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Debbie Orozco Solis says folks in her West Dallas neighborhood have to live with a fine dust that sometimes makes it hard to breathe. They share the neighborhood with a “concrete batch plant” that makes cement for construction projects.
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A new city-run program is hoping to help homeowners repair homes in Dallas' culturally-historic neighborhoods with grants.
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A group of city leaders is pushing to rename a 3-mile stretch of South Lamar Street to honor Botham Jean, a Black man killed by a former Dallas police officer in 2018.
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West Dallas community leaders are stepping in to address the neighborhood’s air pollution problems. The study called “Poisoned by Zip Code'' by the…
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People gathered on a Saturday afternoon at the Dallas West Branch Library, not to check out books, but to share their memories of the…
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Growing up, Victoria Ferrell-Ortiz didn’t hear her grandmother talk about life in Cemento Grande or Cement City, the town built for workers of The Trinity…
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There’s a lawsuit brewing in West Dallas, where dozens of former renters purchased homes last year.These low-cost rental properties owned by HMK Ltd. had…
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Until last month, West Dallas had just one brick-and-mortar bank out on the fringe of the neighborhood, near the interstate.A new bank branch wants to…
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Only 25 percent of people who need government help to pay for housing get it. In collaboration with The FRONTLINE Dispatch, NPR looked at what can happen to the other 75 percent and how the affordable housing crisis is playing out in one Dallas neighborhood.
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This is not a ghost story. But it’s a story about the ghost of a dream – a French dream – to build a colony for Frenchmen fleeing political and economic…
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At age 84, Lily Garcia is a first-time homeowner.She’s beautifully dressed as she walks into HMK Ltd., a property management company in West Dallas, to…
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Monday was the deadline for families living in homes owned by HMK Ltd. to move out or face eviction. The 305 low-cost rentals, mostly in rapidly…