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  Despite 2017 Deal, Dallas Police and Fire Pension Still Fragile

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  Monday, more than a year after the Texas Legislature, the Dallas City Council and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund struck a deal to give the city some breathing room from the threat posed by a massive shortfall in the retirement system, Dallas residents got a peek at what's...

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  Texas Ends Health Contracts With Anti-Abortion Group

  October 15 at 4 a.m.

  The Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced Friday afternoon that it is ending its contract with an anti-abortion group receiving millions from the state to provide women's health services as part of multiple programs. The Heidi Group, according to the state, repeatedly failed to serve the number of patients...

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  Check Out Texas' New "Police Interaction" Curriculum for High Schoolers

  October 3 at 4 a.m.

  In response to multiple deadly police shootings, the 2017 Texas Legislature, led by Dallas state Sen. Royce West, passed the Community Safety Education Act. West's bill requires all high school students, new drivers and police officers in Texas to take a class on how to better interact with one another...

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  Sid Miller, That Sid Miller, Is Shaping Public Opinion on the Kavanaugh Nomination

  October 2 at 4 a.m.

  The Observer's Facebook page, thanks to our thoughtful, engaged readers, is one of the last bastions of civility on the internet. The same can't be said for the rest of the social network, which remains today, as it ever was, a cesspool. Between the posts from former classmates who, in...

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  2018 Texas Gubernatorial Debate Bingo

  September 28 at 4 a.m.

  Friday night, for a couple of hours at least, the sideshow will be center stage in Texas politics. After months of the Senate race between incumbent Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke sucking all the air out of the room, former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez will get her...

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  One of Texas' Biggest Mid-Term Fights Is Over Before it Really Started

  September 24 at 4 a.m.

  One of the most intriguing sideshows of Texas' mid-term elections is basically over before it opened, thanks to a special election upset in the Rio Grande Valley. Until Republican businessman Pete Flores beat former Democratic U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego in an emergency special election to fill the last two years-plus...