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Habitat for Humanity Now Owns Four Drug Houses Once Run by the West Side Gator Boyz

Tyrone and Patrick Weatherall had a number of bad habits. Besides the obvious one, their fondness for selling crack, the brothers had lavish, attention-getting taste, which is probably ill-advised when you're in the drug-selling business. According to street lore, when the Weatheralls first united s ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Blasts the Morning News for "Slanted and Biased Coverage"

It's been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and thei ... More >>

Rahr Celebrates Snowmaggedon, DEBC Offers Its Cherry in Bottles and More Valentine Beer Drinking

​Giving your sweetheart a box of assorted chocolates for Valentine's Day is a great way to say "I really don't know all that much about you." A fine beer, on the other hand, is a bold move all but guaranteed to impress. And if it's not appreciated? Well, better to have learned that he or she isn't ... More >>

Once Again, Dallas Habitat for Humanity to Raze a Crime-Ridden Fair Park "Hidey-Hole"

​This is Ollie's Place at 4909 S. Pacific Avenue, in the shadow of Fair Park. Till very recently the building, constructed in 1965, was owned by Martin Needom Jr., who lives not far away. It was once a neighborhood convenience store in an area zoned residential -- not uncommon in that part of tow ... More >>

Habitat's $100 Million "Dream Dallas" Initiative Will Uplift Neighborhoods, Not Just Houses

Photos by Leslie MinoraMayor Rawlings calls the $100 million Habitat investment "big news" for Dallas.​Dallas Habitat for Humanity, which already claims to be the biggest single-family home builder in the city, will knock down and build more than 500 more homes in a $100 million blitz on the c ... More >>

Poof! A Rundown South Dallas Building Crumbles, Making Way For a Habitat Home.

Photos by Leslie MinoraThe "after" shot, as the former Pete's Sandwich Shop on Baldwin near Fair Park bit the dust. Jump for the "just-before."​As a bulldozer chipped away at the sides of a hideously blighted cinder-block building in South Dallas this morning -- forward, reverse, forward, reverse ... More >>

Dallas Habitat for Humanity to Summon the 'Dozers Tomorrow in Effort to "Fight the Blight"

Never did understand the Chicago Bulls logos painted on the side of this South Dallas bar.​Years ago, when writing about efforts to revitalize a neighborhood near Fair Park, I came across the building you see above: the former Pete's Sandwich Shop at 4702 Baldwin, sandwiched between Starplex and J ... More >>

City Officials Celebrate As Bexar Street Revitalization Project Begins to Take Shape

Photos by Patrick MichelsDallas Neighborhood Development Manager Cobbie Ransom outlines the progress so far along Bexar Street.Under a tent along Bexar Street in South Dallas this morning, city officials treated a crowd of more than 100 to an enthusiastic display of back-slapping and upbeat progress ... More >>

What Did the President Say at Russell and Dorothy Budd's House Last Night?

Courtesy Kim Seale, Southwest AirlinesAir Force One leaving Love Field yesterday evening​Let's go to the lengthy transcript, which the White House just posted from last night's big-ticket fund-raiser at the Highland Park home of the attorney and his wife, a former president of Dallas Area Habitat ... More >>

Fine, Just Don't Go Planning Any Victory Parades Just Yet, OK, Mister Mayor?

Patrick Michels​Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert's chief of staff, sends word this morning that Leppert and Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter (awesome) have made a bet on Saturday night's Cowboys-Eagles game. But, blessedly, they've dispensed with the wackiness (no jerseys worn to council mee ... More >>

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Running For Homes

Turns Out Jury in City Hall Corruption Trial Isn't the Only Ones Learning About CHDOs

It's good to know CHDOs are doing some good 'cause the City Hall corruption trial is teaching us that they're naughty.Among the dozens of acronyms we've grown accustomed to hearing throughout the City Hall corruption trial is CHDO -- Community Housing Development Organization -- which is why yester ... More >>

For a Second Year, the Sue Pope Fund Will Dole Out Grants to Folks Who Can Clear the Air

Katy HubenerIn a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, ... More >>

In West Dallas, Bulldozers Clear the Way for New Homes and New Residents

Alexa SchirtzingerClaudia Hernández didn't know the house across the street from her home would become bulldozer fodder until a few minutes before it happened Saturday afternoon."We saw people looking at the property [over the past few weeks]," Hernández said. "But we had no idea they'd do this!"N ... More >>

Tonight at NX35: The Out-of-Towners Come Into Play.

Aubrey Edwards Moth FightWell, for all the folks who were complaining that NX35 featured too many local acts, you can't really complain about tonight. There's Monotonix (Tel Aviv, Israel), Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Chicago), Beep Beep (Omaha), Sybris (Chicago), Black Gold (Brooklyn) ... More >>

In West Dallas, Finding MMDs

On Wednesday, as you're no doubt aware by now, the Dallas City Council voted to create three municipal management districts, or MMDs. They're the first in Dallas, though Houston is often invoked as proof that MMDs do wonders for development. Which is no surprise, as they're made for development -- o ... More >>

In West Dallas, Habitat for Humanity is Cranking and "Crunkin'" It Out

Patrick Michels Tammy Blackmon in front of her new home. Earlier this week, we told you about Habitat for Humanity's latest build project in West Dallas off Westmoreland Road. And, already, nine new homes are a couple days away from being ready for move-in. Unfair Park stopped by yesterday and fo ... More >>

Homes for the Holiday

By week's end, there should be nine new houses in Greenleaf Village II, near the original 5-year-old West Dallas development at Hampton Road and I-30. As we noted back in July, this is the week Whirlpool Corporation and Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity -- and folks who've come to Dallas from all ... More >>

Human Touch

Habitat for Humanity builds in Dallas

Good Friday: Mount Righteous, Deadman, Billy Joe Shaver, Zanzibar Snails, Fair To Midland, Henry Rollins, Straylight Run

Tom Petty Won't Back Down (Uh, Zing? Anyone?) From Helping Flood Victims

Mayor Tom: Man, What An Amazing Year! And It's Gonna Get Awesomer.

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We All Fall Down

Breaking Wind

Whirlpool's Going to Clean Up Frazier Courts

Frozen Assets

Once the darlings of Dallas, the Stars and their sport are mired in obscurity

Journalists and Lawyers Suck Face

Change Is Gonna Come

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

Be Their Guests

The Allure of Azure

Harwood builds a fancy condo tower without a nickel in handouts from City Hall

Eye of the Beholder

Need proof that beauty's only skin-deep? Visit The Beautiful Room.

Axe, and Ye Shall Receive

Charity Begins at Home

Odds & Ends

Who says you need to go to Austin this weekend for a good concert or four?

Swap Meet

Odds & Ends

Grammy noms, Denton cares and Deedle's last dance

ICE, ICE Babies

SMU kids learn about life outside The Bubble

Election Results

What's up with these members-only clubs?

Sweetheart Deal

How does Virginia McGuire make a profit in the nonprofit business of creating affordable housing? Simple. She pays her husband.

Lost Houses

By my count, somebody may be shorting Judge Buchmeyer 110 low-income houses in West Dallas

Taking It to the Street

Want to get elected to city council in southern Dallas? Forget the race card and patch that pothole.

Letters

Winners take mall

When the readers voted the rock, the Old 97's came away 'big' winners

Letters