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May 9, 2009
A 200-Vote Margin for the Hotel Is Now Closer to a 2,000-Vote Margin
The convention center hotel, now the frontrunnerWaiting for the boys to call in, as no doubt the mood's shifted at both The Loft at Gilley's and Tucker on Ross Avenue just a bit. Because, with 427 of 534 precincts reporting, the margin's grown wider in the pro-hotel faction's favor: 39,506 (51.28 pe ... More >>
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June 22, 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' voti ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Even Stephen Hawking Couldn't Figure Out the Fuzzy Math Behind How We Are Going To Pay For the Trinity River Park.
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' voti ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
While Chief Kunkle Isn't Planning on Slacking Off, Don't Park Your Car at Baby Dolls
Patrick MichelsDallas Police Chief David Kunkle was at City Hall this morning for the first time since announcing his surprise retirement last week. Ostensibly, he came to discuss the newly updated crime statistics, but he kicked off a briefing of the city council's Public Safety Committee by dis ... More >>
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December 19, 2009
Twenty-Third Time's a Charm? City Finds Yet Another Street to Name for César Chávez.
Patrick MichelsThe latest shot in our ongoing series of these signs around town.Clearly if at first you don't succeed, you try, and try, and try and try again.In its endless effort to find something to name for César Chávez, the city has, as evidenced by the photo here, clearly set its eyes upo ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
DPD, City Officials Would Really Like You to Keep That Firearm Holstered Tomorrow Night
Delia Jasso, Dwaine Caraway and Lt. Andy Harvey today at DPD HQIn some parts of town, you can tell when the calendar needs flipping when the guns start firing; apparently, nothing says "Happy New Year!" like shooting a pistol in the air. And while there haven't been any serious injuries due to th ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Attorney Makes His Case for Not Changing the Name of S. Central Expressway Downtown
Patrick MichelsAs you're no doubt aware by now, the City Plan Commission yesterday voted unanimously to change the name of South Central Expressway downtown, between Pacific and Grand Avenues, to César Chávez Boulevard (not Parkway, as originally proposed). The council will now get to vote on t ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Under the Commerce Street Bridge, No Shortage of Public Art Along the Trinity
Patrick MichelsUnder the Commerce Street bridge, a big invitation for stray dogs.Never a friend of unsanctioned urban marking, Dallas City Hall has been particularly vocal in its graffiti opposition in the last few days.Coinciding with Council Member Delia Jasso's latest anti-graffiti happening - ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
Notes from Last Night's Methodist Hospital Meeting, or: Hey, Oak Cliff, You're So Great. Why Are You So Great?
Daniel RodrigueBob Stimson and Schutze find common ground: Oak Cliff kicks ass.The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce offered up a smorgasbord of presentations last night focusing on various initiatives from parks and the arts to bicycles and trolleys, and the community turned out in droves. An es ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
News & Notes: Immigration Reform, César Chávez, Garland Road & Gay Jesus
Some news and notes on this light-commenting Thursday:Domingo Garcia's got himself a whole new immigration-reform MegaMarch to promote -- this one, a May 1 parade that'll start at the Santuario de Guadalupe on Ross Ave. and end at Dallas City Hall. Says Garcia on the Web site, "Our immigrant comm ... More >>
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April 9, 2010
Cesar Chavez Street Signs Debuted Today At City Hall, Along Cesar Chavez Blvd.
Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert injected some pomp into the street sign changeover, along with city council members Steve Salazar, Delia Jasso and Tennell Atkins.Two years and a million misfires ago, local Latino groups began a push to rename a street in Dallas in honor of Cesar Chavez ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
A Big Green Thumbs Down: Council Sends Staff "Back to The Drawing Board" on Neighborhood Farmers Markets
Daniel RodrigueFarmers, bakers and lotion makers -- all wanting to voice their concerns to council member Delia Jasso and assistant city manager Jill Jordan. More than two dozen folks -- several of whom broke meeting protocol by talking to council members and city staff -- showed up yesterday a ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Public Safety Committee Shuns Preservationists, Approves New Historic Demolition Ordinance
Sam MertenYup, Dwaine. This briefing was way over the collective heads of your committee.Baffled and outraged preservationists quietly vacated Monday afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting after the city council committee voted unanimously to adopt a new historic building demolition ordi ... More >>
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June 14, 2010
The City Council's Sold on Neighborhood Farmers Market Ordinance Proposal
Patrick MichelsI hate it when things work out. From my point of view, it's not good for business. But it looks like city staff and the Dallas City Council may actually come up with a reasonable way to oversee operations of multiple neighborhood farmers markets. Ah, well. Can't lose 'em all. They' ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
The People's Plaza: Come Fall, That Better Block Experiment in Oak Cliff Will Become Permanent
Danny HurleyWhat it looked like in early April, when Oak Cliff-dwellers took back the street for the Better Block ProjectWhen Jason Roberts first introduced the Better Block Block project in late March, he did so with the caveat that it was "a 'living block' art installation" intended to prove it ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Roll Another Number While We Liveblog Today's Public Safety Committee Meeting
Both Dwaine Caraway and I hope you had a fantastic summer vacation, but it is now time to get down to business at today's Public Safety Committee meeting. First up, Dallas Police Chief David Brown's crime report, wherein he is happy to report that overall crime is down 6.1%, due perhaps to the su ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
Dallas Police Department Outlines Strategies to Combat 25-Percent "Spike" in Sexual Assaults
I know where Andrea'll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD's calling a "Sexual Assault Awareness ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
Jasso on DPD's Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign: "This Is Not a Victims-Only Issue"
One of several posters DPD sent today as part of its new Sexual Assault Prevention CampaignLed by Councilwoman Delia Jasso, a group of sexual assault resource centers and the Dallas Police Department held a press conference today at City Hall announcing the sexual assault awareness campaign that' ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
This Just In: Eight Council Members Tell Mary Suhm They Want a 4.91-Cent Tax Hike
Do not expect a repeat of this scene any time soon, at least when it comes to the FY2010-11 budget.Moments ago I received from council member Angela Hunt's office a memo that follows, in which Hunt and seven of her colleagues (Delia Jasso, Vonciel Hill, Steve Salazar, Carolyn Davis, Pauline Medra ... More >>
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September 11, 2010
Compare and Contrast Council Members' FY2010-11 Budget Amendments. And: A Q&A!
Great to Be HereWe're but days away from the due-by date for the FY2010-11 budget, which will dominate much of the council's time this week and next; City Hall expects so many speakers at Monday's budget briefing that the mayor will convene the council in chambers at 9 a.m. before moving everyone ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
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 >>
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December 8, 2010
Seven Council Members Tell Suhm: Find Some Way to Allow Free Public Parking at City Hall
Patrick MichelsSeven council members have signed a memo to Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm telling her to figure out some way not to bar the public from parking in the garage underneath Dallas City Hall (well, the fountain, actually). Unfair Park was told that more members would have signed it, but ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
At the Texas Theatre, Just Because We Never Miss a Ribbon-Cutting With the Mayor
Photos by Harry WilonskyMayor Tom Leppert and Delia Jasso joined the Aviation Cinemas gang and Stuart Sikes (in the green sweater) officially re-open the Texas TheatreI did indeed take the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Texas last night for its official re-opening, where Mayor Tom declar ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Just In Time For the Super Bowl, Dallas Is Making One Last Push to Wipe Away Graffiti
Photos by Patrick MichelsDallas is cleaning up its image before the Super Bowl. We'll start with Dealey Plaza.As quiet as Dealey Plaza's been since the truth-bearing publishers were cleared out, you could forgive a few tourists for being concerned this morning to find the place crawling with cops ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Jason Roberts's Thoughts on Last Night's Streetcar Town Hall at Methodist
The city, North Central Texas Council of Governments and Dallas Area Rapid Transit held that streetcar town hall last night. Among those in attendance was Jason Roberts -- who, in addition to his myriad other titles and endeavors, is an Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member and the former head ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
"Dallas Loves Animals" Kick-Off a Barking Success
Photos by Andrea GrimesBear the 13-month-old Rottweiller came for the cheap vaccinations. And the endless cries of "Awwwww!"Saturday kicked off the new "Dallas Loves Animals" campaign, an, ahemm, "pet project" of city council member Delia Jasso. All day at the Dallas Animal Services shelter, folk ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Hours Before He Becomes Mayor, Caraway Has Message for "Believers, Doubters and Critics"
At midnight, Dwaine Caraway will erase the "pro tem" from his title and become, simply, Dallas Mayor. And though he will replace U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert for just a few months, Caraway tells Unfair Park this evening: "It's very humbling to be able to be in this position." He then goes on ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Ron Natinsky Unveils Five-Pronged Approach to Implement New Urban Plan For West Dallas
Photos by Sam MertenLeft to right: West Dallas Chamber of Commerce vice chair Randall White, former Oak Cliff council member Ed Oakley, mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky and council member Delia JassoStanding near the pool at the Belmont Hotel in what 2007 mayoral race runner-up Ed Oakley called ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
Before Dallas Proclaims It Terry Southern Day, Stock Your Virtual Bookshelves With His Works
Perhaps you've forgotten: On May 1 council member Delia Jasso will officially proclaim it Terry Southern Day to coincide with a screening of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb at the Texas Theatre, after which Terry's boy Nile and I will talk about Oak Cliff's "lo ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
On Terry Southern Day, Delia Jasso Presents His Son Nile With Greatest Proclamation Ever
Photo by Mark Aaron SharonNile Southern, Kirby Warnock and Delia Jasso at last night's tribute to Terry Southern at the Texas TheatreTerry Southern -- novelist, screenwriter, journalist, provocateur -- would have turned 87 yesterday, had he not died of a heart attack in October 1995. And so, last ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Because, Apparently, You Don't Need to Spend $1.5 Million on a Dog Park. In Oak Cliff, Anyway.
FIDO Oak Cliff co-founder Michael Reagan, left, and Jason Roberts on SaturdayRemember back in February, when council member Ann Margolin said, sorry, but she just couldn't support spending $1.5 mil in bond funds on a dog park, which the city couldn't afford to maintain in the first place? No. Of ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
A Liveblog As City Council Meets Its First Round of Finalists for the Gas Drilling Task Force
Task force nominees await their turn to chat with the council. It only gets more exciting from here.Welcome back to Dallas City Hall for the epic second episode of the gas drilling task force selection process, where the ad hoc committee of city council members will be meeting candidates for face ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
A Few Council Members Take in Gasland, But Not Before Mayor Mike Makes a Promise to City
Photos by Leslie MinoraAngela Hunt was asked whether it's likely Dallas will be sued by gas drillers awaiting their SUPs.Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night's Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, "I wi ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Dwaine Caraway Isn't About to Let the City Close Pools, Especially Two In His District
Mary Suhm was right about one thing: When I asked her Thursday where she saw the council pushing back on her proposed FY2011-12 budget, she said, well, probably pools -- specifically, her suggestion that the city shutter five of its 17 pools in the coming fiscal year. Those pools: Bonnie View, Ex ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Your Water Bill's Going Up This Year. And the Year After That. And the ... Well, You Get It.
Click to embiggen ... or just go to Page 29 in this budget briefing.I mention this in the comments below, but the 5.91 percent increase in our Dallas Water Utilities bill comin' this fall won't be the last one any time soon. Matter of fact, per this morning's council briefing, this is but the fir ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Council Members Wrestle Over Park Clean-Up, Pothole Fixing and Cleaning Up After TxDOT
Scott Griggs and Jerry Allen at this morning's meetingA little after 9 this morning, the city council just took up those budget amendments we mentioned Saturday morning. First up was the slam dunk: the en masse suggestion, led by Mayor Mike Rawlings, to eliminate one more city-worker furlough day ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Your First Look at the 10 (!) Amended Redistricting Proposals Submitted by Council
One of two maps submitted by Mayor Mike. All 10 are available here.In the end, it would be quicker to name the council members who didn't submit amendments to the Redistricting Commission by Monday's 3 p.m. deadline: Sheffie Kadane, Angela Hunt, Jerry Allen and Sandy Greyson. Everyone else had so ... More >>
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September 24, 2011
This Week in Council Memos: The State o' N. Central, Fire Trucks, Flow Control and More!
Probably should have broken this week's stack into about 12 different items, seeing as how one of the docs is 178 pages (many redundant) just on flow control, which involves forcing all solid-waste collectors in the city to dump everything at the city's McCommas Bluff Landfill or other city trans ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
For Your Late Wednesday Listening Pleasure: Elliott Smith, Between the Bars at Trees in '99
We had hoped to end the day by telling you which redistricting map the city council's going to send to the Department of Justice. That will not happen, at least not in the next little while: After Mayor Mike Rawlings took council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso into a back room to hash out ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Race to the Finish: After Ugly Redistricting Meeting, Council (Barely) Settles on Map
This is how you explain a map to council members when you don't have time to print a new one.Yesterday afternoon, around 5:30, as a tiny audience sat in the city council chambers, former Mayor Dwaine Caraway came by and declared to Unfair Park, "I think we got something." That's right. A final re ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Jasso Acknowledges She's Drawing a New Redistricting Map to Present to City Council
Photo by Patrick MichelsSo far, there's been little indication that the council has any interest in reopening the debate over the new council-districts map approved (barely) on October 5 and dispatched to the Department of Justice three weeks later. As you may recall, six council members did ask ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
Council to Vote Next Week on Suspending Rules to Bring Redistricting Back to Horseshoe
Yesterday we confirmed the existence of council member Delia Jasso's amended council-districts map she hopes will replace the version the city submitted to the Department of Justice at the end of October. Actually, we were told, it wasn't really a map, more like a redo of District 1, with Jasso a ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Delia Jasso Really Wants Scott Griggs (And Kessler and Stevens Parks) Out of Her District
On and off the last few days I've spoken with the folks in the Redistricting Office to see if they've gotten their hands on Delia Jasso's amendment to the previously voted-upon map -- you know, the whole reason the council will stop down Wednesday to argue over reopening that mighty fresh wound. ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Council Votes Not to Suspend Its Rules, Which Means Jasso's New Map Won't Get Look-See
In the end, the most surprising part of this afternoon's discussion at City Hall over whether to suspend the rules and allow redistricting brought back to the horseshoe is that there was no discussion at all. Sure, a few speakers came to the mic, among them Roy Williams and Marvin Crenshaw, the m ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Last Week, Several From Dallas City Hall Took a Couple of Field Trips to the Justice Department
Photo by Anna MerlanDomingo Garcia and Delia Jasso at last night's redistricting confabThe answer is no, the question being: Will we ever stop writing about the city redistricting process? But it's been a little while, so let's review. Then we can discuss the dueling delegations who apparentl ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Your First Look Inside City Performance Hall, Which, Again, Could Really Use Some Rentals
Photos by Anna MerlanCouncil members and others took their first tour of the City Performance Hall yesterday, beginning in the lobbyYesterday afternoon the Arts Culture and Libraries Committee took its quick tour of the construction site that will soon be the City Performance Hall, which they ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
City Sends Word That the Justice Department Doesn't Object to Its Redistricting Plan
Like it or not, this is the map that will be used in the 2013 city council elections. The giant version is here.It's possible we're not yet done with issues concerning the city of Dallas's new council-districts map. Lawsuits, after all, have been threatened by Hispanic leaders demanding five majo ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
On Flood Control, Dallas Better Think Nationally or Be Ready to Drown Locally
Man, talk about whistling past the graveyard. At yesterday's Dallas City Council meeting, council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso asked good questions about the city's flood control plans, and City Manager Mary Suhm and her assistant, Jill Jordan, gave good answers. But it was all deck ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Mayor Backs Out of Citizens Meeting Tonight. "Unexpected Circumstances." (LGBT Protest.)
Left a message this morning for Paula Blackmon, chief of staff to Mayor Mike Rawlings, to talk about his decision to pull out of a long-scheduled meet-and-greet with the citizens tonight at Kiest Park on Hampton. It's been on our schedule for a month, and just Monday morning he (or someone, Black ... More >>
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