Health
September 8, 2016
What We Can Learn About The Stigma Of Mental Illness From Susan Hawk
The embattled Dallas County DA resigned this week.
Dallas Country
Feel Good Stories
November 18, 2013
This Exoneree Never Lost Hope That He’d One Day Open His Dream Business
Christopher Scott spent nearly thirteen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. When the state realized its error and exonerated him, he used the money he received for his wrongful conviction to open a men's wear store.
January 21, 2013
Dallas County Teenager Attempts to Rob Police Station
Eighteen-year-old Keithan Kennard Manuel says that he was joking when he told Wilmer's police dispatcher, "Give me all your money."
January 21, 2013
Dallas County Exonerates Two More Men
In the last ten years, DNA has exonerated 32 men from Dallas County.
January 21, 2013
Who Helps the Exonerated Men of Texas?
James Waller, who was exonerated 24 years after he was convicted of a crime he didn't commit, started a non-profit to help support and counsel Texas' exonerees.
Politics & Policy
February 2, 2009
The Gallup Poll: Is Texas Blue?
The Gallup organization released a nationwide poll last week showing the partisan preference in every state. The daily tracking poll, conducted during the election campaign, sampled 19,415 adult Texans concerning their self-identification by political party and found that 43.4% identified themselves as Democrats compared to 41.0% who identified
Politics & Policy
November 3, 2008
Early Voting: Day Twelve (final numbers)
I am going to use this format to update daily the number of early votes cast in the fifteen counties with the most registered voters, ranked by the Secretary of State in the order of most to least registered voters. I am also going to include the numbers for the
Politics & Policy
October 26, 2008
Chronicle poll: Emmett leads race for Harris County judge; other Republicans running behind
As Dallas goes, so goes Houston. Two years after Democrats swept Republicans out of control in the Dallas County courthouse, it appears that the D’s will do the same in Harris County, with one exception: county judge, Ed Emmett, whom many will remember as a former legislator in the eighties.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 2007
Craig’s List
Of the many things the first black district attorney of Dallas County is doing, none is more important than rethinking the concept of guilt and innocence.