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Mr. Mayor, Meet Your Nightmare
Frustrated, fed up, and ready to fight, Laura Miller trades muckraking for a run at City Hall
By Laura Miller
That giant sucking sound
No, not The Dallas Morning News' arena coverage--but tax dollars being siphoned away for millionaires' pet projects
Get real
Arena shills say only tourists will get soaked by a new tax on rental cars. They're lying.
Flying blind
With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet
Priced to sell out
City Manager John Ware ramrods a patched-together arena deal
Mommie dearest
Why I'm trading my typewriter for diapers and drool cloths
Year of the weasel
From Al Lipscomb to Paul Fielding, it was hard to find straight talk in '96
Should Paul Fielding go to jail?
He's violated the public trust and betrayed his own ethical standards. But is Dallas' perpetually annoying councilman guilty of fraud, perjury, and extortion?
Tough choices
Being major is hard work. If it isn't the Jews, it's a fight in Vegas.
The haunting
To the grief of his children and his wife's family, Walker Railey is resurrecting his story
Combat zoning
Lincoln Property and Ray Nasher play it down and dirty with homeowners
Artful dodger
Ray Nasher wants to give the city his sculptures, but first there's a small zoning matter
Woolery's mammoth
When it came to spending, Dallas' former superintendent always thought big
Blind-sided, again
Al Lipscomb assures us that he has no idea what's going on
Daddy dearest
As Michael Irvin tries to scrub his image, it just gets weirder and weirder
Rough Justice
The trails of covering the Irvin case
The Dope Bowl
Lawyers, goons, money--and some very curious sex toys. Laura Miller does the post-game analysis of the Michael Irvin trial.
Leave it to Keever
DISD's new leader has ambition and ideas--if anybody'd let him finish a meeting
Devil's work
New Black Panthers finally find the spotlight
Power Houses
A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers
Clueless
For city Councilman Al Lipscomb, taking handouts from power brokers has become a way of life. Is there a problem?
Ruffled feathers
Birds chirping, neighbors squabbling--ah, Earth Day in University Park