Subject: Dwaine Caraway

• Why Don Hill Might Not Make Up More Ground Tonight

  May 12, 2007

• And Your New (Update: Deputy) Mayor Pro Tem Is ...

  June 25, 2007

• Tom Leppert: Predictable and Classy

  September 12, 2007

• A New Man Law: Pullin' Up Your Pants

  October 23, 2007

• Philly Paper Pulls Down Pants on Dallas' "Pull 'Em Up" Campaign

  October 25, 2007

• Trinity River? Check. Jim Foster? Check. Dwaine Caraway? Check.

  October 26, 2007

• "Prepare For a Long Night."

  November 6, 2007

• Giving Joyce Foreman a Break

  February 6, 2008

• I'm Not Sellin' Anything To You

  February 25, 2008

• Headache Hotel and Other Dallas City Council SUPs and WTFs

  February 28, 2008

• Missing the Bullseye, Caraway Derailed DART Board Interviews

  April 16, 2008

• Leppert Throws DART Board Appointments Under the Bus Today

  April 23, 2008

• Tom Leppert and Dwaine Caraway Try, Try Again to Fill DART Board Seat

  May 7, 2008

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

  May 14, 2008

• Caraway Not Exactly Carried Away with Facts About Convention Center Hotel

  May 15, 2008

• Caraway Cares About The Kids

  May 27, 2008

• One Step Forward, Ten Steps Backward

  August 1, 2008

• U.K. Paper Pantses Dooney's Da Priest's Old, Now "New," Saggin' Anthem

  August 4, 2008

• Caraway Gets a Little Carried Away Recalling His Role in Chavez Dispute

  September 29, 2008

• Hunt Exposes Another Attempt By Leppert To Limit Free Speech

  Back in June, Mayor Tom Leppert tried to slip some changes into the city council's rules of procedure without asking input from his colleagues, but his plan was derailed when Angela Hunt took issue with one of the changes that would have eliminated the morning open-microphone session. Most recently, the afternoon open-microphone session was addressed when a decision was made not to broadcast that session on radio or television. Seemed like another command from Leppert, but he wasn't fessing up,

  December 3, 2008

• Caraway Bluntly Addresses Pot-Smoking Problem By Targeting Single Cigar Sales

  Hidden among the discussion surrounding Wednesday's vote on a strengthened smoking ban is addendum Item No. 13 on the council's final docket of the year, which includes a whopping 151 items. This item addresses the sale of individual cigars, long the bane of Dwaine Caraway's existence, along with saggy pants and public speakers. The new ordinance would prohibit the sale of individual cigars and require cigars to be sold in packages of at least five, with a penalty of no more than $500 awaiting

  December 8, 2008

• Why the New Smoking Ordinance Should Have Been Delayed, and Sorting Through the 10 Amendments

  There's a line where government stops and the rights of the people begin, and when Mayor Tom Leppert and nine of his council colleagues voted to strengthen Dallas' smoking ordinance, that line wasn't blurred, they drove right past it as if it didn't even exist. But no matter where you stand on the issue, one thing should have been clear in yesterday's council debate: The council opposition posed an excellent argument to at least delay the vote so the council could hash out some of the finer p

  December 11, 2008

• Who'd Be Mayor If Leppert Left Early? And, Why Would Leppert Do It?

  Brian Harkin Is Dwaine Caraway positioning himself as Leppert's replacement? While speaking with one of Mayor Tom Leppert's consultants last month, I asked if Leppert was considering running for Kay Bailey Hutchison's senate seat. At that point, I heard he was contemplating the political leap from a few sources, but the response was something along the lines of "Right now, Tom is focused on being the best mayor he can be for the citizens of Dallas." The rumors have continued to make the rounds

  December 24, 2008

• Buzz

  November 17, 1994

• What This Country Needs Is a Good Five-Cent Cigar. Just Not Sold Separately.

  While thumbing through the final agenda for next Wednesday's city council meeting, I came across Agenda Item No. 53 -- which, to be honest, I thought had been ditched altogether, till Merten reminded me this morning it had merely been deferred. So, say hello to this ghost of Christmas past: Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's push to ban single cigar sales. In brief, only because I like the definition of a cigar, which makes it sounds so ... so ... sexy:The proposed ordinance creates an offens

  January 22, 2009

• South Dallas Sheds Another Hot-Sheet Motel

  View Larger MapThe Dallas City Council just voted on an agenda item in Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's wheelhouse: permanently shuttering a South Dallas motel surrounded by "ladies of the evening at all times of the day and night," as Caraway put it before begging Carolyn Davis to continue going after hot-sheet motels in her district. The motel at issue is the Colonial House Motel at 3103 Colonial Avenue, which applied for a specific use permit to continue operating there. The council vote

  January 28, 2009

• Maker of Black & Milds Is "Looking Forward" to Talking to Dwaine Caraway About Cigars

  On Wednesday, as you'll no doubt recall, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway vowed to sweep every Black & Mild cigar off the shelves and into the ashtrays. Said he was preparing to launch a national campaign against the makers of the machine-made cigars, which Caraway says are "poisoning ... our community" and "killing families," especially when used to smoke pot. Thought it only fair to give the makers of the cigars -- John Middleton, owned by Altria Group -- a chance to respond.David Sutto

  January 30, 2009

• Mayor Tom Leppert Isn't the Only One Who Made False Promises During the Trinity River Toll Road Campaign

  Bill BetzenCouncil members Tennell Atkins and Dwaine Caraway do Mayor Tom's dirty work back in November 2007.In the comments of a blog item regarding council member Tennell Atkins's questionable campaign finance reports, someone using the name "joe" suggested that, along with being a hobbit, my motivation in digging around Atkins's reports was his support of the Trinity Turnpike and convention center hotel. Then he wrote: "cue next the 4 or 5," which I assume he meant to cue the next four or fiv

  February 23, 2009

• Guns N' Groceries

  City of Springfield, IllinoisThat's Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's plan, anyway: Folks who bring an "operational, unloaded firearm" (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card -- from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such sponsors as 97.9 THE BEAT and Schepps Dairy. Caraway's been talking about this since the beginning of the year, and he figured better sooner than later. Says Caraway in a media release distributed in advan

  February 25, 2009

• Gun Crazy

  City of Springfield, IllinoisDid not see that coming. Yesterday, first thing, I pointed out Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's call to arms -- meaning, of course, his call for folks to part with their firearms in exchange for 50 bucks' worth of Kroger groceries Saturday morning at Reunion. Shortly after that, on his blog and in the Unfair Park comments, gun-slinging D contributing editor Trey Garrison chimed in with his own counter-proposal: "My plan is to be there with envelopes containing $

  February 26, 2009

• The Safety's Off: So, What Did a Non-Believer Learn at Saturday's Gun Buy Back?

  Amanda WarrDeputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Trey Garrison at Reunion Arena SaturdayAs he promised last week, right after we first mentioned Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's offer to swap guns for $50 Kroger gift cards, D contributing editor Trey Garrison went out to Reunion Arena to make folks a better offer. (The city collected 147, incidentally.) What he and Best of Texas's Amanda Warr returned with instead was a lengthy video and accompanying story documenting how the twosome spen

  March 2, 2009

• The Ready for Prime Time Players

  This morning, Danielle McClelland in the Dallas City Hall Public Information Office posted to YouTube updates from District 4 and District 7, courtesy Dallas Delivers on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. Hosted by Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Carolyn Davis respectively, they're the very definition of edutainment -- or irritainment, judging by the look on Southeast Division Deputy Chief Patricia Paulhill's face after Davis asks her for a phone number folks can call in case they need to rep

  March 9, 2009

• Who's No. 1? Dallas City Council Candidates Pick Ballot Positions.

  Sam MertenPauline Medrano and Sheffie Kadane were two of only three (Vonciel Hill was the other) incumbents who showed up this morning.City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall announced the ballot positions for the May 9 city council elections, as Billy MacLeod, Victoria Walton, Tiffinni Young, John Jay Myers and Anita Dade gained an early leg up on the incumbents in their respective district races by nabbing the top spot. Ann Margolin was able to

  March 10, 2009

• Meddling Maverick

  Mark Cuban aims his hands-on approach at Dallas' downtrodden southern sector.

  January 22, 2009

• Leppert to Public: Shush!

  December 11, 2008

• The Dwaine Caraway Show

  Starring that new breed of politician who wants to root out your crack houses, close down your whorehouses and pull up your pants

  March 27, 2008

• Dwaine Caraway Scared DISD Away From Skyline

  The school district decides not to mess with Skyline's magnet program—or Caraway

  February 7, 2008

• Dooney da Priest's Fight Against Sagging Pants Won't Work

  Saggy pants reveal much more than underwear

  November 8, 2007

• Absentee Minded

  Hey, Mr. Zillionaire Developer, got a big public project you want to sell? Black Dallas has the votes you need--dirt cheap.

  August 30, 2001

• Vote Early, Vote Often

  The story behind the failed Caraway campaign is both farce and tragedy

  June 14, 2001

• The Race Race

  In the battle for the District 6 council seat, the dark horse has a white face

  April 19, 2001

• Deadbird

  How vicious racial politics, mismanagement, and dirty dealing turned Dallas' Redbird Airport into a Third-World airfield

  October 12, 2000

• Deepest depths

  City council members find ingenious ways to screw poor kids out of their swimming pools

  May 25, 2000

• Buzz

  Silence is not golden; Feed the sharks

  April 13, 2000

• Caraway: If You Vote Against the Hotel, Dallas Will Look the Same "50 Years From Now"

  We missed the pro-convention center hotel wingding in front of Dallas City Hall last night. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway did not. Here's his pitch for the hotel, and it apparently has something to do with ... cell phones?

  April 30, 2009

• Council Doesn't Want to Raise Taxes, Cut Key Services to Trim Budget. Good Luck With That.

  Sam MertenThe city's budget is $190 million in the hole because of "revenue erosion," according to CFO Dave Cook.The Dallas City Council yesterday afternoon wrapped up a lengthy discussion on how best to tackle the city's $190-million budget deficit by agreeing that a tax increase and making cuts to the police and fire departments are not the answers. Council members opposed several of the proposed cuts by City Manager Mary Suhm and her staff, yet were unable to provide alternative solutions to

  May 21, 2009

• It's That Time o' the Year: Gun Buy-Back!

  ​Last time 'round, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's call to turn in your arms arms turned into quite the sideshow, complete with a French New Wave film of some kind starring Caraway and Trey Garrison. Which hasn't deterred Caraway one bit: This afternoon at Dallas City Hall, he'll provide further details concerning yet another gun buy-back scheduled for August 15 at City Hall. At the last guns-for-groceries swap meet, the city collected 147 firearms in varying states of "working."Same deal as la

  August 4, 2009

• Much, Much More About That Controversial Agenda Item the Dallas City Council Now Won't Even Talk About Tomorrow

  Some call 'em "orbs"; others, "balls."​Late this afternoon, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert's chief of staff, called to discuss those proposed changes to council meetings, which would put stricter limits on public speakers at City Hall and put a deadline on when council members can remove consent agenda items for individual consideration. Heinbaugh insisted that the mayor had no part in writing the proposed amendments to the City Council Rules of Procedure: He said City Secretary Deborah Wa

  August 11, 2009

• 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 presentation, two years after this notion first surfaced at City Hall, Mayor Tom Leppert said that Pauline Medrano, Vonciel Jones Hill and Tennell Atkins had to step out of council chambers because they "have

  September 2, 2009

• HUD Money, or: If You Think You've Heard the Last of Southern Skates, Oh, Guess Again.

  Maybe Dwaine Caraway's right -- keeping Southern Skates open seems a whole lot easier than trying to sell it.​Dwaine Caraway wants Southern Skates kept open; Vonciel Jones Hill, in whose district the skating rink on East Ledbetter Drive actually sits, is among those who'd prefer it closed -- or, better yet, sold. Which is precisely what the city wants to do, though as we mentioned back in August, it's been unable to find a viable taker for the pet project of former Black Panther Fahim Minkah,

  October 19, 2009