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Floyd Richards

  • News

    January 12, 2012

    Price Corruption Probe: You're All Black. Go to Jail?

    Do black politicos get harsher treatment in the courts? Let's talk about it.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    As Federal Grand Jury Begins Calling Witnesses in JWP Case, the Past Collides With the Present

    ​I have been looking back at the federal corruption conviction that forced the late Al Lipscomb off the Dallas City Council in 2000. That conviction was set aside two years later by a conservative panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. We have lessons, people. Lessons. ... More >>

  • News

    January 15, 2009

    Al Lipscomb's grandson LeVar “LD” Thomas seeks council seat

    ​I have been looking back at the federal corruption conviction that forced the late Al Lipscomb off the Dallas City Council in 2000. That conviction was set aside two years later by a conservative panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. We have lessons, people. Lessons. ... More >>

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    2002 Revealed

    An aging Buzz finds little to celebrate in the year gone by. What did you expect?

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    Inquiring Minds

    Why is ignorance such bliss for so many when it comes to Al Lipscomb?

  • News

    July 25, 2002

    Jury of His Dears

    What the appeals court really said was that Lipscomb had a right to be tried where he was loved

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Al Strikes Back

    Lipscomb appeal finds a receptive audience in New Orleans

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    :cueless

    Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Buzz

    Taking sides; This blows; Hard time

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Al's atonement

    For starters, why not help undo the crooked cab laws he helped pass?

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Damaged goods

    What do you get for 50 bucks a meeting? Thomas Korosec sizes up the man and woman most likely to succeed Al Lipscomb.

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Letters

    Judging Joe Kendall; Elian's kidnapping; Clearing the air; Chaos on Lower Greenville

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Hot and bothered

    The city's ordinance governing topless clubs is a joke. But Bachman Lake-area residents are determined to get rid of the clubs by any means necessary.

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    To the rotten core

    The Lipscomb trial took us where the News don't shine

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    The plantation burns

    Al Lipscomb is on trial for bribery. The real charge is "traitor."

  • News

    January 13, 2000

    Black out

    Lipscomb takes his story to Anglo Amarillo and hopes it plays better than prosecutors'

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    A clockwork Buzz

    1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

  • News

    May 6, 1999

    Observer writers honored

    1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Buzz

    1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Look back in confusion

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Buzz

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Business as usual

    Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Saint Al

    Will he die in prison for the sins of the plantation?

  • News

    January 16, 1997

    Year of the weasel

    From Al Lipscomb to Paul Fielding, it was hard to find straight talk in '96

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