Peter Elkind

In mid-September, The Dallas Morning News reported the demise of a giant in Texas public education. Joseph Jones "J.J." Pearce, 88, the superintendent "who guided the Richardson school district's transformation from a single rural campus into one of the top urban school systems in the state," had died, reporter Selwyn...

So...The Dallas Morning News is getting into the weekly newspaper business. According to an August 23 "media advisory," Dallas' Only Daily has entered into a "consulting relationship" with The Met, Not Dallas' Only Weekly. So much for being an "alternative to the alternative"--The Met is now part of Dallas' Evil...

Someone in the Dallas city manager's office is not telling the truth. Fabricating. Covering up. Dissembling. Lying. And almost no one seems to care about it. That's disturbing--because it's not a lowly clerk or mid-level stiff who's bending the truth. It's city manager John Ware and his top deputies, first...