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14 January, 2020

A Dallas desegregation program changed Donna Pryor's life. It's a pioneer in a nationwide movement to reimagine hou… https://t.co/Qx2PjMAdoM

10 January, 2020

Just announced: Tonya McClary, formerly @nolaipm, has been hired to lead Dallas' new Office of Community Police Oversight.

10 January, 2020

Whether this all works is another question. Change at the DPD has long been contentious and the department is refus… https://t.co/h4dUD5t1uD

10 January, 2020

Thanks to the audit, DPD and the City Manager have both made a lot of promises. By July, they will add it to 3-1-1,… https://t.co/iYrIJ9UHOm

10 January, 2020

Fortunately, the city is revamping its police oversight board, and one of their top priorities is making the proces… https://t.co/hxKlWKrWSP

Lucas Manfield

Lucas Manfield is an editorial fellow at the Observer. He's a former software developer and a recent graduate of Columbia Journalism School.

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After FDA Crackdown on Juul, Disposable Knockoffs Take Over

14 hours ago | Healthcare

Customers of Dallas vape shops looking for Mango Juul cartridges are finding empty shelves and heavy markups. Instead, they’re turning to Puff Bars, a nearly identical product that skirts the new rules by fusing the liquid-filled cartridge to the ...
DHA Is Opening Applications for its Rent Assistance Program Tuesday

2 days ago | Housing

Dallas' housing authority will begin accepting new applications for its housing voucher program at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It's the first time DHA has accepted new applicants to the program in years. The program provides a voucher that caps rent at 3...
Dallas Wants to Give Millions in Tax Breaks to a Failing Pizza Delivery Startup

5 days ago | News

Dallas plans to offer Zume, a Silicon Valley tech startup, more than $5 million in tax incentives to open a manufacturing hub. The company, once valued at more than $2 billion, has come on hard times after failing to deliver on its early promise o...
Dallas Settles With ‘Will Rap 4 Weed’ Activist over Panhandling Prohibition

6 days ago | City Hall

Lawyers for the city of Dallas and Yvette Gbalazeh have agreed to settle the activist’s 2018 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the city’s panhandling ordinances. Gbalazeh said she will receive $20,000 and a meeting with the city's polic...
The City Promised 6,600 New Affordable Homes. It Delivered 320.

7 days ago | City Hall

In early 2018, the city released a plan to build thousands of new units of affordable housing. When the plan was introduced, then-Mayor Mike Rawlings said, "This is a very important day to show that government works in America, and we can take com...
Loss of AT&T Byron Nelson Is Trinity Forest Golf Club’s Latest Broken Promise

8 days ago | News

In 2018, one of the North Texas stops on the PGA Tour was moved to southern Dallas from Las Colinas in Irving. It was the fulfillment of a promise by Trinity Forest Golf Club's backers that the new course — and the city's $12 million investme...