Subject: Eddie Bernice Johnson

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

  February 13, 2007

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

  October 12, 2006

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

  May 17, 2007

• You, Snooze. We Lose.

  May 18, 2007

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

  May 21, 2007

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

  May 24, 2007

• Do Lies Come with that Shake?

  May 29, 2007

• Get to Know Cappy McGarr!

  October 12, 2007

• "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 strayed; here, then, courtesy the city, are Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and Neumann's remarks offered today in the Flag Room. If only because, well, you paid for 'em, so you might as well get to

  June 1, 2009

• Is Industrial Boulevard Set To Become Stevie Ray Vaughan Boulevard?

  April 30, 2008

• The City of Dallas and Its Shiny, Distracting Thing

  May 26, 2008

• 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 proceedings, lest this turn into The Pat Sajak Show.

  May 20, 2009

• BeloWatch

  November 23, 1995

• The week of living dangerously

  January 25, 1996

• Campaign casualty

  June 6, 1996

• U.S. Reprehensible

  October 31, 1996

• Letters

  November 7, 1996

• Letters

  November 28, 1996

• Return to sender

  September 4, 1997

• Buzz

  February 22, 2001

• 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 accuses Schutze of reporting comments made by two public officials -- U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and Dallas County Judge Jim Foster -- who, Price maintains, accused him of allegedly trying to

  March 3, 2009

• 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 gettin' built, so there. You will find after the jump the entirety of the city's media release announcing that the feds have extended the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 404 Permit for another four years, whi

  March 20, 2009

• 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 for statements he made to the Dallas Observer about Price's role and vote regarding the Inland Port, a mega-development in southern Dallas. Price petitioned the court earlier this month to take the pr

  March 24, 2009

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

  February 19, 2009

• 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

  December 25, 2008

• 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

  December 18, 2008

• Put Out

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

  September 6, 2007

• Dallas to Bush: Drop Dead

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

  December 20, 2001

• This Old House

  Historic preservationists sift through the sawdust of the great closet debate

  October 19, 2000

• Outta Here

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

  September 21, 2000

• 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 I money and school funding. Dallas school headquarters has been insisting it must slash budgets for learning centers and magnet schools because of new federal guidelines. Apparently, Johnson is aski

  May 11, 2009

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

  May 14, 2009

• 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.m.: As the DISD board of trustees is due to begin its called meeting shortly, I asked district spokesman Jon Dahlander whether or not the board will heed Johnson's request to delay tonight's vote. At

  May 14, 2009

• 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, oh, 18 months or so, during which he'll lay out the grand plan, which will include everything from a Dallas Summer Musicals-produced show to 26 rides permanently planted in the Midway. Alas, the pres

  May 20, 2009

• 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, it's Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's turn at the mailbox: Unfair Park just received a copy of her letter sent Friday to Marie Therese Dominguez, the USPS's vice president of government relations

  July 20, 2009

• 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 this letter Johnson sent to to Marie Therese Dominguez, the USPS's vice president of government relations and public policy. Now, she's moving way up the ladder of command: We just received from her off

  July 23, 2009

• 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 homeless aren't considered hate crimes and aren't counted as such by the FBI when it compiles those particular stats. At the moment, the Hate Crimes Statistics Act only demands the Justice Department gather

  July 31, 2009

• 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 36 feet long and 17 feet across, only yesterday while driving from Oak Cliff to downtown (surprisingly, no one else was marveling at the sight from the lonesome Trinity Overlook Park). Why, you can se

  August 3, 2009

• 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 medical supplies to hospitals, health-care centers and doctors across the country -- and in her complaint, Fitzgerald alleges that the business of hospital purchasing is a help-yourself free-for-all wh

  August 14, 2009

• 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, jazz-scored site pitching the previously mentioned September 25 Bridging the Trinity shindig, tickets for which are selling for $150 a pop. (Because, look, it ain't cheap to party hearty with the likes o

  August 17, 2009

• 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 outside Cityplace Conference Center this morning, a man in his 60s, in a plain white T-shirt and a bucket hat, had to stop and ask directions on the street corner."If you're for health care reform, you're

  August 17, 2009

• 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 black-and-white copies of University of Illinois senior history major Firas Alkhateeb's Photoshop project 'round Dallas; after the jump, "2 Free American Citizens" decorate Dealey Plaza and the Dalla

  August 19, 2009

• 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 expressed their concerns in missives to USPS officials. But last night, Johnson took it one step further: She called a town hall meeting that brought local politicians (including Leppert, briefly) and m

  August 25, 2009

• 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 Dallas facility, more or less told the 200 postal workers gathered at city hall that it was a done deal so, like, deal. Only, Johnson this afternoon counters with a not-so-fast e-mail.Johnson's office s

  September 2, 2009

• 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, this morning's "ground-making" for the Woodall Rodgers Freeway Deck Park took a more conceptual direction.Inside the future home of the Parkside Condominiums, with an expansive view of the wet concrete t

  September 14, 2009

• 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 or disability. (As you may recall, earlier this summer Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson called for including crimes against the homeless in hate-crime statistics.) In the report from 2007, Dallas c

  November 23, 2009

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

  December 24, 2009

• 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 that cause cancer and birth defects. And to mark the report's release, at 1 p.m. the group will gather media types and local pols, among them state Rep. Allen Vaught, to wag their their fingers at th

  January 12, 2010

• 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 meets the eye. Here is what is sort of buried or smooshed over in The News's account, probably because their Washington guy doesn't quite get it, not because he's trying to cover something up. We have two

  February 2, 2010

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

  February 4, 2010