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A Texas Filmmaker Working on Doc about the Dallas Exonerees Trying to Reform the System

A lot of men convicted by Dallas County have walked free over the past dozen years, 44 according to the University of Michigan's National Registry of Exonerations. District Attorney Craig Watkins has made the liberation of innocent prisoners his personal mission, as well as his ticket to national fa ... More >>

Not So Fast: Morning News Op-Ed Calls for More Aerial Mosquito Spraying, but There Are Better Ways to Fight West Nile

On the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News this morning, two local epidemiologists with national/international reputations weigh in for more aerial spraying to combat West Nile disease. Robert Haley, the Gulf War Syndrome expert, and James Luby, an expert on St. Louis encephalitis at UT Southweste ... More >>

Hooray for Dallas' Big, Dumb Ideas Like Fancy Bridges. They Stir Up the Smart Kids.

So, back to the new fake suspension bridge we're building at enormous cost over the Trinity River, and, in fact, let's go back and review the whole Trinity River project. In fact, let's go back and review everything. Here is my question: Why are huge, obviously stupid projects the best thing that e ... More >>

Rambo Romney Should Call for Restarting the Draft

Make us believe you mean it, Mitt. Bring back the draft. For the better part of a week, I have been reading all these thinly veiled suggestions by Mitt Romney that President Obama isn't enough of an ass-kicker in the Middle East. His aides have been telling reporters that a President Romney right n ... More >>

Mitt Romney Moves Left With Education Plan. That'll Never Last.

Oh, man, and me a total Obamatoid! Am I going to have to vote for Mitt Romney? But he's already way to the left of Obama on education and batting 1.000 on one of my favorite themes, the need to integrate schools by class, not race. For years there has been persuasive research out there arguing that ... More >>

Mayor Mike's Version of Regionalism: Selling out Dallas to the 'Burbs

In his speech last week endorsing a new highway in the Trinity River flood zone, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings threw down a gauntlet. It was sort of a buried line. I guess not everybody heard it. I did. He said at one point, "I'm a regionalist," and then he said of people who oppose his view, "For tho ... More >>

The Five-Year Engagement's Humor Won't Crack You Up

Talk the Talk: Mayor Mike's Pals Shovel Up the BS at Council Retreat

​Look, I know I just covered this in a column in the paper, but I can't resist coming back to the theme of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings as a so-what clone of the last mayor we had around here, Tom Leppert. The target I find particularly irresistible this time is the group therapy session Rawlin ... More >>

Old White People Who Think They Can Just Check Out Should Think Again

So what is all this anger among the old white people really all about? Why are old white people wearing odd costumes and hating the president all the time? We old white people all know exactly what it is. But nobody will say it out loud. It never comes out in the stories, even though it's right the ... More >>

Adventures in Lousy Sports Stadium Logic, Starring University of North Texas and D

Researchers say the new UNT stadium will pump $29 million a year into Denton's economy. You'll never guess where the researchers work.​The University of North Texas unveiled its shiny new football stadium last week, a $79 million complex designed to bring some juice to Denton come college foot ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

Is Tea Party Darling and Republican Congressional Candidate Stephen Broden Still Electable After Endorsing Violence As a Means of Changing the Government?

More About That Voting Machine "Glitch"

James WagnerA work by John Waters, because if you're gonna get screwed in the voting booth ... ​Friday morning we had that item about computer programmer Don Relyea's run-in with that touch-screen voting machine at the Audelia Road Library, where a vote for Gov. Rick Perry appeared to morph into a ... More >>

The News Yanks Its Endorsement of Broden. Didn't See That Coming. Oh, Wait. Yes, We Did.

Michael Steele and Stephen Broden​The Dallas Morning News today withdrew its endorsement of Stephen Broden in the Texas 30th District congressional race, after Eddie Bernice Johnson's Republican challenger told WFAA-Channel 8 reporter Brad Watson that violent revolution is one of his "options" for ... More >>

Profs: Dallas Has More Heart Than Head

Click to embiggen the results of University of Michigan psychologists Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson's head v. heart research​That, in short, is a summary of a study conducted by University of Michigan psychologists Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson, which appeared in the September issu ... More >>

For Job-Seekers, It Pays to at Least Pretend to be a Teetotaler

Definitely a bad call when your job interviewer is driving you to lunch.​Business etiquette books typically advise job seekers to take their cues from their interviewers, but a new study suggests that dictum doesn't apply when alcohol's involved. According to a study released today by the Uni ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center's Kevin Moriarty rescues a singing Man of Steel from his Fortress of Solitude.

Contractor Responsible for New Dallas Black Dance Theatre HQ Sues For Defamation

Ann Williams​The contractor on the new headquarters of Dallas Black Dance Theatre is suing DBDT founder and artistic director Ann Williams and her daughter for 10 million bucks for "tortious interference" (messing with his money) and defamation. If it doesn't settle early, this could be an intrigu ... More >>

Would-Be Owner Chuck Greenberg has the Money and Moxie to Lead the Texas Rangers Back to Relevancy and into the Playoffs

Bodies to Hit the Floor in the Old West End Marketplace Beginning Saturday

Photos by Kimberly ThorpeDr. Roy Glover, chief medical director and spokesperson for Bodies: The Exhbition. You can check out more photos in our slide show.​You shouldn't be grossed out by the cadavers and bones on display at the new Bodies: The Exhibition, which has already taken over the first f ... More >>

A court case forced a Santeria priest to reveal some of his religion’s secrets. Its ritual of animal sacrifice, he revealed on his own.

Serious Asia

10 Questions: Jim Schutze

Our own investigative curmudgeon, legendary political writer and sometime author of crime narratives sure likes to stir the pot.He's been called a liar by targets of his reporting, touched off verbal feuds amongst elected, drawn the wrath of...well, a lot of people. Along the way, he's won national ... More >>

Enter Sand, Man

From Page 43 of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Trinity floodway reportAstute Friend of Unfair Park "Wylie H." drilled into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' report on the Trinity River levees yesterday evening and found the real horror story that goes almost unmentioned in this morning's Dallas M ... More >>

Stroll to the Future: Walkable Neighborhoods are Next for Dallas

Welcome to Seinfeld America, a fine place to take a walk that's coming soon to Dallas

More Evidence That Dallas Is Headed Down the Road to Ruin

The American Way: Pissed. Off.

Sunday School – Handing Out Grades To Our Weekend Wrap-Up Shows

Apparently, Some People Still Need to Be Sold on Diversity

DowntownDallas Crowd Can't Find the D-Spot

Love, Actually, Isn't Like This

Feast of Love knows nothing of what it blabs on and on about

Before Romo, There Was Henson

Jim Schutze is Ford Tough

The Allure of Azure

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

Darth Reader

Jones, We Are Your Fans

Showing a Pulse

Getting Drew, Keyshawn and Marcellus reveals the Cowboys have life after all

What's Your Position?

Who will lead America's Team come November? The electorate must know.

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

The Kids Are All Right

Two locals try to help restore junior American basketball to prominence

Evil Eyes

Coral Eugene Watts is a serial killer. He says he'll murder again. Why can't Texas stop him?

Top Pick

When NFL teams draft a player, bet that Rick Gosselin knows why

Being Ray Liotta

Plus: Finding Himself

Crossing Division Street

How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it.

Bottle Rockets Downtown

A lawsuit complaining about election fraud could bust things wide open

My Day of the Locust

How a book I wrote got turned into a movie, and why I ain't rich

The True Believer

Say what you want about Marvin Olasky, the oddball UT professor and controversial architect of Bush's "compassionate conservatism." He practices what he preaches.

Math wars

Plano parents lay siege to enthusiasts of the "New New Math" in a fight over how to fix the sorry state of math instruction in the public schools

Reeling inthe years

It's deja vu all over again with the rerelease of The Big Chill