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Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.By Sam MertenThursday, November 19As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September heat, a crowd of people enter the side entrance of the... More >> -
Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.By Megan FeldmanThursday, November 05An autumn storm soaks the streets and paints the outdoors a dull shade of gray, but inside the Fort Worth Convention Center the scene is all... More >> -
No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?By James LieberThursday, October 29Where did our wealth go? How do we claw it back? And when are we going to punish the culprits? When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle... More >> -
A court case forced a Santeria priest to reveal some of his religion’s secrets. Its ritual of animal sacrifice, he revealed on his own.By Kimberly ThorpeThursday, October 22The Euless neighborhood is mostly quiet, a sleepy suburb of pleasant ranch-style homes, winding creeks and mossy oaks that looks as if it could... More >> -
How the Feds Convicted Don HillBy Sam MertenThursday, October 15It's been described as the largest federal corruption case in the history of Dallas, but you wouldn't know it from the paltry number of people... More >>
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Broward - Palm Beach
The Rise and Fall of South Florida's Daily Newspapers
By Lisa Rab
A standing-room-only crowd attended the meeting where Rochelle Gilken decided to end her... More >>
Denver
Fixers, feeders, and the strange, hidden world of feral cats
By Alan Prendergast
Kristin Des Marais crouches in the damp and shines a flashlight into the vast crawl space... More >>
Houston
The Tug of War
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a pitched battle over the soul of the GOP. They are also running for governor.
By Sam Merten
As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September, a... More >>
Kansas City
As Honeywell closes its 60-year-old site, workers are dealing with the fatal aftereffects
By Nadia Pflaum
Tony Ross' bat connected, sending the softball rocketing to the fence. While the outfielders... More >>
Miami
Miami pimp Hugo Gonzalez lavished gifts on his whores to keep them around
By Natalie O'Neill
In a dreary yellow living room, a gang leader named Rudy Villanueva leans toward a video camera... More >>
Minneapolis
Michele Bachmann: Crazy like a fox
The Minnesota congresswoman gives Sarah Palin a run for her money
Matt Snyders
It was just after 12:30 a.m. on election night when Michele Bachmann materialized in the... More >>
Phoenix
School of Hard Knocks: Three-Sport Gamer Mike Nixon’s Tried It All, But Can the Whip-Smart ASU Defensive Star Make It to the NFL?
By Steve Jansen
Mike Nixon walks through the front door of his Tempe home and drops a maroon-and-gold Arizona... More >>
San Francisco
Sanctuary Sellout
Before: S.F. coddled undocumented teen criminals. After: S.F. punishes undocumented teens who commit crimes (and some who don't, too).
By Lauren Smiley
If you were to compile a list of threats to San Francisco's public safety, Oscar Martinez... More >>
St. Louis
Babe 'n Arms: Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns — and then he became Rachel
By Nicholas Phillips
Scott Clark heard screams as evening fell on May 24, 2007. He had just returned from work and... More >>
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Unfair Park
City Releases Report Concerning Allegations of Sexual Harassment in Dallas Fire-Rescue
Fri Nov 20, 5:50 PM
International Association of Fire ChiefsLeanne Siri?Let's end the week with a little journalistic quiz for all your Friends of Unfair Park out there. First, a little background.In October, D magazine published a lengthy feature headlined "The... More >>
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Dive In | Fuzzy Math
Thursday, November 19"Dive In," by Jesse Hughey, November 12 Diving Veterans Great article. I love the dive bar, but one thing is missing—the VFW or American... More>>
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No, You Do It: The GOP Finds Yet Another Candidate Willing to Run for D.A.
Thursday, November 19Stick it: The last time the Dallas Observer wrote about the troubles facing a local political party trying to draft a solid field of local... More>>
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Hey Mayor Leppert: Want Ethics Reform To Have Some Real Teeth? Take Away the Power of the Table.
Thursday, November 19Supposedly we just had ethics reform at Dallas City Hall. Let's talk about ethics. But let's talk about the real world. There's this thing in... More>>
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TCU's Football Team Demands National Recognition While SMU Takes Relatively Quiet Steps
Thursday, November 19Let's face it, SMU picked a bad year to have a good year. Coming off consecutive 1-11 seasons and without a bowl game since flight attendants... More>>
Letters
Dive In | Fuzzy Math
Thursday, November 19
"Dive In," by Jesse Hughey, November 12
Diving Veterans
Great article. I love the dive bar, but one thing is missing—the VFW or American... More >>
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