On June 28, the Dallas City Council will have the chance to sign off on the city’s first permanent memorial to the five Dallas police officers killed July 7 last year. The proposed memorial sculpture will sit in front of the flagpoles at Jack Evans Police Headquarters in the Cedars,…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ensured Thursday afternoon that Dallas County voters will have the final say on the fate of Dallas County Schools, the bureaucracy that doesn’t operate any schools but only provides bus service. The school district is a relic of a time when countywide districts, rather than city…
Dallas still hasn’t shaken the Exxxotica monkey off its back. Although the case was dismissed, the Dallas City Council committed Wednesday to spending at least another $157,000 on its lawsuit to keep the porn convention away from the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. This new expense brings the city’s total…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council voted to spend nearly $2 million to remove a whitewater feature in the Trinity River. The infamous Standing Wave, installed at a cost of more than $4 million in 2011, has never worked as planned. The wave was intended to have a challenging middle section for…
U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay sentenced the owner of a Dallas home health care company to 17 years in federal prison Tuesday for his role in what authorities have called the biggest instance of home health care fraud in the history of Medicare and Medicaid. Lindsay also ordered Wilbert James…
For a variety of reasons, Major League Baseball’s annual draft takes place with considerably less fanfare than those of the country’s three other major sports leagues. While the NFL, NBA and NHL drafts are offseason showcases, MLB’s takes place with little pomp and ceremony every June, with picks announced as…
Last Thursday morning, the Facebook page for downtown Dallas’ Serj Books announced that the bookstore and coffee shop was closed for the summer. “Do not look for us,” the message said. “September is just days away. We love you all. Respect.” There may have been a reason the shop’s owner,…
On Saturday afternoon, a couple of hours before the first results would be released in Dallas’ three City Council runoffs, the specter that had hung over Dallas municipal elections all spring reared its ugly head again. Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole announced that the vast majority of mail-in ballots…
In just a week, Dallas’ newest City Council will be inaugurated at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. After some pomp and circumstance in the morning, the City Council will convene that afternoon to draw for seats and offices. Thanks to the events of Saturday night, the City Council also…
It’s hard to describe Saturday night’s Dallas City Council runoff elections as anything but a repudiation of Dallas’ political establishment. Three incumbents, all backed by For Our Community, the Super PAC run by Mike Rawlings’ consultant Mari Woodlief, appear to have lost their seats on the council. Rawlings endorsed two…
Vanessa Swarovski, heiress to the Austrian crystal empire, is ditching her house in Westlake. The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom mansion in the tony North Texas exurb is estimated to be worth about $4 million, but Swarovski and her ex-husband, former MLB scrub Jorge Piedra, are selling it in an absolute auction June…
In less than two weeks — June 19 — Dallas will inaugurate its new City Council. Eleven members of that council are set. Ten incumbents are coming back. Dwaine Caraway, who knocked off freshman Carolyn Arnold in District 4, might as well be an incumbent; he served four two-year terms…
Since his retirement last October, former Dallas Police Chief David Brown has kept a relatively low profile. With the exception of a couple of commencement speeches, the ex-chief hasn’t talked much about himself and his six years as chief of one of the largest police departments in the country. This…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced late Wednesday afternoon that the city of Dallas will join several of its fellow Texas in cities a legal challenge to Texas Senate Bill 4. The decision came after a parade of open-mic speakers encouraged the City Council to do so and followed a lengthy executive…
Dallas police arrested state Representative Victoria Neave early Wednesday morning for driving while intoxicated. Neave, who the Texas House Democratic Caucus’ recently named “freshman of the year,” remains in Dallas County Jail, waiting to see a judge so she can be released on bail, according to county records. Neave represents House District…
On Tuesday, the 2017 National Homeland Security Conference kicked off in Buffalo, New York. Typically, a conference for law enforcement and emergency personnel in Buffalo wouldn’t make much noise in Dallas, but this year is a little different. During the conference’s opening general session, interim Dallas Police Chief David Pughes…
On Tuesday afternoon, an unsatisfied Texas Gov. Greg Abbott elected to call Texas’ House and Senate back for a special legislative session. In doing so, Abbott exercised one of his greatest gubernatorial powers for the first time, illustrating the priorities he has for the remainder of his first term as…
The Dallas City Council’s Housing Committee made it clear Monday that it doesn’t want the city to face a crisis like the one in West Dallas over the fates of occupants of rental homes owned by the Khraish family. Rather than hoping that another landlord will offer to finance and…
Irving state Rep. Matt Rinaldi picked either the worst time or the best time to put himself in the center of the Texas political universe. On Memorial Day, the last day of the 2017 Texas Legislature’s regular session, Rinaldi, a Republican, picked a fight with some of his Democratic colleagues,…
Dallas Police Department command partially evacuated Jack Evans Police Headquarters, 1400 South Lamar St., on Monday morning after someone left a bottle containing a clear liquid with a note attached at the building’s north entrance. The discovery prompted deployment of the DPD bomb squad and a Dallas Fire-Rescue hazardous materials team. …
And then there were three. Following the first round of voting May 6, 11 of Dallas’ 14 City Council races ended with one candidate getting more than 50 percent of the vote and, in doing so, avoiding a runoff. But the three races that remain on the board are the council’s…
The Rangers made a move Friday afternoon that would’ve been unthinkable at the beginning of the season. The team, reeling from the effects of seven losses in nine games, elected to designate Sam Dyson, one of the cornerstones of the team’s 2015 and 2016 division championships, for assignment, giving it…
