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  As Impeachment Trial Begins, It’s Hard to Find a Texas Republican Who Thinks Trump Did Anything Wrong

  January 21 at 4 a.m.

  They should just come out and say it. Everything would be so much easier if Texas Republicans would just admit what they, their constituents and their fellow travelers know to be true: They don't care whether President Donald Trump did what he's alleged to have done in the articles of...

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  Texas Marijuana Laws in 2020: Lots of De Facto, Not Much De Jure

  January 20 at 4 a.m.

  The state of marijuana regulation in Texas, as it stands at the beginning of 2020, is a puzzle. For those of the right race and socioeconomic status, weed is effectively legal. In the state's big cities especially, pot isn't seen as a scourge — police departments are citing and releasing...

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  Dallas Refugee Organizations Unite Against Abbott’s Ban

  January 20 at 4 a.m.

  Ten Dallas organizations held a joint press conference decrying Abbott's rejection of Refugee resettlement.

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  Miguel Solis, On Way Out from School District, Looks Back Not in Anger

  January 20 at 4 a.m.

  Last week, a day before candidate filing opened for the upcoming school board election, East Dallas/Love Field Dallas board member Miguel Solis announced he will not seek reelection. His public statement maintained a certain aura of mystery. He didn’t announce new plans. It was sort of like, “And now my...

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  As They’re Sworn In, No Signs Texas Senators Are Taking Impeachment Seriously

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  Stripped of specific context, Thursday's events in Washington were remarkable. Ninety-nine U.S. senators — Oklahoma's Jim Inhofe was absent, dealing with a loved one's medical emergency — swore an oath promising to impartially weigh whether President Donald Trump's conduct merits his being removed from office. It's historic, only the third...

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  A New Way to Talk About Black Urban Poverty, a Promise of Action and Hope

  January 16 at 4 a.m.

  We struggle, strive, scrape our shins and freeze our toes to see what’s on top of the cliff of urban poverty. Once up there, we all see the same thing. And we all shrug and say, “I am not seeing this.” What we don’t want to see is race. More...