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December 5, 1996
Losing Faith
Dallas Area Interfaith wants to give the city's poor and disenfranchised a voice in politics. But all critics see is another grab for power.
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January 29, 2009
On S. Lamar, Drinks Are on the Council!
View Larger MapThis council meeting leftover, which is no small morsel: Mayor Tom Leppert was vehemently against granting Augustine Ekukpe a specific use permit to open a bar called Neighborhood Sports Cafe on South Lamar Street, between Starks Avenue and Haven Street. Said the mayor during the coun ... More >>
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March 12, 1998
City Hall's Slam-Dunk Gang
Quick--someone take a pulse. The Dallas City Council hasn't peeped in months. And John Ware and Ron Kirk are looking awfully well-fed.
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February 16, 2009
Dallas County DA Craig Watkins to Deliver Keynote at Annual Prayer Breakfast
Dallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsLarry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries, posted this announcement to his blog this a.m.: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will deliver the keynote address at this year's 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast, set f ... More >>
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April 22, 2004
Die, Poor People, Die!
Who's in the right about Dallas' charity hospital?
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November 22, 2001
Agin and Agin
The next city election will separate the good aginners from the evildoers
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February 22, 2001
For God and Country
For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda
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June 22, 2000
One honest man
How come the Dallas schools can't find him?
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May 28, 2009
Trinity Toll Road Isn't a White Deal. It's a Bad Deal.
How come the Dallas schools can't find him?
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December 18, 2009
Mayor Leppert Feels South Dallas's Pain
Last month, Unify South Dallas -- a relatively new coalition of community "grassroots organizations and nonprofits," in the words of The Rev. Gerald Britt Jr., vice president of public policy at Central Dallas Ministries -- asked Mayor Tom Leppert to address just hat kind of economic redevelopmen ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Fixing the Schools, One Screening at a Time, with CDM's Waiting for Superman Soiree
As the education policy call-to-arms doc Waiting for Superman has been released across the country, educators and would-be reformers everywhere have been doing the thing you do when a Davis Guggenheim documentary (or a Mel Gibson film in the original Aramaic) comes out: special screenings and pos ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
They're From the Business Community and Here to Help You. Yeah, Right.
The Reverend Gerald Britt Jr. of Central Dallas Ministries (now called "CitySquare" for some unfathomable reason) had an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News yesterday that made my heart ache. Britt, a good guy deeply dedicated to southern Dallas, recited all the recent population numbers that s ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
New Anti-Poverty Coalition to Demand Dallas City Hall Zone Payday Lenders Out of Business
Been trying to reach council member Jerry Allen ever since yesterday; no luck so far. But we know where he'll be at 3 today: in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, standing beside Dr. Frederick Haynes and Rev. Gerald Britt at an anti-payday lender press conference on behalf of the Anti-Poverty Coa ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Sorry, Guys, But Mortgage Subsidies Aren't the Answer in Southern Dallas
Interesting blow-black -- so muted you might call it whisper-back -- to recent stories and an op-ed piece in The Dallas Morning News extolling so-called economic progress in Southern Dallas. One instance is on the paper's op-ed page today, a column from respected Southern Dallas blogger-jou ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
How Will Angela Hunt, Ann Margolin, Gerald Britt and Steve Blow (Settle Down) Fix Dallas?
Via Scott DornSay what? Jump to find out.For those Friends of Unfair Park who don't have Jewish mothers, I will tell you: They get stuff done. That would probably be their motto, if they ever organized themselves into some kind of union. (Possible sub-motto: "But, Really, Would It Kill You To Cal ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Declaring War on the War on the War on the War on the War on Christmas
Man. I cannot believe it. Just got back in the house. Catching my breath. Had to wade into the crowd out there on the street. Major neighborhood squall. We've been waiting 20 years for the city to patch our street. They have big crews out there now doing it -- and a bang-up job from what I h ... More >>

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They're From the Business Community and Here to Help You. Yeah, Right.

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New Anti-Poverty Coalition to Demand Dallas City Hall Zone Payday Lenders Out of Business

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Sorry, Guys, But Mortgage Subsidies Aren't the Answer in Southern Dallas

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