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Pandemic Schooling Faces New Questions
After Gov. Greg Abbott's announcement, pandemic schooling grappled with two questions: Do we change our policies, and how do we get our staff vaccinated?
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Abbott: ‘Time to Open Texas 100%’
He'd been hinting at it for a week, but Tuesday afternoon in Lubbock, Gov. Greg Abbott declared victory on COVID-19.
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Power Hitter: National Spotlight Doesn’t Faze Jesuit Shortstop
He’s done just about everything a teenage baseball phenom can hope for.
Crime
Dallas Man Accused of Assaulting Officers With Crutch During Capitol Riot
A Dallas native accused of assaulting police officers with a crutch while storming the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 surrendered to Dallas authorities Thursday and is set to appear in court Friday, NBCDFW reports.
Coronavirus
Dallas County Could Achieve Herd Immunity By Summer
As residents and businesses continue to assess the damages wrought by last week's winter storm, potentially good news arrives about the pandemic. These are today's bullet points.
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States Will Need to Administer Standardized Tests, Feds Say
If you were hoping for a reprieve from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (or STAAR) test this year, it likely won't be coming.
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2021 Highland Park Baseball Preview
When Highland Park’s new baseball locker room opened last fall, it was quickly adorned with a timely motivational reminder.
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Yes, Highland Park Is Experiencing Outages, Too
If you're going by the map generated by Oncor on your phone (which is is probably the only computing device you have right now that will let you on the worldwide web, if you're like a lot of us), you may be wondering why it looks like there are no outages in Highland Park. Or Preston Hollow.
Election
Who’s On Your May Ballot?
If nobody drops out - and candidates have until Feb. 19 to do so - more than 50 people will vie for 14 Dallas city council seats in May - and 13 of them will be from the Preston Hollow and Preston Hollow-adjacent area.
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How They Did That
Debutantes will get another year to perfect their “Texas Dip,” but just because the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League’s annual presentation ball became a casualty of the pandemic didn’t mean that the organization wouldn’t mark the occasion somehow.
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Who Is Your Favorite Pro-Team Owner?
Just in time for the Super Bowl, we asked our readers to pick their favorite local pro-team owner, and if things go well, you just might see the winner celebrating tonight.
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Lake Life Without the Responsibility?
One Highland Park couple’s latest venture might just be the ticket for Dallasites who want the access and relaxation of lake life, but don’t want the responsibility - or the mortgage.
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Lake Life
Even before a pandemic made hash of many travel plans and sequestered most to their homes, finding an escape hatch two to four hours away from Dallas was a priority for many. Place that home-away-from-home on a lake, and it was even better.
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Mark Cuban: ‘I LOVE LOVE’ What Reddit Users Are Doing
Even the most disinterested in business and stock market news probably can tell you something is going on with Grapevine-based GameStop and Fort Worth-based American Airlines, thanks to Reddit.
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Croissants Are Austrian? C’est Vrai!
With Dry January about to come to a close, National Croissant Day’s arrival on January 30 gives us yet another reason to celebrate.
Election
Local Attorney Sued by Dominion Voting Systems
A local attorney who has been at the forefront of the Trump campaign's insistence that the presidential election was "stolen" was sued today by a company that has been a frequent target.
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Border Western a Passion Project for Filmmaking Allyn Siblings
Conor and Jake Allyn have collaborated on almost a dozen films over the past decade, but few have been as close to their heart as No Man’s Land.
Coronavirus
‘She Has Created a Community’
It hasn’t been the easiest year-and-a-half for Thomas Jefferson High School principal Sandi Massey, but many insist she’s the gold standard when it comes to leadership through a crisis.
Coronavirus
What Does Pandemic Schooling Look Like in a Biden Administration?
There has been a lot of discussion around education policy and where that intersects with the pandemic - but will things change once President-elect Joe Biden takes office?
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‘Most Important House In Texas’ Spared
The historic 1933 Elbert Williams House at 3805 McFarlin Boulevard in University Park went under contract to Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones the evening of Dec. 3.