John Ware

How to Get Big Business Interested in DISD: Threaten Its Bond Money.

The Allure of Azure

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

Money to Burn

The City of Dallas pays consultants millions to write reports. Does anyone read them?

Ready to blow

What's that scary ticking noise inside Dallas police headquarters?

Fighting fire with fire

Twenty years after Sherrie Wilson became Dallas' first female firefighter, she discovered the department's hiring practices were discriminatory. When she tried to do something about it, she got burned.

Rules are for suckers

When it came time to hire an architect at city Hall, bureaucrats Robert Troy and Jan Adams made one unforgivable mistake. They were honest.

Letters

When it came time to hire an architect at city Hall, bureaucrats Robert Troy and Jan Adams made one unforgivable mistake. They were honest.

Letters

When it came time to hire an architect at city Hall, bureaucrats Robert Troy and Jan Adams made one unforgivable mistake. They were honest.

Cursed are the peacemakers

Councilwoman Laura Miller steps right into the line of fire--and ends up wounded--in a neighborhood war over a parking lot

Bed head

An unsung intellectual giant rules from the mattress in Wingspan's sparkling production

Spinning wheels

Fahim Minkah cleared one set of hurdles to build a South Dallas skating rink, only to have the city put more in front of him

Mavs held hostage

Did Ross Perot Jr. strike out when Tom Hicks bought the Rangers?

Get real

Arena shills say only tourists will get soaked by a new tax on rental cars. They're lying.

Dumped On

How greedy property owners and careless bureaucrats let a massive illegal landfill grow in the back yard of a black Dallas neighborhood

Jurist imprudence

The search for a new federal judge reaches the lowest common denominator

Static Quo

The City of Dallas could make a fortune from WRR-FM. But powerful friends don't want anything to change at their little radio station.

Combat zoning

Lincoln Property and Ray Nasher play it down and dirty with homeowners

Letters

Lincoln Property and Ray Nasher play it down and dirty with homeowners

'M' is for mad as hell

Petty politics detour the M Streets traffic plan

Letters

Petty politics detour the M Streets traffic plan

The making of an activist

Arena process stirs one woman to get involved

Razing Hopes (Part II)

Thousands of people in Dallas need a cheap place to live. So why is the city destroying homes that could be saved?

Dog bites mayor

How a lost mail sack, a rubber check, and a bogus letter brought out the worst in City Hall

Arenas in the sky

A Fort Worth businessman wants to give Dallas a sports arena--for free

Let them cast ballots

Why can't citizens vote on new arena?

How to renovate Reunion

Architect details low-cost plan to save arena--and poll shows public wants it done

The racer's edge

Hunt alliance gives weaker track developer big edge

City Hall to trees: Drop dead

Why your tax dollars are killing red oaks

Mixed memories

A visit from columns past