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    May 18, 2012

    More Subsidized Housing is the Last Thing Poor Neighborhoods Need

    The Dallas Morning News owes me at least five bucks for all the business I steer their way -- and, believe me, I hate doing it -- but once again they have an op-ed piece in the paper today that's really a must-read for people who care about the city or have any involvement at all with City Hall. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    In Dallas As in Miami, It's Time to Build Low-Income Housing Where the Jobs Are

    ​Who's a liberal these days, and who are the conservatives? I look in the mirror, I don't even know. I look in The New York Times this morning, I'm even more confused. The Times has a story out of Miami about major cuts in federal housing subsidies. The story calls them "some of the deepest c ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2011

    Why can't Mexicans keep their cactus-pickin' fingers off other people's plants?

    ​Who's a liberal these days, and who are the conservatives? I look in the mirror, I don't even know. I look in The New York Times this morning, I'm even more confused. The Times has a story out of Miami about major cuts in federal housing subsidies. The story calls them "some of the deepest c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Where's the Subsidized Housing in Dallas Located? Let's Go to the PowerPoint.

    ​Forthcoming, my very early-morning chat with Mayor Tom Leppert, during which we touched on, among other things, his call for a citywide fake-weed ban, the now-sidelined Dallas Watersports Complex and the fallout from Monday night's surprise announcement concerning Cliff Manor. But during the inte ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    Goin’ To The Chapel: When Is A Mexican Girl Ripe For Marriage

    ​Forthcoming, my very early-morning chat with Mayor Tom Leppert, during which we touched on, among other things, his call for a citywide fake-weed ban, the now-sidelined Dallas Watersports Complex and the fallout from Monday night's surprise announcement concerning Cliff Manor. But during the inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    Darren Reagan Gets Some Prison Vacay Before City Hall Corruption Trial

    ​Forthcoming, my very early-morning chat with Mayor Tom Leppert, during which we touched on, among other things, his call for a citywide fake-weed ban, the now-sidelined Dallas Watersports Complex and the fallout from Monday night's surprise announcement concerning Cliff Manor. But during the inte ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Tax Dollars at Work

    Hey, armed robbers need bullets, too!

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Just Get Married!

    Bells will be ringing as a new pro-marriage, anti-poverty plan takes root in Texas

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    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.

  • News

    May 7, 1998

    Doling for dollars

    The Cold War over, defense giant Lockheed Martin mines another government program for profit -- the war on poverty

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Gimme Shelter

    With public housing under assault from Congress, the Justice Department, and HUD, Dallas tenants' advocate Alice Basey is part of a grassroots movement fighting to keep poor families from going homeless

  • News

    January 5, 1995

    Letters

    With public housing under assault from Congress, the Justice Department, and HUD, Dallas tenants' advocate Alice Basey is part of a grassroots movement fighting to keep poor families from going homeless

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