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He Won’t Pipe Down
The ingredients of Steve Doeung's life do much to explain why this soft-spoken, bespectacled man is the last holdout on Carter Avenue. After everyone...
Camp Town
We can't help it, apparently - newsies can't start a new year without pausing to analyze the old one, picking over its bones for...
A Federal Case?
Joey Daniel Retana and Elmer Duane McMichael were lovers for about six years. For about three of those years they shared a two-bedroom rental...
Snaky Situation
To the editor: Betty Brink's article ("Cash-Trapped," Dec. 9, 2009), about the malignant leeches who prey on others' misfortunes with their pawn and payday...
More Latex Gloves?
It is the duty of public officials to "do something" whenever a new threat appears, even if there is nothing sensible to be done....
Greening the Gas Field?
In North Texas these days, it seems like you can't drive 50 feet down the highway - or even a neighborhood feeder road...
Inhale, Inhale
OK, it's time for New Year's resolutions: Lose weight; check. Cut back on the vino; check. Be kinder to strangers; check. And ... die...
Food Bank Phoenix
A local food bank that spiraled downward and finally crashed in 2006 amid scandal and debt is now poised for resurrection.
A new board of...
You Want Fair?
Texas Christian University's football program has achieved remarkable success in recent years. The Horned Frogs finished this year ranked fourth in the country -...
Breeding Trouble
In the August heat, more than 500 dogs sweltered in un-air-conditioned kennels on a farm near the town of Mabank in Kaufman County. They...
