First there was a Better Block; then, a Better Boulevard; then, just yesterday, a Better Bridge. Of all the efforts to temporarily transform a piece of the city into something other than what it is, yesterday’s brief installation atop the Cedar Crest Bridge, which connects Oak Cliff to South Dallas…
One years ago, when Mayor Mike Rawlings was merely Park Board President Mike Rawlings, the city held its first-ever Dallas Parks Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. By way of invite in 2010, ad man Rawlings said this:”Walt Disney once said he didn’t want the public to see…
The Degolyer Estate at the Dallas Arboretum is a beautiful spot, a big house set back from a broad lawn, edged this time of the year with pumpkins and purple flowers. In the library, retreating Dallas City Council members and various other City Hall types (City Manager Mary Suhm, the…
Back in January, an online petition appeared asking that Bexar Street in South Dallas be renamed to Rev. Carlton Garrett Street in honor of the founding pastor of The Lord’s Missionary Baptist Church. Six people signed it. But on August 19, council members Dwaine Caraway, Carolyn Davis and Tennell Atkins…
Sam’s World Series Game 1 preview-open thread’s upcoming any minute now; start polishing your bats. Till then, this: The governor’s office sends word that Rick Perry has, but of course, made a wager with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon concerning the outcome of Rangers-Cardinals. And it’s not a terribly thrilling wager…
As promised, the public comment period at this morning’s Dallas City Council meeting featured several members of the Domingo Garcia-led Latino Redistricting Task Force . In the council briefing room, every chair was full, with many people wearing white or blue tees that read “Count Us In” inside a drawing…
Had a brief chat with Mayor Mike Rawlings last night concerning what appears to be the never-ending process of redistricting, about which the city council will get an earful this morning from Latino leaders who insist they’re not properly represented on the map the council approved to send to the…
If you missed last night’s CNN Western Republican debate in Nevada, the clip above is the best example of why the GOP is seriously screwed no matter who they choose. The two supposed front-runners — Mitt Romney and Rick Perry — acted like a couple of high schoolers, barking and…
What’s that? You want another redistricting item? Well, then, you are so in luck. Anna too, since she’s got some place to be at 9 tomorrow morning.The city has not yet sent to the Department of Justice the new map of council districts approved by the council — just barely…
A couple of months back, ABC News noted that even in the midst of Texas’s historic drought, Houston was seeing a “sudden surge” in the number of mosquitoes carrying West Nile. Why? Because it’s Houston. But now, it’s Dallas’s turn — or, at least, your turn if you live in…
OK, so maybe stench is too strong a word. (Schutze is shaking his head no.) This is actually what council member Jerry Allen said when kicking off today’s meeting of the council’s Budget, Finance and Audit Committee: There’s an “image problem” at City Hall, which has been “tainted by ethical…
If Tom Leppert were still mayor, rather than a candidate for U.S. Senate, it’s possible the city might not have been so accommodating with those presently occupying the parking lot behind Dallas City Hall. I knew we forgot to mention something Friday, when I first espied this on the former…
We’re still waiting to see with which concessionaires the city will fill a Distinctively Dallas Love Field, which is in the process of being modernized from now till 2014ish. But this afternoon, the council’s newly resurrected Arts, Culture & Libraries Committee will get a sneak peek at the $3.284 million…
After months of suspense, and after the other Republican hopefuls hired staff, began campaigning and participated in seven debates, Sarah Palin finally announced last week she wouldn’t be running for president after all. Upon hearing the news, Michelle McCormick and a few of her friends did what you too would…
There’s a curious item posted on the city council’s Economic Development Committee’s agenda for Monday morning: “Project Wall-E.” And that’s all it says, save for the fact it will be discussed entirely behind closed doors in executive session. The reason: “to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real…
Well, we were going to go to Earle Cabell at 10 this morning for The Big Showdown: City of Dallas versus Occupy Dallas for the right to pitch a tent in Pioneer Park, in the shadow of the convention center. Because, as you recall, Occupy Dallas made its case Wednesday…
Speaking of DPD Chief Brown …On October 4, the Dallas Police Department announced that it had arrested 19-year-old Skyler Brandt for selling the ecstasy that led to the August overdose of a 19-year-old from Grandview named Matthew Allen. Police said Brandt sold the drugs to Allen at a dance club…
And now we return to the city’s enforcement of the Lower Greenville Planned Development District Ordinance, which, as you no doubt recall, went into effect at midnight September 24 and says any venue without a specific use permit and a new certificate of occupancy has to close its doors at…
As we noted one month ago, the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce is coordinating efforts to repurpose Valley View Center, which has long been a shadow of a shadow of its former self. Bruce Bradford, the chamber’s interim president, and city council member Linda Koop spoke of plans intended to…
One week ago today we walked alongside the Occupy Dallas-ites as they marched from Pike Park to the Dallas Federal Reserve airing their laundry list of grievances, echoing those who stormed Wall Street almost a month ago and never left as their ranks swelled. But in the week since, the…
Last night we got word that the city is invalidating Occupy Dallas’s permit to stay in Pioneer Park till 5 p.m. Friday, since the group hadn’t secured the million-dollar insurance policy City Hall demanded on Monday. The question was: Would the city kick Occupy Dallas out at 11 p.m., the…
XTO and Trinity East, two of the companies that have paid the city big money and signed leases to drill for gas within the city limits, have agreed to wait 30 months while the city rewrites its gas drilling ordinance. But one company has no such deal with the city:…
