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Dallas’ St. Patrick’s Day Parade is Canceled and … Meh

Put your green hats away, Dallas. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is canceled. Following the lead of cities like Chicago and Boston, Dallas has officially canceled the Greenville Avenue celebration, which was scheduled for Saturday, March 14. On Tuesday, a press release announced that the St. Paddy’s celebration was still...
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Don’t Wanna Be Sedated

In 2016, Tony Timpa had a run-in with the police. As he stood outside a porn shop on Mockingbird Lane, Timpa called the cops, telling them he was scared, off of his medication and suffering from mental illness. By the end of the night, the 32-year-old Timpa was dead, dying...
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First Look: Mot Hai Ba Is Open for Dining in its New Location

Chef Peja Krstic had planned to open the second location of Mot Hai Ba in March. We all know why that didn’t happen. Yet another effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening was delayed. But as of this week, the doors have opened (softly, anyway) at the Victory Park spot...
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Good to Go: Savory, Cheesy Bosnian Pies from Eddie’s EuroMart

Good to Go is a column where our food writers explore Dallas' restaurant scene through takeout orders, delivery boxes and reheated leftovers. It’s not a place where we’d look for a restaurant, even in good times. To the west, the six-lane road ducks under an old freight rail bridge. To...
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We Will Know For Sure If Reopening Was the Right Move. Someday.

Maybe you know exactly what’s going on and what’s going to happen next. Not me. I don’t know jack. But let’s put down a marker right here at the beginning of the Great Texas Reopening. There will be an answer. It will be math. This isn’t French Impressionism. At a...
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DFW Schools Rise High in Rankings When You Account for Demographics

Dallas and Fort Worth students' performance on national standardized tests looks much better when you take demographics into account, according to a new report released by the Urban Institute. Dallas jumped to No. 5 in the ranking of 27 large school districts across the country. The analysis was based on...
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MJ Hegar Defeats Royce West in U.S. Senate Runoff Race

MJ Hegar will battle Republican incumbent John Cornyn for his U.S. Senate seat in November. Tuesday, Air Force veteran Hegar defeated Dallas state Sen. Royce West in the Democratic runoff for Senate. The last time Texas sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate was in 1993. But Hegar told her...
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Long-Term Care Facilities Struggle to Stave Off COVID Deaths

The numbers don’t look good for North Texas’ long-term care facilities, where the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on elderly residents and staff. Monday, 19 members of a Plano memory care facility were hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, according to The Dallas Morning News. Since mid-April, Dallas nursing home...
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Coronavirus Recession Places Prekindergarten Programs at Risk, Researchers Warn

State budget shortfalls associated with the COVID-19 economic slowdown could put state prekindergarten programs at serious risk, according to a report released Wednesday. In the report, researchers with Rutgers University's National Institute for Early Education Research warn that cutbacks to state-funded pre-K programs could have long-lasting effects, not only on...
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Prosecution’s Case Comes into Focus in Amber Guyger Trial

Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, as a parade of witness talked about the scene at the South Side Flats apartments, the forensic results of Amber Guyger’s decision to shoot Botham Jean and investigative procedure, prosecutors' case came into clearer focus: Guyger might not be a cold-blooded murderer, but she was...
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Journalists Speak Out on Treatment During Police Brutality Protests

As protesters crossed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge toward a wall of cops on June 1, they chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” Members of the media were among the protesters. Photographers’ camera shutters snapped, writers scribbled in their notebooks and some streamed the event live on their phones. Then, the...