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2002 Stories by Charles Siderius

• Cash for Trash

  published November 21, 2002

  A crisp and dusty breeze sweeps off McCommas Bluff and into Dallas' new "Citizen's Convenience and Recycling Center" where about two dozen city... More >>

• Race With a Killer

  published October 17, 2002

  Connie Jimmerson remembers that her daughter Tashica was a bit more attached to home than usual on that Friday seven years ago. She remembers it... More >>

• The Bad Tenant

  published September 19, 2002

  Inside offices at the 60-year-old Dallas Naval Air Station, insulation and tiles dangle from holes in the ceilings of buildings ruined from years... More >>

• Bag o' Bones

  published September 19, 2002

  One August morning last year, a woman heading out to fish along the banks of the Trinity River stumbled upon a partially buried human skull.... More >>

• Case Closed

  published June 27, 2002

  More than half a century has passed since Harrison Ocie Jones was seized in the night from his sharecropper's cabin in North Texas and beaten to... More >>

• Trashy Questions

  published June 20, 2002

  Lois Finkelman had questions about Dallas' residential recycling program before last month. Now, both the city councilwoman and the city's auditor... More >>

• Go Speed Racers

  published June 13, 2002

  It's late on a Wednesday night in a warehouse district west of Dallas. Dozens of teen-agers face each other across a wide road. Between them,... More >>

• Right and Wronged

  published May 23, 2002

  It won't help Steven Spiritas resurrect his once-thriving ground-beef company, but it seems his costly court battle with the U.S. Department of... More >>

• Garbage In, Garbage Out

  published May 16, 2002

  On January 4 at Community Waste Disposal's recycling center off Northwest Highway, driver Israel Esparza pulled his truck onto the scales, fresh... More >>

• Catch Those Tigers

  published February 28, 2002

  Charlotte Scott remembers being in the kitchen preparing for a barbecue when her husband's stepfather, Kerry Quinney, walked in and scooped up her... More >>

• Fixing the Fixers

  published February 21, 2002

  Political insiders always suspected that ballots mailed to certain parts of Southern Dallas were for sale. They knew the blind, the elderly and... More >>

• Dead Wrong

  published February 7, 2002

  At first, "The Freedman's Memorial" 10-page workbook and teacher's supplement looks harmless enough. A kid is depicted on the cover with his hand... More >>