Subject: Angela Hunt

• Copping A Feel For The Local Music Scene

  June 4, 2009

• Angela Hunt on the "Tens of Millions" Dallas is Losing

  May 10, 2008

• Council Votes Yup-Yup on City-Owned Convention Center Hotel

  May 14, 2008

• Hunt on Today's Council Vote: At City Hall, "Debate Is the Enemy."

  May 14, 2008

• Everyone Knows That Hotel's a "Risk." Which Ain't Stopping Anyone.

  May 14, 2008

• The Brave and the Bold Among City Hall's "Cowardly" Lot

  May 15, 2008

• And You Think We're Obsessed With Angela Hunt

  June 10, 2008

• Hunting Down the Garbage Some Sanitation Workers Contend With

  June 23, 2008

• Talking Political Futures With Guests at Angela Hunt's Fund-Raiser Last Night

  June 27, 2008

• Jenny, Jenny, Who Can You Turn To? Why, Angela Hunt, Actually.

  July 21, 2008

• Now, They're Angela Hunt's Music Videos From the Safari Zoo

  July 23, 2008

• The Blow Back

  July 23, 2008

• Oh, God, Make It Stop; And Other More Important Notes From Street Level

  August 6, 2008

• Angela Hunt Goes to Europe

  October 7, 2008

• From Denmark, Angela Hunt Still Wants to Talk Hotel, Ross Avenue

  October 23, 2008

• Council Committee Moves Toward Smoking Smackdown. Could Be Worse.

  November 11, 2008

• Angela Hunt Tells The News Where to Stick Its New Year's Eve Advice

  On her blog this morning, city council member Angela Hunt responds to The Dallas Morning News's New Year's Eve editorial "Texans to Watch in 2009," in which it was suggested that Hunt start playing well with others if she wants "a more prized seat at the horseshoe." She appreciates the advice; really, how awful sweet, she didn't know you cared.On the "prized seat" thing, I mulled it over and decided that's not really my goal. I like where I sit. But perhaps the DMN didn't mean that litera

  January 6, 2009

• You Want More Police Officers? Come 2013, Dallas Could Be Full of Them.

  We began the day with Angela Hunt; might as well end the day with Angela Hunt. Because only an hour ago, she Twittered some interesting news, as you can see from the photo at right. She offered further enlightenment when reached by Unfair Park this evening: Yes, indeed, the National Fraternal Order of Police is considering holding its national convention in Dallas in 2013.Hence, the DPD HQ tour today, as well as stops at Gilley's and other hot spots (?) so designated by the Dallas Convention and

  January 6, 2009

• Speaking of Slippery Roads ...

  Yeah, about this Central Expressway expansion ... Not so fast.More than likely, the Dallas City Council will spend at least the next month re-examining the plan to expand Central Expressway downtown. Council member Angela Hunt called Unfair Park with the news late last night: She has spoken with Ricardo Galceran, head of the city's Public Works and Transportation department, and with his blessing will ask the council to remove approving the route alignment from today's action-packed agenda. Pend

  January 28, 2009

• Angela Hunt Wants to Reevaluate the City's Toll Road Investment Because This is Cash We "May Be Dropping Down a Rabbit Hole."

  Brian HarkinAngela Hunt isn't shocked about the funding issues with the Trinity Turnpike, especially since she knew about them before the vote in November 2007.After reading Friday's story in The Dallas Morning News regarding the nearly $1 billion funding gap for the Trinity Turnpike, Angela Hunt decided she would spend this week developing a strategy to address the approximately $64 million remaining of the city's $84 million contribution to the project. She's unsure whether a briefing to the f

  February 9, 2009

• Rasansky Exposes Potential Need for Gigantic Wall to Improve Levee System, Won't Support Toll Road If Funding Isn't There

  Brian HarkinMitchell Rasansky appears to be getting close to changing his mind about the Trinity TurnpikeTo those paying close attention, council member Mitchell Rasansky has indicated over the past couple weeks that his support for the Trinity Turnpike is diminishing, and he took another step toward joining Angela Hunt in opposition of the road at this morning's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting. After previously pressing about the challenges faced by the U.S. Army Corps of Eng

  March 3, 2009

• Nobody Puts Jill Jordan in a Corner. Well, Except Maybe Angela Hunt.

  This is the first in a morning series of videos provided by members of Your Dallas City Council. First up, this lengthy offering from Angela Hunt (co-starring assistant city manager Jill Jordan), who writes on her Web site by way of introduction today, "If you've got 20 minutes on your hands and a hankering to see what goes on at the City Council when we talk about the Trinity flood control levees and toll road (and the obfuscation that occurs), then enjoy."2009.02.25 - Dallas City Council Discu

  March 9, 2009

• Jeez, Merten, Did You Not Read Rodrigue?

  Sam MertenSince everyone has been reliving the Trinity referendum lately, it seemed appropriate to dig this up out of the photo archives.Shortly before the 2007 referendum on the Trinity Turnpike, I discussed a Dallas Morning News editorial written by Colleen McCain Nelson, in which she had a hard time grasping the difference between a floodway and a floodplain. It wasn't the first time I disagreed with her as she appears to be the designated author of all Trinity-related editorials, but I appre

  March 26, 2009

• Angela Hunt: City in Serious Denial About Effect Corps' Report Has on Trinity Toll Road

  For those willing to fight through the poor video quality, I condensed my footage from yesterday's city council meeting, where Angela Hunt and Mayor Tom Leppert had different ideas about how the report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers affects the city's plans to jam a toll road in its floodway. Most fascinating was Hunt's exchange with Assistant City Manager Ramon Miguez, who served as the spin master at Wednesday's shindig. She darted off shortly after the meeting, but we caught up wi

  April 2, 2009

• Angela Hunt on City's Budget Crisis: "We're Cutting Muscle; We're Cutting Bone."

  Hey, at least Dallas doesn't have budget problems like Conan is facing out West. So we've got that going for us, which is nice.As we mentioned yesterday, the city council's Quality of Life & Government Services Committee got a look-see Monday afternoon at some of the proposed budget cuts before the full council is updated in a June 17 briefing. To close the $190 million deficit, City Manager Mary Suhm is recommending significant reductions in funds set aside for public libraries, swimming pools

  June 9, 2009

• Hunt Ready to Support Hotel Funding if Protections Are in Place, Claims Special Meeting Called to Avoid Input From Margolin

  Mark GrahamAngela Hunt is making sure taxpayers are protected as much as possible before voting to approve bonds for the convention center hotel.After a special June 19 city council meeting popped up on Wednesday's addendum, we reached out to City Secretary Deborah Watkins and Danielle McClelland, assistant director of the city's Public Information Office, for an explanation. Neither had an answer as both cited the lack of an agenda for the special meeting. But, as The News discovered, the coun

  June 11, 2009

• Harsh City Budget Cuts "Unavoidable" and Only "the Tip of the Iceberg"

  While we had Angela Hunt and council member-elect Ann Margolin on the phone yesterday, Unfair Park asked for their evaluations of the city's $190 million budget deficit. Hunt says right now it's hard to pinpoint the cut resulting in the biggest impact to residents because it's early in the process, and things are about to get worse before the council votes on a final budget in September. "We've only hit the tip of the iceberg of what we're cutting," she says. With approximately $1 billion in t

  June 12, 2009

• Hunt Uses Low Voting Success to Rally Supporters at Post-Inauguration Lunch

  Sam MertenAfter this morning's city council inauguration, Angela Hunt celebrated her third term with a lunch at the Stoneleigh Hotel, where approximately 100 invited guests watched her open a copy of today's Dallas Morning News. She read from Dave Levinthal's article about the council members' voting habits, and the crowd applauded as Hunt said she's dead last among her colleagues by voting on the winning side just 45.5 percent of the time. Even more applause and a bow from Hunt followed when

  June 22, 2009

• City Council Kicks Booting Ordinance to August

  Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert huddles with Angela Hunt, Linda Koop, chief of staff Chris Heinbaugh, deputy chief of staff Paula Blackmon and, with her back to the camera, Pauline Medrano before booting the booting ordinance.A conference broke out during this morning's city council meeting shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert announced that Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano and council member Angela Hunt pulled Addendum Item No. 15 regarding the booting ordinance for discussion. Leppert, Medrano

  June 24, 2009

• If Nothing Else, This Is Our Last Item About Parking Lots Till August, So There's That

  Seconds ago, literally, Angela Hunt posted to her blog an explanation concerning what went down at Dallas City Hall this morning, when she and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano convinced the council to yank from today's meeting agenda a vote on the proposed parking boot ordinance. As Sam mentioned earlier today, the item's off the table till council comes back from its summer break -- which means no relief till at least August for downtown and Deep Ellum patrons and business owners claiming t

  June 24, 2009

• Buzz: Guess which Dallas City Council member is looking all establishment now?

  June 26, 2009

• Angela Hunt Tours the Statler, Which "Could Be One of the Coolest Addresses in Downtown"

  Angela HuntWe've talked about shrouding the Statler, but what about the insides of the embattled hotel on Commerce Street, across from the under-construction Main Street Gardens? So happens that council member Angela Hunt took a tour of Conrad Hilton's baby last week, accompanied by the city's director of Economic Development Karl Zavitkovsky, and has just posted to her newly revamped Web site a short essay accompanying a pretty remarkable slide show worth a peek. So, what says Hunt about the ho

  July 22, 2009

• Why Do You Care If Angela Hunt's Not Chairing a Council Committee? She Doesn't.

  Angela Hunt Dunno how this went unnoticed, but yesterday Dallas city council member Angela Hunt posted to her Web site a few paragraphs about how, look, she really doesn't care that Mayor Tom Leppert didn't make her a chair or vice-chair of one of the city council's standing committees. Far as she's concerned, it ain't no big deal -- she's quite happy to be chairing yet again the Ad Hoc Judiciary Committee, so, look, don't sweat it, but thanks for the concern. Really. Because, look, there's

  July 24, 2009

• Hunt Proposes Trimming Meals, Travel, Copies and Lube From Council Budget. Wait. What?

  Angela Hunt​This is probably what happened: Angela Hunt got a phone call yesterday afternoon from Rudy Bush at The News, who wanted to know why the council person was one of seven to sign a letter telling Jerry Allen and the mayor, that, look, they'll cut their own budgets, thanks very much. Hunt, who has said repeatedly that "we're cutting muscle, we're cutting bone," no doubt wanted to make it very clear that she's not being fiscally irresponsible, so, late last night, she hopped on her Web

  July 29, 2009

• See, That Wasn't So Hard: Council Committee Comes Up With Parking Boot Ordinance

  ​After months of discussion and debate and occasionally contentious meetings with parking lot operators and downtown business owners, the members of the city council's Transportation and Environment Committee appeared today more than ready to bring to a close the saga of the parking boot. And so, pending a vote by the full council on August 24, here's the new ordinance boiled down to a single sentence: Operators can only boot patrons if their parking lots provide printed receipts. Simple as th

  August 11, 2009

• Angela Hunt: "We Need to Be Making our City Hall More Transparent ... Not Less."

  Zazzle​Angela Hunt's been on a bit of a tear today, having posted to her Web site three items: one concerning the proposed rules changes for council meetings; one about the city's turning over the keys to the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society; and one concerning the city budget. Since the latter's more or less a teaser for her upcoming town hall meetings, let's instead take a closer look at the other two.We wrote quite a bit about the rules changes last week -- just as they were bein

  August 17, 2009

• Cops Out: National Fraternal Order of Police Votes Not to Hold 2013 Convention in Dallas

  Better luck next time, convention center hotel.​Angela Hunt just called with the bad news: The National Fraternal Order of Police voted not to hold their 2013 convention in Dallas after all. Says Hunt, who returned from Long Beach, California -- site of this year's confab -- at 1 this morning, the organization's members voted 1,100 to 800 to instead hold their biennial confab in Cincinatti.When I spoke to Hunt Wednesday evening, after she'd spent a day in the Dallas delegation's trade-show boo

  August 20, 2009

• Angela Hunt Says She's Going to Ask Mary Suhm to "Investigate" 311 iPhone App

  Engadget​Speaking of the city and technological advancements involving one's talking box ...This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn't have an iPhone app that lets residents "snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city hall (geo-tagged, no less)." Because, hey, if it's good enough for Pittsburgh, it's good enough for Dallas. Besides, she writes, such an app would come in handy when you're down $190 million: "With our

  August 21, 2009

• Hunt and Ponch, All That and a Bag of CHiPs

  Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt and California Highway Patrol Officer Francis Llewellyn "Ponch" Poncherello​Much thanks to Kevin in the comments down below for spotting this gem amongst Angela Hunt's photos from her trip to Long Beach. Michael who? Tom wha?

  August 21, 2009

• Five Council Members Lobby for Transparency at Dallas City Hall. Good Luck With All That.

  Psssst, Carol Reed, they're talking about you ... ​Five Dallas City Council members want the city to think about requiring people to register as lobbyists if they get paid to influence the council. The ongoing Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial has brought a series of revelations about so-called consultants -- a broad term apparently meaning anybody who can get you the votes you need for your deal with the city, for a price.Five council members this morning signed a letter to City At

  August 24, 2009

• The Jolly Green Line Giant

  Angela Hunt​Three months ago we were introduced to Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg's Traveling Man sculptures, which will greet Dallas Area Rapid Transit light-rail riders as they enter Deep Ellum in coming days -- Green Line media ridealong is Tuesday, as a matter of fact, in advance of the "Super Saturday" public preview on September 12. (More details on that Tuesday, we've been told.) So those who haven't been down to Deep Ellum in a little while might not have seen this big fella, whose

  August 28, 2009

• Well, You Did Say "A Time to Dream"

  Angela Hunt​Couldn't make it out to the West Dallas "dreaming session" Saturday, but someone else did: Angela Hunt, who brought along her camera for these photos of what looked (and sounded) like an interesting-ish meet-n-greet. Hunt's cutline commentary is worth a peek too -- like here, where she writes of the Trinity River Corridor Project "A New Future" billboard, "Hmmmm... Something seems to be missing from this beautiful display. Perhaps a certain $1.8 billion monstrosity? I wonder why th

  August 31, 2009

• In Citing Concerns Over City's Rising Debt, Angela Hunt Calls Out Mayor Leppert, Suhm

  ​Dunno how we missed this one, but on her blog yesterday Angela Hunt took a long, hard look at City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed FY 2009-2010 budget and wrote at great length about her most major concern: the pile of debt that would result from bond projects proposed in the budget. She's voiced this concern before, but this time 'round she's (virtually) shouting in all caps; writes Hunt, "I'm worried about this. Really worried. Because if we have to spend $24 million more on debt repayment, th

  September 10, 2009

• The City's Budget in Just Under 45 Minutes

  Courtesy Angela Hunt​You know why it seems like Angela Hunt's always on Unfair Park? Because she's the only council member with a regularly updated Web site to which she posts items of significance to Dallas residents. Hey, Carolyn Davis gets herself a blog, we'll post the hell out of it; same for Dwaine Caraway or Dave Neumann or Ann Margolin or the mayor or anyone else sitting at the horseshoe. Till then, all we have is the District 14 council member, who last night posted the entirety of he

  September 11, 2009

• Ann Margolin, For Paul Frank Bikes

  ​So, while you guys are arguing about who owns the streets, we'll offer one final highlight from this morning's ride to Dallas City Hall, courtesy Angela Hunt's Flickstream. "She was actually quite a trooper, because she's been sick," says Hunt of her fellow council member. "She didn't want to miss the ride, though." The District 13 council rep actually borrowed the bike to make the short trek from Union Station to City Hall. You'd never know it from this photo.

  October 7, 2009

• Bicycle Race: Angela Hunt Explains the Rift Over Separate Cyclist-Only Lanes

  Angela HuntJerry Allen was among those on the ride to City Hall Wednesday. Not as good as the Ann Margolin photo, but, still.​On Wednesday, we mentioned the city's plans to make Dallas more bike-friendly by creating separate cyclist-only lanes. And, as usually happens when the subject comes up, the conversation turned a little, well, contentious. And so we headed to the Texas Theatre last night for a movie screening to find out why bike lanes rub some the wrong way. "People are not upset," c

  October 9, 2009

• Tooth Marks: The Brawl at City Hall Over Real Ethics Reform Is Only Just Beginning

  Patrick MichelsDallas City Attorney Tom Perkins​Angela Hunt is putting the bite on the mayor today on the issue of ethics reform.The council is being briefed on possible new ethics rules growing out of the City Hall corruption case. Council member Hunt and four other members signed a letter a couple weeks ago asking City Attorney Tom Perkins to give them a briefing on what other cities do, so this is that.Perkins gave them a lot of technical stuff first. Now it's going around the horseshoe for

  October 19, 2009

• Mayor Tom Says He Wants Ethics Reform. Two Council Members Offer Some Suggestions.

  Not among Angela Hunt's suggestions for reform at City Hall: hiring Ponch as the ethics enforcer.​As promised, in advance of Monday's special called council meeting involving those pesky ethics reforms, Angela Hunt has sent Unfair Park her own laundry list of suggestions. Titled "Why We Need to Change the Proposed Lobbyist Registration Ordinance," the six-page proposal also being sent to the City Attorney's Office is posted in its entirety after the jump. Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert's c

  October 23, 2009

• The Waters Are Murky as Dallas City Council Seeks Clarity Before Ethics Reform Vote

  Sam MertenCouncil member Carolyn Davis talks to zoning lawyer Kirk Williams as Willie Cothrum (right) listens.If nothing else, the city council's hastily planned ethics reform briefing early this morning showed that this group is capable of a spirited debate. For the most part, Mayor Tom Leppert has been able to keep everyone, with the exception of Angela Hunt and former council member Mitchell Rasansky, on the same page, sharing their toys with no complaints. But today, Dave Neumann, a Leppert

  October 26, 2009

• "Nothing We Can Ever Do Will Stop Corruption If an Officeholder is Willing to Be Bribed."

  Sam MertenAnn Margolin and Angela Hunt​Yesterday, just after Angela Hunt posted her lengthy essay titled "Ethics Reform at City Hall," Jim wrote that "we can thank council members Hunt, Ann Margolin and Linda Koop for adding the only real teeth in this poor gum-smacker." So happens that on Monday, Margolin also weighed on the subject (and last Wednesday's meeting that ended up in a pile of straw) on her occasionally updated Web site -- and her item's a two-parter. First part's titled "Ethics R

  November 3, 2009