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Legal gambling in Texas? I should live so long
If I live to see the day, as the saying goes. Fill in the blank after that (and add the cynical rejoinder: “… I’d be 200 and too old to take advantage”). That’s how … [visit site to read more]
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Texas special session: Of maps and men
I’m fascinated with maps. Whether hiking with a topographic map, or researching Census tracts, maps help me make sense of the world. Or not. As in the case of redistricting maps, evidenced by the...
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We Texans are financial illiterates — and tops in payday loan addiction
The exterior of a closed payday loan store in Dallas. (DMN Photo) Courageous Texas lawmakers who have filed tough statewide payday loan ordinances would be smart to circulate the latest data from...
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A bipartisan bill in Texas? It’s possible on prekindergarten
Pre-K students at Stevens Park Elementary Tomorrow, the Texas House will vote on one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s top campaign priorities – expanding funding for prekindergarten throughout the state....
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Two years after the West explosion, legislators are still talking a lot
WEST, TX – APRIL 18: Valley Mills Fire Department personnel walk among the remains of an apartment complex next to the fertilizer plant that exploded yesterday afternoon on April 18, 2013 in West,...
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Why did we publish the flag illustration? Because it illustrates the point of...
Illustration by NewsArt/Chris Van Es We took a lot of phone calls from readers about why we chose to publish the above illustration with Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne’s op/ed column. In the column, the...
View ArticleTalking earthquakes and fracking on NBC 5
Kristi Nelson and I talked yesterday about the important study linking fracking to earthquakes in Azle and the possible impact that will have. And, as always, I was captured with a frozen funny face...
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Get ready for open season on oil and gas drilling in Texas cities.
Kye R. Lee/Staff photographer Last year when exasperated Denton residents passed an outright ban on oil and gas drilling in their city, it was clear what was going to happen. The Texas Legislature was...
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Maybe the Texas legislature will let our plastic bag bills alone
Will Dallas’ plastic bag fee stop this? Don’t know about you, but I’ve had zero confidence our lawmakers in Austin would respect any local ordinance aimed at protecting or enhancing our environment....
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Flawed analysis leads some to think Dallas bag ordinance is illegal
If these bags were actually in a landfill, the Dallas bag ordinance might actually fall under the state’s Solid Waste Disposal Act. But this is clearly an environmental ordinance. Today’s Viewpoints...
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We need more pre-K teachers in Texas. So why is a bill to promote that stuck...
Pre-K students at Stevens Park Elementary We know now that enhanced early childhood education is probably the best tool we have to begin to close the education gap between the have and the have nots....
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State Rep. Eric Johnson preserves in-person jail visits
Aerial photograph of the Lew Sterrett Justice Center – including the Dallas County criminal courts (foreground) and the Dallas County Jail (background) – shot Monday, September 24, 2012 in Dallas....
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Additional legal aid funding is a note of compassion from legislature
From the website of Legal Aid for Northwest Texas The hard-right rhetoric from so many of the men and women who won state office in the last round of elections left me braced for an especially callous...
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I appreciate the Myra Crownover BBQ over rape comments, but forgive me for...
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