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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In 1879, explorer and geologist John Wesley Powell reported one of the planet’s most striking climate transitions — a curiosity of nature that’s about to have significant repercussions in Dallas and much of Texas. Powell, the first non-indigenous person to canoe the Grand Canyon, observed a nearly straight line across the spine of the U.S. that marks a stark divide between east and west, shaping how this country developed. Stretching along the 100th meridian — a line of longitude running roughly from Laredo to Bottineau, N.D. — Powell’s line marks...