North Dallas Gazette Newspaper

08/23/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/22/how-families-can-experience-more-at-the-state-fair-of-texas-for-less/

08/22/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/19/dallas-isd-high-schools-earn-top-10-rankings-in-texas/

Dallas ISD high schools earned four of the top ten spots in Texas, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best High Schools rankings. Additionally, six schools ranked in the top 50 in Texas. Among nearly 18,000 nationally-ranked schools, the School for the Talented and Gifted at Y...

08/21/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/19/city-of-plano-seeks-artist-for-downtown-arts-district-entry/

PLANO – The City of Plano is looking for an artist or artist-led team to design and fabricate a permanent artwork that marks the entry to the Historic Downtown Plano Arts District. The piece will sit at the northeast corner of G Avenue and 15th Street and serve as a landmark for the district that ...

08/21/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/19/flock-cameras-draw-ire-from-residents-of-carrollton/

By Gabrielle Miller NDG Special Contributor The City of Carrollton, as well as other cities in the DFW area, has signed contracts with Flock Safety, a private company based on the manufacturing and operation of surveillance hardware and software. Many have remarked on seeing these new cameras poppin...

08/20/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/19/count-them-then-hire-them/

By Ben Jealous Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8 percent. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking....

08/20/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/19/jessica-bell/

A permanent art installation, “For the Culture,” a powerful new sculpture by acclaimed community & public art artist Jessica Bell will be unveiled Thursday Aug. 20, as part of the dedication of Constantin Corner at the Forest Theater. Constantin Corner is an expansive outdoor space and lawn hono...

08/20/2026

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08/20/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/19/a-generation-at-risk-new-public-charge-rule-threatens-health-care-and-development-for-citizen-children/

By Lori Lee NDG Contributing Writer A sweeping overhaul of the federal “public charge” rule will soon hand a great deal more discretion to officials, injecting deep uncertainty into the American immigration system. The rule gauges the risk that an applicant might become dependent on government.....

08/19/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/12/monica-l-baskin-phd/

(Black PR Wire) Monica L. Baskin, Ph.D., will serve as the next director of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center pending approval by the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors in September. She is also expected to be named the Lipman Chair in Oncology. Baskin is the first female direct...

08/18/2026

https://northdallasgazette.com/2026/08/12/tasia-fortune/

By Chris Kringle Bakersfield News Observer JACKSON, Miss. — The Hinds County Coroner’s Office on Thursday identified the woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home in west Jackson as Tasia Fortune, 29. Days after her body was discovered, the most basic questions about her death remain ...