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Forget Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Listen to Wallace Hall.

In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids into college. But a story based right here in Dallas reminds us that stupid Hollywood tricks...
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Here’s the Lineup for This Year’s Free State Fair Concert Series

Oppressive Texas summer temperatures may already be bearing down on us, but on the plus side, if we survive for the next 100 days, we'll get to visit our favorite perennial event. That's when the State Fair of Texas opens. We can’t wait to consume copious amounts of fried-whatever-the-hell-we-want as...
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Texas House Votes to Kill One of State’s Most Loathed Programs

It's hard to find anyone who likes Texas' Driver Responsibility Program. Civil rights groups hate it. The Texas Tea Party hates it. The Observer's readers, judging from the number of emails we've received about it, hate it. With a unanimous vote Thursday, the Texas House of Representatives showed that it...
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The Dallas Observer’s Most Read News Stories of 2019

There is one end-of-year list that's easier to put together than the rest. When it comes to identifying the most read news stories of the year, there's no hemming or hawing, no debate in the office or even any critical thinking necessary. The decisions about what goes on this list...
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Dallas ISD Scores a B in New A-F School Ratings

Dallas ISD continued to perform above average in a new round of state A-F district ratings released Thursday. The district scored a B rating for the 2018-2019 school year, the same grade it received the year before. But twice as many schools in the district received failing marks in this...
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Chris Flemmons Is Nostalgic as He Works on an Archival Project

Twenty-five years ago, Baptist Generals’ Chris Flemmons was recording songs on a four-track tape recorder. Oftentimes, he would end up hating the music six months later, because he was in a hurry to find his style. As a result, a lot got left behind. In the past year, Baptist Generals...
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Come Fly With Us to Pilots’ Favorite ‘$100 Hamburgers’

Five pilots sat around a table over lunch recently, discussing gumbo, cargo flights out of Winnipeg and getting stuck in a holding pattern. They were at Ardmore Municipal Airport in Oklahoma watching planes come and go from the dining room at Jake's Joint. The chef-driven restaurant adjacent to the runway...
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Citizens Police Review Board Revamp Passes Unanimously

Dallas' Citizens Police Review Board got meaningfully stronger Wednesday. The new board won't be as strong as activists wanted it to be and is probably a little stronger than Dallas' police associations would've preferred. Its creation is a compromise, just as Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said it would...
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The Cowboys Have Been Here Before

Thursday night's setup should be familiar for Cowboys fans. Their heroes are in the midst of a mixed bag season. They're talented, but imperfect, getting ready to face one of the NFL's gatekeepers. A loss wouldn't destroy their season, and a win won't make it, but the result of the...