John Ware

Sorry, Rest of Dallas, Your Name is Not on the Guest List

Be Ware: Mayor Tom Leppert's Trying to Get the Former City Manager on DART's Big Board

Meet the New DART Board Chair

Where, Oh, Ware is Mayor Tom's Good Sense?

Sinking Ship? What Sinking Ship?

Kicking a Dead Horse: Just Why's the City Council Trying to Save Reunion Arena, Anyway?

Whose city is it, anyway?

Arena documents, discussions remain hidden from the public

Who's the boss?

Council needs to take charge in arena debate

Buzz

Council needs to take charge in arena debate

The Arena Papers

Inside the secret City Hall files: A tale of dupes and deception

BeloWatch

Inside the secret City Hall files: A tale of dupes and deception

Another view

What City Hall isn't willing to hear about the new arena

Arena stonewalling

Amid lies, John Ware's moment of truth is here

Letters

Amid lies, John Ware's moment of truth is here

Desperate dealing

City scrambles to finance arena privately--and steal racetrack back from Fort Worth

Who ya gonna call?

City Hall's top brass use taxpayer-provided mobile phones to call sweethearts, power brokers, and Pizza Hut.

None of your business?

Closed council sessions scorn open-meetings law

Wide open town

Unlike Big D, Houston thrives on open government

Lies on Tape

Secret city documents expose arena-study coverup at City Hall.

Behind closed doors

What the council says in secret.

Blood sport

There are two to blame for the Kirk-Fielding feud

Arena games

City Hall finds $35 million--and toys with turning Reunion into a reflecting pool

Demolition Man

How lone crusader Joe Burkleo keeps the city's wrecking ball swinging

Private dealing

How Ron Kirk killed the public arena briefing

Quarterback sneak

How Ron Kirk secretly pulled the strings in city's Big 12 deal

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Buzz

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Artful dodger

Ray Nasher wants to give the city his sculptures, but first there's a small zoning matter

Tension Fund

Concerns about the soundness of the city's retirement fund are buried in a political mud fight

Priced to sell out

City Manager John Ware ramrods a patched-together arena deal

Flying blind

With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet

Letters

With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet

Don't fence him in

City Manager John Ware's neighbors want him to take a break from arena shilling and fix his fence

Mr. Mayor, Meet Your Nightmare

Frustrated, fed up, and ready to fight, Laura Miller trades muckraking for a run at City Hall

Buzz

Frustrated, fed up, and ready to fight, Laura Miller trades muckraking for a run at City Hall

Parting shots

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

City Hall's Slam-Dunk Gang

Quick--someone take a pulse. The Dallas City Council hasn't peeped in months. And John Ware and Ron Kirk are looking awfully well-fed.

Buzz

Quick--someone take a pulse. The Dallas City Council hasn't peeped in months. And John Ware and Ron Kirk are looking awfully well-fed.

Letters

Quick--someone take a pulse. The Dallas City Council hasn't peeped in months. And John Ware and Ron Kirk are looking awfully well-fed.

Raw deal

If John Ware, Ray Hunt, and Bill Clements have their way, Dallas taxpayers may foot the bill for turning 2,200 acres of Kaufman County lakefront property into a golf course

Letters

If John Ware, Ray Hunt, and Bill Clements have their way, Dallas taxpayers may foot the bill for turning 2,200 acres of Kaufman County lakefront property into a golf course

Look back in confusion

Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

DISD Parents Unite and Take Back Your Schools From the Money Guys.

Despite the $84 million shortfall and the axing of 550 teachers, it's business as usual at DISD headquarters

Ethical dilemma

It was reformers vs. the business-as-usual crowd on Dallas' ethics task force. Somehow the reformers won. Sort of.

Wolf? What wolf?

A humongous lawsuit knocks on the door at City Hall, and we're gonna end up paying--one way or the other

Sticker Shock

Our bill finally comes in for the Kirk/Ware era

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?

Busted

Even in these boom times, Dallas is broke, thanks to a city council that has been giving away the store

BeloWatch

Even in these boom times, Dallas is broke, thanks to a city council that has been giving away the store

The scapegoat

A mid-level staffer bears the brunt of a sleazy City Hall coverup