Foundation for Community Empowerment

Now Southern Dallas Businessmen Are Lining Up Against Mike Miles. But Why?

Three prominent Dallas business leaders have written a caustic public letter to Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles, taking him to task generally for not conferring with them personally on school reform and specifically for threatening the job of a particular high school principal popular in South ... More >>

DISD's Getting a Grant to Help Kids With Science and Math. And It's from Outer Space!

​Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District and grant money ...I was poking around the briefing agenda for this week's meeting of the board of trustees and noticed this intriguing item: NASA -- yes, that NASA, not this NASA -- is giving the DISD, via the Foundation for Community Empowermen ... More >>

Look, It Has Always Paid to Be Royce West

Sam MertenState Sen. Royce West and friendsFormer Dallas Observer ace reporter (and sometime-Unfair Park contributor) Matt Pulle has a great piece up today on the Texas Watchdog Web site revealing that in 2008 alone, state Sen. Royce West's 10-person law firm billed the City of Dallas, Dallas Area R ... More >>

Slumdog Millionaires

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

Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal

Local pols back off a master plan that would have put the squeeze on a major southern Dallas development

To Be Honest, DISD Board Prez Jack Lowe Doesn't Care What You Think

Last month, while working on this profile of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, I met DISD board of trustees president Jack Lowe for coffee at the La Madeline by SMU. Lowe, as you may recall, said upon the revelation of the district's initial $64-million budget shor ... More >>

DISD Trustees May Make Cutbacks in Democratic Process

DISD trustees may try to cancel next year's school board election to preserve the status quo and the superintendent

D? Well, Maybe D-.

Look, let me take one specific portion of the D special issue about the Dallas Independent School District that came out this week and use it to explain why I don’t think much of this stuff is worth reading. This was a sidebar under the byline of our former colleague, Mark Stuertz, who was fam ... More >>

Vox Populi

Wait a minute...There's democracy in Dallas?

A Broad Gap for DISD to Clear

From the Ground Up

Central Dallas Ministries helps the poor find their own bootstraps

Forget Why

Knowing where crime happens is enough to do something about it

Spreading the Blame

Change Is Gonna Come

With some help from his friends, Don Williams intends to save South Dallas one block at a time

The One That Got Away

In a Lancaster gym, Greg Hatley is raising boxing champions, but the best fighter he ever saw isn't among them

By the Book

A socially conscious collection of bookworms look for more than words