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1 Leah Waters' essay — Re: "The man who yelled at the sky — He stood for hours, venting his anger. I came down from my rooftop to find out why," Monday Arts & Life story. Nothing has evoked so much emotion in me as Leah Waters' essay in Monday's paper, "The man who yelled at the sky." The jump headline, "How many souls do we pretend not to see," and the words that followed will haunt me for a very long time.I commend the editorial mind that considered the piece worthy of print. It's the reason many of us here in Paris, Texas, rely on The Dallas Morning News.Toni Clem, Paris, Texas2 Roya Hakakian's story — Re: "How America turned me into a patriot — Iran taught hatred of the U.S. But once fog of homesickness lifted, my loyalty was forever changed, Roya Hakakian says," Sept. 21 Viewpoints. I was so impressed by the story of the Iranian woman who journeyed to the U.S. during their revolution of 1979. At school in Tehran she was barraged with the message … [Read more...] about Three cheers for the essays by Leah Waters and Roya Hakakian; for the digital Dallas Morning News

On Friday, the mayor fired back on Facebook. We'll get to what he said in a bit, but first some background.This stems from a 2015 incident in which Griggs, angry over what he saw as Mayor Mike Rawlings' underhanded attempt to push through a last, failed effort to keep the Trinity toll road project alive, yelled something in the city secretary's office.A police report said Griggs told then-Assistant City Secretary Bilierae Johnson, now the city secretary, “You better not push those briefing materials out or I will break your fucking fingers.” Continue ReadingGriggs denied it; Johnson later told the Morning News he did say it.He said. She said. Tough one. Johnson did, however, say she didn't feel threatened by Griggs and did not wish to file a criminal complaint. The police chief at the time didn't think a crime was committed. Nevertheless, thanks to diligent, entirely sleazy work by then-City Attorney Warren Ernst, a case was referred to a grand jury, which declined to … [Read more...] about Mayor Mansplainer: Mike Rawlings and the Morning News Rise to Defend Tender Womanhood

Payton learned to look for documents to corroborate oral accounts. His father, a World War II veteran, had said an uncle had shot him and killed another relative. Ernest Payton had urged his son to touch his head where he had been wounded: “Feel the bullets, boy!”The younger Payton found a brief article in The Dallas Morning News that gave a date for the incident — March 14, 1938 — and described how his father had played dead to survive.“That’s the thing about genealogy,” Donald Payton said.  “You can’t just write the happy stuff. You have to write what really happened, and by the mere fact that it made the newspaper ... meant that it was newsworthy.”His research took him further back in time. A family Bible belonging to the white Millers listed their slaves, including a man named Henry who was hanged in 1893 at age 33, allegedly for killing a police officer.Payton acquainted himself with another Henry in his … [Read more...] about Dallas descendants of slaves discovered their roots long before online genealogy tools

The Dallas Morning News has introduced new ways to get your daily dose of D-FW news via audio. You can get twice-daily news briefings on Alexa-enabled Amazon devices, plus Google Home and Apple HomePod. If you're a podcast listener, check out The Roundup for short news updates twice a day on weekdays. You can get it via iTunes, Stitcher or any podcatcher app. Just search for The Roundup by The Dallas Morning News.Here's what you need to know to get daily updates on the biggest stories affecting our North Texas community on all your devices:Alexa Flash Briefing … [Read more...] about Get daily news from us on all your audio devices

What follows is a eulogy delivered by Texas Monthly Executive Editor Skip Hollandsworth upon the death of his longtime friend, Alan Peppard. When Alan Peppard was a kid growing up on Stefani Drive in Preston Hollow, he had this idea that he was going to be a rock star. He took some guitar lessons at the Melody Shop—and he and a few classmates from his school, Greenhill, formed a band that they named Five Card Stud, a curious nomenclature considering that they were the least studly group of teenage boys ever assembled. Alan did much of the lead singing. When the band performed at parties, kids would stand around the stage and stare at Alan in disbelief as he leaned into the microphone to sing Elvis Presley’s “Blue Suede Shoes.” “You know, Alan,” one of his friends said. “You’re pretty good at talking. Have you ever thought about sticking with that?” Alan did love to talk. Even as a teenager, he was a world-class storyteller. He would … [Read more...] about A Eulogy for Alan Peppard, the Arbiter of Dallas Society