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Dallas Morning News assistant politics editor. Ex-political editor Houston Chronicle, FW Star-Telegram, Houston Post. Proud dad, grandpa and Cajun. @dallasnews
Mansfield, TX
Joined June 2009
President Trump has touted his experience as a real estate builder who is good at building things “on budget and on time,” as he did Oct. 15 for donors to his White House ballroom project. Then, the price doubled a week later, to $300 million.
usatoday.com
Trump has frequently played up his builder bona fides – and slammed others for their lack of expertise and for cost overruns on projects.
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State pulls trigger on FWISD takeover, saying it’s “necessitated, unfortunately, because Fort Worth ISD has just seen chronically low levels of support given to students and very low levels of academic performance,” @MillaSurjadi writes.#txlege
dallasnews.com
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced a state takeover of Fort Worth ISD on Thursday.
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FBI indicts more than 30 people related to their alleged roles in an explosive gambling scandal that has rocked the NBA. Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier & former Dallas Mavs player Damon Jones all were arrested.
usatoday.com
The FBI arrested Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Heat guard Terry Rozier as part of extensive NBA gambling scandal with mafia ties.
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Texas GOP state Sen. Brian Birdwell of Granbury, nominated as an assistant secretary of defense in what would be a return to DC for the 6-term senator. Birdwell is a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, @PhilJankowski reports.
dallasnews.com
Texas state Sen. Brian Birdwell is a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
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President Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money,” upwards of $200 million, for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and says he has the final say on any payout because any decision will “have to go across my desk.”
dallasnews.com
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and...
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Practicing mass destruction from land, sea and air today as Putin rattles militaries worldwide with tests of a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, launch of a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine and a missile launch from strategic bombers. https://t.co/IBpRpS7WY2
reuters.com
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday oversaw a test of Russia's nuclear forces on land, sea and air to rehearse their readiness and command structure.
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A deadly twist of fate: Man dies after being crushed by burial vault at Dallas funeral home, Dallas fire officials say, @jamielandersx reports.
dallasnews.com
Dallas Fire-Rescue was dispatched shortly after 2 p.m. to the Restland Funeral Home located at 13005 Greenville Avenue.
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Trump’s long-running promises to the world that he’d easily & quickly end Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine continue to be mired of in a muck of politics and failed deal-making that lets bloodbath of soldiers & citizens from both countries continue.
politico.eu
Top Russian official says “no agreement” so far on meeting between top diplomats Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio.
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“He lost us”: War Secretary Pete Hegseth loses trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” viewed as unprofessional and his personnel moves leading to a dangerous exodus of senior leadership from the Pentagon.
washingtontimes.com
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public "grandstanding" widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by t
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Texas prop translator: Explaining what Constitutional amendments topping the state’s November ballot really mean. @kbrooksharper has the guide. #txlege
dallasnews.com
Texas voters on Tuesday will decide on 17 constitutional amendments in the November election.
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Trouble in Tiger Land … big time. Major negative mojo. A bad moon’s a-risen.
I have never seen a softer culture at LSU than what we are witnessing right now Everyone is overpaid, and underperforming, satisfied to go home to their bank accounts There's no toughness to this team and no toughness to this program LSU has forgotten the face of its Father
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The “Landman” effect: Cowtown was built by cowboys, oil and railroads, but its future is being shaped by the entertainment industry. “We believe that film is the next great industry in Fort Worth, just like cattle, railroads, energy…& defense,” mayor says. https://t.co/FaJtgsL4L3
dallasnews.com
“We believe that film is the next great industry in Fort Worth,” Mayor Mattie Parker said on Thursday.
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As ‘No Kings’ protests test how far Trump will go to with surveillance & retribution, transparency watchdog says, “Given Trump’s open hostility to even minor dissent, such surveillance now poses an existential threat to what remains of American democracy.”
dallasnews.com
About 2,600 No Kings rallies are planned across all 50 U.S. states. The level of surveillance and the type of technology in use is likely to be both location-sp...
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Flip-flop Friday at the White House: After earlier raising hopes he was ready to deal Tomahawks to Ukraine, President Trump says he wants to stop Russia’s invasion without sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukrainians. He changed his mind after talking to Putin.
axios.com
"I've been played all my life by the best of them and I came out really well," Trump said, referring to Putin.
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High profile missing person mystery in Austin: The police search for Julie Straus, the wife of former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus III, is intensifying after she went missing outside San Antonio Thursday night, @kbrooksharper reports. #txlege
dallasnews.com
Straus is the wife of former House Speaker Joe Straus, who retired from office in 2019 after seven terms — five of them as speaker.
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Criticism of Trump’s handling of food and energy prices and consumer costs overall is coming not just from Democrats, but also from bedrock MAGA conservative Republican elected officials. #economy
independent.co.uk
The far-right congresswoman has increasingly broken ranks with the MAGA movement, leading even President Donald Trump to wonder ‘What's going on with Marjorie?’
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Debate rages on about Trump’s false claims that grocery and electricity prices are down.
The president just concluded an event by declaring "groceries are down" (grocery prices are up this term and rose in August at the fastest month-to-month rate in three years) and "electricity's way down" (prices are up this term and in August were 6.2% higher than a year prior).
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So if you’re keeping score at home, a Chinese religious cult has a spot in the Pentagon press corps but no American newspaper is represented.
Congrats to our new, in house Pentagon press corps The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OAN, Turkish newspaper Akşam, three individuals from the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, two Turkish freelancers, a reporter for the Australian, an Afghan freelancer; and three lesser-known
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Adios time this weekend for Big Tex in Big D at the #StateFairOfTexas. Last call for corny dogs on Sunday.
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Using social media to recruit assassins: Mexican man living in Dallas arrested after he allegedly created TikTok posts to solicit people to kill ICE agents, according to a news release from federal prosecutors. @suryataparazzi reports.
dallasnews.com
23-year-old Eduardo Aguilar can face up to five years in federal prison if he is convicted.
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