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Whistleblower: For Love or Money?

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

Angela Hunt Sends Wick Allison a Note; Smelled a Little Like Vanilla Maybe?

Dallas, Detroit -- What's the Dif?

It's Official: We're a "Major Disaster"

Enquiring Mind

Eddie Bernice Johnson's in the "Vote No!" Choir. Now, She Just Has to Learn the Words to the Song.

The Other Three Indictments

DISD Now $316,000 Lighter

Fantroy, Guilty as Charged

Turns Out, Buying a Scapegoat Is Much Cheaper Than You'd Think

Blah, blah

The new voodoo

Golden years

Copping out

Falling into The Gap

Nasty and negative

What Remains of Federal Funds Intended for Motorsports Museum Will Now Go Toward MLK Boulevard "Revitalization Program"

View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we've written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you see above -- more or less ... More >>

Enough is enough

View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we've written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you see above -- more or less ... More >>

One of their own

View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we've written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you see above -- more or less ... More >>

Says Rick Perry: I'm "Resisting Further Government Intrusion" and Saying No to $500 Mil in Unemployment Insurance

Just arrived in Austin, only to find in my in-box, oh, 'bout a dozen Friends' links to either Governor Rick Perry's speech down in Houston or the Burnt Orange Report's compendium of reactions to said speech. As you may know by now, the governor is saying no to more than $500 million in unemployment ... More >>

Haggling Over Who Collects Late Child Support Payments Could Leave Some Kids Without

Just arrived in Austin, only to find in my in-box, oh, 'bout a dozen Friends' links to either Governor Rick Perry's speech down in Houston or the Burnt Orange Report's compendium of reactions to said speech. As you may know by now, the governor is saying no to more than $500 million in unemployment ... More >>

Put Out

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

Drug Money

Dallas County's innovative DIVERT court program is caught in a budget squeeze

Trashy Dreams

The city hopes its new "eco-park" will mean jobs and business. That may take some luck.

Taken to Task

DPS to oversee state drug forces troubled by abuses

Al Strikes Back

Lipscomb appeal finds a receptive audience in New Orleans

Oswald's folly

The city wants us to spend millions for a buddy-buddy deal at the Texas Theater

DOJ to Dallas ISD: Pay Up. And Say Adios to $150 Million in Federal Funding Requests.

This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

Is the City of Dallas Really Going Green, Or Just Talking Till It's Blue in the Face?

The city of Dallas has made much of its efforts to "build a greener city" ... which means what, exactly? That, more or less, was the question posed earlier this week during a confab at the downtown Dallas library during a program billed as a dialogue on the "green economy," a catchphrase that's beco ... More >>

Veterans Affairs Kills UT Southwestern's Gulf War Syndrome Research Contract

Dr. Robert Haley​A little more than one month after a report by Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General accused epidemiologist and longtime Gulf War Syndrome researcher Robert Haley and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of wasting millions and failing to live up to ... More >>

City Receives Some Clean Cities Stimulus Money, But None For Economic Development

​On Friday, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm informed Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council, via memo, that the city's getting around $3 million in Clean Cities stimulus money to, among other things, "enhance fueling infrastructure, retrofit city vehicles and assist in the provision of traini ... More >>

Governor Perry Likes the Stimulus Package Now? What Happened to the Tea Party?

Danny FulgencioPerry fields questions from reporters today in Grand Hall at Union Station.The land of opportunity exists in America, and it's right here in Texas. At least, that's what Governor Rick Perry told nearly 200 folks gathered this afternoon at Union Station for the Texas Economic Developme ... More >>

DISD May Still Get to Raze Historic Church, But Not Before Turning Over Financial Records

From left: Michael Amonett of OOCCL, Jason Roberts of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff and attorney John McCall Jr. after today's hearing​Schutze is right -- they ought to trademark it, "The Oak Cliff Way." Now, it's more than likely the  Old Oak Cliff Conservation League won't stop the Dallas Indepen ... More >>

Just How in the Heck Does the City Decide How to Spend Federal CDBG Money Anyway?

​Tomorrow, the city council will take a long, hard look at how federal community development block grants are spent -- or, in this case, not. According to the briefing document, there are 109  already approved projects and programs still sitting on $7 million in federal money that was suppose ... More >>

Trolley Issue Shifts Political Paradigm to North Oak Cliff; How Will City Hall React?

Courtesy the Oak Cliff Transit Authority​It will be really interesting to see how city staff handles this week's stunning announcement of a $23 million federal grant to fund a trolley connecting downtown with North Oak Cliff. This is not at all where the staff wanted to go. Last October I cov ... More >>

Dallas ISD Investigators Find Hostile Work Environment (And, Maybe, the Worst ... Boss ... Ever)

Not Maria Silva -- but close. Very close, according to a DISD report.​Allen Gwinn over at www.dallas.org has posted a report from DISD's Office of Professional Responsibility about its investigation of Maria C. Silva, former manager of the district's Adult Basic Education Department. The typical j ... More >>