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  Park Friends Group Wants To Be Development Czar Along the River

  May 11 at 4 a.m.

  This is a story about the dangers posed by spunky people. In these terrible times, this story should offer comic relief. But, uh … nah. Probably not too comic. The Trinity Park Conservancy, a very spunky private group charged with raising money for a fancy new city park on the...

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  Coronavirus Science Is Not an Election for God's Sake

  May 6 at 4 a.m.

  This is what drives me crazy about a lot of the public discourse on coronavirus. When did people get the idea that science is a democracy? For the last many weeks I have been writing about the coronavirus pandemic, and, because everything that goes up online these days leaks out...

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  We Will Know For Sure If Reopening Was the Right Move. Someday.

  May 4 at 4 a.m.

  Maybe you know exactly what’s going on and what’s going to happen next. Not me. I don’t know jack. But let’s put down a marker right here at the beginning of the Great Texas Reopening. There will be an answer. It will be math. This isn’t French Impressionism. At a...

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  Grim Calculus: Deaths for an Economy and Maybe Somebody's Reelection

  April 30 at 4 a.m.

  In the debate on opening up versus shutting down, a dark picture is emerging, with national ramifications but also with some nasty roots closer to home. A truly terrible political calculus may be afoot. The calculus would be this: that the nation will swallow the cost in human lives of...

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  When Colleyville Gives Us the Finger, What Should We Give Colleyville Back?

  April 29 at 4 a.m.

  Now for the really weird part, the reopenings. What does reopening even mean? Who says? Reopen what? How? Then what? Why does this feel like Russian roulette? Wait. Is life Russian roulette? I have been thinking a lot about Colleyville, the affluent suburban community north of Dallas that has defiantly...

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  What the Most Needy Need Most In a Time of Separation – Each Other

  April 27 at 4 a.m.

  Yes, we need to pay special homage to first responders and medical personnel in this crisis, but there is another group of exposed persons out there risking their own health. I am thinking of clergy, nonprofit workers and volunteers who serve the least of our sisters and brothers. Any number...