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Dallas’ convention center is an absurd, obsolete, cobbled- together mess floating on a sea of concrete. This month the City Council will decide whether we should spend $500 million on its deferred maintenance. There’s another option: tear the sucker down. Start over. And create a downtown that visitors— and residents—would actually enjoy.

Had Tuesday’s celebration of the future Harwood Park been a traditional groundbreaking, the job would have required jackhammers, not shovels. Instead,...

Twitter didn’t respond kindly to the initial sentiment. Many journalists pointed out that they had to work multiple jobs to afford unpaid opportunities or were completely shut out from them. Unpaid internships are exploitative and elitist, rewarding students who can afford to take them them and leaving behind students from underrepresented backgrounds. BuzzFeed lays off dozens of HuffPost employees BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti had said he “believe[d] in the future of HuffP...

The decision will ultimately be up to the shareholders in May, when it’s sent to them for approval. “We are keenly aware that the relationship of our company’s name to a person who figured prominently in the Confederate Army is the source of discomfort, even pain, for many of our fellow citizens,” Decherd said during the call. “And that is intolerable to the leaders of this enterprise.” Belo got involved with the company after the Civil War. His family had owned slaves, but he neve...