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Vouchers Suffered a Blow in the Texas House, but "Vouchers" Definitely Are Still in Play

Yesterday the State House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1, a new state budget of $193.8 billion, by a lop-sided vote of 135-12. One of the more surprising parts of the bill's passage is the approval of an anti-private school voucher amendment, passed by a vote of 103-43. The amendment, spo ... More >>

What's With All These Duplicate Reviews, Anyway?

In the comments of my recent review of SNACK, Torchness asks: Can you please explain why the Observer reviews every week are almost always the same restaurant as the Dallas Morning News Reviews (or, vice versa)? I find this obnoxious. Why can't there be different reviews week to week? Personally ... More >>

Dallas Police & Fire Pension Says Lawsuit Isn't Imminent, Questions Morning News' Ethics

Perhaps you've heard by now: the Morning News reports that negotiations "have all but broken down" between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, who own the neighboring Museum Tower, which its critics say is really lighting up the neighborhood. But a statement ... More >>

Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense of Its Own Virtue

​Quite a bit of chest-puffing harrumphing holier-than-thou going on over at The Dallas Morning News editorial page today, with a self-congratulatory ditty about that dirty Rupert Murdoch, about those nasty dirty Brit tabloids and about how happy the News is with itself for being ... well ... y ... More >>

Whitt's End: 6.24.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Love the Mavs' draft. Turning the 26th pick into Rudy Fernandez is a big win. Think of Fernandez, 26 and a three-year veteran with the Blazers, as a younger, better Peja Stojakovi ... More >>

Woman Cries Over In-N-Out Burger. This is Getting Weird.

Dallas Morning NewsShe needs double-double napkins.​Yes, it happened. Burger tears. Real ones. While some twitter-ers are retina-bursting with In-N-Out hype rage, the folks down at the freshly opened Frisco location are busting in their shorts. Cheap Bastard Alice Laussade, who tweeted a photo of ... More >>

Critical Condition: War Between Dallas News and Parkland Escalates Over "Ouster" Story

Dr. Lauren McDonald​A few weeks back we took a look at the back-and-forth between The Dallas Morning News and Parkland Memorial Hospital, which, in recent months, has been the subject of numerous investigative pieces detailing patients put at risk and "needlessly harmed," in the words of News Depu ... More >>

"Against the Grain": Jim Moroney on the Decision to Erect a Paywall at The Dallas News

​Shortly before The Dallas Morning News announced the erection of its paywall, which goes into place February 15, publisher and CEO Jim Moroney sent to the staff a memo in which he wrote: Brace yourself. Said Moroney in a phone conversation with Unfair Park at 6:30 this morning, as he was driving ... More >>

Stick It In Your Earmark, or: You Don't Have to Look Far To See When Good Money Goes Bad

The Trinity Parkway Toll Road, looking south from Hampton Road, from the master plan​Not to be cranky or anything, but it's really irritating to read all this crap about congressional earmarks and realize nobody knows what the hell they're talking about. Stories in both The Dallas Morning News and ... More >>

The Ongoing Scrap Over Oak Cliff Scrap Yard

​Yesterday The Dallas Morning News editorial page rolled out the big cannons and opened fire again on Oak Cliff Metals, a metal recycling yard on Pontiac Street in Oak Cliff that the paper wants moved, we know not why. The editorial, which I'm sure was written by editorialisto Tod Robberson, basic ... More >>

Back Before Editors Reported to Sales Execs

​Says this top-rated eBay-er, the photo above comes from The Dallas Morning News newsroom -- dunno who it is, dunno when it was taken. I've asked Schutze, who started at the rival Dallas Times Herald 'round the time this appears to have been snapped, but he can't say for sure. All he knows is she ... More >>

Inside Dallas News's Price-Hike Strategy

​The Dallas Morning News's circulation is way down -- by 30 percent since 2007 -- which is just what A.H. Belo higher-ups expected when they decided to start upping the price of the paper. In a "special report," Editor & Publisher details just how the News came up with the decision to charge $ ... More >>

The Butterscotch Stallion's Faithful Sidekick and Other Famous Faces' Doggone Book

Owen Wilson, from the forthcoming book Top Dogs and Their Pets​Current Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo and former Dallas Morning News photographer Richard Pruitt have been moonlighting on a side project: a coffee-table book titled Top Dogs and Their Pets, proceeds from which toward resc ... More >>

Apparently, Robert Decherd Needs to Be Fixed

Says so right there on The Dallas Morning News's "Problem Tracker" Web site.

"Suspicious Object" on a Light Pole in Front of Dallas News, WFAA Gets Police Attention

Schutze is at the Don Hill trial today, and during the lunch break he was sent word that WFAA and The Dallas Morning News buildings on César Chávez were cordoned off by police. Till moments ago, the Dallas Police Department's Web site listed an active call down thataways with no further explanatio ... More >>

Called for Charging: Mark Cuban Delivers News Some Suggestions For Keeping Readers

Monday-morning flashback: the paperboy convention outside the Adolphus Hotel in 1924. Sorry, the "juvenile districts agents."This morning, The Dallas Morning News released its circulation stats covering the last six months, and, as to be expected, they're down: "Daily circulation in the same period ... More >>

Is Your News Worth a Dollar a Day?

A.H. Belo hopes you think so, because The Dallas Morning News just posted the following notice: Starting Feb. 9, The Dallas Morning News will increase the newsstand price of its Monday-through-Saturday newspapers to one dollar from the current level of 75 cents. The News attributed ... More >>

Former DMN Food Critic Waltrina Stovall Dies

She was highly regarded for her nuanced writing and rare ability to chain smoke through a meal and still understand the flavors. She was 71 and had been hospitalized for about a week.Teresa Gubbins at Pegasus News says it all. Expect a lengthy obituary in tomorrow's Dallas Morning News.I knew of her ... More >>

Dallas Morning News Has a Smaller, But Better Audience Now

Note to News: Just Bring Back the Paperboy and His Trusty Bicycle

Are You Affluent? Time-Starved? Too Cheap to Buy The News?

News Adds City Hall Blog, Eyeballs

Look Out, Belo! Redux

Public, Private -- What's the Dif? It's Eye Candy, Baby!

The New York Times Is Now In Bidness With The Dallas Morning News

Jim Needs The News' Help With a Little Fact-Checking

Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese Ready to Fight the Church Over Property

Surprise: Leo Chaney Loves Him Some Leo Chaney

Dunkin' Donuts Back in Dallas? That's So Last Year's News.

Mommy Dearest. At Least, That's What The Dallas Morning News is Banking On.

Letterman Calls DMN "Small Town News"-paper

Rolling Newspapers

Slow News Day

Belo Suits: They Fit Like They're Handmade!

You Know What They Say About Small Packages

Grief Counseling

Mourning News

DaMN

"Not For Everyone"? Sure Sounds Like It

CD-ROMs? What, No Eight-Tracks? Reel-t0-Reels?

Note to DMN'ers: Keep Waiting.

Death and Destruction at the Belo Mansion!

The Love Belo

DMN: I Want Your Mommy

Narcing on The News?

At the Ripping Point

Dallas' only daily finds itself losing a war for readers' eyeballs and the heart of its staff

Suck it Up

Fear, loathing and forgetfulness at The Dallas Morning News

Odds and Not Quite Ends

More on the DMN's circulation scandal

Nervous

Budget woes leave DMN staffers uneasy

Curse of Youth

Two new Dallas papers are keeping tabs on the little futhermuckers