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Blogs
May 13, 2013
Dwaine Caraway Wants to Dig Up Main Street, Turn it Into the River Walk
Right now, the City Council is debating whether to lower fees and loosen the rules governing what businesses can put on sidewalks and public rights of way, the idea being that more sidewalk cafes and awnings and creative signage and landscaping can help create a more enjoyable urban experience. Plan ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
Civil Rights Leader Peter Johnson Excoriates Council for Proposal to Bus Out Homeless
Last week, as they City Council was being briefed on the still very incomplete effort to end chronic homelessness in Dallas, a frustrated Dwaine Caraway proposed a surefire solution: Why not round up the homeless people, stick them on a Greyhound bus, and send them back to where they came from? Most ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
Dwaine Caraway Wants a Plastic Bag Ban Right Now, Thank You Very Much
City officials have made this much clear: a plastic bag ban, a la Austin and any number of California cities, will be coming to Dallas -- eventually. Just last month, assistant city manager Jill Jordan told the City Council that Dallas is "maybe a year or two" away from considering such a measure. B ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2013
Willis Johnson and KKDA Were Booted Off the Air Yesterday to Make Way for a Korean Radio Station
The writing's been on the wall, one supposes, since KKDA-AM, a.k.a. Soul 73, abruptly laid off Bobby Patterson and most of the rest of its on-air staff, but the terse announcement posted to the station's website yesterday still comes as a shock: "Soul 730 KKDA is no longer broadcasting on the radio ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2012
Dwaine Caraway Probably Violated Ethics Rules, Definitely Thought About Running For Governor
Last week, Dwaine Caraway sent us a little pre-Thanksgiving note. It read, in full: We are pleased to invite you to the District Four Community Celebration, on Monday, December 3 from 10am-2pm. The event will be held in the 6th Floor Flag Room at Dallas City Hall. Hosted by Councilman Dwaine Caraw ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2012
Park Board Does Not Think They're Bungling Search for a New Director, Is Really Hurt Dwaine Caraway Would Say That
Last week, the city's Park and Recreation Board made City Council member Dwaine Caraway very unhappy when they announced their plans to go about searching for someone to replace outgoing department director Paul Dyer. The seven-member committee won't be hiring a national search firm, instead lookin ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Dwaine Caraway Thinks Dallas is Bungling its Search for a New Park Director
The city's Park and Recreation Board is looking for someone to replace Paul Dyer, who is retiring after two decades at the helm of the parks department. Last week, a seven-member search committee, comprised of park board president Max Wells and a half dozen other board members, decided to keep the s ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
A Dispatch from Dwaine Caraway's Long, Tense, Tearful Anti-Sagging Summit
It was pretty much guaranteed that Dwaine Caraway's "Saggin' Pants Forum," held Saturday in City Hall chambers, was going to be weird. This was, after all, almost a full afternoon devoted to the City Council member and former mayor's ongoing crusade against men who don't belt their pants at the wais ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2012
Grab Your Belts, Hide Your Drawers: Caraway's Saggin' Summit Coming September 22
A few weeks ago, City Council member Dwaine Caraway ventured down to the first floor of City Hall, where he saw a sight that made his blood boil. Among the people waiting in line at the Bureau of Vital Statistics window was a very young man with his pants hanging down towards his knees. Preventing ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
Dwaine Caraway on Dixon Circle Killing: Fix the Big Picture or See It Get Worse
We're all holed up behind our verbal barricades on this Dixon Circle deal, me among the worst of them, surprise surprise. So maybe it's worth remembering that Dallas city councilman Dwaine Caraway was out there Tuesday night. He was urging calm among the hundreds of people angry about the fatal shoo ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2012
Councilman Caraway Relaunched His War on Saggy Pants Today, and Damn if We Didn't Go Buy a Belt
Today, City Council member Dwaine Caraway relaunched his war on saggy pants with a press conference/"Pull 'Em Up" summit in City Hall, and it was without a doubt the single best thing to ever happen to Dallas. First there was the star-studded cast of characters: all of City Council, except for May ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
Dwaine Caraway Relaunching Crusade Against Sagging Pants
Councilman Dwaine Caraway announced this morning at the City Council briefing that despite his half-decade long effort to get young men to pull 'em up, Dallas' sagging epidemic is only getting worse. "It's a doggone shame," he said. Seems that Caraway recently spotted two young men strolling throu ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
The Ongoing and (Slow-Moving) Fight to Regulate Boarding Homes in Dallas
The city of Dallas has been grappling for years with how to better regulate boarding homes for the elderly, mentally ill and disabled , which are currently subject to very little oversight. About three weeks ago, the city council's housing committee was told that licensing and regulating the homes c ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Dwaine Caraway's Looking Out For the City
On Wednesdays I keep the city council broadcasts dialed up in the office for the high irritainment value. Besides, you never know what'll happen. Take yesterday, for instance. There were a few things I wanted to keep an eye on, but at the bottom of the bottom of the list was Addendum Item No. 10, ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
"Trees Do Not Vote" and Other Highlights From Contentious Council Talk About a Walmart
Speaking of Dwaine Caraway ...The city council just voted on that Walmart Supercenter proposed for Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton, and though it ultimately passed unanimously it was no simple thing -- far from. It was quite the discussion -- heated at times, thoughtful at others. On the surface it w ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
Race to the Finish: After Ugly Redistricting Meeting, Council (Barely) Settles on Map
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 redistricting map. Finally.Caraway spoke about three hours too soon, though. Last night at 8:30 ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2011
Tennell Atkins, Dwaine Caraway Demand Four African-American Seats Stay On City Council
Photo by Anna MerlanCaraway and Atkins at this morning's press conferenceDid you wake up this morning wondering what all the arguing's going to be about at Saturday's redistricting forum with Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council members? Wonder no longer! At a City Hall press conference just ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2011
Marvin Crenshaw, Dwaine Caraway and Sandra Crenshaw on the Fate of Dallas's Black Districts
Anna's gotten to know the city awfully well in a very short amount of time -- that's what sitting through every single redistricting meeting will do to and for you. And she was there for four hours last night, even though she's got a cover story due, like, now. And she'll be there all d ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Dwaine Caraway Speaks at Longest Redistricting Commission Meeting Ever & Other Highlights
The end is near ... sort of. The city's Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone -- the public and commissioners alike -- is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night's meeting was a marathon ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
More Fun With Redistricting As We Look at Caraway and Davis's Unusable Submissions
Click to embiggen Dwaine Caraway's proposed map, or just look at it here.The next meeting of the Redistricting Commission is Tuesday -- I know, I know, settle down. At which point, the commission will discus yet another round of submissions, among them one from none other than council member Dwai ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Dwaine Caraway Bids Goodbye to the Mayor's Seat. Don't Expect a Return Visit.
This was Dwaine Caraway's last day as temporary unelected mayor of Dallas. He is now the former temporary mayor or FTM. But he thinks he's prime material for full-time elected mayor at some point in the future. That's not true. The reason why it is not true may not be what everybody thinks. ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
He's Mayor For Two More Hours ...
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano wi ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
You Want a Key to the City? Here You Go.
Remember when Dwaine Caraway gave Michael Vick a key to the city of Dallas and everyone got outraged and then-Mayor Tom Leppert had the city clamp down on who had access to the prize closet and Caraway said but look, man, I did it for the children? Yeah. Good times. Only, see, it's not hard to ge ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Mayor Caraway to Push Back Vote on Gas Drilling Task Force Till Griggs Is Sworn In
Photo by Patrick MichelsPatrick's heading down to City Hall shortly -- not just for the noon-thirty all-star press conference on the plaza, during which the mayor and police chief and council members will fill in every last blank concerning Thursday's 10 a.m. Mavs parade, but for today's meeting ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Mayor Assembles Council Brain Trust, Or Something, to Review Ethics Rollback
City Attorney Tom Perkins and Mayor Dwaine Caraway at last week's council meetingWhile I was on the phone with Chris Heinbaugh about the item just below this one, he mentioned that Mayor-Not-For-Long Dwaine Caraway informed his council colleagues today that he's ready to go with that whole ad hoc ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
The Day Provides Yet Another Campaign Season Highlight: A New Dwaine Caraway Radio Ad
Photo by Sam MertenMany thanks to the great Rudolph Mantooth Bush, head scorekeeper at The News's City Hall Blog, who has shared Mayor Dwaine Caraway's sequel to his Payday Loan King ad slamming Mike Rawlings for his six-year stint on the board of directors of Ace Cash Express. But it's so much m ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
The Greatest Sideshow on Earth: When The "Transparent" (Cough) City Council Talks Ethics
City council members Angela Hunt and Vonciel Jones Hill are kicking ass at today's contentious hearing on the city council's recent unethics reform, which is about to wrap up. (Or not.) The council voted last April 13 to gut its ethics policy and allow political contributions from representatives ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Caraway Rallies Troops to Shutter Hooker-Plagued Luxury Inn, Over Lawyer's Objections
Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Dwaine Caraway, DPD Chief David Brown, City Attorney Tom Perkins, council members and other familiar faces gather to announce the closure of the Luxury Inn on S. Buckner Boulevard.If the city's shutting down another hookers-n-drugs party shack around town, you can b ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
Trinity Levee Repairs on Track to Beat FEMA's Deadline, But Corps Stresses Approval "Cannot Be Guaranteed"
Photos by Sam MertenTrinity Trust Foundation chair Margaret McDermott Cook says Dallasites will be running from her as fund-raising for the Trinity project resumes.It was all smiles and back-slapping this afternoon as the city, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Trinity River Corridor Project p ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Could It Be ... Solar-Powered Water Taxis? Nah. Just "Significant News" About Trinity Levees.
City Hall just sent word: Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Flag Room, Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Trinity River Corridor Project Committee Chairman Dave Neumann and representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Trinity Trust Foundation and Trinity Commons Foundation will hold a press conference to a ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
Sendai's Response To Caraway's Missive: We're Kinda Busy Over Here, But Thanks Anyway
City of DallasCaraway chats with Ebby Halliday at her 100th birthday celebration today sponsored by the East Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Dwaine Caraway sent a letter on Friday expressing the city's "deepest condolences" to his counterpart in Sendai, Japan, Mayor Emiko Okuyama. Caraway menti ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Mayor Dwaine Caraway's Records and Tapes Are Private? Not By a Long, Smelly Shot.
Yesterday a commenter wrote in to Unfair Park in reference to an item about Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway and the legal action he has brought against his own city to prevent the release of an embarrassing police tape. The commenter said, "It's hard to imagine the tape shows anything other than ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Turns Out DPD Has Audio of Supposed Dispute Between (Ahem) Arthur and Archie -- and Attorney General Says They Must Release It
Photo by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine CarawayAlong with a handful of other media outlets that filed open records requests about the incident at Mayor Dwaine Caraway's home near Cedar Crest Golf Course known as the "Arthur and Archie" ordeal, we asked for notes, audio, video and any other possible d ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Endorsements Aplenty For Ron Natinsky, Including Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Who Says There's No Time to Learn About Anyone Else
Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway asked mayoral candidate Ron Natinksy to put an endorsement sticker on his blazer this afternoon.Mayor Dwaine Caraway and 11 current and former council members endorsed council member Ron Natinksy for mayor this afternoon at City Hall Plaza. Caraway urg ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Mayor Dwaine Caraway's "Calling a New Play"
Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway, his wife and council member Dave Neumann this morning at the City Hall Flag Room.Just minutes before presiding over his first meeting as the city's newly minted mayor, Dwaine Caraway assured a group of around 150 folks gathered for a light breakfast i ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Outside the Statler, a Celebration. Inside the Statler, a Sneak Peek at the Work to Be Done.
Photos by Sam MertenWho can you name in this gathering of officials the mayor pulled together for a press conference-closing group photo?When Sam and I got to Main Street Garden around 2:15 this afternoon for the Statler-sale press conference, there weren't a lot of people around -- just a few fo ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Sure, Caraway Gets Carried Away. And You Wanna Get Angry. But Then Comes the Pity.
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway was on The Ticket's Dunham & Miller show about an hour ago talking about why he gave the key to the city to convicted dog torturer Michael Vick. It was so typical. The Ticket guys started out all big and pissed off, talking about how they were going to whip ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Operation Crackdown Says Adios, Drug Houses, With City Brass Along for the Benediction
Photos by Patrick MichelsCity Attorney Tom Perkins, City Manager Mary Suhm, Mayor Tom Leppert and Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway. That's how many city officials it takes to knock down a building, plus Lt. Col. Mark Welch and the Texas National Guard. Operation Crackdown is rumbling along through Da ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
At City Hall, the Slow Demise of the Citizens Council? Probably Not. But We Can Dream.
There's a lot of shape-shifting going on below the media radar at City Hall, a sense that some kind of realignment is in the works. A lot of it has to do with the fraying and maybe dissolution of the traditional Citizens Council/South Dallas Deal. Mayor Tom Leppert has been the standard-bearer fo ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Dwaine Caraway Will Guilt Into Quitting the Smokes. Or SMU Will Pay You. Your Choice.
Andrea GrimesMayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway improvises at today's Quit Smoking Dallas! press conference by inviting a smoking colleague to be mortified without notice.Joking happily about how he's already told you to pull up your pants and quit the K2, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway hosted a press co ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2010
Caraway: "Quit Smoking Dallas"
Health and Human Services/FDASpeaking of the mayor pro tem ...City Hall just sent word that tomorrow at City Hall, Dwaine Caraway will be joined by SMU associate psychology prof Jasper Smits, clinical psychologist Jay Ashmore of the Cooper Aerobics Center and others to launch a citywide anti-smok ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Caraway Wants to Make It Clear: "The Majority Has Spoken" About Beer, Wine Sales
Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn't exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center's permit office -- in large part because of the city and county's hoop-heavy permitti ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2010
The Dwaine Caraway Tour Of South Dallas (TM)
Andrea GrimesThis is Darlene, and she wants you to vote against Proposition One.Yesterday, I rode shotgun in Dwaine Caraway's Beamer while he balled it up as only Dwaine Caraway can do, chatting with reporters, fist-bumping constituents and checking in on campaign workers encouraging voters to vo ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2010
One Week Before the Wet-Dry Referendum, Caraway Insists: "We've Turned up the Volume"
Several Friends have asked, privately, in recent days: Whatever happened to Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's threat to drown Keep the Dollars in Dallas? As you may recall, when it came time for the council to call the election that will allow the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide, Caraway ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2010
iWatch So You Don't Have To: Liveblogging Today's Public Safety Committee Meeting
Afternoon, Friends of Unfair Park. Here I am in bristly cold City Hall prepared to bring you the latest in how Dallas is going to keep you safe. Or, how you're going to keep your damn selves safe with iWatch. Between that and Dwaine Caraway's magic crime-reducing cameras, we should be set. See so ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2010
How'd We Miss This? Caraway Went on Cavuto to Discuss Garage Sale Permit Fee Proposal.
Below, Andrea's still liveblogging today's tax-hike showdown at City Hall -- and Dwaine Caraway just wrapped up his prolonged, passionate north-vs.-south speech, which was accompanied by a video presentation filled with boarded-up, burned-down houses and trash-and-weed-strewn lawns in the southern s ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Climbing K2: Liveblogging the First City Council Meeting After Summer Break
Patrick MichelsWelcome back to Wednesdays at City Hall, Friends. It's the full council's first voting session at the horseshoe after their summer vacation, and no doubt all of them labored for hours last night trying to figure out what they were going to wear this morning to show their friends ho ... More >>
Blogs
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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