| 01/21/2001 Letters: 'Our Town' 01/16/2001 Our Town
Area residents and city planners often describe verdant North Oak Cliff as the "gateway" into a vibrant but misunderstood section of Dallas, which is graced by gentle hills filled with ample oaks, creeks and parks. 12/28/2000 A valiant struggle to revive Ideal, Bon Ton neighborhoods
Drive to Southeast Dallas most Saturdays and you will find a dedicated army of volunteers hammering and sawing away. Continued growth will require neighborhood cooperation
Forgotten. Neglected. Left to its own devices. These are the words community leaders use to describe the East Dallas area between Central Expressway and Live Oak Avenue. The neighborhood is one of the most ethnically diverse in the city, and one of the most controversial. 12/10/2000 Comeback in Uptown brings vitality and problems
Some say love is blind. And that's what friends told Judith Smith Hearst in 1976 when she fell in love with a large, crumbling mansion on Thomas Street just blocks from downtown Dallas. 12/04/2000 West Dallas is making progress
Cars usually speed their way through West Dallas, intent on going somewhere else. Many from other parts of the city think this 6,500-acre area is blighted, despite its proximity to downtown and its picturesque downtown views. Today, the area is improving, and residents see their days of decay behind them. Few outside the area, however, know the progress unfolding. 11/26/2000 Bachman Lake neighborhood struggles with blight
As tasters of American literature know, Rip Van Winkle awoke to an utterly changed world. His house was a ruin, his shrewish wife was dead. 11/19/2000 Vickery Meadow struggles with population explosion
Congestion was mostly an inconvenience when the neighborhood was a yuppie community. But Vickery Meadow's residents now lack individual resources and simply outnumber available public and private services. With a cycle of poverty well entrenched, the neighborhood in a literal sense continues to choke itself. |
