Bethany Erickson

Bethany Erickson lives in a 1961 Fox and Jacobs home with her husband, a second-grader, and Conrad Bain the dog. If she won the lottery, she'd by an E. Faye Jones home.
She's taken home a few awards for her writing, including a Gold award for Best Series at the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism awards, a 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Award for Editorial Opinion from the Dallas Press Club, and a 2019 award from NAREE for a piece linking Medicaid expansion with housing insecurity.
She is a member of the Online News Association, the Education Writers Association, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
She doesn't like lima beans or the word moist.

Wednesday WTF: Meet Me At the Five Malls of Uptown Dallas

By Bethany Erickson / March 28, 2018 /

When you work in the world of media for any length of time at all, you will get PR pitches. Some of them are perfect pitches inviting you to check out some product or service that is completely related to what you write about. But sometimes, they are not. Sometimes, they are about busting cheaters…

Health-Related Incident at IDEA High Not TB, District and County Say

By Bethany Erickson / March 26, 2018 /

After what the district is terming a “health incident” at the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy (or IDEA) at James Fannin on Friday, miscommunications seemed to be rife as more than one person reached out to say that a student at the school had full-blown tuberculosis. IDEA is high school housed in the former James Fannin…

Splurge vs. Steal: Golf Course Living With a Pool, Anyone?

By Bethany Erickson / March 26, 2018 /

The argument over whether life is better inside the 635 loop or outside has adamant advocates on either side. But this week’s Splurge vs. Steal showcases golf course adjacent homes, and what you can get if you go a smidgen outside the loop. Both of our Splurge vs. Steal homes this week are near golf…

On SecondShelters.com: Historic Schoolhouse Conversion Offers Best of Two Worlds

By Bethany Erickson / March 25, 2018 /

While the town of Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, may not be on your radar as a tourist destination, we’ve found a schoolhouse conversion nestled near a 30-acre nature preserve and less than an hour from Philadelphia that is sure to move it up the getaway list.

Low Enrollment At Some Campuses Spurs Revamp Strategy for Dallas ISD

By Bethany Erickson / March 23, 2018 /

It was a busy and productive monthly meeting of the Dallas ISD board of trustees Thursday evening, with much of the night centered on the creation of two new choice schools and an update on the Accelerating Campus Excellence program. The district’s ACE program has been partly responsible for the turnaround of several Improvement Required…