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  Mariana Griggs Reflects on Change, Courage and Living in Oak Cliff

  August 10 at 4 a.m.

  The fun thing about being a reporter, the payoff, is getting to talk to interesting people. So that’s what I have been doing lately — calling people and getting them to talk to me without a specific agenda. Mariana Griggs, a 40-year-old mother of two young children, is a longtime...

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  Meet Pearlie Mae Brown, an Unwilling Pawn in the Battle Over Affordable Housing and Gentrification

  August 8 at 4 a.m.

  Pearlie Mae Brown, 80, still doesn’t have her house fixed. An engaging smile breaks across her face, then disappears, subsumed by worry. Rocking on the front porch of her small beige cottage on Crossman Avenue in West Dallas, she seems too tiny, too delicate to be the fulcrum in a...

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  Scathing HUD Report Illustrates the Staggering Hypocrisy of Dallas City Staff

  July 31 at 4 a.m.

  In multiple court hearings last May, Assistant City Attorney Melissa Miles complained that the city just couldn’t quite trust West Dallas landlord Khraish Khraish, who was selling many of his rental houses to his tenants. The city didn’t know if the deeds were kosher. The city was afraid he might...

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  LULAC Chose One Person in America for a Housing Commendation. Guess Who.

  July 12 at 4 a.m.

  If people who write about and think about affordable housing on a national level ever look at Dallas — and they do, from time to time — surely they will find the Dallas citizen who was just commended by the recent national convention of the League of United Latin American...

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  Oak Cliff Through History: Then Versus Now

  June 24 at 10:02 a.m.

  Take a historical walk down West Jefferson, along Lake Cliff park and into the neighborhoods of Winnetka Heights and Kessler Highlands to see how things looked in the 1920s, '40s, and '90s. Oak Cliff is one of Dallas' oldest established neighborhoods. How did things look then and how do they appear now?
  

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  One Winner in Saturday's Runoff Election Was So-Called Wicked Landlord

  June 13 at 4 a.m.

  Let’s make sure we don’t lose sight of one extremely interesting aspect of the big local political turnover that just happened. One of the most surprising outcomes in last Saturday’s City Council runoff elections, the victory of challenger Omar Narvaez over incumbent Monica Alonzo in District 6 in West Dallas,...