Dallas Morning News' reporter, Roy Appleton published an update story on the Plaza Inn in today's edition. Read it here. As the story reveals, Central Dallas Ministries stepped out of the project in face of neighborhood opposition. Hopefully, Hamilton Properties Corporation will be able to carry for...

Saturday night was so cold. Had my money held out, I could have stayed another night at the Army shelter, but I didn't have the $7.00 I needed to get in. Maybe the worst of the cold is over now. Hope so. But, who knows. The pavement in the alley back of the abandoned office building was about as har...

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...

What follows is an edited summary of an email message I received last week from Patti Cryer , program director for Central Dallas Ministries' Destination Home , our initiative to provide high-quality housing to the homeless here in Dallas. Another Destination Home resident has passed away. Due to ou...