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Texas Is Falling Out of Love With the Death Penalty

Texas prosecutors aren't giving juries the opportunity to put people to death and, even when they do, jurors aren't going for it. Those are the big takeaways from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's annual roundup of Texas' death row development. Only nine of the 21 executions scheduled...
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Public Defender’s Office Wins Grant to Add More Social Workers

The Dallas County public defender's office plans to hire social workers to help keep its mentally ill clients out of jail. It's one more attempt to end the cycle of hospitalization, incarceration and homelessness caused by the criminalization — rather than treatment — of mental illness. Nonprofits and county administrators...
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Tippy Balady Keeps It PG-13 With New Pop Anthem

Tippy Balady doesn’t cuss. “I’ve never had a place for it in my vocabulary,” she says, the “it” referring to the four-letter words others might employ with ease. “Even in high school, when your parents expect you to start cussing, I didn’t see a need for it.” Yet sometimes people...
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Dallas Rapper Samsonyte Is Quietly Setting Trends in Hip-Hop

The sound of trap music is not going anywhere soon, but do you remember what hip-hop used to sound like with the mix of drums and soul samples? Dallas recording artist Samsonyte is here to flip the script on the “Hip-Hop Is Dead” era. The underground hip-hop and rap scene...
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Neighbors Set To Sue Dallas over Reverchon Park Deal

Dallas' Reverchon Park fight, already voted on twice by the Dallas City Council, isn't over. Thursday afternoon, a group of the park's neighbors announced a lawsuit intended to stop the city's deal to give the reins of the park to a private group led by Dallas Mavericks executive Donnie Nelson...
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Defendants, Lawyers and Justice Suffer as Pandemic Shuts Down Trials

For 16 years, Bill Price has successfully defended the city’s prostitutes, drug dealers, drunk drivers and the occasional client accused of murder. But against COVID-19 and a dormant criminal justice system, even the gold medal weightlifter-turned-litigator is powerless. “This virus has crippled the courts,” says the veteran defense attorney. “There...
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Mr. Troll, Dallas Music Scene’s Iconic Hippie, Has Died

Ramon Mallow was a self-proclaimed hippie. People knew him as Mr. Troll in the Dallas-Fort Worth music scene, a moniker from his old biker days. His family called him Danny, after his middle name Daniel. His sister Faye Price said she always called her brother a bohemian. He prided himself...
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Vice President Joe Biden Wows Dallas with Show of Democratic Force

If there was any doubt which presidential candidate Dallas' elected Democrats prefer, it's gone. Former Vice President Joe Biden, fresh off clobbering Sen. Bernie Sanders in Saturday's South Carolina primary, rolled out waves of familiar faces for the crowd at Gilley's in the Cedars on Monday night, before making the...
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How Do Texas’ Coronavirus Numbers Compare to Other States?

Like the rest of the country, Texas, the second-largest state both in population and land area, is in the midst of a public health crisis. In the state's largest counties, the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus is rising drastically each day. Gov. Greg Abbott has shut down...
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North Texas Artists Are Loudly Backing Black Lives Matter

As America burns and the revolution-within-a-pandemic rages on, many entertainers have spoke out about their  support for social justice reform. Run the Jewels dropped its fourth album early, with critics heralding it as the “soundtrack of the George Floyd protests.” Doja Cat donated $100,000 to the Breonna Taylor fund to...