The children of Dallas, Texas grow up in at least two very different communities. At a meeting not long ago, I sat transfixed, staring at the E. T. look-alike outline of the map of our city. The red portion of the city map indicated areas of high poverty. The green sections marked out the affluent p...

By this time next year I wish. . . . . .that the U. S. Congress will have enacted comprehensive immigration reform that would provide for the documentation of the millions of Mexican and Central American immigrants who currently work hard to keep things going in our nation without the protection and...

Dallas can be a downright confusing place in which to live. In some ways, it's even worse when you've been here most all of your life. Take the Cesar Chavez naming controversy that's been in the news since last summer. Here's a summary. With the Trinity River project going forward, the City decided ...

All of my life and up until just a few weeks before his death, my dad listened for the sanitation workers who served his home in Richardson, Texas. When he heard their trucks in the alley behind his house, he would spring into action. Laden with cold drinks and ice water, he would insist that they s...

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libraries for hard-to-find environmental data, congressional investigators reported yesterday....

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libraries for hard-to-find environmental data, congressional investigators reported yesterday....

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libraries for hard-to-find environmental data, congressional investigators reported yesterday....

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libraries for hard-to-find environmental data, congressional investigators reported yesterday....