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Dave Hiott @DaveHiott

An editor with a background in crime, immigration, breaking news and investigations. Now taking time off to chill after decades at The Dallas Morning News.

Joined February 2015
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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
11 Jan 2024
More than ever, American consumers want revenge against companies taking advantage of them dallasnews.com/news/watchdog…

More than ever, American consumers want revenge against companies taking advantage of them

Uncivil behavior by both companies and their customers may be the new normal, survey finds.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
24 Dec 2023
Past time for post office to bring modern trucks to Texas dallasnews.com/opinion/edito…

Past time for post office to bring modern trucks to Texas

USPS' mail trucks have been in service for over three decades, but they lack basic features like air conditioning and airbags. It's time to replace them.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
22 Dec 2023
Southern Dallas business expands transportation service to help carless workers dallasnews.com/news/transpor…

Southern Dallas business expands transportation service to help carless workers

Southern Dallas Link – which started with a one-man operation with a borrowed van – has grown into a reliable and robust fleet of buses, helping get more than 2,000 people a day to the grocery

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
22 Dec 2023
Lake Highlands office owner sues city of Dallas, affordable housing developer dallasnews.com/news/2023/12/…

Lake Highlands office owner sues city of Dallas, affordable housing developer

A Lake Highlands property owner that failed to block an affordable housing deal has sued the developer, property owner and the city of Dallas, claiming the violation of a commercial-use-only deed

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
21 Dec 2023
USPS faces $15,625 fine after heat-related death of Dallas mail carrier Eugene Gates Jr. dallasnews.com/news/politics…

USPS faces $15,625 fine after heat-related death of Dallas mail carrier Eugene Gates Jr.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration citation alleges the postal service failed to protect workers from high heat.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
21 Dec 2023
Trail connecting White Rock Lake, Great Trinity Forest opens, connecting divided Dallas dallasnews.com/news/2023/12/…

Trail connecting White Rock Lake, Great Trinity Forest opens, connecting divided Dallas

The Trinity Forest Spine Trail and a soft surface mountain bike trail – a section of the contiguous loop that will soon connect the city – opened this fall, for the first time linking White Rock

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
20 Dec 2023
Border Patrol must stop cutting Texas razor wire, appeals court says dallasnews.com/news/immigrat…

Border Patrol must stop cutting Texas razor wire, appeals court says

Texas has tussled for months with the Biden administration over its use of razor wire at the border.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
20 Dec 2023
Dallas County’s IT needs overhaul to fix a year of technological troubles, report says dallasnews.com/news/politics…

Dallas County's IT needs overhaul to fix a year of technological troubles, report says

Dallas County's IT department is not included in decisions on software, and it's hurting the county, a report shows.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
20 Dec 2023
Dallas committee divided on zoning reform to add housing density dallasnews.com/news/2023/12/…

Dallas committee divided on zoning reform to add housing density

Members of Dallas' housing and homeless solutions committee discussed on Tuesday broad options to reform the city's zoning and building codes to increase the housing supply, among them most

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
20 Dec 2023
Gate to plate: U.S., Mexican cattle ranchers turn economic integration into science apart from politics dallasnews.com/food/2023/12/…

U.S., Mexican cattle ranchers turn economic integration into science apart from politics

The cattle were born in Mexico but fathered with sperm from bulls in New Mexico. Within seconds of trotting onto U.S. soil and over a weight station, the cattle, branded with an "M" for

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
19 Dec 2023
House Democrats want scrutiny of USPS policies protecting its workers from extreme heat dallasnews.com/news/politics…

House Democrats want scrutiny of USPS policies protecting its workers from extreme heat

Dallas carrier Eugene Gates Jr. died of heat-related illness after collapsing on the job in June.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
19 Dec 2023
Dallas County at odds over findings in a juvenile report, continues work with researcher dallasnews.com/news/courts/2…

Dallas County at odds over findings in a juvenile report, continues work with researcher

Dallas County commissioners have approved a contract with a controversial researcher after the juvenile department disagreed with her initial findings.

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This program provides seniors with long-awaited hugs with their distant children dallasnews.com/news/inspired…

Emotional reunion at DFW one of many Lazos de Oro provides for seniors and loved ones

Lazos de Oro works with separated Mexican families to help older adults navigate the visa process. From filling out the paperwork to scheduling interviews with the U.S. Embassy, to coaching them

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Message about Gaza leads to removal of UT teaching assistants dallasnews.com/news/educatio…

Message about Gaza leads to removal of UT teaching assistants

Two graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin were dismissed from teaching assistant roles after sending a message to students titled "mental health and violence in Gaza."University

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Dallas-Collin homeless response system is housing more people per month than ever before dallasnews.com/news/2023/12/…

Dallas-Collin homeless response system is housing more people per month than ever before

In 2019, the Dallas-Collin system housed about 80 homeless people a month. Today, about 207 unhoused residents a month find a home, says Housing Forward, the lead agency for the system. Joli

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Dallas will launch 311 service in Spanish this month dallasnews.com/news/2023/12/…

Dallas will launch 311 service in Spanish this month

The Dallas 311 mobile app and online portal will be available in Spanish this year.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
30 Nov 2023
This genius belongs at the feet of Leonard Cohen and, really, that is not a bad place to be. nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/…

Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65 (Published 2023)

As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
30 Nov 2023
Scott Armey, trying again for dad’s old seat in Congress, faces crowded conservative field dallasnews.com/news/politics…

Scott Armey, trying again for dad's old seat in Congress, faces crowded conservative field

Scott Armey is running for his dad Dick Armey's former congressional seat, more than two decades after his first try.

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
29 Nov 2023
The U.S. never asked for land after wars? Ex-House speaker is Pants on Fire wrong dallasnews.com/news/politifa…

The U.S. never asked for land after wars? Ex-House speaker is Pants on Fire wrong

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., recently posted footage of himself telling an audience that the United States has never sought land after winning wars. Multiple historians told

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Dave Hiott@DaveHiott
17 Nov 2023
Mexican government, Dallas groups plan ‘know your rights’ training in wake of border bill dallasnews.com/news/immigrat…

Mexican government, Dallas groups plan 'know your rights' training in wake of border bill

Mexican government, groups plan training on Texas border bill.

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