How UNT imagines the old City Hall will look once it becomes a law schoolA Friend of Unfair Park whose name does not rhyme with "Patt Mulle" sends us this Texas Watchdog story concerning the downtown law school the University of North Texas System is hoping to squeeze into the old Municipal Building. It's been almost five years since then-Mayor Laura Miller and other city and state officials announced the city's intention to convert the dilapidated 95-year-old building into a law school, and sta
flickr member: cedarhillchurchofchristEmmert is charged with helping the local Republican Party rebound by jumping from a council member in Cedar Hill to Dallas County Judge.At the Dallas County Republican Party's annual Reagan Day Dinner in February, we described Cedar Hill City Council member Wade Emmert as a rising star likely to become the party favorite in the race for county judge in 2010. Emmert wouldn't confirm his plans with us at the event, but now it's official: He's running with the
Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson with Linda Owen (second from left) and Sheila Grant of the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation board.As much fun as Mayor Tom Leppert and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson could have had shoveling dirt down onto rush hour traffic, this morning's "ground-making" for the Woodall Rodgers Freeway Deck Park took a more conceptual direction.Inside the future home of the Parkside Condominiums, with an expansive view of the wet concrete t
Photos by Kimberly ThorpeMayor Tom Leppert shows off an iPhones he's sending as move-to-Dallas enticements. But who's "Jeffrey"?Speaking of Mayor Tom Leppert and his sales pitching ...Today at the Dallas Regional Chamber luncheon at the downtown Sheraton, the mayor gave his State of the City address, which more or less consisted of a show-and-tell: He told the audience -- businessmen and elected officials, mostly -- how he's wowing and wooing outsiders to downtown, then showed them the iPhone
Photos by Patrick MichelsRoss and Margot Perot enjoy the party alongside museum president Nicole Small.When the city began work on the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, they didn't just break ground -- there's no ground there to dig up -- they held a "ground-making" ceremony instead. When they invited guests for a first look at Main Street Garden, they didn't cut a ribbon; they simulated a laser slicing through a fiber-optic cable, then shot fireworks.So how to mark the start of construction on the
