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  Northwestern Student Editors, Meet Avi Adelman, Your Nightmare, Your Mentor

  November 21 at 4 a.m.

  There’s a big brouhaha going on now within the journalism trade about an apology published a couple of weeks ago by editors of the student newspaper at Northwestern University. The editors of The Daily Northwestern said they regretted the way they had reported on a student protest. I really worry...

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  For JFK Conspiracy Wedding, Reception at Campisi’s, Where Else?

  November 20 at 4 a.m.

  The Bryan Pergola at the top of the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza has always struck me as an ugly monument to everything depressing in the history of Dallas. Built in the “early commercial style” of the early 20th century, it looks like a public restroom. It’s named for a...

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  Clergy Who Jumped on Cops for Shelter Arrests Should Know Better

  November 18 at 4 a.m.

  Last week on the worst night of the freeze, Dallas police arrested 11 people on outstanding warrants when they showed up among some 300 homeless seeking shelter in the city’s Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center downtown. Clergy who had helped transport people to the center said the arrests were a...

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  Dallas Schools Doing OK, No 10 Plagues of Egypt, Trustee Claims

  November 14 at 4 a.m.

  We must knock wood and throw salt over our shoulders. Don’t say anything to mess it up. But the Dallas public school system, already an unheralded center of innovation, may also be emerging as an unheralded beacon of stability. And the unheralded part — no New York Times stories, no 60 Minutes...

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  Dallas City Council Corruption Case a Third-Cousin to Trump Impeachment

  November 13 at 4 a.m.

  The main lawyer in an upcoming Dallas City Council corruption trial is also an important player in impeachment. And quid pro quo, by now the best known Latin phrase in Washington, meaning this for that or what for what, also is at the center of our local imbroglio. Washington A-Team...

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  Boomers Count Beto Out for All the Wrong Reasons

  November 7 at 4 a.m.

  The mainstream media analysis of Beto O’Rourke’s decision to kill his campaign is evidence that we now live in separate dimensions and speak different languages, defined mainly by generation. On the surface, it would be hard to poke even a pinprick into most of what was said by boomer analysts...