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The Dallas Morning News announces new digital strategy, pricing

The Dallas Morning News plans to launch a new digital strategy on Jan.
18, and it will begin charging for online and mobile access to some of its
content on Feb. 15. The initiatives include an iPad application; an updated iPhone app; and a new design and streamlined navigation for the newspaper's website, dallasnews.com.
Brendan Case: http://dallasne.ws/iehPJv

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

The Texas Political Heat Index

The Texas Heat Index is a fact check of whether candidates, campaigns and interest groups are telling the truth as they aim to persuade voters. Claims are rated with Texas flavor, using the chili-pepper index on a scale from one to four.

Better work, and without the bizarre conclusions. see for yourself:

http://heatindex.dallasnews.com//

The Derby: Kentucky Fights to Keep Horse Supremacy

With the Derby coming up (this Saturday, Mike would want me to tell you), our own transportation reporter Michael Lindenberger wrote this fine piece for TIME Magazine about the State of the Horse business in the state of Kentucky.
http://tinyurl.com/27whorj

Perry rules out special session to challenge federal health-care reforms

Governor Perry was on our floor this AM for a photoshoot -- Newsweek was taking advantage of our magnificent view of the Capitol, so intrepid Bureau chief Hoppe took advantage of the situation to ask him if he'd call a special session to nullify healthcare: 

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry tamped out rumors today that he would call a special legislative session to consider whether Texas should seek to exempt itself from federal health care law.

Harris County Republican Chairman Jared Woodfill has circulated a petition in hopes of prompting Perry to call a 30-day special session to consider "nullification" as it relates to health care. Nullification is a largely untested legal theory which holds that states can ignore federal mandates that they feel constitutionally overreach.

Rick Perry subject of Newsweek interest

I grabbed a camera -- the verite style just tells me I gotta cut way back on the coffee...

I got a nice screenshot of the governor, though:

Dallas Morning News wins Pulitzer for editorial writing

Yeah, we're still in a Pulitzer glow a little bit... http://tinyurl.com/y7omsm7 ...OK, that's enough! Get back to work!

The Dallas Morning News awarded a Pulitzer

DMN's Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie awarded the Pulitzer for Editorial Writing! Congratulations to all the winners, and to all hard-working journalists everywhere.

The paper's announcement: http://tinyurl.com/yepga2b

Some of the work they did: http://tinyurl.com/yaxzxj6

Bush library looking for some friends with Facebook application

Construction crews won't break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center until November, but the future home of Bush's policy institute and library is already building an online presence – on Facebook.

Thompson reports.

Note:
I tried to post a DMN story about how the Bush presidential library has a Facebook page ON Facebook, and I (repeatedly) got this message. "Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users." After repeated attemptsI broke up the url to get it up, but the fact remains: a news story, from a major American newspaper, is being blocked by Facebook. - jj

The bureau's Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Austin-TX/The-Austin-Bureau-of-the-Dallas-Morning-News/198243714493

The presidential library's Facebook url: http://www.facebook.com/georgebushfoundation?ref=ts