By Shawn Williams – DSN Editor Here are some of the happenings about town that we’ll be watching in 2010. Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Driving west on Woodall Rodgers you can see the future Trinity River crossing taking shape. By this time next year we should start to have an...
By Shawn Williams – Editor, DallasSouthNews.org In the last week Tawnell Hobbs of the Dallas Morning News has been reporting on the poor performance of 4 DISD High School: Kimball, Pinkston, Roosevelt, and Seagoville. According to Hobbs, the high schools have been deemed academically unacceptable for four consecutive years. This...
The Texas Social Innovation Initiative is a regional, state and national collaborative to stimulate social innovation throughout Texas. The initiative has kicked off with a pilot project in North Texas and a partnership between the One Star Foundation: Texas Center for Social Impact, Root Cause, a nonprofit consulting firm in...
Though many deserve consideration on this weeks OSF theme -Luther, Left Eye, Marvin Gaye, M.J. and many others, I’m dedicating the entire post to Aaliyah. She made so much wonderful music in such a short period of time. Even with 4 videos represented here, I’m still missing One in a...
People around Dallas keep asking me what’s going on with the blog. We’re still trying to let everyone know that DallasSouthNews.org is now THE place for local news and that the blog is now mostly reserved for national stories. If you haven’t been following us at .org, here are some...
From the Office of the President Top News H1N1 Flu Guide Helping Community and Faith-based Organizations across the Country To help keep communities healthy during the flu season, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (Partnerships Center) led by Alexia Kelley and with support from...
From the Bill White for Texas Campaign Since Friday a week ago Texans from all backgrounds and all regions have asked me to consider running to be our next Governor of Texas. Today I agree to consider running for Governor, and shall make a decision by Friday, December 4th. Before...
From the Office of the United States Trade Representative “Thank you all for having me here today. Thank you to Michael Sorrell for that introduction and for his work at Paul Quinn College, and my thanks as well to Michael Lomax for his incredible dedication as President of the UNCF....
