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"Tired of Being Ignored and Insulted," Paul Quinn Students Round Up Powerful and Familiar Faces for City Hall Protest

Photo by Danny HurleyPaul Quinn College President Michael J. Sorrell at the flow-control protest before the council's vote last month​New Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is in for the first serious grassroots challenge to his leadership -- a march on City Hall announced today by a broad-based coalition ... More >>

"Raising Hell Till Heaven Comes": At Sunday's Fund-Raising Rally For John Wiley Price

​Yesterday's "Justice for John" event at the St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of "John! John! John!" before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defen ... More >>

Praying to JC for JWP: Attending the South Dallas Rally for John Wiley Price

Photo by Brantley Hargrove​At Kirkwood Temple C.M.E. Church last night, 120 or so congregants petitioned an Ecclesiastical Court on behalf of a decidedly earthly cause: that of embattledDallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the target of a sweeping FBI probe. Matrons fanned themselves ... More >>

Dallas' Next Mayor Will Face Tough Budget Choices. Too Bad The Candidates Won't Talk About Them.

Welcome To The Dull House

New Anti-Poverty Coalition to Demand Dallas City Hall Zone Payday Lenders Out of Business

​Been trying to reach council member Jerry Allen ever since yesterday; no luck so far. But we know where he'll be at 3 today: in the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, standing beside Dr. Frederick Haynes and Rev. Gerald Britt at an anti-payday lender press conference on behalf of the Anti-Poverty Coa ... More >>

Dwaine Caraway Says He's Quite Ready to Take Over as Mayor If Tom Leppert Resigns

Photo by Sam MertenTom Leppert, Ron Natinsky and Dwaine Caraway​The probability that Mayor Tom Leppert finishes his term before launching a U.S. Senate campaign is about the same as Jerry Jones relinquishing his role as general manager. In other words, it ain't happening. Clearly, Leppert want ... More >>

The Oft-Heated Back-and-Forth at Last Night's Sparsely Attended Watkins-Clancy Showdown

Photos by Sam Merten​Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins accused Republican challenger Danny Clancy of lying and attempting to be the next Henry Wade at a debate last night at Friendship-West Baptist Church in South Dallas, where Watkins and his family attend church. While Watkins cl ... More >>

Liveblogging Today's Council Meeting During Which It'll Vote on FY2010-11 Budget

Friendship-West's Dr. Frederick Haynes, a longtime Leppert ally, spoke in favor of a tax hike: "We cannot ride first class without paying for it."​Hey y'all. I rode the elevator up to City Council Chambers this morning with Carolyn Davis, who is doing this whole Jackie O thing in a fun-collared ... More >>

City Attorney Tom Perkins Responds to Beer, Wine Referendum Foes' Writ: "The Courts Should Not Intervene in an Ongoing Election."

Patrick MichelsDallas City Attorney Tom Perkins​A couple of weeks back we mentioned that Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals Justice Elizabeth Lang-Miers ordered the city of Dallas to respond by no later than July 19 to attorney Andy Siegel's writ of mandamus in which he claims, among other thi ... More >>

Writ Now Filed, Dallas Attorney Offers Many Reasons Why He's Against Wet-Dry Election

Flickr user: Robert Hruzek​Our weekly rock-and-roll-and send-off will have to wait till tomorrow morning, as, at long last, Andy Siegel has filed that long-promised writ of mandamus in which he contends that the organization formerly known as Progress Dallas didn't get enough valid signatures to c ... More >>

Betty Culbreath Sees Latest Brouhaha Between Caraway and Hill as Indictment of 14-1

Betty Culbreath​One week ago today, Shawn Williams at Dallas South News broke the news that council member Vonciel Jones Hill sent Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway a memo telling him to stay the hell out of her district, which would be District 5. Caraway, chairman of the council's Public Safety Commi ... More >>

Tonight, Craig Watkins and John Wiley Price Will Duke It Out Over County Budget Cuts

​It may not be election time, but tonight at 7, two politicians will duke it out at Friendship-West Baptist Church: In this corner ... Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. And in this corner ... Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price -- well, maybe as the commish has been extended a ... More >>

Before the Prayer Vigil, South Dallas Ministers Ask Eric Holder to Review Don Hill's Case

Hey, Don Hill, how many weekdays left till your trial starts, anyway?And the press releases keep coming from the Don Hill camp: Only a few days after inviting us to a Sunday-eve prayer vigil for Don Hill and Sheila Farrington in advance of Monday's start date in the City Hall corruption case, Ken Ca ... More >>

So Help You God, Don Hill

Hey, Don Hill, who just joined your legal defense team? You don't say.Earlier this afternoon, Ken Carter at Focus Communications sent along an invite to a Sunday-night prayer vigil in front of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse -- where, so happens, one week from today former Dallas Ma ... More >>

JWP: "We Need to Vote No to Jim Crow."

Sam MertenA crowd of approximately 75 Vote No'ers gathered in front of City Hall this afternoon in support of Mayor Tom Leppert and the convention center hotel; among them were Dr. Frederick Haynes of Friendship-West Baptist Church, former council member Ed Oakley, county commissioner John Wiley Pri ... More >>

Something Doesn't Feel Wright?

Rev. Wright Will Actually Be in Dallas This Weekend, Not Fort Worth

The Race to Do the Wright Thing

Obama Rally: Still Room Left

The Choir Boy Mayor

What Tom Leppert's campaign tells you about Tom Leppert

Last Men Standing

Leppert and Oakley show that what you think about Dallas politics could be wrong

Don Hill Goes Down the River with Sam Coats and Angela Hunt. Say What?

Slow Out the Gate

Don Hill's late decision to run for mayor could benefit other candidates

Don't You Wish Your Mayor Was Hot Like Me

Dallas' mayoral wannabes are all nice guys. Where's the fun in that?

Tongue Twisted

A Spanish-language requirement reopens old wounds at DISD

The "Doctor" Is In

School board candidate Richard Evans has a checkered past, a mail-order degree, and a confrontational manner. But many city leaders think he's the best man for the job.

U.S. Reprehensible

Eddie Bernice Johnson has burned through more than 50 staffers during her four years in Congress. She says she's just demanding. They say she's a tyrant.