Dwaine Caraway's Your Favorite Real-life Ticket Character, But Is That Enough to Get Him Back to City Hall?

Dwaine Caraway loves giving reporters tours of District 4, the southern Dallas sprawl in which he was born and raised and never left. Over the years I've read, even assigned and edited, countless travelogues penned by journalists amazed at how the former City Council member knows the location of every sketchy halfway house, slumlord-owned shopping center and drug-dealing corner store from Cedar Crest to Loop 12 to Interstate 45. He's South Oak Cliff's Vasco da Gama of vice.I finally got my own tour Monday, along with my City Hall bunkmate Tristan Hallman. Went in thinking this was going to be a straight-up interview; I've known Caraway long enough to know better.  Continue reading...

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