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Arlington's digs at Cowboys Stadium might be fancy, but they need to be transparent.
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Picture a parabola (if it has legs or scales, you’re wrong)
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Charting our way to solvency
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America's paradox: Blacks fighting for ideals that exclude them
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Obama flunks on education reform
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Gaming abortion
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Obama's opportunity for communication
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- Carona and Watson: Texas leaders must face transportation reality
- Branch: Is that black history stuff really important?
- Smerconish: Bring tech up to speed
- Supreme court
- Rooke: Proclaiming injustice led to preacher's violent death
- Ireland: Clearing the air on the Barnett Shale
- Richter: Alzheimer's disease is the new pandemic
- Heflin: Texas can end the property tax
- Bolen: Wings of hope take off from Texas
- Embry: In Texas, big donations get big results
- Carona and Watson: Texas leaders must face transportation reality
- Branch: Is that black history stuff really important?
- Smerconish: Bring tech up to speed
- Supreme court
- Rooke: Proclaiming injustice led to preacher's violent death
- Ireland: Clearing the air on the Barnett Shale
- Richter: Alzheimer's disease is the new pandemic
- Heflin: Texas can end the property tax
- Bolen: Wings of hope take off from Texas
- Embry: In Texas, big donations get big results
- Arlington parking ordinance, March 2 primary elections
- Letters to the editor: March 2 primary, Fort Worth police, sportswriters
- Arlington City Council and Cowboys Stadium, March 2 primary
- Diet and health, Fort Worth sign ordinance, March 2 elections
- Arlington City Council and the stadium suites, Alzheimer's disease, March 2 elections
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