Latest Stories

• 
  Southern Dallas Can’t Draw Jobs Today Unless It Deals with Yesterday

  January 29 at 4 a.m.

  Announcing a $100 million fund drive to find jobs for the perennially jobless, Potter’s House evangelist T.D. Jakes told Mitchell Schnurman at The Dallas Morning News this week, “If you have to go to work in the morning, you’re not hanging out on the streets at night with a gun.”...

• 
  Trump Sides With Poverty Pimps and Dallas Gets Chumped

  January 27 at 4 a.m.

  We have to stop being played for suckers on race, crime and poverty, both here in Dallas and as a nation. Take murder. In recent weeks, two significant local studies and one exciting policy proposal have come forward to combat the social and moral dysfunction that drive murder in particular...

• 
  The Bobby Abtahi-Robert Wilonsky Way of Screwing Things Up Good

  January 23 at 4 a.m.

  Let me just give you a quick current example of how we get screwed up in this town. This Tuesday, DART, the regional transit agency, had to eat crow and go back to the drawing board on a new $1.25 billion rail line through North Dallas after both City Council...

• 
  Mr. Mayor, How About City Bond Money to Offset General Messed-up-edness?

  January 22 at 4 a.m.

  For one minute, let’s not call it the murder problem. The word, murder, makes people understandably crazy. Let’s go easy on the murder and just call it the general social messed-up-edness problem or GSMP instead. Better? We now have two recent independent reports on GSMP, one assembled by the administration...

• 
  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...

• 
  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...