Email Author ANNA MERLAN

2012 Stories by ANNA MERLAN

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  At Downtown Dallas Inc.'s Annual Meeting, a Call To "Invest Yourself" (And Your Cash)

  published Jan 24, 2012

  Around lunchtime at the Omni today, a crew was dismantling those enormous red Christmas balls that have been heaped up on the lawn for the past couple months, while in the Dallas Ballroom upstairs, Do... More >>

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  Look Out, Belo: Amidst Solicitation Ordinance Chat, Talk of Fines Over Unwanted Papers

  published Jan 23, 2012

  At this morning's Quality of Life Committee meeting, we finally got to hear about that proposed new home solicitation ordinance with which we wrapped last week. We know what you're thinking, and let u... More >>

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  Art, Revolution and Trying to Keep the Doors Open at South Dallas's Oldest African Art Gallery

  published Jan 20, 2012

  A year and a half ago, the owners of Pan-African Connection Bookstore, Bandele Tyehimba and his wife Akwete, found out their building was being torn down and replaced with a dentist's office. They'd b... More >>

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  Nurse at Center of Furor Over Homophobic Remarks Made to Marine Has Left Dallas VA

  published Jan 19, 2012

  The Dallas VA Medical Center nurse who told a lesbian Marine her depression was the result of "living in darkness" as a homosexual will no longer be working for the VA. We first wrote about former mar... More >>

• Dallas Area Habitat For Humanity Razes Ollie's Place, A "Crime-Ridden" Mill City Bar

  published Jan 19, 2012

  Dallas Area Habitat For Humanity recently announced it would be razing Ollie's Place this morning, a convenience store turned bar turned "hidey-hole for drugs and other criminal activity" . It's the s... More >>

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  Along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard This Morning, a Parade ... and a Protest

  published Jan 16, 2012

  I was out wandering around not far from my house this morning when I was lucky enough to catch a bit of the annual Elite News-sponsored Martin Luther King Day Parade. Hundreds of people turned out to ... More >>

• Despite RIF Process, Dallas Animal Services Still Has 30 "Urgent" Vacancies It Needs to Fill

  published Jan 13, 2012

  "It's mid-January," Dallas Animal Services Commission member Bonnie Matthias said emphatically. "And we're caught with our pants down again." As usual, there's good news and there's bad news at Dalla... More >>

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  Texas's New Sonogram Law Is Going Into Effect Immediately. As In: Right Now.

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Just four days after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rick Perry's favorite law -- the one requiring women to get a sonogram, listen to a fetal heartbeat and hear a verbal description fro... More >>

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  Judge OKs Texas's Sonogram Law, Making Governor Rick Perry Very, Very Happy

  published Jan 10, 2012

  Texas's dandy new "sonogram law" -- which requires abortion-seeking women to look at a sonogram, hear a description of it from her doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat -- is legal, a federal court r... More >>

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  In the Weeds: The City's Again Dealing With Shabby Highway Medians, Including Central

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Perhaps you were under the impression that the Texas Department of Transportation is responsible for mowing and maintaining the highway rights-of-way throughout the city. Or maybe you just never thoug... More >>

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  Funny Thing Is, Before She Resurrected Dallas For TNT, Writer Cynthia Cidre Wasn't a Fan

  published Jan 08, 2012

  I'll be honest with you: I don't know squat about Dallas. Or rather, I don't know squat about Dallas, the long-running, oil-drenched, big-haired, family-feuding epic that may still color how a lot of ... More >>

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  One Man's (Somewhat Frantic and Almost Failed) Hunt for Emergency Contraceptive

  published Jan 05, 2012

  One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or "the morning-after pill." It wasn't the morning af... More >>

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  Dallas County Judge Who Ruled Death Penalty Unconstitutional Is Forced To Recuse Herself

  published Jan 03, 2012

  Teresa Hawthorne, the Dallas County judge who ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional, must recuse herself from a capital murder case, a judge ruled today. Hawthorne was pr... More >>

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  Occupying the Westboro Baptist Church's Protest at the TicketCity Bowl in Fair Park

  published Jan 02, 2012

  Football fans who came to Fair Park for the Houston-Penn State match-up at the Cotton Bowl couldn't help but see the sideshow: As promised, the Westboro Baptist Church showed up at the TicketCity Bowl... More >>