Following Thursday afternoon’s presser celebrating the anticipated approval of a plan to restore the Trinity River levee system’s 100-year flood protection, we asked City Manager Mary Suhm about the progress of the Margaret McDermott Bridge — the second Santiago Calatrava-designed bridge that will replace the current IH-30 bridge. After all,…
If the city’s shutting down another hookers-n-drugs party shack around town, you can bet Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s going to be there for the photo op, and so it was this morning at the Luxury Inn Motel in Southeast Dallas. Backed by a posse including neighborhood leaders, council members, City Attorney…
The 7-year-old who lives in my house and I have spent the last two weekends at Fair Park while he wrapped a school project; so — sniff — proud. And somewhere between walking around the Cotton Bowl and sitting in on an Assassination City Roller Derby warm-up at the Coliseum…
It was all smiles and back-slapping this afternoon as the city, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Trinity River Corridor Project partners celebrated the “fantastic news,” according to Mayor Dwaine Caraway: The levees are expected to be repaired by the end of the year, and the cost range of the…
With all the planet’s dwindling forests, contaminated waters and changing climate, it might take a 2012-themed recycling rally to scare new people into recycling more. But with Earth Day coming up, the city went with a “1960’s style Rally for Recycling” today at the Whole Foods in Lakewood — an…
Late yesterday, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and I had a long talk about several subjects, one of them being her efforts to trim the budget, yet again, this go-round anywhere from $60 to $110 million — depending, she said, upon how much the state and feds take from the…
Last night, good Friend of Unfair Park Lakewooder sent the photo you see at right — a couple of food trucks parked in the lot where once the Arcadia proudly stood till it was claimed by fire in June 2006. He asked of this mobile food court: “Is this a…
City Hall just sent word: Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Flag Room, Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Trinity River Corridor Project Committee Chairman Dave Neumann and representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Trinity Trust Foundation and Trinity Commons Foundation will hold a press conference to announce “significant news regarding…
We’ve written a few times in recent years about author Carla Main, who remains locked in a legal tussle with Highland Park developer Hiram Walker Royall over Main’s ’07 book Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land, which chronicles the brouhaha over land grabbed from a family…
Turns out the Dallas Chapter of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly isn’t the only organization minimizing the mayoral candidacy of Edward Okpa. As we reported Friday, local RNHA chair Jason Villalba originally excluded Okpa from tonight’s debate at Thomas Jefferson High School. He later reconsidered after receiving phone calls from…
In a letter posted this morning to his website, District 2 city council candidate Billy MacLeod urged city and county officials to move the polling location for one of the district’s highest-voting precincts and questioned the appointment of its election judge by the office of his opponent — incumbent Pauline…
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission continues to dole out those permits to the would-be beer and wine sellers of Dallas. The 21-page of list of March sweepstakes winners alone, which follows, includes a handful of Aldi locations (from the one at Forest and Audelia to the grocery at Illinois and…
In case you haven’t seen the updates to Friday’s item about tomorrow’s mayoral debate at Thomas Jefferson High School, Dallas Chapter of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly chair Jason Villalba late Friday sent out an apology for excluding Edward Okpa from the forum and said Okpa had been extended an…
There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who’s-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She…
[Update at 7:34 a.m. Saturday: Okpa has been invited, per a letter Villalba sent to “friends and members” at 10:52 p.m. yesterday. You can read the whole letter after the jump.] [Update at 5:50 p.m.: We just heard from Kunkle, who says our item was the first he’d heard of…
Dallas County Commissioner Clay Jenkins rounded up reporters this morning to help spread the good word about the county’s plan to help owners get reunited with cars impounded at Dowdy Ferry Auto Services. The county had an auction planned this week for the 1,400 cars still sitting in the lot,…
She spoke at former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s retirement press conference. She appointed Mike Rawlings to be the city’s homeless czar. She was mayor when Ron Natinsky replaced Sandy Greyson on the city council and served with him for two years. Edward Okpa finished third on the ballot the…
Over on Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, council member Delia Jasso’s recapping her spring break trip to Spain, where she and Pauline Medrano want to ride their bicycles, want to ride their bikes, want to ride their bicycles, want to ride them where they like — Seville, specifically. That’s where the…
Below, in the comments accompanying Sam’s recap of Tuesday night’s mayoral debate at the Fairmont Hotel, several readers wanted — nay, demanded — a fuller accounting of who said what. To that end, one Friend of Unfair Park pointed out that the debate’s sponsor, The Real Estate Council, did indeed…
Above is a few minutes’ worth of the lengthy back-and-forth that took place down in Austin yesterday (and last night), as D’s and R’s fought over SB 14 — which, of course, demands that a voter present photo identification before being allowed to cast a ballot. Among the most vocal…
Over the last five, six years, Southern Methodist University has slowly, surely expanded its presence along N. Central Expressway — beginning with the purchase of Expressway Tower, once the home of the Dallas Cowboys corporate offices; 6200 N. Central Expressway, which now houses Development and External Affairs’ administrative offices; and…
Former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle came out swinging at Tuesday evening’s mayoral debate at the Fairmont Hotel, with most of his barbs aimed at ex-Pizza Hut CEO Mike Rawlings. The two candidates have collectively engaged in what has become a clear battle of public- versus private-sector experience. “This may…
