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Best of 2020: Civil Rights Teacher Detained on Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
In the summer of 2020, the only thing that overshadowed the ongoing pandemic was a larger, more widespread appeal for social justice after the death of George Floyd in custody in Minneapolis.
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Best of 2020: ‘Give Them a Little Bit of Hope’
The signs on Tibbs and Pemberton were a welcome surprise for the neighborhood, seemingly popping up overnight.
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Best of 2020: 75 Years of Ebby Halliday
The year 2020 was a milestone year for Ebby Halliday Companies as it celebrated its 75th anniversary, and we used our July Real Estate Quarterly section to take a look at the late founder of the eponymous company.
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Best of 2020: ‘She Loved Life’
"What emerged was a portrait of a woman who was always there for everyone she loved - and continued to be there, even after her death."
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Best of 2020: For the Love of Flying
Tom Rhodes promise to not take up smoking sent him high above the clouds, and the story our intern Tanika Turner wrote about how that came about is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Remembering Wick Allison
People Newspapers and the D Magazine empire lost both a mentor and a fearless leader when Wick Allison died in September.
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Best of 2020: Small Staff, Big COVID Coverage
On March 2, we posted our first story about COVID-19. There was only one case in the entire state. Local officials were watchful then, but didn't say what everyone was thinking - it would be in Dallas soon.
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Best of 2020: ‘Be Nice’
Fourth grade is usually when students start really learning the mechanics of writing, but it's no surprise that one particular fourth grader took to writing like it was genetic.
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Best of 2020: ‘How Am I Going to Feed People?’
"This pandemic crisis has brought out so many heroes - people who just saw a need and filled it," we said of this Best of 2020 pick.. "Get Shift Done is one of those efforts that was like capturing much-needed lightning in a very empty bottle, and a time when we needed the light the most."
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Best of 2020: Siblings Didn’t Want to Stay Treeless in Preston Hollow
Like most of Preston Hollow on Oct. 20, Brinley Smith and her brother, Preston, took cover with parents Brian and Crystal Smith as an EF3 tornado wound its way through their neighborhood.
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Best of 2020: United by a Scary Night
Anyone who was at Highlander Stadium for the 1974 Highland Park – Grand Prairie football game will never forget that night - which is why Kirk Dooley's recounting of the night was one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: A Year Since the Tornado
October marked a year since we took shelter in closets and bathrooms. A year since we climbed out that night and navigated damage – or found (to our relief) that our homes were left unscathed by the EF3 funnel of wind and debris that marched across Preston Hollow and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Best of 2020: Lifelong Methodist Waits For Her Denomination to Include Her
Julie Reeves’ mother had a simple wish for her daughter when she sat down to inscribe her daughter’s Bible 54 years ago.
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Best of 2020: Family Vacation to Spain Becomes Adventure in Virus Lockdown
What do you do when you're on vacation - a long planned one - and the whole world goes into lockdown? That's what our intern, Dahlia Faheid, was confronted with in March, and her first-person account is one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Too Young To Vote, But Not Too Young to Help
High school intern Shaye Wattson filed this story as the election season wound to a close, about students who were too young to vote just yet, but who still volunteered to work the polls.
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Best of 2020: Perspectives From the Porch
When people began sheltering-in-place last March, milestones didn't stop their march across the calendar as weeks turned into months. But throughout the 290 days or so (so far), Erin Schreyer has been documenting families - from their front porches.
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Best of 2020: ‘It’s Not Safe For Anyone’
Can an employer forbid an employee from wearing a mask during a pandemic? It was a question that we hadn't ever really thought about until one night in May we got a message from a friend of employee from a local restaurant - who was doing just that.
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Best of 2020: ‘You Step Up, And You Serve’
Our conversation with Dallas city council member Jennifer Gates about the tornado, the Ebola crisis, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for her district was one of our Best of 2020 picks.
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Best of 2020: Images of Prayer, Love, and Support
As the pandemic hit and then began its march across Dallas, there was an outpouring of support for front-line medical workers, and even just neighbors as we all navigated very new terrain.
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Best of 2020: Park Cities People July 2020
The July 2020 issue looked at the Park Cities protests, which were remarkable if nothing else for the fact that the home-grown efforts happened there, explained Gillea Allison, president of D Magazine Partners, of her first pick for Best of 2020.