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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...

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  Mayor Mansplainer: Mike Rawlings and the Morning News Rise to Defend Tender Womanhood

  March 11 at 4 a.m.

  Last Monday, Observer columnist Jim Schutze wrote a story in which he accused The Dallas Morning News editorial page of telling lies about Dallas City Council member and mayoral candidate Scott Griggs. Schutze suggested this was a deliberate smear campaign aimed at attacking a candidate, Griggs, opposed by the mayor...

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  Ralph Isenberg Once Again Puts His Own Wife Up for Public Ridicule

  March 8 at 4 a.m.

  To win a Dallas City Council vote on a construction project, Methodist Dallas Medical Center in North Oak Cliff (“Methodist”) hitched its wagon and its long good name in the community to Dallas landlord and investor Ralph Isenberg. That’s a hitch. The last time we had much to do with...