Dave Neumann

Why Wait for Mike Rawlings' Trinity Toll Road Speech When We Know What He'll Say?

Yesterday Joe told you that Mike Rawlings, our mayor, is having a press conference today to announce how he feels about the Trinity River Toll Road. So guess who's got to go to the damn thing at 12:30? OK, OK, I'm doin' it. Wow, everybody doesn't just need to get in a big huge wad about it. I'll g ... More >>

Scott Griggs Makes His Debut at City Hall to Ask for Delay on Stevens Park Conservation District

Dave Neumann has some advice for you, Scott Griggs.​For as long as anyone can recall -- at least six years, right? -- there's been an attempt to create a Stevens Park Conservation District intended to preserve the neighborhood around the Oak Cliff golf course. Most of the homeowners in the area ar ... More >>

Griggs Begs Council to Hold Off On Picking Gas Drilling Task Force Till He's in Office

Photo by Sam MertenDave Neumman was ousted by Scott Griggs, who can't fathom why Neumann's involved in selecting the gas drilling task force. Good question.​The city council's last big day before going on summer vacation is June 22, when the agenda will be action-packed. On the hefty to-do list: v ... More >>

Gas Drilling Activists Not Happy With Council Component of Task Force Caraway's Assembled

Photo by Patrick MichelsRay Crawford and his petition signed by those opposed to gas drilling in the Dallas city limuts​As we noted a couple of weeks back, Dallas City Hall's taking applications for the gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt demanded after Dave Neumann failed to make good on his prom ... More >>

Oak Cliff's Better Nature Takes Charge

​The Oak Cliff secession movement in 1990 was one of Oak Cliff's very few expressions of political will in the last 30 years, and even that weak attempt at assertiveness was based on the region's profound inferiority complex. Its ethos was sort of: If you're going to treat us like your red-hea ... More >>

Don't Forget That Other Hike-n-Bike Bridge Linking Riverfront and the Cedars

​We're going to begin this morning with two Trinity-related items -- the first of which you see above. That, Friends of Unfair Park, is the Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge that would link Riverfront Boulevard to the Cedars -- specifically, Jack Matthews's South Side of Lamar and the attenda ... More >>

Want to Be on Dallas's Gas Drilling Task Force?

​After council member Angela Hunt pushed the city council to form the gas drilling task force Dave Neumann only talked about, it's time to assemble the dream team: Moments ago, Dallas City Hall sent word that it's taking applications from those interested in serving on the task force. For those wh ... More >>

Kunkle and Rawlings Say That As Mayor, They'd Push for Gas Drilling Moratorium

Photos by Patrick MichelsDistrict 3 City Council candidates Dave Neumann and Scott Griggs joined all four mayoral candidates in a forum with Mountain Creek neighbors last night at Harmony School of Nature and Athletics.At a campaign forum in far western Oak Cliff's Mountain Creek neighborhood last n ... More >>

Tomorrow Night in Far West Oak Cliff, Mayor and Council Candidates Tackle Gas Drilling

Hey, Dave, how you feelin' about tomorrow night's debate over gas drilling?​Not sure if there's more fun to be had this election season than at the North Texas GLBT Chamber's mayoral forum tonight, moderated by both Robert and Schutze -- but tomorrow night in far western Oak Cliff sure might come ... More >>

Not Even The News Can Endorse Neumann

​The Dallas Morning News has just endorsed attorney Scott Griggs over incumbent District 3 council member Dave Neumann in the May election. If Neumann were a high school quarterback, this would be like his parents going across the field and cheering for the other team. Switching metaphors, for yea ... More >>

Liveblogging City Council's Look at Gas Drilling Task Force. Or: The Return of Lois Finkelman!

Welcome back to City Hall, where the council's settling back into their seats in the briefing room after a much-needed break for lunch. Word was that the council was going to treat us to its gas drilling update in the morning -- but after taking an extra-long executive session to work out just who' ... More >>

Days Before Council Considers Forming Gas Drilling Task Force (Or Not), Angela Hunt and Dave Neumann Join Hands in Support

Photo by Sam Merten​At long last, the Dallas City Council's set to tackle the subject: What to do about allowing natural-gas drilling on city property. According to a presentation prepared by city staff for Wednesday's briefing, the council can choose from one of the following options: form a task ... More >>

Because We Have Nothing Better to Do Than Pore Over Campaign Finance Reports

Photo by Sam MertenDonna Starnes raised more than former city council member Sandy Greyson in the race to succeed Ron Natinsky.​Now that you've had time to chew on our analysis of the mayoral candidates' fund-raising prowess, we thought it was time to take a quick look-see at how the city coun ... More >>

Natural Gas Drilling Continues to Define Council Battle Between Dave Neumann and Scott Griggs

Photo by Sam MertenDave Neumann (left) and Scott Griggs (right) at their first debate in late February.​From the beginning of last night's forum at the Avalon at Kessler Park, questions from the crowd of nearly 100 District 3 residents focused squarely on natural gas drilling and incumbent cit ... More >>

Dave Neumann Apparently Content to Let Scott Griggs Debate Himself in District 3 Race

Photo by Sam MertenDave Neumann and Scott Griggs last month at a forum in North Oak Cliff​Thanks to the Facebook page Where's Neumann, we learned this morning that council member Dave Neumann has been a no-show at several candidate forums held this month. The page's unknown author named recent ... More >>

Neumann and Griggs Clash Over Gas Drilling, Walmart, Cliff Manor and Trinity Toll Road

Photos by Sam MertenTwo-term incumbent city council member Dave Neumann and political newbie Scott Griggs at last night's debate in North Oak Cliff.​Following the mayoral forum held last night at Methodist Hospital's Hitt Auditorium, District 3 city council candidate Scott Griggs and incumbent ... More >>

Back at City Hall, Listening In As Mary Suhm Nails Down the City's Budget Shortfall

Sam Merten​We're back in not-so-executive session, breezing through the rest of the council's agenda so Mayor-For-Now Tom Bailey Leppert can hop a flight for his swan song at the US Council of Mayors. First, though, Dave Neumann apologizes for his last motion to defer the gas drilling applicatio ... More >>

At City Hall, A New Lease for XTO's Drilling Plans and An Update on Dallas' Budget Shortfall

Hensley Field, where XTO Energy hopes to begin Dallas' first gas drilling operation.​I'm wedged into the corner of the briefing room at City Hall -- no complaints, because really, Brad Watson needs his legroom. The council's running through its various opening proclamations -- Delia Jasso just in ... More >>

Don't Expect Fireworks When the City Council Takes Up Gas Drilling Proposals Tomorrow

Patrick MichelsCouncilman Dave Neumann says his plans to postpone a decision on XTO's gas drilling permits tomorrow are still set. "Honestly, I think it'll be anticlimactic," he says.​Robert already alerted us to that item on tomorrow's council agenda regarding XTO Energy's proposal to drill at tw ... More >>

In the Shadow of Cliff Manor, Scott Griggs Formally Announces His City Council Run

Patrick MichelsScott Griggs announces his run at Dave Neumann's city council seat, with Cliff Manor in the background. Last week, Robert passed along the news that omnipresent North Oak Cliff lawyer and activist Scott Griggs would be stepping up to challenge Dave Neumann for his city council seat in ... More >>

Dave Neumann, You Have a Challenger!

Sara KerensScott and wife Mariana Griggs, standing in their so-called "West Dallas Country Club" community garden​Council elections are in May, and this morning we learn that District 3 rep Dave Neumann will square off against a political newcomer (of sorts): Scott Griggs, with whom you're probabl ... More >>

Dallas City Fathers And The Army Corps Of Engineers Don't Speak The Same Language When It Comes To the Levees.

Idea Week Shines on Dallas Bike Plan This Morning, with Second Annual Ride to City Hall

Photos by Patrick MichelsTip o' the hat to DMN photographer Jim Mahoney, who first spotted the biker riding in high heels to City Hall. She said this is how everyone does it in Europe.​All the Idea Week fun that kicked off with a little "speed ideating" downtown on Monday (maybe next year we'll f ... More >>

Following the Money, Live at City Hall With the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee

Sam MertenDave Neumann and Rebecca Rasor chat before this morning's committee meeting.​We're here at City Hall for the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee's briefing about the recent setback in the city's rush to restore the Trinity River levees' 100-year flood protection before FEMA finalize ... More >>

A New Dance Step at City Hall: Mayor Tom, Dave Neumann Are Doing the "Levee Slide"

Among the myriad levee slides depicted in the Corp of Engineers' 2007 report on the Trinty River levees​The Dallas Morning News's City Hall blog today carries two items in which Dallas city council member Dave Neumann and our mayor, Tom Leppert, alternately bitch about and then sort of pooh-pooh t ... More >>

Liveblogging the Latest in the Never-Ending Story of Permanent Supportive Housing

Patrick MichelsMDHA board chairman John Castle​Nobody at City Hall can seem to hear enough about permanent supportive housing these days, and since the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance's Mike Faenza just can't talk it up enough, we're back at City Hall for another update on how the city's PSH progra ... More >>

At Dave Neumann's Invitation, XTO Energy Briefs Neighbors on Hensley Field Drilling Plans

Photos by Patrick MichelsCouncilman Dave Neumann uses his hands to clear up confusion over XTO's gas drilling plans at Hensley Field along the Grand Prairie border. Never one to let an unwelcome neighbor move in unannounced, Councilman Dave Neumann invited residents around far west Oak Cliff's Hensl ... More >>

More From This Weekend's Blues, Bandits and Barbecue Shindig in North Oak Cliff

Photos by Sam MertenSchutze's been having a tough time tracking down council member Dave Neumann for comments. So close.​As Robert pointed out below, Go Oak Cliff hosted the inaugural Blues, Bandits and Barbecue street party and Better Block Redux this weekend around the Kessler, where a clay ... More >>

Stirred up by political opportunism, a progressive Oak Cliff neighborhood tries to keep out the homeless.

Cast Away

And, To Top It Off.

​I called Jim this morning at 6:30 -- wanted to make sure he was still meeting me at 7 on the West Levee, at Beckley Avenue and the Continental Avenue Bridge, for this morning's "topping-off" ceremony of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Mayor Tom would be there; Kay Bailey too. Maybe even Dave Neum ... More >>

Liveblogging Today's City Council Meeting, That Is, At Least Until They're Done Talkin' About the Interesting Stuff

Sam MertenCity Manager Mary Suhm and Mayor Tom Leppert early this morning at today's city council meeting.​With my trusty laptop in hand, I prepared to liveblog the heck outta today's city council meeting -- the last one before the council leaves for its July recess and then returns to tackle ... More >>

Mayor Leppert Tells Neumann to Create "Advisory Board" to Calm Furor Over Cliff Manor Supportive Housing Proposal

Photos by Daniel RodrigueMayor Tom Leppert addresses the massive crowd at last night's Cliff Manor town hall.​Based on the comments, shouts and full-on screams erupting from the standing-room-only crowd gathered in Methodist Medical Center's Hitt Auditorium last night, it's a wonder that the town ... More >>

Carolyn Davis Does Her Best Angela Hunt Impression, But Not Before Doing Her Best Carolyn Davis Impression

Sam MertenRobert told me to get a pic of Dave Neumann, who had a conflict during today's floodplain ordinance presentation. So. Here. It. Is.​It was déjà vu at this morning's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting as Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway preached about revitalizing the Ceda ... More >>

So, Facebook, You Wanna Know Where Dave Neumann Is? Well, You See ...

​I can tell you exactly where District 3 council member David A. Neumann is at this very moment: at his office at Ivy Jane. Picked right up when I called him not 15 minutes ago. Then he proceeded to do what he always does whenever I get him on the phone: "You need to call me at my office at City H ... More >>

Amidst Poorly Run Trinity Committee Meeting, We Learn the City is TxDOT's Contingency Fund for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

Patrick MichelsDave Neumann​Dave Neumann kicked off the city council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting this morning by revisiting last week's decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which approved levee remediation plans regarding construction of the Margaret Hunt Hill B ... More >>

The Dallas City Council, Paper Dolls

The city manager and mayor look awful beaten down by this particular discussion.​If you've got some time this afternoon, you may wanna tune into the city council's budget amendment briefing, which has turned its attention to the council members' proposal to cut their own budget. As you may know, t ... More >>

The City Council's Budget Wish List

Natalie Dee​Curious to see which council member wants what program reinstated to City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed FY2009-2010 budget, which the council will vote on one week from tomorrow? Then you're in luck: Tomorrow, the council will discuss during its briefing session their budget amendments, ... More >>

Council Members (At Least Those Without Rent Homes) Supportive of Registration Idea. Except Dave Neumann, Who Blasts "Tax."

​If the Dallas City Council winds up passing an ordinance requiring rent-house owners to register with the city -- a proposal we mentioned Sunday and just discussed at the council's briefing -- it'll apparently have to do so without three members' input. In the middle of Code Compliance's presenta ... More >>

"Flood Control Has Always Been First."

So said Dallas city council member Dave Neumann, chair of the council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, at today's Trinity River levees press conference at City Hall about which Jim wrote earlier today. Last night, we provided a draft of Mayor Tom Leppert's remarks, from which he seldom st ... More >>

Ethics Complaint Alleges Council Member Dave Neumann Accepted Nearly $28,000 in Donations Violating City Code

Brian HarkinDave Neumann's financial prowess has been questioned once again.A supporter of Casey Thomas filed an ethics complaint Monday against Dave Neumann, who's being challenged by Thomas for his District 3 city council seat, claiming he violated the Dallas City Code. Brian Wesley alleges Neuman ... More >>

Mitchell Rasansky Tells City to Get the Pocketbook Ready if it Wants to Push Out Family-Owned Scrap Metal Recyclers

Sam MertenCouncil member Mitchell Rasansky meets with owners of local scrap metal recycling businesses after blasting city staff for how they've handled the issue.As we mentioned yesterday, the city council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee was briefed on what should be done about the scra ... More >>

Is the Trinity River Toll Road on a "Fast Track" to Completion? Um, No.

Rudy Bush had a good story in The Dallas Morning News yesterday about the new Trinity River "overlook" unveiled by the city on Wednesday and how handy it is if you want to go down and marvel at the lack of progress. Basically, as Bush points out, it's a vantage point at the corner of Beckley and Co ... More >>

Ross for Mess: How We Got Into This Renaming Thing in the First Place

Sheffie Kadane on Memo, Random

Headache Hotel and Other Dallas City Council SUPs and WTFs

What, Them Worry?

Council Member Makes Sure Tom Leppert Will Win At Least One Trinity Toll Road Debate

Tom Leppert: Predictable and Classy

Say it Like Seinfeld: Neumann