Mary Poss

Tom Leppert is Moving, We're Just Not Sure to Where

Tom Leppert, you might have notice, did not do terribly well in his quest for U.S. Senate. He lost. Got trounced, even. Not Craig James trounced, but defeated rather handily. So he's not going to Washington, but he is going somewhere. On the same day voters go to the polls to choose between one of L ... More >>

Endorsements Aplenty For Ron Natinsky, Including Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Who Says There's No Time to Learn About Anyone Else

Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway asked mayoral candidate Ron Natinksy to put an endorsement sticker on his blazer this afternoon.​Mayor Dwaine Caraway and 11 current and former council members endorsed council member Ron Natinksy for mayor this afternoon at City Hall Plaza. Caraway urg ... More >>

Mayor Dwaine Caraway's "Calling a New Play"

Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway, his wife and council member Dave Neumann this morning at the City Hall Flag Room.​Just minutes before presiding over his first meeting as the city's newly minted mayor, Dwaine Caraway assured a group of around 150 folks gathered for a light breakfast i ... More >>

Who'd Be Mayor If Leppert Left Early? And, Why Would Leppert Do It?

Brian Harkin Is Dwaine Caraway positioning himself as Leppert's replacement? While speaking with one of Mayor Tom Leppert's consultants last month, I asked if Leppert was considering running for Kay Bailey Hutchison's senate seat. At that point, I heard he was contemplating the political leap from ... More >>

Edward Okpa on Why He's Not on DART Board. A Hint: Um, "Al Lipscomb"?

Jim Schutze Never Forgets That 400-Square-Foot Closet on Swiss. We Mean, Never.

The Former Mayor Pro Tem Would Be Delighted to Sell You a New (Or Very Old) House

Darrell Jordan's Gonna Be Mayor

These Guns for Hire

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Letters

Doo-doo

Mary Poss sure stepped in some, didn't she?

Busy Schedule

NextStage has a full dance card

Saddam and City Bonds

Is this really the best possible moment for half a billion in bonds?

Wick's End

Plus: Anger Displacement

Mary's Scarlet Letter

Poss needs to pony up details on her ethics finding

Paradise Lost

Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves

Catfight!

Laura, Mary says you're a phony! Now now, girls.

No Smoking Gun

The new smoking ban will work--if no one lights up

Smells Like Defunct Team Spirit

Plus: Sack of Kittens, Trade Bait

Eeek, the Facts!

The city council fears mice in corners whispering truth

Angry Cops

Letters from October 24

Raise Taxes Now

Plus: Fast and Dumb, Warped Criticism, Recycling Works

Cain't Say No

Girls and boys of the city council get "in trouble"

Survival of the Flattest

Maybe charter reform could at least get someone up off the floor at Dallas City Hall

The Scarlet Letter

The Dallas City Council is about to mark itself for life with its vote on the Palladium deal

Money, Honey

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

Laura and the Little People

The city manager system prepares a million tiny snares to defend against the monster mayor

The Envelope, Please

And the Tom Dunning staff member who has been subpoenaed to the grand jury is...

Dallas to Bush: Drop Dead

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

It's Her Nature, Stupid!

With Laura Miller as mayor and City Hall in ruins, at least we'd get some fun out of the deal

Crocodile Tears

City Hall is sorry it can't help the White Rock water main victims... or anybody else, for that matter

Buzz

Disorderly retreat

Legal Learning Differences

Somebody on the Dallas City Council skipped school the day they taught the U.S. Constitution

Dirty Pictures

The city will go to great lengths to keep you from seeing women having sex with trees

Flood Relief

A proposal for public potties in Dallas builds steam

The old switcheroo

What happens when you no longer need the levee taxpayers voted to pay for? Why, you just spend the money on some other big dumb project.

Buzz

The shallow end; All the news that fits; Heart of darkness

The girl can't help it

Laura Miller says she'd "love" to run for mayor

Buzz

Paid endorsement; Tagged; Foul ball

Busted

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

Strikes and spares

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

Taking It to the Street

Want to get elected to city council in southern Dallas? Forget the race card and patch that pothole.

Look back in confusion

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

Peep-hole power

It's a scary world out there, but someone's gotta keep it under control. Jim Schutze uncovers the secret agony of the Dallas Citizens Council.

Tension Fund

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

Never mind

The public can have some say on the site for a new cultural center. But not too much.

What a mandate

The votes are in, and Donna Blumer lives on

Artful dodger

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

'M' is for mad as hell

Petty politics detour the M Streets traffic plan