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Police: Man Refuses to Move His Car from Middle of Oak Cliff Street, Shoots Other Man in the Groin for Asking

Kendric Littles, 33, almost made it home safely last night. Just before 1 a.m., he was headed back to his Oak Cliff home when, less than a block from his house, he came upon a blue 2012 Hyundai parked in the middle of the street. The car was blocking the road, meaning Littles couldn't get home. So ... More >>

A DART Police Officer Trainee Shot Himself in the Leg This Morning

DART's police force may spend more of its time tracking down fare jumpers than a typical law enforcement agency, but they are real, licensed peace officers with all the associated powers. Like carrying firearms. A DART police trainee was learning how to use his this morning at DART PD's Corinth Str ... More >>

A Dallas Woman Shot at Her Husband as He Held Their 3-Month-Old Child Yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, at the mobile home they share on Lawson Road in the Rylie neighborhood of Dallas, 52-year-old Warren Miller and his wife began to argue. At issue, police say, was $20 that had been left in the living room. The argument escalated into something more serious when police say the w ... More >>

Oak Cliff Streetcar Poised to Get $30 Million, Connect to Convention Center and Bishop Arts

When Jason Roberts and his crew at the Oak Cliff Transit Authority first began trying to fund a streetcar line connect downtown with Oak Cliff, they asked the feds for around $48 million. They got only half of that. They've scraped together a bit more funding from various sources, but not enough to ... More >>

DNA Links Man in County Jail to Halloween Mask Found at South Dallas Murder Scene

More than three years ago, a woman Dallas police will not identify for her safety returned to her home on Frio Drive in South Dallas. A 36-year-old man named Hashim Anderson was there when she went to bed. At around 12:15 a.m., she jolted awake to "knocking noises and dogs barking." She peered out o ... More >>

Oak Cliffers Say Methodist Hospital Killed a Plan to Make Streets More Bike-Friendly

Update at 3:46 p.m.Methodist says nuh uh. Spokeswoman Sandra Minatra sends word via email: Thanks for contacting us for a response to the release of a statement by a small subset of members of the Oak Cliff Gateway committee. It is our understanding that the full recommendations of the committee h ... More >>

John Husband, 21, Was Shot in the Back by Dallas Police in Oak Cliff Over the Weekend

Update at 2:36 p.m.:Police have posted a more detailed account of the shooting on their Facebook page: On June 2, 2012 John Robert Husband, 02/12/1991, was observed by Dallas Police Officer Leland Limbaugh #10051 driving into the Spring Ridge Apartments at 3600 Folklore Trail without signaling his ... More >>

Michael Sorrell Revived Paul Quinn College (and Almost Died Doing It)

Dallas' only historically black college was on the brink of collapse. Now the students are protesters, the football field is a farm and the president is the star.

Can City Council Tell the Difference Between a Photo Op and a Hole in the Ground?

Drive around Dallas -- not the suburbs, Dallas -- and what do you see? You see a nice kind of new well-kept Dallas toward the northern end of the city, with a few glitches here and there. But anywhere south of Mockingbird you're likely to see a bunch of crapped-out streets and busted curbs. If you g ... More >>

Union Station-to-Oak Cliff Streetcar Line Gets an Additional $3 Million From the Feds

Current Photo By Alex Scott/Historic Photo ©Dallas Historical Society​In February 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the downtown Dallas streetcar project, then expected to run around $58 million, would get a huge hunk of its funding from the feds -- $23 million, to be pr ... More >>

Clang, Clang, Crunch: The Truth About Streetcars

Why should Dallas build a tiny, inefficient streetcar line when it's broke? Because trolleys are groovy.

DART's CFO and Linda Koop Talk About How Streetcars Will Be Funded and When They'll Operate (Weekdays Only, Unless ...)

This is for sale right now on eBay. Seven bids so far, up to $31, 23 hours left. Cheaper than a time machine.​So. David Leininger, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's chief financial officer, and council member Linda Koop just called to talk -- what else? -- streetcars, on both the DART board and city cou ... More >>

All Aboard For Your Latest Downtown-to-Oak Cliff Streetcar Update

Photo by Patrick MichelsThe council will take one more look at the Kinkisharyo ameriTRAM streetcar on Monday.​On Monday the city council's Transportation and Environment Committee will devote its entire meeting to the subject of streetcars. In fact, there's a field trip involved, as council member ... More >>

Getting Earthy In the O.C.

How the Love Field People Mover Project Fits Into Downtown-to-Oak Cliff Streetcar Project

Click to embiggen the current streetcar project alignment, which runs all of 1.6 miles​Here's a council committee briefing worth keeping an eye on today: Streetcar Planning Update, always a topic of interest but even more so as the Federal Transit Administration revenue-service deadline barrels do ... More >>

City's Going to Need Private-Sector Partners to Design, Build, Operate and Maintain Streetcars

​As we saw this morning, the city's having enough problems funding that 1.6-mile streetcar starter line from Union Station to Methodist Hospital (or close to). So how does it expect to stretch track over more than 40 miles in and three miles around downtown Dallas, which is the ultimate goal? Easy ... More >>

For Sale: Three Acres on the Oak Cliff Side of the Trinity, Where Those Cool Townhomes Are

​We took the long way to Oak Cliff last weekend, turning off the Houston Street Viaduct on to Greenbriar Lane, which runs parallel to the Trinity River. No particular reason, just in no particular rush. It was at that point we found ourselves amongst a forest of sleek metal-n-wood townhomes, other ... More >>

Trifecta of Dallas Mayoral Candidates Offers Little Substance at First Forum

Photos by Sam MertenThe three announced mayoral candidates -- Ron Natinsky, Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle -- squared off for the first time last night in North Oak Cliff.​Although he typically exhibits a dry temperament, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle nabbed some much-needed laughs f ... More >>

Neumann and Griggs Clash Over Gas Drilling, Walmart, Cliff Manor and Trinity Toll Road

Photos by Sam MertenTwo-term incumbent city council member Dave Neumann and political newbie Scott Griggs at last night's debate in North Oak Cliff.​Following the mayoral forum held last night at Methodist Hospital's Hitt Auditorium, District 3 city council candidate Scott Griggs and incumbent ... More >>

Jason Roberts's Thoughts on Last Night's Streetcar Town Hall at Methodist

​The city, North Central Texas Council of Governments and Dallas Area Rapid Transit held that streetcar town hall last night. Among those in attendance was Jason Roberts -- who, in addition to his myriad other titles and endeavors, is an Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member and the former head ... More >>

City's Chief Transpo Planner Talks Streetcars and Why First Downtown to Oak Cliff Line Is "Critical Spine" Of System of the Future

Dallas's first new streetcar line will run from Union Station to near Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff. At least, that's the plan at present.​I've been playing phone tag with Keith Manoy, the city's senior transportation planner and the point man for all things streetcar. It's understandable. He's ... More >>

Let Countdown Begin, As DART's Set to Award Streetcar System Planning Study Contract

David Spence/OakCliff.com​The Dallas City Council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit board will hold a joint meeting this morning during which they'll discuss, among other things, DART's long-term expansion plans, the planned Blue Line extension to the University of North Texas at Dallas campus and tha ... More >>

"The Much Anticipated Downtown Dallas Streetcar Project Is a Step Closer to Reality."

University of Texas at Arlington LibraryMain and Akard, circa 1953​That headline is the very first sentence in a press release from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration announcing that on Thursday, it and the North Central Texas Council of Governments finally signed the grant agreement that wil ... More >>

Plan Ahead: Streetcar Town Hall in Two Weeks

​No doubt City Hall will send out a release sooner or later, or post it to the City Secretary's open-meetings page, but we like to plan ahead. So, in case you missed the notice -- buried in tiny type at the bottom of Page 4B in the morning paper, right next to the El Centro ad -- there's a public ... More >>

UT Arlington To Set Up Shop In Oak Cliff

Daniel RodrigueBob Stimson​The Oak Cliff spirit of urban development and community outreach, which we are physically incapable of not writing about here in the paper and online, continues -- this time, with an urban planning storefront that's the result of a partnership between the Oak Cliff Chamb ... More >>

Further Proof, As Though It Were Needed, That the Cliff Manor Issue Is Still Roiling Along

Daniel RodrigueThe crowd trying to get into the Methodist Hospital auditorium for the Cliff Manor town hall several weeks ago​Apparently my column in this week's print edition has sparked some controversy (I just hate that, shy fellow that I am), especially a quote from developer David Spence to t ... More >>

Old Oak Cliff Conservation League Prez Makes Late-Hour Plea About Bishop/Davis Plan

​After "thousands of hours of discussion and debate," according to architect Rick Garza, head of the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study steering committee, the Dallas City Council will finally vote on the plan Wednesday. Bob Stimson, the former city council member who's  now president of ... More >>

Everybody Kept Their Cool at Last Night's Bishop/Davis Land Study Meeting at Methodist

Click to embiggen this "Davis Corridor Mixed Use Prototype" from the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study.​Organizers of last night's public hearing on the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study at Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff tried to head off any contentious quarreling and outbursts from th ... More >>

Tonight in Oak Cliff, the "First and Only" Meeting With City About Bishop/Davis Zoning Study

​It's been some three months since the City Plan Commission took up the Bishop Davis Land Use & Zoning Study, only to decide, against city staff's recommendation, to put the thing under advisement pending further public comment. Said commission chair Joe Alcantar, "We want to make sure that we ... More >>

Taking a Bike-Riding Tour of Oak Cliff's Community Gardens, No Permits Necessary

Andrea GrimesThe St. Cecilia's Community Garden was on yesterday's tour​Sunday afternoon, a horde of be-SPF'd cyclists gathered outside Eno's in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District to launch an extremely polite two-wheeled assault on Oak Cliff. The "Spring Has Sprung Garden Ride" was more of a summer ... More >>

No Victory for Vickery: Dallas Could End Up A Lot Less Colorful If DISD Moves Ahead With Plans For a New O.M. Roberts

Photos by Daniel Rodrigue​Yesterday afternoon, before heading to the board meeting at Dallas Independent School District's Ross Avenue HQ, we stopped by Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse -- the lone business that DISD's seeking to condemn as it moves ahead with plans for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary S ... More >>

Notes from Last Night's Methodist Hospital Meeting, or: Hey, Oak Cliff, You're So Great. Why Are You So Great?

Daniel RodrigueBob Stimson and Schutze find common ground: Oak Cliff kicks ass.​The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce offered up a smorgasbord of presentations last night focusing on various initiatives from parks and the arts to bicycles and trolleys, and the community turned out in droves. An es ... More >>

In North Oak Cliff They Know You Can't Fight City Hall, But You Can Bike Around It

Oak Cliff Transit Authority Hopes City Will Still Consider Streetcars on Continental Bridge

​Like we said Friday, once upon a time the city had hoped to turn the Continental Bridge into a streetcar-pedestrian park mash-up -- that conceptual rendering you see above didn't come outta nowhere. But one anonymous $10-million donation later, and, as Jim noted upon his return from City Hall yes ... More >>

So, That Dallas Streetcar Grant Application? It's Really the Oak Cliff Transit Authority, Sorry.

Courtesy the Oak Cliff Transit AuthorityOne of the original streetcars that ran through Oak Cliff long, long agoJason Roberts -- a Happy Bullet, co-founder of the Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater-rehabber and, for the purposes of this item, Oak Cliff Transit Authority board member -- sends word that th ... More >>

Crazy Fish May Redefine Computer Industry

He claims to have invented e-mail. He holds a world skydiving record. But his current invention promises to top them all

Fog of War

A group of veterans says John Kerry stretches the truth about his Vietnam service. Who can you believe? Who knows?

Hercules unchained

Many mistakes were made the day a 340-pound gorilla got loose at the Dallas Zoo. One keeper almost paid for them with her life. But should the deputy zoo director have paid for them with his career?

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