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The Ropes Will Stay at Dallas County Commissioner's Court, But is it Really That Big a Deal?

The Dallas County Commissioners Court will vote today on whether to keep in place the rope barriers that sparked an outcry (from the media at least) put up three weeks ago. County Judge Clay Jenkins said he made the order to maintain order and decorum, but, coming as it did on the heels of the FBI's ... More >>

County Commissioners Vote, Three to Two, Not to Bring Back Sherbet As Elections Consultant

Patrick MichelsCounty Judge Clay Jenkins reminds the room, "I did not ask Mr. Sherbet to resign." This morning he voted not to re-hire Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet as a consultant.Down at Dallas County Commissioners Court this morning, where the fire marshals were out to keep the overflow c ... More >>

Ain't No Party Like an Election Night Watching Party, So Here's Where to Find Your Peeps

Sam MertenDespite lots of enthusiasm from Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey, the Republicans didn't do so hot two years ago. Could they turn the tables this year? Find out at Hotel Palomar. Or Victory Park.​If you've spent the last few nights out and about watching Your Texas Rangers g ... More >>

Royce West Declares Victory For Garcia and Jenkins; Exonerees Appear Instead of Watkins

Photos by Sam Merten​With The Ackermans now on stage at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing finally made her appearance about 45 mintues ago along with state Senator Royce West and a group of candidates, when she expressed her condolences to the ... More >>

Sweatin' It Out With the Justice League!

Photos by Sam MertenState Senator Royce West and county judge candidate Clay Jenkins help pump up the crowd as District Attorney Craig Watkins grabs the mic Saturday afternoon.​This, in case you have not heard, is the "Summer of Justice." Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in betwee ... More >>

Nobody Gets Out Alive: Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle Explains Why He's Retiring

Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle​Tomorrow morning, at around 10, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle will hold a press conference during which he will announce that, effective April 30, 2010, he will no longer be Dallas Police Chief. He has known this day was coming for a while. He told Dallas City M ... More >>

Leppert at Council Inauguration: Dallas Won't Succeed "By Cowering When the Storms Hit"

Patrick MichelsUpdate: Check out more photos in this slide show.Not far from a downtown courtroom filled with memories of a time when cash allegedly flowed more freely through City Hall, Mayor Tom Leppert officially welcomed aboard two new City Council members with a promise to work together to do m ... More >>

Transportation Committee Minorities Favor Concession Monopoly at Love Field; Booting Ordinance Briefing Delayed

Brian HarkinVonciel Hill wants concessions at Love Field to remain in the hands of one company, whose CEO is a director for the Citizens Council and contributed to her campaign. The city council's Transportation and Environment Committee yesterday afternoon met for 90 minutes in executive session a ... More >>

Council Members' Web Pages Revamped as City's Web Site Gets a Slow Makeover

The city wisely didn't bother to make a new Web page for term-limited Mitchell Rasansky, but it did find the time to cook up one for Carolyn Davis, who faces Ron Price in the June 13 runoff election.Whilst digging around for info on the city's Web site yesterday, I clicked on one of the council me ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

DFW Airport Board Member Ousted Because of Opposition to Trinity River Toll Road

Brian HarkinMayor Pro Tem Dr. Elba Garcia admits she helped remove John Loza from the DFW Airport board based on his position on the Trinity River toll road referendum.When the Dallas City Council last week replaced former council member John Loza on the DFW Airport board with Brenda Reyes, we were ... More >>

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 moti ... More >>

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 ... More >>

"Don't Push That Smoke Down My Lungs!" Or: "Communistic!" Either Way.

Courtney Clenney Having a hard time figuring where this person stands on the smoking issue ... Yesterday, of course, was the second meeting of the City Smoking Ordinance Special Ad-Hoc Committee -- and it was supposed to be the final one before the briefing on December 3, when the entire council i ... More >>

Council Committee Moves Toward Smoking Smackdown. Could Be Worse.

Wait, Even the Trinity Project Model Isn't Done Yet? And It Took Two Years?

Ross for Mess: How We Got Into This Renaming Thing in the First Place

Oh, God, Make It Stop; And Other More Important Notes From Street Level

What's in a Nombre?

Diversity be damned. You want to rename Industrial Boulevard, it better "market" the city.

Towing the Line at City Hall

Angela Hunt Can Be Very Sarcastic

Council Votes Yup-Yup on City-Owned Convention Center Hotel

Spending $5 Million on a Parking Garage No One Will Use? That's So Dallas.

Giving Joyce Foreman a Break

Dallas City Council Members Are Wusses

We need a pit bull. They give us a poodle.

Deep Addison

City Council votes to keep Deep Ellum alive for now

Get On the Bus As Some City Council Members Tour the Trinity River -- For, Um, Like, the Very First Time?

Tom Leppert: Predictable and Classy

Laura Miller and Alex Krieger Are "Astounded" and "Outraged."

Multi-Culti

Making folks from everywhere feel at home in Big D

Bill Richardson's Coming to Town. He Wants Your Money. Who Doesn't?

A Blog Item Sure to Drive Sharon Boyd Crazy

Green is the New Mauve

The Bawl at City Hall

Four More Years? Well...

Zoo-hoo

Kick Down

A silly boss--not civil service--is the problem with the city's code department

Royal Police

Kunkle must teach them to spell d-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y

Moby DEA

Call me Ishmael. Just give me the damn audit!

Fake Justice

What you get when a fake panel investigates fake drugs

Best Council Babe

Dr. Elba Garcia

Letters

Can't Boogie No More

Club owners fear the city may put a stop to dancing the night away

No. 1 With a Bullet

Welcome to America's crime capital

Eeek, the Facts!

The city council fears mice in corners whispering truth

Helter Shelter

The city's animal control efforts are running wild, but that's not the critters' fault. It's a people problem. The question now is, will Dallas residents pay to fix it?

Dallas to Bush: Drop Dead

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

Letters

Pave the Damn Street; Lipscomb's Last Hope; Oak Cliff's Secret

Brave New City

What if people downtown actually got smart?