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Rainbow rundown: 9 Pride 2025 events in Dallas-Fort Worth
| May 21, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS | Community | CULTURE | DFW | DFW EVENTS | diversity | ENTERTAINMENT | EQUALITY | HARDGATE | inclusion | LGBTQ | LIFESTYLE | local | old texas | TEXAS | THINGS TO DO
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is celebrating Pride 2025 in big ways. Check out these nine events from May to October that will show you that you belong.
Dallas County Judge Urges Residents to Get Measles Vaccine
| May 21, 2025
The Texas measles outbreak is slowly creeping into DFW.
James Talarico Scolds Greg Abbott for His ‘Betrayal’ of Public Schools
| May 21, 2025
EDUCATION | EXCO-Player | old texas | politics | public education | public schools | TEXAS | TEXAS POLITICS | youtube
Betrayal with the stroke of a pen.
How this trade teacher helps adult learners feel comfortable in the classroom
| May 21, 2025
Here's how one educator makes her adult student comfortable in a learning environment.
School Vouchers Will Hurt Texas Teachers Like Me
| May 20, 2025
bookbans | EDUCATION | EXCO-Player | old texas | OPINION | public education | TEXAS | TEXAS POLITICS | youtube
For Traci Dunlap, the fight over school vouchers in Texas is a personal one.
‘Teens Have First Amendment Rights’: Ex Librarian Opposes Texas Bill Limiting Library Access
| May 20, 2025
Republican lawmakers want to censor public libraries in Texas.
Parents, librarians, and freedom of speech advocates, including former public school librarian Carolyn Foote, voiced their concerns during a Senate committee hearing on April 28.
Texas Graded Its Public Schools. How Did Yours Fare?
| May 20, 2025
Texas public school ratings — which grade how well districts and campuses educate their students and prepare them for the future — were made public for the first time in two years.
Results across the state have dropped after the Texas Education Agency implemented stricter scoring standards, and one North Texas school district is at risk of being taken over by the state after five consecutive years of receiving an F ranking.
Making it in DFW: Dallas concert photographer faked it until she made it & it worked
| May 20, 2025
From Greyhound buses, Costco cameras, and getting paid in beer—to photographing Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour—Madison Truscan has proven she can make it as a concert photographer in Dallas.
‘Neither work nor home’: Dairy Queens as community hubs in rural Texas
| May 20, 2025
To be sure, the view of Dairy Queen as a community's social hub doesn't ring true as much as it did decades ago, even in rural Texas.
New bill would trap women who want or need abortions in Texas
| May 16, 2025
ABORTION | DFW | DFW Lead Story | Repro Rights | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story | TEXAS LEGISLATURE | TEXAS POLITICS
A bill passed in the Texas Senate allows women and their loved ones who help them get abortions — here or in another state — to be jailed and sued.
Op-Ed: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ — SB 16 hurts young, other marginalized voters
| May 16, 2025
Senate Bill 16's proposed voter ID requirements don't strengthen election security, they just further exclude young, rural, and low-income Texans.