Weeping Alligator Tears the Whole Way, City Hall Will Erase South Dallas
Soaring property values in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods should not have to be bad news. Especially when we take into account the decades of racial oppression and red-lining that have kept a...
View ArticleTechnical Conflicts of Interest Are Not the Mayor’s Problem. It’s the Oath.
As you know, shortly after Eric Johnson took a job as mayor of Dallas, he took another job as an attorney with the Locke Lord law firm. He said he could do both jobs at the same time, no problem, and...
View ArticleDoes City Hall Fear White Riots in Amber Guyger Trial? Really and Truly?
Let’s play a game called, “What is Dallas so worried about?” The city has ordered all of its cops not to take time off beginning this week for the duration of the trial of former Dallas police officer...
View ArticleOh, No. Extremely Slim Possibility Trump Did Something Right on Housing.
If old South Dallas can bloom, if the open wounds of racism and red-lining up and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard can be closed and healed, then the entire body of the city will breathe heartier...
View ArticleWindow on the Next Two Years at City Hall: Rape of the Sabines
Wednesday morning in a clearly written, earnest, heartfelt letter to the editor of The Dallas Morning News, Susan D. Cox conveyed her dismay about a big zoning case at Northwest Highway and the Dallas...
View ArticleCity Hall Screws One of its Best Friends in Affordable Housing
On the one hand, this new story about the city screwing over some affordable housing developers is depressingly familiar. On the other hand, it’s utterly inexplicable. Every single thing I ever...
View ArticleCity Still Pulling Scams to Force Only White Man on MLK To Sell
In case anybody still has any doubt the city is trying to force Dale Davenport to sell his car wash, get a load of this. He’s the guy who owns a car wash on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in South...
View ArticleAmber Guyger Murder Trial May Not Fit Convenient Journalistic Categories
So far The Dallas Morning News podcast on the Botham Jean/Amber Guyger murder trial has all the stylish podcast elements — spooky theme music, random sound bites, breathy voice-overs — with the...
View ArticleA Simple Plea for Honesty in Plan To Turn Reverchon Park Ball Field For-Profit
Any time City Hall plays with the facts, there’s a reason. It should raise a red flag. A case in point right now is a new plan to turn over the baseball field at Reverchon Park to private interests....
View ArticleAmber Guyger Story Was About Race Because Everything Is About Race
Would it have been nice for the Amber Guyger story to have unfolded in the community without reference to race? Do those words, as you read them, sound as absurd to you as they do to me as I write...
View ArticleForget Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Listen to Wallace Hall.
In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids...
View ArticleTime for Trinity Park Plan to Get Airborne or Give Up and Go Lay an Egg
Ahem. One hates to be Miss Penny Pinch-Pinch, but the deadline is now two weeks gone for the outfit in charge of the proposed fancy park on the Trinity River downtown to come up with about $150 million...
View ArticleDallas Can Grieve for Botham Jean Without Bowing to Shame
The death of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant and innocent man, and the trial of his killer, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, have challenged Dallas as no event since the 2016 murders of...
View ArticleBad Things Made Good Things Happen in Dallas During Dark Days of Guyger
Through the dark clouds brooding over the Amber Guyger trial, sunlight actually broke through in a few wonderful moments, some now internationally publicized, some you may have missed. Let me give you...
View ArticleDefending Immigrants Jailed With Repeat DWIs Is a Stretch Even for a Libtard
Oh, my God. Liberals. Please. I speak as one of you. What do you want to do, just hand Donald Trump a jewel-encrusted crown and let him skip the election? I thought we wanted to defeat him. Did I have...
View ArticleAnswers to Questions About Atatiana Jefferson’s Death May Lie in Ex-Chief’s...
The same questions being asked now of the Fort Worth Police Department, mayor and city manager in the shooting death of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson were asked last June in a lawsuit against the city...
View ArticleThe Gun in Atatiana Jefferson’s Hand Will Be Far from Irrelevant
The mayor of Fort Worth says there is no relevance or importance in the fact that Atatiana Jefferson, killed by a Fort Worth police officer Saturday, had a gun. The mayor is wrong. According to the...
View ArticleMorning News’ Flip-Flop on Cop Murder Charges Is Strictly Partisan Politics
Help me keep track of The Dallas Morning News editorial page here. I guess I’m just confused. First, let’s look at murders. The paper’s editorial page last week said the killing of 28-year-old Atatiana...
View ArticleMorning News Says Cops Should ‘Defer’ to Gun Owners. They’re Totally Nuts.
The Dallas Morning News editorial page took a blindfolded backward step off the diving board Monday in an editorial asserting that police have an “obligation of deference” to armed homeowners in terms...
View ArticleObscured by Tornado News, an Important Story at Dallas Public Schools
Something important in local education has happened over the last few days, a story that has already slipped beneath the wave of tornado news. It is worth noting as both a harbinger of progress and a...
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