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  Butterfly Center Is a Good Border Post to Spot Tanks Coming — Not From South

  February 21 at 4 a.m.

  We were on vacation. We went to the National Butterfly Center on the Mexican border near Mission last week to see butterflies. It was coincidence my wife and I were there with friends the same day President Donald Trump declared his border wall emergency. But what a coincidence. I don’t...

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  Given Explosions, What is Real Cost of Natural Gas and Who Pays?

  Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Texas State Rep. Rafael Anchia is doing a larger version of the same thing my own Dallas city council member did for people on my street two years ago – using political pressure to push a natural gas utility to clean up its act. Sometimes we have to use politics...

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  Van Valkenburgh Plan for Trinity River Park Is Six Flags for Rich People

  Monday, December 10, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Last week I walked into Gilley’s in the Cedars and found a huge room packed shoulder-to-shoulder with sleek, gray-headed men in great suits or golf leisure clothes, many of them arm and arm with skinny women sporting $220 hair dyes and shoes beyond my comprehension. The event was the unveiling...

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  Protest Against Dakota and Louisiana Crude Pipelines Comes to Dallas

  Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  About a dozen protesters gathered at Energy Transfer Partners’ office building in Dallas this week, the second anniversary of when police used non-lethal weapons against Dakota Access Pipeline protesters at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas. This time, the focus was on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, which is being...

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  Private Dam in the Suburbs Is a Coal Mine Canary for Us All

  Monday, November 5, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Next time somebody wants to charge you 25 percent extra for a house because it’s near a man-made private lake in Texas, ask him to tell you who’s on the hook when the dam blows out. That’s the lesson homeowners are about to learn in Arlington. Prestonwood Lake, about 3.5...

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  Now Does the Alt-Press Have to Start Saying Nice Things About Golfers? Lord.

  Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  My job is hard. Sometimes I hear terrible things — things I have to live with because of my work. For example, in a recent conversation I was told something positive about the Trinity Forest Golf Club. How do you think that made me feel? But I soldier on, and...