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Abbott: Dallas leaders’ failure on policing, homelessness to blame for AT&T relocation ... and more news

from The Dallas Morning News · host The Dallas Morning News

Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that Dallas leaders were responsible for AT&T’s decision to relocate its headquarters from downtown Dallas to Plano, blaming what he called the city’s failure to fully fund and staff its police department. In other news, a Texas A&M professor has been told not to teach certain writings from Plato, a staple in introductory philosophy courses, because they may violate the university system’s new rules against “advocating” race or gender ideology, or topics concerning sexual orientation, in core classes; a shooting in northwest Dallas last week that left one woman dead and injured her husband stemmed from a dating app meetup; and Salad and Go will close all remaining locations in Texas and Oklahoma, which includes the 25 locations still operating in North Texas and the seven in Oklahoma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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