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A Decade After Beer, Wine Propositions, What Did UP Get?

November 30, 2020November 28, 2020 Rachel Snyder 1 Comment alcohol, beer, news, Park Cities, Plaza Health Foods and Marc Hall, SMU, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, University Park, Wine

Back when University Park restaurants needed private club licenses to sell alcohol, the city’s annual take usually wouldn’t top $100,000 in taxes.

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Voters Approve Nuts and Bolts, But Not Luxuries, on Dallas ISD Bond Package

November 25, 2020December 7, 2020 Bethany Erickson 0 Comments bond package, Bonds, Dallas ISD, Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas Votes 4 Kids, news, preston hollow, VOTE

On the surface, two out of five might not seem like a big win for Dallas ISD. But when two of the five bond propositions on the November ballot equate to $3.54 billion of a $3.7 billion ask, the win becomes much clearer.

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Parents Clash Over COVID Protocols

November 23, 2020December 29, 2020 Rachel Snyder 0 Comments COVID Protocols, HPISD, news, Parents Clash, Park Cities, Sign Petition

Safety protocols at Highland Park ISD schools have been hotly debated since the start of the fall semester.

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Talking Health Care For Texas’ Sake

November 5, 2020December 29, 2020 Margaret Spellings 0 Comments America’s Health Rankings, Community, COVID-19, Health Care, Margaret Spellings, news, Texas, Texas 2036

For years, Texans have known through difficult personal experience that health care in Texas has challenges. Over the last six months, those issues have hit home for millions more.

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Stealing Signs of The Times

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 Rachel Snyder 0 Comments elections, Highland Park Department of Public Safety, news, Political, Politics, Signs, Stealing, University Park

It’s presidential election season, and with it can come some neighborhood political tensions.

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Read Local: How To Get A Neighborhood View Of The Election

November 2, 2020November 1, 2020 Bethany Erickson 0 Comments Election, Election Day, LOCAL, Neighborhood, news, November, preston hollow, VOTE

A big Election Day is coming up, and our small-but-mighty staff has been preparing to cover it.

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Plunderers Pilfer Particularly Pricey Part

October 28, 2020October 30, 2020 Bethany Erickson 0 Comments catalytic converter, Crime, National Automobile Dealers Association, National Insurance Crime Bureau, news, Stealing

When a half dozen readers reached out to us about being unceremoniously divested of their vehicle’s catalytic converter, and we found yet another instance where a NorthPark Center shopper was parted with the part in police reports, we had to ask: Why catalytic converters?