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.
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Bert is 89 years old, estranged from his family and living at a care facility. He has $330,000 in life savings. Bert is in a good environment where his needs are met and he has enough money to provide for his care for the foreseeable future. For most people, that would be enough. However, in my jaded world view, Bert is vulnerable. He has no one to protect him from exploitation. Sure enough, into Bert’s world comes the perpetrator, a man who uses intimidation to get what he wants and...