The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with over 400,000 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.
A student-produced drag show at Texas A&M University can go on this week after a federal judge blocked the university’s attempt to ban the performance. Students sued the A&M System’s board of regents after they banned the “Draggieland” performance, which is set for March 27 at the College Station campus. Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, of the Southern District of Texas, ruled that the students are likely to succeed in their lawsuit against A&M and allowed the show to go on as planned. “We’re overjoyed with today’s decision,” the A&M student...