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

  December 10 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

  November 22 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

  November 5 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.

  October 11 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...

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  Resilient Dallas Uncovers a Tale of Two Different, Unequal Cities. But You Knew That.

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas is a prosperous, forward-thinking place. It is, the tired catchphrase goes, a “world class city.” “Big Things Happen Here” is the city's brand. Dallas is also where: More than 115,000 children live in poverty, among the worst rates of any large U.S. city. The median income is the lowest...

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  West Nile Virus Precautions are Still Needed This Late in the Season

  October 5 at 4 a.m.

  The city of Dallas will be spraying pesticide today in two neighborhoods where mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile virus. The neighborhoods are the 6700 block of Sperry in Lakewood and the 6400 block of Prestonshire in Preston Hollow, which will be sprayed between 9 p.m. tonight and 5 a.m...