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2011 Stories by Brantley Hargrove

• Rick Perry, Stem Cell Therapy and the Battle Between Medical Freedom and Opportunism

  published Nov 07, 2011

  The Texas Medical Board is putting off until April a vote on how to regulate adult stem cell therapy, which involves using tissues from one's own body rather than controversial stem cells cultivated f... More >>

• Those Rangers Ballpark Improvements Are Just First Wave; More to Come in Two, Three Years

  published Nov 03, 2011

  Wilonsky won't say it, but I will: One week after the World Series title slipped from grasp, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is a sad, sad place. It was quiet this afternoon, empty, and the weight of Te... More >>

• Chilling Con Carnies

  published October 27, 2011

  As the story goes, a band of peripatetic, out-of-work carnies ended up squatting in the old Market Center Building at 603 Munger Ave. during the... More >>

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  Dallas-Fort Worth's Air Now Dirtier Than Houston'sr Yep, Air Quality Watchdogs Say.

  published Nov 01, 2011

  In Texas, Houston and filthy air have always been synonymous. But the Armpit of Texas has just been dethroned. For concentrated, ozone-laced air pollution, Dallas-Fort Worth has outstripped the countr... More >>

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  Sons of Confederate Vets Commander: Perry "Playing Politician" By Denouncing Vanity Plate

  published Oct 30, 2011

  Gov. Rick Perry's record on racial issues has always been a little complicated. Earlier this month, there was that dust-up over his family's Paint Creek hunting lease, which Schutze thought unfairly l... More >>

• Enviro Groups Prepare To Sue Luminant's Northeast Texas Power Plants Over Air Pollution

  published Oct 27, 2011

  The Sierra Club gave Luminant Generation Company, downtown-based and one of Texas's biggest power suppliers, notice Thursday that it plans to sue them for thousands of alleged violations of the Clean ... More >>

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  Ranchers Petition Gov. Perry For Hay Bale-Out After Historic Drought Stunts Texas Crop

  published Oct 26, 2011

  Texas ranchers, bowed under the driest year in state history, are looking to Gov. Rick Perry for help. In an online petition, they're asking him to use the Texas National Guard and any state resources... More >>

• Hammered by the Drought, Texas Ranchers Are Running Out of Cows to Send to Slaughter

  published Oct 24, 2011

  Since we started catching rain in pans and writing down measurements, Texas has never gotten so little rainfall as we have this year. As we reported in our recent story on the cattle industry, we're i... More >>

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  While Faraway Lenders Grapple with Fracking, a Word From Local Appraiser in the Trenches

  published Oct 21, 2011

  A rig in ArlingtonThe New York Times ran an interesting story Thursday on the growing reluctance of banks to grant mortgages to owners of properties that have been leased for gas drilling in the north... More >>

• After Months of Debate, Southlake Keeps 1,000-Foot Setbacks From Gas Wells to Homes

  published Oct 19, 2011

  The Southlake City Council Hall, once packed from floor to gallery with residents for whom gas drilling in town was either a looming menace or a windfall, had only a smattering of attendees a little a... More >>

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  Johnnie Lindsey, Wrongfully Convicted of Rape, Wins Compensation Fight Against State

  published Oct 17, 2011

  Johnnie Lindsey, a Dallas man who spent 26 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, dropped his lawsuit against Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Monday after she agreed to pay him for nearly five yea... More >>

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  And Now a Look at a Former Board of Ed "Expert's" Revisionist History Textbook

  published Oct 17, 2011

  David Barton -- founder of Wallbuilders, former State Board of Education "social studies expert" and member of the Religious Right coalition that prodded Gov. Rick Perry to join the insufficiently Chr... More >>

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  Lawsuit Claims Atmos's Gas Leak Caused Oak Cliff Family's House to Blow Up Last Month

  published Oct 12, 2011

  On the night of September 18, as heavy thunderstorms blew through Dallas, neighbors on West Woodin in Oak Cliff heard a "heavy, muffled boom," they told a CBS 11 crew. A small apartment behind a house... More >>

• Widow Sues Dallas Cowboys, Among Others, For Husband's Fatal Fall From Billboard

  published Oct 11, 2011

  On August 15, 40-year-old John Burnette of Boyd climbed his way up to a three-sided, illuminated billboard he was supposed to service. The billboard, on a lot off of Division Street, is part of the Da... More >>

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  At the Last Minute, Texas Spikes Federal Sex Education Funding ... Again

  published Oct 07, 2011

  Condoms, birth control -- who needs 'emr Just don't have sex, Texas says to its horny teens. Just hobble that unbridled desire coupled with a limited understanding of consequences and say 'No, I'm sav... More >>

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  State Rep. Rafael Anchia: Republicans Vulnerable as the Face of Texas Changes

  published Oct 06, 2011

  Unfair Park dropped by the Democratic New Leaders Texas PAC meeting at The Kessler last night. The group is billed as a statewide network of Dems "nurturing and promoting the next generation of princi... More >>

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  In Fight Over Fees, Judge Says Lawyer Can't Charge Exoneree Steven Phillips the Way He Did Others, Chides Both Sides

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Did high-powered, Lubbock personal injury attorney Kevin Glasheen do diddly-squat for the wrongfully imprisoned Steven Phillips, aside from filling out a one-page form with the State Comptrollerr Or i... More >>

• Mother-Daughter Team Thinks Newspapers Have Money, Sues Local Daily for $21 Million

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Waxahachie Daily Light! You're on notice. Because when you get crossways with local firebrand Linda Lewis, protesters will march, media will descend, and comically high settlement demands will be made... More >>

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  A Decade-Long Droughtr Yeah, Maybe So, State Climatologist Says.

  published Oct 03, 2011

  It's all but official now. We've strung together the 12 driest months in Texas history. State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon estimates we got 13.69 inches for the year. The average is 27. It's bee... More >>

• Houston Jewel Heist Victim Sues Dallas Gold Buyer That Paid Millions For Stolen Goods

  published Sep 30, 2011

  On Monday we told you the story of Jason Clay Kennedy and the Brothers O'Brien, who, on February 5, disabled a Houston jewelry store's alarm and video surveillance system and sawed through six inches ... More >>

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  The Protest Before the Council Vote on Flow Control, and the Promises After It Passed

  published Sep 28, 2011

  At around 9, before the Dallas City Council voted on the measure that would direct all trash collected in the city to the landfill in southeast Dallas, more than 50 students and teachers at Paul Quinn... More >>

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  The Long, Dry Fall of the Texas Rancher

  published September 29, 2011

  Somewhere out in the northeast corner of Young County, about 40 miles south of Wichita Falls, an aging cattleman cups his gnarled hands around... More >>

• USDA: Historic Drought, Liquidated Herds ... and Fewer August Feedlot Placementsr

  published Sep 26, 2011

  None of the commodity-on-the-hoof gurus saw this one coming. They had predicted another fat increase in feedlot placements, not unlike July's USDA Cattle On Feed report. Yet here we are, and the Beef ... More >>

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  Mike Modano's Tear-Stained Farewell

  published Sep 23, 2011

  Mike Modano, the highest-scoring American-born player in the history of the National Hockey League and the face of the Dallas Stars even after he signed to Detroit for a final season, stifled a sob as... More >>

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  A (Fake) Mass Shooting at Valley View Center Meets Dallas Fire-Rescue's Rapid Response

  published Sep 20, 2011

  Mall shootings never start on time, and the "massacre" that occurred Tuesday afternoon was no exception. While about 50 7th- to 12th-grade Dallas Lutheran students arranged themselves inside Valley Vi... More >>