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Isenberg, Back from China, Now Taking on "Child Prisons"

What's in David Dean's Closet? Oh. A Closet.

Turns Out, We Can Afford to Vote on the Trinity River Toll Road After All. Sorry, Tom Leppert, But You Are Wrong.

You, Snooze. We Lose.

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Trinity Toll Road Comment Still Not News to The News

Truth Held Hostage, Day Eight. (Damn, That Sounds So Dramatic!)

Do Lies Come with that Shake?

Get to Know Cappy McGarr!

"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 >>

Is Industrial Boulevard Set To Become Stevie Ray Vaughan Boulevard?

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 >>

The City of Dallas and Its Shiny, Distracting Thing

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 >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Talk Show Could Really Use, Like, a Band, Maybe

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

BeloWatch

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

The week of living dangerously

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

Campaign casualty

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

U.S. Reprehensible

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

Letters

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

Letters

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

Return to sender

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

Buzz

I don't get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here's part one; parts two and three follow. I won't lie: She needs something to spice up the ... More >>

Shaken and Half-Baked, or: John Wiley Price, There's a Reason God Invented Tape Recorders

Brandon ThibodeauxJohn Wiley Price is threatening legal action over Schutze's inland port stories.It was strange to pick up The Dallas Morning News today and learn that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has impugned the integrity of Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze. The commish accuse ... More >>

Corps of Engineers' Yogi Berra, "This Project Isn't Going to End Until It's Completed."

Courtesy the City of DallasThe Pantanal arriving in Houston with the first shipment of steel for the Margaret Hunt Hill BridgeJudy Schmidt at Dallas City Hall forwards along the following message from Mayor Tom Leppert: Till he hears otherwise, Santiago Calatrava's Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is getti ... More >>

Judge Rules That John Wiley Price Can Take County Judge Jim Foster's Deposition

Dallas County Judge Jim FosterToday Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price made some progress in his legal battle against Dallas County Judge Jim Foster, who has been ordered to submit to a deposition so that Price might investigate whether he wishes to pursue a defamation claim against Foster ... More >>

Democratic County Judge Jim Foster May be the Latest Target in the Inland Port Battle

Dallas County Judge Jim FosterToday Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price made some progress in his legal battle against Dallas County Judge Jim Foster, who has been ordered to submit to a deposition so that Price might investigate whether he wishes to pursue a defamation claim against Foster ... More >>

Port Whine: Delays on Inland Port Part of Familiar Pattern

On a clear day, you can see why development in southern Dallas has been screwed forever

Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal

Local pols back off a master plan that would have put the squeeze on a major southern Dallas development

Put Out

If Dallas doesn't give the boys their road, they want the jewelry back

Dallas to Bush: Drop Dead

City council thumbs its nose at the White House on Trinity River deal

This Old House

Historic preservationists sift through the sawdust of the great closet debate

Outta Here

Cadillac Heights residents don't want levees, they want out

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Others Taking a Keen Interest In DISD Trustees' Efforts to Gut Magnet Schools and Learning Centers

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice JohnsonThings are popping a bit today on the Dallas Independent School District magnet schools front.Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office confirms that Johnson is talking to the U.S. Department of Education seeking "clarification" of its current position on Title ... More >>

Go Ahead DISD Trustees. Gut the Magnet Schools. If You Want a City That Aspires to Mediocrity.

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice JohnsonThings are popping a bit today on the Dallas Independent School District magnet schools front.Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office confirms that Johnson is talking to the U.S. Department of Education seeking "clarification" of its current position on Title ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Asks DISD Board to Delay Tonight's Staffing Vote

Eddie Bernice JohnsonThe headline says it all. But this missive, which we just received from Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office concerning the fight over funding at Dallas Independent School District's magnet schools and learning centers, says it better. Certainly, longer.Update at 5:15 p. ... More >>

Ya Know, the State Fair Really Wasn't Ready for That "Year-Round" Announcement Just Yet

City of DallasTurns out, Errol McKoy didn't wake up Monday morning with any intention of announcing plans to turn Fair Park into a year-round destination complete with towering rides and rollering coasters. Matter of fact, he says he expected -- still does -- to hold "a massive press conference" in, ... More >>

Now, It's Eddie Bernice Johnson's Turn to Send a Letter of Concern to the USPS

Eddie Bernice JohnsonOn Friday, we acquired a copy of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert's letter to the United States Postal Service, in which he enumerated his "grave concerns" regarding the USPS's proposal that calls for moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office and out to Coppell. Today, i ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Demands USPS Inspector General Get Involved in Dallas Study

 When we first reached out to Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office last week to discuss the United States Postal Service's study concerning moving some operations from the Dallas Main Post Office to Coppell, we got no response. Then came a brief statement. A few days later, there was th ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Wants FBI to Include Attacks on the Homeless in Hate Crimes Stats

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson​Last year, The New York Times noted a sharp increase in violent crimes committed against the homeless -- up 65 percent from '05 to '07, according to statistics kept by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. But at the moment, attacks on the homeles ... More >>

Steel Yourself: Next Month, An All-Star Party to Celebrate "Bridging the Trinity"

Sam MertenTurns out, we'd like to take back everything we ever said about that Trinity River Corridor Project model. It was accurate after all.​The steel for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge's been down by the Trinity River for, oh, a few days at least -- I breathlessly ogled the two cylinders, each ... More >>

Senators Take Scalpel to Local Medical Equipment Providers' Cost of Doing Business

​Six years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald filed in Dallas federal court a complaint that The New York Times predicted in 2007 "could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record." The suit stemmed from Fitzgerald's tenure at Novation -- a company HQ'd on John Carpenter Freeway that sells m ... More >>

The Holy Trinity Bridge

From The Trinity Trust's brand-new Web site devoted to selling Dallas on the Calatrava Bridge​As promised, The Trinity Trust today debuted its new campaign to build interest in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, and there's an accompanying Web site: Discover the Trinity. You'll also find a second, jaz ... More >>

Outside a Quiet Two-Party Town Hall, Health Care Demonstrators Take To the Streets

Patrick MichelsDemonstrators on both sides of the debate shared space outside this morning's town hall meeting with Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.​Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outs ... More >>

When an Art Project Turns Into a Political Statement Turns Into a Web Site Ad

Patrick MichelsWe did catch a glimpse of the posters outside Pete Sessions and Eddie Bernice Johnson's Monday health care jam.Haven't yet seen those Obama-Joker posters -- then again, I clearly haven't been downtown in a few days. At least some members of the Alex Jones street team have been posting ... More >>

Last Mail Call: Last Night at City Hall, a Town Hall Over Fate of Dallas Main Post Office

​Its been more than a month since word broke that the United States Postal Service was considering -- or, rather, planning on -- moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30 to a facility in Coppell. Since then, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and Mayor Tom Leppert have ex ... More >>

Postal Service Won't Make Changes at Dallas Main Post Office Till It Completes New Audit

​For more than a month, folks who work process mail at the Dallas Main Post Office have been wondering just when the United States Postal Service is going to make 'em move to Coppell. Last week at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's town hall meeting, Tim Vierling, senior plant manager at the Da ... More >>

Out Of Thin Air: "Making Ground" On the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park

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, thi ... More >>

In a Report Released Today, FBI Says Hate Crimes Are Up in U.S., Down in Dallas

​New statistics collected by the FBI show fewer hate crimes being committed in Dallas in 2008 compared with 2007. According to 2008 Hate Crime Statistics, which was released today, Dallas reported 17 hate crimes, which include crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity o ... More >>

Challenger Eric Johnson Takes the High Road Against State Representative Terri Hodge, But Where Will It Lead Him?

​New statistics collected by the FBI show fewer hate crimes being committed in Dallas in 2008 compared with 2007. According to 2008 Hate Crime Statistics, which was released today, Dallas reported 17 hate crimes, which include crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity o ... More >>

The Trinty River "Poses a High Risk to Recreational Users"? That Can't Be Right.

The Trinity River looks fine to us in this conceptual rendering of the Standing Wave whitewater-maker.​Environment Texas, an Austin-based research group, made available today a report on Texas rivers that lists the state's most dangerously polluted waterways, particularly those fouled by chemicals ... More >>

That Makes Two Administrations in a Row Not Fond of Funding the Trinity River Project

Patrick MichelsRemember the levee collapse in December? Sure you do.​Interesting story inside The Dallas Morning News today about cuts in the federal budget for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. I'm not saying The News story is any kind of propaganda. Just saying there's more there than meet ... More >>

We Need a Boatload of Money for the Trinity, and It Ain't Coming from Washington

Patrick MichelsRemember the levee collapse in December? Sure you do.​Interesting story inside The Dallas Morning News today about cuts in the federal budget for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. I'm not saying The News story is any kind of propaganda. Just saying there's more there than meet ... More >>