Floodwaters recede, cleanup begins after tornado narrowly misses downtown Dallas

DMN's great coverage of yesterday's flooding, tornado in north Texas starts here:
http://dallasne.ws/b3GpRk

North Texas planners kick it into high gear with only 200 days to go before Super Bowl XLV

Jeff Mosier has the details -- and there are LOTS of details!
http://dallasne.ws/bFogIi

Last chance to vote today in runoffs

Supreme Court race tops Texas runoff ballot

Kelley Shannon from the AP reviews the remaining races:

(AP) Many Democratic and Republican primary contests – including each party's nomination for governor – were settled March 2.


Those who voted in a party primary can vote only in that party's runoff election; they can't cross over and cast ballots in the other party's runoff. People who didn't vote at all in the March primary may choose which party's runoff they wish to vote in.

Unfinished primary races to be settled in runoff election today

Jeffers, Kim, and Houseright offer a review of North Texas races, many quite contentious.

Most Barnett Shale facilities release emissions

"There are toxic air emissions being released by the majority of the facilities that we have looked at." Randy Lee Loftis reports:

Plumes of toxic, smog-causing chemicals from Barnett Shale natural-gas operations are so common that inspectors find them nearly every time they look, a Dallas Morning News examination of government records shows.


What's more, the inspectors have rarely looked.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The News under federal and state open-records laws, plus other reports and studies, reveal a pattern of emissions of toxic compounds, often including cancer-causing benzene, from Barnett Shale facilities.