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Last Night's Vote in Dallas ISD Was a Win for Mike Miles and a Loss for John Wiley Price

Look, life is not football. It's more important. I do get that. But, sorry. At a certain point in last night's Dallas ISD board meeting, a big scoreboard flashed in my mind. MIKE MILES, 7. JOHN WILEY PRICE, 0. Very, very superficial of me, I know. But, hey, I am not the one who set it up this way. ... More >>

Dwaine Caraway Says Dallas is the "Homeless Capital of the World" and Should Bus Them Out of Town

It's been a decade since the city of Dallas announced the development of a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness, a quest that, as a short stroll downtown will tell you, has fallen short of its goal. There are still plenty of people without homes. That's not to say the program, which has focused ... More >>

FBI: Convicted Mortgage Fraudster, Arlington Pizza Shop Owner, Tried to Bribe Federal Judge

Halid Amer played a small but significant role in the collapse of the housing market late last decade. He had help, to be sure, from slews of unqualified borrowers, overleveraged banks, absurdly loose credit and free-handed monetary policy, but it was the actions of Amer and people like him that mad ... More >>

Bobby Patterson On Life After KKDA, His New Inspirational Album and the Art of Entertaining

Not much has changed about Bobby Patterson since his dismissal from KKDA-AM 730 this past May. Strolling into a Pappadeaux in Duncanville for this interview with one of his favorite walking sticks in hand, the 68-year-old cracks jokes and flirts with all the women in sight. The one-liners come and g ... More >>

The Thin Line Between Dog Rescuing and Dog Hoarding

With the city overrun with strays, Dallas' animal rescuers want to save dogs from cruelty and neglect. But some need to be saved from themselves.

Feds Announce (Another) Local Meth Bust Involving Members of La Familia Drug Cartel

​In October of 2009, James Capra, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Dallas Division, invited media to a press conference so he could show off the massive haul from a long-in-the-works bust involving the Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia: 220 pounds of methamphetamine, 4.5 kil ... More >>

John Wiley Price, West Turn Up For Tense Forum on Fate of Dallas's Main Post Office

Photos by Anna MerlanDallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price attended, but did not speak at, last night's town hall. He sorta mailed it in.​Technically, the U.S. Postal Service hasn't yet made a decision about whether it will close the processing center at the main post office near Sylvan ... More >>

Making Black Voters Disappear

Domingo Garcia and his council redistricting pals pull off a neat trick.

West Dallas Project Developer Says Project Won't Cannibalize Oak Cliff

​A developer of the mixed-use Sylvan Thirty project, situated on the boundary line between Oak Cliff and West Dallas, says the complex is unlikely to sap traffic and creative energy from the Bishop Arts District, a neighborhood that has recently incubated some of the city's most interesting re ... More >>

Ron Natinsky is the Chosen One? What's Our Second Choice, Then?

Stirred up by political opportunism, a progressive Oak Cliff neighborhood tries to keep out the homeless.

Cast Away

With NASA's Future Uncertain, Dallas Rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace Compete In The Race To Privatize The Final Frontier

Six Months After La Familia Bust, Dallas Boss Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking

Kimberly ThorpeSome of the drugs and money seized by law-enforcement officials in the fall of 2009​We were there in October of last year, when the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the I.R.S., the U.S. Secret Service and Texas Air National Guard -- and every other law-enforcing acronym -- ... More >>

Civility is the Last Thing the DISD Board Needs

Whitt's End: 10.30.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I take absolutely no very little joy in D Magazine's Inside Corner sports blog going belly up any second now. Evan Grant is a solid baseball Xs and Os writer and I'll follow his work back to Dalla ... More >>

Good News -- Really -- From the City Hall Corruption Trial

Dallas Wants to be a Green City, So Why Not Save Some Trees?

February 25, 1989: Where Were You?

We celebrated God's Coach with a Devil's Night. Was that wrong?I was at Valley Ranch, a 24-year-old piss-ant reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Only a couple years removed from punching holes in my college apartment walls when the Dallas Cowboys lost, I was totally unprepared and ... More >>

Slumdog Millionaires

If the Morning News considers itself the "conscience" of southern Dallas, it has a lot of explaining to do.

Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.

Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008

Dallas Hip-Hop: Swagger Like Us

Local artists make waves with D-Town Boogie, but the real test comes in 14 months

A Game of Chicken: Sheriff Valdez Demands an Apology from Cannaday

Fight Club: Who's to Blame for Luis Yanez Getting Knocked Out of Beijing?

Just Which Candidate Captured "The Zeitgeist of the Moment"?

Did Obama Throw a Town Hall Meeting or a Religious Revival?

Limbo Party

Purgatory's the place in sketchy Heaven Forbid(s)!; all black notes in White Music

Witness for the Prosecution

Did lack of manpower leave a felon on bail free to kill? Maybe. Sort of.

Boshketball

Dallas hoops legend comes home to spread good in the 'hood

Every Rose Has its Thorns. Maybe. So We Hear.

Sheriff Bowles: Gone, But Not Forgetting

Stacked Deck

Giving penny-ante politicians a say over lucrative affordable-housing developments seemed like a good idea--until the FBI came calling

Tooling Around

Ace mechanic Harrold Andresen creates a different kind of shop class

Mayorzilla

Inside the monster battle over strong mayor

Ashes on Everything

A year after Elliott Smith's suicide, a writer remembers the aftermath of the singer-songwriter's death

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Royal Police

Kunkle must teach them to spell d-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Friday Night Lite

Far away from big cities, big stadiums and big offensive lines, six-man football keeps the game pure

Ted's Excellent Adventure

City manager fires chief, finds self in hell

Single Barrel, Double Standard

When Lancaster's school superintendent ordered a lenient sentence for two white kids caught with shotguns, black parents said it was one more example of the suburb's bigotry

Long way around

Jon Randall is finally Willin' to make music the way he wants to

Want out

Jeff Whittington has moved away from Adam's Farm and built his own brand-new thing

Buzz

Who ya gonna call?

Lawyer Kenneth Mayfield racks up a winning record in the courts he helps oversee as a county commissioner

Ill Wind Blowing

Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

A Dream Deferred

Former Black Panther Fahim Minkah seeks redemption for a drug-infested neighborhood, but the Southern Dallas Development Corporation turns its back

Bully power

Learning that rabble rules at Dallas school board meetings

Somebody say amen!

The Rev. Sheron Patterson brings the word to black singles

What I did on jury duty

Only the fates could land me in J.P. Jones' court

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