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VP of PR and Communications for Heritage Auctions, and op-ed columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Former city columnist at The Dallas Morning News.

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It's been a while since I've shared something I wrote for publication. But I'm grateful @michaelhoinski asked me to write this for @TexasHighways , about my dad + South Dallas, 2 of my favorite subjects. Here's the photo on which the illustration is based.
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Best part of #Beltre3k .
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8 years
Statement from @DPDChief on tonight's shooting in downtown Dallas
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5 years
This is Col. Roy A Knight Jr. returning home 52 years after he was shot down in Laos. "He will be flown home by his son, Bryan, a captain with Southwest Airlines, to Dallas Love Field, the same airport where 5-year-old Bryan said goodbye to his father."
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I’m at the airport in Dallas, waiting for my flight home to DC from El Paso, and something incredible is happening.
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When (or, OK, IF) you read this column about my being diagnosed with Stage IV kidney cancer, don't feel bad for me. I was lucky. I met @HHammersMD and got into his clinical trial at UTSW. I just want other people going through this to know there's hope.
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4 years
Stop the count!
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“Rangers fans, you are not dreaming.” It sure feels like it.
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The winning World Series clinching call for Eric Nadel and the @rangers .
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Here's Bill Paxton at 8 outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth waiting for JFK. Heck of a story from a hell of a guy:
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4 years
This is my father. 76 years old. Battling cancer and numerous other issues. Hell, the man can barely stand some days. Yet he and Mom (who took this photo) just went to the @AACenter to vote. Took them less than 30 minutes.
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@RobertWilonsky
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8 years
THERE'S LESTER HOLT.
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Mike is my leader. And my friend. And I cannot imagine Dallas radio without his voice.
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Mike Rhyner
4 years
A little something for you all today...
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5 years
20 colleagues at @dallasnews were laid off today -- extraordinarily gifted journalists all. Some are dear friends; each, a writer or photographer whose work made this a better paper, a better city. If you know of any available jobs please let me know so I can pass along. Thanks.
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10 years
"Soon the rebellion will be crushed and young Skywalker will be one of us." http://t.co/pmJbxo3y6W
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4 years
I just spoke with @theoldgreywolf about his surprise retirement. A long chat. So ... more to come. Still ... stunned.
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@RobertWilonsky
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9 months
Just pulling it off the shelf, that’s all.
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@RobertWilonsky
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3 years
Your semi-regular reminder that the feds, state and Dallas County spent more than $5 million on this bridge over Harry Hines, which I’ve never seen anyone use in five years.
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8 years
Hard not to love this team.
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@RobertWilonsky
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5 years
Dallas police confirm the early morning shooting of Texas Tech star and NBA player Andre Emmett.
@DallasPD
Dallas Police Dept
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Dallas Police are asking that anyone with information regarding this incident contact Detective Sayers with the Dallas Police Department Homicide Unit at (214) 671-3647, or scott.sayers @dallascityhall .com. Please reference case #193330 -2019.
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In 1967, Julia Scott Reed, a Dallas native, became @dallasnews ' first full-time Black journalist. One year later, on June 19, 1968, she wrote this column.
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4 years
When I was 12, Bill Wisener made me cry because he wouldn't sell me a record I'd saved up for, 38 years later, the namesake of Bill's Records made me cry for a very different reason. He was found dead this morning behind the counter of his record store.
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Where they go
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5 years
Somebody's having fun with the downtown Dallas traffic message boards today. At least the one on Pearl next to old Dallas High School.
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5 years
Jerry Jones and @CJonesAnderson announce the @dallascowboys and NFL are donating $1 million to @dallasschools after #DallasTornado .
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4 years
Spotted during today’s walk.
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Robert Wilonsky
3 years
After I made public my kidney cancer treatment and surgery in the summer 2018, @mcuban funded the next round of the clinical trial that has saved countless lives since. He never made that public.
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7 years
Mayor: "This is how the whole Germany thing started," with people saying, "It's just a few people." Dallas, he said, will not tolerate this.
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Robert Wilonsky
7 years
. @Mike_Rawlings is "deeply disturbed" by detentions at @DFWAirport and across the country. "A foul insult." Will call @PeteSessions tomorrow
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On Walnut Hill, just east of Harry Hines, a building smashed -- rubble in the street -- power lines down and a car on its side.
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4 years
This is how you know Texans are taking this very, very seriously.
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@RobertWilonsky
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6 years
Current mood
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7 years
Attorneys are saying there is an 11-month-old girl -- a US citizen -- being detained with mother. Lawyers can't get access to child or mom.
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5 years
I knew I still had it in my wallet. I do not know why I still have it in my wallet.
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Of @theoldgreywolf 's stunning retirement, former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings had this to say. "Oh, my God, a person like him is supposed to be here forever." Co-sign.
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Robert Wilonsky
4 years
I just spoke with @theoldgreywolf about his surprise retirement. A long chat. So ... more to come. Still ... stunned.
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7 years
How Tony Romo got the news from CBS
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6 years
Let me check with my rabbi.
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3 years
I once wrote Ron Chapman meant more to Dallas radio than electricity. @theoldgreywolf once told me, "Chapman was the pioneer, the seer." "I was always on the quest of doing something new and dramatic and different and surprising," Ron said in 2010. He died early today at 85.
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5 years
When I got home last night, I told my Dallas ISD baseball-playing son the city council killed Donnie Nelson and Clayton Kershaw's proposal to remake Reverchon Park's historic field. His response: "That's stupid." I should have let him write my column.
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As a lifelong @Rangers fan, I've loved many Texas Rangers teams. But this one, easily, ranks as my very favorite.
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3 years
The obituary for Dallas native Alicia Landry, who died yesterday at 91. "A sorority sister encouraged her to go on a blind date with a handsome UT football player named Tom Landry. It was a match literally made in heaven."
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@RobertWilonsky
Robert Wilonsky
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This one was for you, @HarryWilonsky . And for @nadeler . And @TEXPAMAN1 . And allllllll of us.
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8 years
Woman escorted out of #TrumpinDallas rally shouting "No place for hate." Young boy, maybe 8, yells after her, "You're sick, you know that!?"
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3 years
Which now brings us to the “Fireworks or Gunshots?” portion of the evening.
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4 years
Will now spend the rest of the day listening to one of my first high school concerts: Van Halen at Reunion Arena on Nov. 18, 1982. Damn. Godspeed, Eddie Van Halen.
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Update: A loud cheer just went up in attorneys' war room as they learned the 11-month-old girl, a US citizen, and mother have been released.
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Attorneys are saying there is an 11-month-old girl -- a US citizen -- being detained with mother. Lawyers can't get access to child or mom.
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I guess I should tell you I will be playing music on @dfwticket tonight from 8 until at least midnight. I just assume everyone else also passes out around 3:42 a.m. these days. No real theme, just some stuff, old and new, I've been listening to and have rediscovered of late.
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Took @HarryWilonsky down to UT this weekend. After move-in, I took a long, late-night walk to the one place on campus that meant more to me than any other: the stairwell down to @thedailytexan . Lotta magic down in that basement.
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"I hate graveyards and old pawn shops/For they always bring me tears/I can't forgive the way they rob me/Of my childhood souvenirs." Godspeed, John Prine.
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3 years
Thirty years ago today.
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9 months
There’s a reason it’s a perennial bestseller.
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9 months
Just pulling it off the shelf, that’s all.
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Fired up.
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2 years
Best day I ever spent in my high school was March 6, 2015, when I handed Meat Loaf his Distinguished Alumni Award. Upon his return to Dallas' Thomas Jefferson, he told me to introduce him not as Marvin Aday, but as "Meat Loaf. Or Meat." Godspeed, Meat.
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5 years
Current mood.
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4 years
Saw this last night, along Royal Lane near Midway.
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2 years
Found this in my father’s wallet today. It belonged to his mother, Frances, who died in July 1950. This was the first address of my grandfather’s auto parts store in Deep Ellum.
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Dallas' new regulations, effective at midnight: No more than 50 people at gatherings. Closing of all bars, lounges, taverns, nightclubs, gyms, theaters and amusement halls. Restaurants can stay open for drive-thru, delivery or take-out. Dine-in is prohibited.
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4 years
. @Johnson4Dallas is about to hold a press conference concerning "additional emergency regulations." Watch here:
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4 years
Placed our Christmas Eve to-go order two days early. I haven’t felt this Jewish since my bar mitzvah.
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7 years
The baby blue never goes out of style. Ever.
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3 years
I can’t stop reading this.
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It's official: The Dallas City Council has approved @swish41 's street in front of the American Airlines Center. "Now every time we drive on Nowitzki Way," said @mcuban , "we all will get a big smile thinking about all the amazing Dirk memories we have."
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I'm not saying you *also* have to watch this 29 times.
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Adolis Garcia, but Moneyball #GoAndTakeIt #WorldSeries
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Last week there were 47 Holocaust survivors living in Dallas. Today there are 46. Jack Repp, for decades a South Dallas shopkeeper who kept quiet about life and death in the ghettos and camps, died in his sleep Sunday. My report from his funeral.
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Eleven months ago @badkaratemovie texted me from an estate sale, asking if I wanted this Dallas Times Herald jacket. Finally back in @dfwticket studios for tonight’s “Intentional Grounding.” And look what Danny had waiting for me. A Yom Kippur miracle.
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When, out of nowhere, you wonder if @gordonkeith wants some beer for Christmas.
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NRA attacked doctors for calling "firearm violence" a "public health crisis." Dallas trauma surgeon Alex Eastman ( @PMHTrauma_ALE ) responds: "I am 100-percent anti-bullet hole, and I have no idea why anyone in this country wouldn't be the same way."
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Heritage is auctioning off "Lee Harvey Oswald's Last Paycheck, Issued Nine Days after His Death." (Actually, made out to "Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald.") If only I knew someone who might want such a thing.
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5 years
My favorite game of the new year: gunfire or fireworks? The answer: yes.
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My favorite night of the year.
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MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE: The 13th Annual @RobertWilonsky Christmas/Holiday Music Spectacular begins AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR on The Ticket! And...IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME. Tune in 96.7 FM locally or stream here: MAZEL TOV, BIG BOB! #MerryChristmas
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2 years
I know what I’m getting everyone for Christmas this year. Thanks, @junior_miller .
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@RobertWilonsky
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7 years
Oh -- and I met the 11-month-old girl who was detained at DFW by @CustomsBorder . Threatened only by her adorableness.
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6 years
Thank GOD the day my son and I ran into Stan Lee, Harry was wearing his Captain America T-shirt. Excelsior!
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5 years
Just sat through a WAY-too-long phone survey about grocery stores, because, well, I was curious. And the last several questions were variations on the same query: "Have you heard of H-E-B?" And: "Would you shop at an H-E-B if one opened near your home?" Probably means nothing.
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4 years
My friends, my heroes, are going to feed first responders, medical professionals and "all the families with a sudden loss of income just like us...we can help them. We can feed them!” Because that's what they do. That's just who they are.
@PecanLodge
Pecan Lodge
4 years
Hi, this is Diane and Justin Fourton, owners of Pecan Lodge. We have something to say.
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@RobertWilonsky
Robert Wilonsky
4 years
But WHY?
@CBSNewsTexas
CBS News Texas
4 years
Fans in Texas and across the country will be able to pack into their vehicles and go to the nearest drive-in to watch a virtual concert by Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins.
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6 years
Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere, a native of Haiti, has something he'd like to say to @realDonaldTrump :
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Donnie Nelson's group will get to remake + run Reverchon Park's baseball field. And @ClaytonKersh22 and wife Ellen will get to build their all-abilities field behind Scottish Rite. When I told my son the council reversed its nay vote, he said, "Finally."
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Last time I saw Dwaine Caraway he was about to head off to federal prison in Big Spring in May 2019. Just ran into him at the 7-Eleven at Marsh and Walnut Hill. While we were talking a guy (probably a Ticket listener) pulled up, rolled down his window and said, “Welcome back.”
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. @Mike_Rawlings is "deeply disturbed" by detentions at @DFWAirport and across the country. "A foul insult." Will call @PeteSessions tomorrow
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5 years
Fire everyone.
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4 years
At Preston and Walnut Hill, in front of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church.
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8 years
I am going to sports cry for the rest of the day. Or week. Or forever.
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@RobertWilonsky
Robert Wilonsky
3 years
When you get to show Roger Staubach a painting of Roger Staubach.
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7 years
Meanwhile, I have looked at this photo about 30,000 times.
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4 years
Usually, our neighborhood @Nextdoor (OK, everyone's) is filled with all-caps screeds about Suspicious People in White Vans. Except now. Now it's people offering to run errands for neighbors who shouldn't leave their homes, and the sharing of supplies with the most vulnerable.
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5 years
Outside.
@dallasnews
Dallas Morning News
5 years
Where to watch the 'Super Blood Wolf Moon' tonight in Dallas
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4 years
On a rare drive out of the neighborhood this afternoon, I saw a couple of these. Are these official, @CityOfDallas ? Bit of a mixed message ...
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Robert Wilonsky
4 years
I have never rooted so hard for Houston in my entire life.
@AriBerman
Ari Berman
4 years
Breaking: federal judge rules GOP plaintiffs challenging drive-thru voting in Harris County don't have standing to sue, refuses to invalidate 127,000 votes already cast
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This is the man who gave me hope when I had none. The real hero of this story.
@HHammersMD
Hans Hammers
6 years
Thank you for the kind words and your perspective @RobertWilonsky Modern Oncology = Real Hope #kidneycancer
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Robert Wilonsky
4 years
At the end of #Mandalorian my 17-year-old son said, “We didn’t deserve this.”
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3 years
Norm Macdonald with @gordonkeith and @GeorgeDunham on @dfwticket 10 years ago. "My theories are constantly evolving." Godspeed.
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4 years
Just in from ⁦ @DallasPD
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Robert Wilonsky
3 years
Godspeed to the Woodrow Wilson High School Wildcat who helped create a big slice of Texas' soundtrack. Stunning news.
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@Variety
Variety
3 years
Dusty Hill, ZZ Top’s bassist for more than 50 years, has died. He was 72.
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Per @JudgeClayJ : Dallas County is reporting 5 additional presumptive positive #COVID19 cases, including one with no travel history. Eight total now. Dallas Co. has issued a declaration of local disaster; beginning tomorrow "community gatherings" of larger than 500 are prohibited
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4 years
Just FYI -- might want to turn on the local news in a second.
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8 months
I might have had a stroke. Three, possibly. #TexasRangers
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8 years
OK. I will vote for Michelle Obama. For anything. For everything.
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1 year
The last time the Dallas Cowboys won a road playoff game
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2 years
Whatever happened to waiting until 5:42 the morning of?
@dallasschools
Dallas ISD
2 years
Due to anticipated inclement weather, all Dallas ISD schools and administrative offices will be closed Thursday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 4. We look forward to reopening schools and offices next week.
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Near El Centro, where suspect is believed to be. Seconds ago, DPD told us to move. Then, a loud boom and what sounded like shattering glass.
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Still a massive crowd, energetic at @DFWAirport .
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