View Larger MapThis council meeting leftover, which is no small morsel: Mayor Tom Leppert was vehemently against granting Augustine Ekukpe a specific use permit to open a bar called Neighborhood Sports Cafe on South Lamar Street, between Starks Avenue and Haven Street. Said the mayor during the council's Wednesday meeting, "If we look to the future in these neighborhoods where we want to see good things happen, at some point we need to make calls" against allowing permits for "alcoholic beverage
Dallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsLarry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries, posted this announcement to his blog this a.m.: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will deliver the keynote address at this year's 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast, set for April 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. As James notes, his organization has a particular interest in Watkins's work exonerating the wrongly imprisoned: CDM's Rev. Gerald Britt, the vice president of