The issue exploded last week with respect to Obama's opponents. That, in turn, set off howls of protest over "the race card" being played. I sure agree that race shouldn't be injected into a debate lightly. But what do you...
Link: Gates-gate shows we have a long way to go in race relations Dallas Morning News columnists discuss race relations and Gates-gate...
While the site's acting flaky, we're getting the news out to you through blogs. Here's the official goods: Thank you for visiting dallasnews.com. We are experiencing intermittent access to the main dallasnews.com site, and are unable to publish updates to...
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Must be nice having people fight over you. A colleague sitting in the cubicle next to me apparently is being recruited. By hockey teams. "Oh, I wish I had known," I heard Metro editor Mike Drago say in a telephone...
Our ace mobile journalist, Dan X. McGraw, and several colleagues shot some amazing video over the weekend during the second annual Earth Hour, when businesses across downtown Dallas dimmed their lights for about an hour to raise awareness and save...
Goofy, uh, I mean, Blow, here's a copy of the new column mug you ordered. But as always, I've got to run it up the chain for approval....
Reporter David Flick -- we like to call him the "Cincinnati Kid" -- is mourning the passing of his hometown's version of Mr. Peppermint: People of a certain age (mine) who grew up in the '50s and '60s were --...
If you haven't seen D.L. Hughley's interview with Michael Precker, it's worth your time. Did I tell you I hate Michael Precker?...
Former presidents get a pretty good retirement package, but there's nothing wrong with getting out of the house and earning a little extra scratch. If George W. Bush wants some useful occupation for those long, post-presidential workdays, Dallas' own Elliott's...
Michael E. Young had the appetite, but not enough time: Never one to turn down a free meal, I took particular interest in the story about Denny's free Grand Slam breakfast offer. And what do you know, there was a...
Talking race with James Ragland and Steve Blow...
Waltrina Stovall, a former restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News, died at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas on Tuesday. She was 71. More details to come....
Jack, while we pray and hope for Eric and Colleen, we're also sad for another one of our colleagues, Clay Zeigler. Clay's dad, Ken Johnson, died last night of throat cancer. Ken was executive editor of the Dallas Times Herald...
One of my colleagues upstairs Rodger Jones, part of the intelligentsia in Editorial, needs some cooking lessons. Sources say they heard a loud explosion that seemed to come in the area of the microwave. It turned out that the colleague...
What's sure to be one of our most popular blogs is up and running. Cops & robbers, murder trials & lawsuits, fugitives and kidnappers, "A mayor, drugs and two dead dogs." It's all there in the new crime blog....
Are you paranoid if people really are out to get you? In the last couple of months, four of our Metro staffers -- two editors and two reporters -- have been hit by careless drivers, who were all at fault....
This is something that has been weighing on my mind ever since we started the BoldTypes blog. There are a lot of good and positive things that can be said about blogs. We've had fun, along with some meaningful discussions,...
Cops reporter Scott Goldstein has some strong feelings about the shooting of a Dallas Morning News carrier: We on the crime beat cover a lot of terrible stories. We document death on a daily basis. And sometimes we come across...
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