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  Honest Housing Policy Versus Plain Old Patronage at City Hall

  March 21 at 4 a.m.

  The Dallas City Council is debating a new housing policy. During this period of public input and debate, you should closely monitor your banking and credit card accounts, keep all valuables in a safe and locked place, ask any so-called Girl Scouts who come to the door selling cookies for...

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  Two Landlord Guys Explain What Sucks About Accepting Section 8 Vouchers

  March 6 at 4 a.m.

  We talked here recently about the upcoming battle over Section 8 vouchers and how that fight may be a big factor in the larger direction of Dallas City Hall and the whole city in the years ahead. I said some progressive council members hope the city will do what it...

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  Lockey Lawsuit Back from the Grave, This Time in Southern California

  February 23 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas takes a certain pride in being contrarian. At a time when the terms collusion and obstruction of justice are frequently associated with news about the Trump White House and Republicans, one of Dallas’ oldest, most stubbornly impacted legal battles rears its head again, now hurling those terms, obstruction and...

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  New Ideas Rising in Dallas to Get Us Past the Trump-Era Divide

  February 9 at 4 a.m.

  One thing we should all be able to agree on about now. The Trump debate — against, for — really does not get anybody one inch off the dime. Most of the time, I don’t even think any of us can really remember what we started out thinking we were...

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  City Blesses Large Affordable-Housing Project Near Old Dallas High School Downtown

  January 25 at 4 a.m.

  Downtown Dallas appears set to get its first sizable block of affordable housing in nearly a decade with the building of a new residential tower near the newly reopened Dallas High School building on the Central Business District's eastern edge. The project by Matthews Southwest, the developer behind the old...

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  Ess! Dallas Housing Policy Seems Like One Big Ess-Storm. Is It?

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  Housing policy in Dallas isn’t just screwed up. It’s screwed up so deep into the ground that it’s going to take smart people with good intentions a very long time to get it unscrewed. Maybe that’s what’s going on at City Hall, but days like yesterday, it just looks like...