity Case. It's A Business Opportunity."

  published Feb 13, 2012

  For months, Mayor Mike Rawlings has made it clear that he's got his eye on Southern Dallas. This afternoon, as promised, was the first of three public presentations he'll give on his Southern Dallas E... More >>

• Appeals Court Won't Rehear Attempt Trying to Overturn Texas's New Sonogram Law

  published Feb 10, 2012

  In news that should make Rick Perry tingly all over, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order today denying the Center For Reproductive Rights' request for a new hearing in their suit aga... More >>

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  PETA Ends Meat-Eating Forever With Brave Public Make-Out Session Downtown

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Let's give credit where it's due: you can't ever accuse PETA of letting cold weather, common sense or good taste ruin the opportunity for a perfectly good publicity stunt. As promised, the group ret... More >>

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  As Fair Park Gets Its Big Award, Mayor Says City Needs to Find a Way to "Leverage" Historic Site

  published Feb 08, 2012

  You may recall that back in October we told you Fair Park had been named a Great Public Space by the American Planning Association. Well, during the council's lunch break today, just after he got emot... More >>

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  Uplift, Deep Ellum Community Association Are Trying For a "Win-Win" With Planned School

  published Feb 08, 2012

  At this very moment the city council members are discussing whether they'd like to get into the bond business to help Uplift Education with its plan to sell tax-exempt bonds to help open a new charter... More >>

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  A MoveOn Petition, And a Really Tiny Protest, Outside Komen's LBJ Headquarters Today

  published Feb 07, 2012

  It probably hasn't escaped the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's notice that an awful lot of people are very, very unhappy with the organization lately. Just to drive the point home a little fu... More >>

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  Coming to a South Dallas Billboard: A Celebration of Black Atheists & Freethinkers

  published Feb 03, 2012

  "Here they go again," Reverend Kyev Tatum said. He laughed, but stopped abruptly. He was talking, of course, about the atheists. When we last caught up with the Dallas-Forth Worth Coalition of Reas... More >>

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  How One Man's Witch Hunt Made Komen Decide to Cut Off Grants to Planned Parenthood

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Perhaps you've heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don't bother clicking the link; the site's not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Thin Line Between Dog Rescuing and Dog Hoarding

  published February 2, 2012

  Urbandale is a surprise, a tidy, easily missed neighborhood bordering Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas. There are liquor stores and tattered... More >>

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  Deep Ellum Is "No Place to Put These Kids in the Afternoon After They Get Outta School"

  published Jan 31, 2012

  At this point, Deep Ellum could easily star in its own Rocky-style franchise, given how many times it's been knocked down and still managed to stagger back to its feet. As we've mentioned, the latest ... More >>

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  Shepard Fairey's In Town, Doing Up West Dallas

  published Jan 30, 2012

  The view from the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is about to get a lot cooler. This afternoon a spotless rented silver minivan pulled up at 331 Singleton, a vacant West Dallas office space with... More >>

• Before Mayor Mike's Meeting With LGBT Leaders, A Rally Outside City Hall Last Night

  published Jan 28, 2012

  Mayor Mike Rawlings has a closed-door, no-press-allowed meeting this morning with 25 LGBT community leaders to discuss something that's become, say, a small issue for him in the last week: his refusal... More >>

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  In the Dark, In the Cold, Counting the Homeless

  published Jan 27, 2012

  The woman popped up from the pile of blankets she had laid out on a dirty patch of sidewalk and took a look at the ring of people surrounding her. She patted her woolen beanie self-consciously. "Why y... More >>

• After a Triple Murder in East Dallas, DPD Accuses a Man of Killing His Wife and In-Laws

  published Jan 26, 2012

  By 8 a.m., the news vans had started to arrive, parking on the street behind the cop cars, the Medical Examiner's white sedan, the city of Dallas vehicle marked "Crime Scene." They sank their tripods ... More >>

• Center For Reproductive Rights Wants All Fifth Circuit Judges To Hear Sonogram Law Case

  published Jan 25, 2012

  The saga of Texas's brand-new, Rick-Perry approved sonogram law continues. First, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Sam Sparks and allowed the l... More >>