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November 3, 2009
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 >>
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May 22, 2009
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 >>
News
January 22, 2009
Slumdog Millionaires
If the Morning News considers itself the "conscience" of southern Dallas, it has a lot of explaining to do.
News
December 18, 2008
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
Blogs
December 15, 2008
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 >>
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November 20, 2008
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
Blogs
November 13, 2008
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 >>
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April 5, 2007
Vox Populi
Wait a minute...There's democracy in Dallas?
Blogs
January 16, 2007
A Broad Gap for DISD to Clear
Wait a minute...There's democracy in Dallas?
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January 4, 2007
From the Ground Up
Central Dallas Ministries helps the poor find their own bootstraps
News
November 2, 2006
Forget Why
Knowing where crime happens is enough to do something about it
Blogs
August 18, 2006
Spreading the Blame
Knowing where crime happens is enough to do something about it
News
August 17, 2006
Change Is Gonna Come
With some help from his friends, Don Williams intends to save South Dallas one block at a time
News
July 7, 2005
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
News
June 17, 2004
By the Book
A socially conscious collection of bookworms look for more than words

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

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Look, It Has Always Paid to Be Royce West

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Slumdog Millionaires

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Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal

Blogs

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

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DISD Trustees May Make Cutbacks in Democratic Process

Blogs

D? Well, Maybe D-.

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Vox Populi

Blogs

A Broad Gap for DISD to Clear

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From the Ground Up

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Forget Why

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Spreading the Blame

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Change Is Gonna Come

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The One That Got Away

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By the Book

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