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Colleen McCain Nelson

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Mayor Mike Rawlings Last Night: "Everything I Look At, I Ask, 'Is It Right for Southern Dallas?'"

    Last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings hosted a community forum at Cedar Crest Golf Course, billed in the invitation as an "update on the City of Dallas." Backed by council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins and a large supporting cast of other city officials, he tried to reassure the crowd: City Ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Look Now, Morning News, Dallas's Problems Aren't Detroit's. Get It?

    ​Colleen McCain Nelson debuts a new political column today on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News in which she holds up my former hometown, Detroit, as the arch example of what Dallas needs not to be. She's writing about Mayor Dave Bing's initiative to withdraw scarce city services from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Talkin' Love Field Concessions With the Mayor

    ​Ken Carter, a consultant working for Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, sent us word yesterday afternoon that the city council's seven minority members are expected to appear at noon today inside City Hall's lobby along with other community leaders for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Regarding Those Levees, Let Me Break Out My Tin-Foil Hat And My Crystal Ball

    ​In the weeks ahead I'm going to be tied up with some stories that will demand a lot of my time, so, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to have time to do my regularly predictable clockwork swat-down reaction pieces to Dallas Morning News stories on the Trinity River project. I wondered if it would be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 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 t ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    After Their Murder-Suicide, Questions About Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw's Shady Dealings Haunt Dallas

    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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2006

    Eek! A Reporter!

    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 t ... More >>

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