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  Keeping VisitDallas on Life Support, Dallas’ Worst Puppet Show

  March 22 at 4 a.m.

  Its real name on tax records is the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, but now it calls itself VisitDallas, because nowadays you have to have an ungrammatical neologism for your name if you want to be hip. I don’t know how hip it is really, but VisitDallas is maybe the...

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  Let’s Have Some Fun Gaming D Magazine’s Mayoral ‘Poll’

  March 20 at 4 a.m.

  You don’t know this, because you don’t read D, the city magazine of Dallas, but they’ve been running a mayoral poll on their online Frontburner page. You click to vote for your favorite candidate. This week they admitted the poll probably is being gamed. Shawn Shinneman wrote: “It’s possible —...

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  In Texas, We Try to Indict Whoever Finds the College Admissions Cheating

  March 18 at 4 a.m.

  We don’t even yet know how much of it is true, but the $25 million college admissions bribery scandal described in a federal indictment in Massachusetts last week has already ignited a firestorm of blame-laying, which should fill my heart with joy. The blame game, after all, is my personal...

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  Laura Miller Is a Savage, and in This Town That Is High Praise

  March 14 at 4 a.m.

  The City Council campaign in District 13 north of the Park Cities is shaping up to be strangely like a very important chapter in my own past, although it’s also totally different. Former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller (2002-2007) is running to unseat the incumbent, Jennifer Staubach Gates, who has represented...

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  Police Audio Reveals Elaborate Ongoing Lie in Accusation Against Scott Griggs

  March 13 at 4 a.m.

  The mayor of Dallas and the editorial page of The Dallas Morning News have revived an incident from 2015 in which Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs, now a candidate for mayor, was accused of violently threatening a city official, then-Assistant City Secretary Bilirae Johnson. A Dallas County grand jury dismissed...

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  It Shouldn’t Be Harder To Catch White Bribe-Takers Than Black Ones

  March 11 at 4 a.m.

  My well-known modesty, one of my many admirable personal traits, won’t allow me to tell The Dallas Morning News how to do its job. But if I had been the editor on that story last week about a suburban mayor and her husband getting convicted on federal bribery charges, the...