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Talmage Boston interviews Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the big winter storm nears, some North Texans are getting to their local stores while they can. Grocers around the region are seeing more activity as folks stock up. Key items include water and extra food that don’t require cooking or refrigeration, such as dried fruits, nuts and granola bars. Other items include flashlights and batteries, baby needs and first-aid supplies. In other news, Garland ISD’s board voted Tuesday to support a proposal that would end more than a half-century of court supervision. The 6-0 vote came weeks after the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas filed a motion seeking to have the district’s 56-year-old desegregation order lifted; a man has been sentenced to life in prison and found guilty by a Collin County jury for the kidnapping and sexual assault of an 8-year-old child in Plano in the 90s. Sixty-five year old Nicholas Carney of Ardmore, Okla., was sentenced to life in prison, 34 years after the initial crime he committed was reported; nd after five years serving Southern food in Dallas’ Lakewood neighborhood, Palmer’s Hot Chicken will close at Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road and move to a delivery, catering and food truck business. The business will move to a ghost kitchen in Garland, where they will make the same recipes, without the dining room attached and make them available via DoorDash and Uber Eats delivery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SportsDay Insiders Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant and Brad Townsend discuss [3:50]  the problems the city’s pro sports teams keep running into with city hall. And not just I.M. Pei’s masterpiece, either. Kevin even goes on a rant about the city’s lack of direction in general. Brad gives us the latest updates on the Wings, Mavs and Stars, then offers his opinion on whether the Mavs should trade Anthony Davis for pennies on the dollar. [30:04] Kevin and Evan also take another look at the Hoosiers’ win over Miami, cemented by a Carson Beck interception that looked a lot like the one that cinched SMU’s upset of Miami. And, as usual, the guys discuss the mess that is the Cowboys.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chuck Anderson on his path to real estate, leadership, the state of real estate in Downtown Dallas and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A winter storm is headed to North Texas, bringing with it the coldest temperatures of winter, following a month of record-setting heat. An intense cold front is expected to arrive early Friday morning, which should keep temperatures falling all day. ERCOT — which operates the power grid for most of Texas — is expected to have ample supply to meet the predicted demand on Friday. In other news, Dallas City Council members were split Tuesday on conceding power to try to save Dallas Area Rapid Transit; the Dallas Mavericks have narrowed their focus to two locations in the city of Dallas for their new arena, but a decision may not be made until July 1; and a new Tex-Mex restaurant called Loma is expected to open in the former Texas Rangers ballpark in Arlington in spring 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Friday, temperatures are expected to drop into the upper and mid-20s. Saturday is expected to see the most intense conditions, as odds favor a transition from rain to sleet to snow given the increasing depth of the cold air. In other news, President Donald Trump addressed the shift from Wall Street to Y’all Street as a negative thing in a social media post Sunday evening; Dallas police arrested five people early Monday morning after they gathered at a traffic accident scene and began assaulting officers and interfering with the investigation; an immigrant from Nicaragua was found dead at a Texas immigration detention facility last week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said in a statement that Victor Manuel Diaz appears to have killed himself Wednesday at the sprawling tent complex at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss base in El Paso; and Dallas’ decorative crosswalks may have run out of pavement. In a newly released notice, Texas regulators denied the city’s request to keep the artistic markings and set an end-of-month deadline to plan their removal or risk losing state or federal transportation funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five years ago, the body of 28-year-old Christopher Whiteley was found near a wooded creek bed in Hood County, about 55 miles outside of Fort Worth.Deputies theorized a cougar had killed him. Texas wildlife experts said that was impossible. So what really happened?From its earliest moments, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News found the examination into Whiteley’s death was riddled with false assumptions and errors that forensics and wildlife experts say left too many unanswered questions.Now, the fourth season of The Unforgotten podcast from Free Range Productions in association with The Dallas Morning News examines Whiteley’s story in a six-part series entitled “Kill Site.” The series is hosted by Free Range’s Wes Ferguson, a former Texas Monthly editor based near Austin. The podcast draws from a 2021 investigation by former News staff reporter Charles Scudder, who is a contributor on the show.We’re dropping a new episode each week here in your Dallas Morning News podcast feed.This is episode 6: “Naming names.” This series contains mature subject matter and strong language, listener discretion is advised.Read The News’ 2021 report on Whiteley’s case, complete with maps, timelines and visuals: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2021/09/23/authorities-say-a-hood-county-man-was-killed-by-a-cougar-texas-wildlife-experts-say-its-impossible/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Oak Lawn Branch, the Skyline Branch in the Buckner Terrace neighborhood, the Renner Frankford Branch in Far North Dallas and the Arcadia Park Branch in West Dallas are being recommended for closure as the city moves toward a regional library model. In other news, two North Texas companies are moving their headquarters. Brinks Home is moving into a new headquarters just down the road in Farmers Branch. FiberLight, a Plano-based firm that designs, builds and deploys fiber optic networks, is moving to a new headquarters in Allen; country music star Kacey Musgraves will headline 2026’s Big Night, an annual fundraiser in Fort Worth; and Celina has been rocked this week by more fallout in the case of former Moore Middle School employee and football coach William “Caleb” Elliott, who is accused of recording boys in the locker room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's expensive out there, and we have some ideas about how to scrounge for savings. Plus, The Dallas Morning News food team catches up with readers on their 2026 food goals, a new opening near the American Airlines Center, and a few new bar openings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amid a recent spate of reported sightings of bobcats and coyotes in Frisco, local experts are encouraging North Texas residents to be aware and to take precautions to avoid negative encounters between pets, people and wildlife. Police said there is no indication the public is at risk. In other news, a Mesquite City Council member Brandon Murden was arrested shortly after midnight by the Mesquite Police Department and faces a charge of assault causing bodily injury to a family member; the city’s 2023 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows Dallas produced about 18.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, an 11% decrease from 2015, the baseline year for the city’s climate goals; and when will D-FW see its first snow? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices