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The Summer Solstice on June 21 celebrates the year’s longest day.  But commentator Rawlins Gilliland says he longs for life after dark.

Irving’s school board appears split over the possibility of bringing corporal punishment back to the district after a five year absence.

City of Dallas mosquito-spraying trucks will be out in half a dozen neighborhoods tonight and tomorrow night, weather permitting.

Hispanics and women lost seats on the Dallas City Council after the May vote and Saturday’s runoff elections. KERA’s BJ Austin reports on what the new council will look like.

What's big, and rich, and tragically disconnected from politics and civic life? It's Texas. The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at UT released its first-ever Texas Civic Health Index, and the results are embarrassing: the state came up dead last in voter turnout for the 2010 election. But there's more. We'll find out with the institute's Regina Lawrence on Think at noon.

Five stories that have North Texas talking: Waco-reared doctor reflects on almost a century spent listening to babies, Austin gains on Seattle in venture capital heft, a Dallas exonoree's case brings up the question: Should ex-spouses be awarded compensation for their former partners' wrongful convictions? and more.

More than 25 million people – nearly a third of them children -  are known to have asthma. The lung disease causes recurring periods of wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing – all of which can be more troublesome on ozone alert days in summer. Dr. Stephen Mueller with Methodist Charlton Medical Center explains why in this week’s edition of Vital Signs.