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  With Dwaine Caraway Gone, Council District Is up for the Highest Bidder

  October 15 at 4 a.m.

  Dwaine Caraway’s City Council district is about to do the same thing again: elect somebody who owes her or his soul to outsiders. It’s the tragic flaw in Dallas’ system of city government. Nobody who might really represent a poor district, who might truly stick up for it, can beat...

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  Now Does the Alt-Press Have to Start Saying Nice Things About Golfers? Lord.

  October 11 at 4 a.m.

  My job is hard. Sometimes I hear terrible things — things I have to live with because of my work. For example, in a recent conversation I was told something positive about the Trinity Forest Golf Club. How do you think that made me feel? But I soldier on, and...

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  Don't Like the Price? Steal It! City Hall Goes After Car Wash Guy Again.

  October 10 at 4 a.m.

  I have been writing about Dale Davenport, proprietor of Jim’s Car Wash on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Fair Park, for 14 years. Monday for the first time in all those years, I heard him say something I didn’t believe was true. Speaking in reference to a new initiative...

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  We Hope Our Homeless Will Fade Into Ash, and Soon Enough They Do

  October 5 at 4 a.m.

  Genocide is a tricky, ugly word to trot out in an argument. Comparing something to the brutality and madness of genocide to make a point is likely to blow up in your face. Survivors are justifiably touchy about anything that remotely devalues their suffering. Plus, my editor won't let me...

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  What Counts Is Not What Kavanaugh Did Then, It's What He Says Now

  October 4 at 4 a.m.

  I watched the Kavanaugh hearing last week with a bunch of old white guys. Of course, it was strictly research, but I was also hoping they might get enough of it at some point to lift themselves painfully up off the couch so we could go fishing, as promised. But,...

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  Botham Jean Column Not One of My Greater Hits, and Yet Here I Go Again

  October 3 at 4 a.m.

  Monday I wrote a column saying there is a chance under the law that fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed an innocent man in his own apartment on Sept. 6, is not guilty of murder. The reader response was numerous and mostly angry with me, as...