John Loza

"Please, Respect": Council Seems to Settle on Combo Platter During Redistricting Meeting

Photo by Anna MerlanRoy Williams, whose lawsuit helped lead to 14-1, addresses the council during Saturday's redistricting meeting.​As the redistricting process goes on (and on and on), you might expect the public to become less involved, especially when a meeting takes place late on a college-foo ... More >>

Gosh, We're Just Too Trusting, or: The Dallas Morning News's Embarrassing Confession

​Oh, well, who the hell knows? Who will ever know why The Dallas Morning News turned into an Iron Curtain-style propagandist Pravda sheet in 2007 when it was so eager to see Angela Hunt's Trinity River referendum defeated? Now they say they were seduced: "This newspaper -- and likely plenty o ... More >>

Minority Council Members Blast Mayor For Not Supporting Love Field Contract Extensions

Photos by Sam Merten"Enough is truly enough," said Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway at today's press conference before explaining why he and Mayor Tom Leppert are on opposite sides.​The Dallas City Council's seven minority council members launched a counterattack this afternoon against Mayor Tom L ... More >>

Before She's Required to Disclose Her Lobbying Efforts, We Take a Look-See at What Carol Reed's Banked From Mayor Leppert

Mark GrahamSure, Woodlief's Allyn Media has brought in about seven times the amount Reed has from Tom Leppert-related campaigns, but Reed remains the queen of consulting.As the city council continues to discuss ethics reform in the aftermath of 23 guilty verdicts in the Dallas City Hall corruption t ... More >>

Rasansky Says Supporting Leppert Was His Biggest Regret, Explains Support of Trinity River Toll Road And Much, Much More

Sam MertenAfter serving eight years as a city plan commissioner and another eight as a council member representing some of North Dallas's more upscale neighborhoods, 72-year-old Mitchell Rasansky is no longer roaming City Hall when he's most needed. Replaced last month by Ann Margolin because of ter ... More >>

Hunt Uses Low Voting Success to Rally Supporters at Post-Inauguration Lunch

Sam MertenAfter this morning's city council inauguration, Angela Hunt celebrated her third term with a lunch at the Stoneleigh Hotel, where approximately 100 invited guests watched her open a copy of today's Dallas Morning News. She read from Dave Levinthal's article about the council members' voti ... More >>

Mo Money Mo Problems: Leppert's Got Some "Good News" for the Council About Trinity

Sam Merten In February, Mayor Tom Leppert and Kevin Craig of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- and tomorrow, they're holding a repeat performance Earlier tonight, a few of us local media members found in our respective in-boxes a draft of remarks Mayor Tom Leppert is expected to deliver Mo ... More >>

Wednesday Morning Wake and Bake

The City's New No-Tell Hotel

Who Doesn't Want to Be Sheriff?

Gunfight at the Trinity

The biggest shoot-out in Dallas' political history

Politicians Uniting Behind the Trinity Toll Road

Job Seeker

Bah Hum-Buzz

Buzz gets his jollies keeping tabs on 2005's naughty and nice guys. OK, mostly naughty.

Mayorzilla

Inside the monster battle over strong mayor

Bad Medicine

Plus: Big Idea

Fifteen Stooges

The Dallas City Council does a comedy campaign for its critics

Going Deep

The Cowboys want to move back to Fair Park--so, there goes the neighborhood?

Disposable Cops

Scratched or defective? Heave 'em and get new ones.

Crack Alley

A Dallas neighborhood fights crime using placards and protests

Secret Sharer

Bolton's dirty laundry--if he had any--stays in the hamper

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

Money, Honey

That's all the city council cares about in the big debate over downtown development

Dallas to Bush: Drop Dead

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

Being Avi Adelman

One man fights bars on Lower Greenville, while others urge compromise

White Rampage

Police Chief Terrell Bolton threatens a riot, but he's got the wrong folks in mind

Cora! Cora! Cora!

Artistic director Cora Cardona's style--passionate, arrogant, riveting, domineering--makes Teatro Dallas special and her enemies livid

Night Moves

Bachman Lake residents say a new business is moving into their neighborhood--hookers

This Old House

Historic preservationists sift through the sawdust of the great closet debate

Down on the farm

The Farmer's Market is finally turning a profit, and the city has plans to make it even better. So why isn't everyone happy?

Pecked to death

During a marathon meeting, Dallas City Council guts a proposed ethics code

Bolton's blues

Dallas' new police Chief Terrell Bolton walks through a minefield as he tries to reshape the department. His strategy? Wear combat boots.

Buzz

Mr. Conflict; Not easy getting green

Buzz

Taking sides; This blows; Hard time

Sex, drugs, and city council

Federal court records reveal the connection between city council ethics and dry-humping

Poor vs. poorer

Plans for an expanded Roseland Homes spark a protest in a working-class neighborhood near Cityplace

Hot and bothered

The city's ordinance governing topless clubs is a joke. But Bachman Lake-area residents are determined to get rid of the clubs by any means necessary.

Raise high the roof

A battle Uptown targets the city for bending its own rules

Strikes and spares

Will Donna Blumer and Laura Miller ever join the mayor's team? Only if they rent shoes.

Buzz

On holy ground

The fight over St. Ann's snares the city, Hispanics, and the Catholic diocese in a battle that tests Dallas' commitment to preserving its past

Give her what she wants

Olympics committee finds Dallas boosters' attitudes toward our city council a little scary

Buzz

Parting shots

As Laura Miller rides off to tilt at political windmills, we recall some of her choicest words

Letters

X marks the spot

A plan to rename Oakland Avenue for Malcolm X raises cries of racism in Deep Ellum

Road warriors

East Dallas residents rally to buy time against Haskell Avenue bulldozers

Mr. Nobody

Bill Simpson is eager to dig up dirt on you. He'll even write down your license plate number if you visit a topless bar. But the self-appointed guardian of Dallas morals doesn't want you to know anything about him.