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June 12, 2013
The City Council Spent Its Morning Talking About Gay Marriage, but Voting on It Would Have Been a Waste of Time
LGBT activists and allies showed up early at City Hall this morning, all wearing red. One by one, they stepped to the microphone and chastised the Dallas City Council for its epic wuss-out on a marriage and workplace equality resolution. "Leadership requires action, not just words," said Resource C ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2013
Strong Mayor: Mike Rawlings Loses the Game but Wins the Crowd at Literacy Center Benefit
Damn. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings got me last night. I resisted, but he got me. Anyway, I finally found the answer to a question that has long nagged me. When he does that affable dumb jock routine? Yeah. He's about to take you for a whirlwind visit to the cleaners. My wife was already falling out ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2013
At the Mayor's Rally Against Domestic Violence, Big Promises and Some Mixed Messages
The couple started arguing on Saturday, around 3 in the morning, in a house near Fair Park. The man told the woman he hadn't forgotten their past arguments, all the times she had "disrespected" him. He shoved his palm hard against her face and forced her down against a desk. She fought him, pushing ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2013
After Years of Delay, Developers Finally Start Work on Sylvan Thirty
It was way back in December 2011, in the wake of a seemingly endless series of public hearings and community meetings, that the Dallas City Council gave its blessing to the Sylvan Thirty development in West Dallas and Mayor Mike Rawlings gave the command: "Let's let the dirt fly." Finally, 15 month ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
Mayor Rawlings Says Real Men Don't Hit Women. They Don't Beat on Gays Either.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has scored points in disparate places with his man's man campaign against woman-beating, from New York Magazine to the metro page of today's Dallas Morning News -- all of it much deserved, if you ask me. A guy like Rawlings, Class of '76 at Boston College where he playe ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
New York Magazine Fawns Over the Manliness of Dallas' "Man's-Man Mayor," Mike Rawlings
Mayor Mike Rawlings' recently launched crusade against domestic violence has been earning praise from local media since it was announced it a couple of months ago. Now, after traveling to the Big Apple to speak on the issue alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Michael Bolton, he's gathering attenti ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Mayor Rawlings Calls for Crusade Against Domestic Violence. There's No Shame in That.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is pushing a personal and public agenda against domestic violence, which used to be called wife-beating. Of course the TV news had to do a story about husband-beating to keep everything correct, and I'm against that, too, along with journalist-beating, French-people-beatin ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Mayor Mike Rawlings Wants 10,000 Men to Rally Against Domestic Abuse, Isn't Entirely Sure What Will Happen After That
This morning at the Dallas Museum of Art, Mayor Mike Rawlings, along with about 1,000 other men in suits sharing the stage, announced a new campaign dubbed "Men Against Abuse." The next stop on this tour of well-meaning gestures will be a celebrity-packed rally on March 23, which the mayor wants 10, ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2013
Mary Suhm's Drilling Memo Shows Typical City Hall Pattern: Decide, Then Pretend to Listen
So Mayor Mike Rawlings responded, sort of, to Schutze's post this morning about City Manager Mary Suhm's double-super-secret letter of understanding with gas drilling company Trinity East, in which she promised the city's staff would do its level best to get the company the permits it needs to drill ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2013
Mayor Rawlings: Obama's Gun Proposals "Are Solid and I Support Them."
Mayor Mike Rawlings said today that he's behind President Obama's push for new restrictions aimed at curbing gun violence. "We already say we can't own Stinger rockets. So the question is where does the line go? And the line being at semiautomatics is the right place," Rawlings told the Morning New ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2013
Mike Rawlings is Drowning in Cash, Bobby Abtahi Laps the Field, and Campaign News
Yesterday was the deadline for state and local candidates to report their fundraising totals for the last six months of 2012, which meant a flurry of last-minute clicks on the City Secretary's website. The reported figures first real glimpse at candidates' fundraising prowess and a suggestion of whi ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2013
Dallas City Employees Make "It Gets Better" Video, But What is Mike Rawlings Doing In It?
This week's edition of the Dallas Voice features a long article about the video you see above, an "It Gets Better"-themed compilation featuring a whole bunch of LGBT city of Dallas employees, including city spokesperson Frank Librio, assistant city manager Joey Zapata, asisstant city attorneys Melis ... More >>
Blogs
December 26, 2012
Conspiracy Theorists Will Leave Their Mark on Dallas' Kennedy Commemoration, at Least According to the Wall Street Journal
From the outset, Mayor Rawlings and the city of Dallas have made it clear that they intend to control the narrative on November 22, 2013 when they mark what they're simply calling The 50th. The 50th what? Never mind that. Just remember that this is about celebrating the life of a president, not dwel ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2012
Mayor Rawlings Says New Drilling Rules Are At Least Six Months Away. In the Meantime, Trinity East May Drill Under the Old Ones.
Yesterday afternoon, we were summoned down to City Hall via a text message from Paula Blackmon, Mayor Mike Rawlings' chief of staff. After several long months of silence, it appeared that there was finally going to be some semi-official word on the new regulations for gas drilling within Dallas city ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Judge Halts Dallas' Flow Control Plan, Basically Calls City Hall a Bunch of Liars
A federal judge has ruled that the City of Dallas pretty much lied about every single aspect of its so-called "flow-control" trash program. Judge Reed O'Connor granted a permanent injunction against a new city ordinance that would have forced commercial haulers to take all their trash to the city- ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2012
At State of the City Address, Rawlings Says Dallas Doing "Very Well, Bordering On Superb"
The first time I saw Mayor Mike Rawlings deliver a prepared speech, he talked about changing the culture of southern Dallas by shooting it with bullets of economic development, so I had high hopes for his lunchtime state of the city address today at the Sheraton downtown. Other than some mild name-d ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
As Minority Council Members Play the Race Card, the Mayor Goes All In on Court Reform
Maybe it is like watching them make sausage, but at least you have to give them a tip of the hat when they get the sausage right. The mayor and the Dallas City Council put themselves through a bruising debate yesterday on municipal court reform and in the end came up with the right answer, mostly. ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2012
Yes, There Was a Dancing Kidney Bean in Front of City Hall Today
Sure, you could build elaborate shade structures and host impromptu lunch parties to enliven the City Hall plaza, or you could just invite a giant, dancing kidney bean. Shawn Williams, Mayor Mike Rawlings' social media guru, was kind enough to pass along a couple of pics of said kidney bean, ahem Bi ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2012
City Hall's Notion of Flow Control: Money Flows in, Control Gets Trashed
Last year, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and Mayor Mike Rawlings locked arms to push through a so-called "flow control" law, now locked up in a lawsuit, forcing commercial trash haulers in Dallas to use the city landfill instead of commercial dumps. Mayor Rawlings was candid about why. He admitted ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2012
Mike Rawlings Declares State of Emergency, Wants Entire City Blanketed With Pesticide
There have been 111 documented human cases of the West Nile Virus in the city of Dallas this year, a full quarter of cases nationwide. The county declared a state of emergency a couple of days ago and, this morning, Mayor Mike Rawlings followed suit this morning. That puts the decision over whether ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2012
Mayor Rawlings Wants Aerial Spraying in Dallas, Which Will Start As Early As Thursday
It didn't take Mayor Mike Rawlings long to make up his mind. Just after meeting with state health officials and reading all those helpful Facebook comments yesterday, Rawlings declared he's all in for aerial mosquito spraying. "Since public safety is my No. 1 job, I think it's paramount to step up ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2012
Facebook Tells Mayor Rawlings Not to Aerial Spray, So Get Ready For Aerial Spraying
Remember last time Mayor Mike Rawlings went to Facebook to ask for feedback on a controversial topic of citywide import? And how he ignored the overwhelming majority of comments and pledged his full support for the Trinity Parkway? Well, he's put out another call for feedback on Twitter and Facebook ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
City Leaders Kick Off Gay Pride Month With No Mention of Gay Green Lantern
Going in, I was assuming the Pride Month event at City Hall was for celebrating the previous days' revelation that the Green Lantern is gay. It's not Batman or Superman, but baby steps, right? But no one -- not Councilwoman Delia Jasso, not any of the half dozen speakers, not the Turtle Creek Chora ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2012
What I Learned at the Downtown Dallas Luncheon: Namely, Luncheons Are Fancy and Main Street Needs Food Trucks
Downtown Dallas Inc. hosted a very large luncheon yesterday for those with a vested interest in the improvement of Dallas' city center. I sat at table number 98, and there were ten place settings at each table. If everyone who signed up showed up, there were nearly 1000 attendees who came to hear Jo ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Mayor Mike Rawlings Wants to Make This Clear: "Right Now, I'm a Toll Road Guy"
Mayor Mike Rawlings was a bit late for his 9 a.m. speech at this morning's "Building South" presentation at the Oak Cliff Chamber. I knew it was Mayor Mike because OC Chamber director Bob Stimson, waffling for time, kept saying things like "I was told if I started and talked real slow, the mayor wou ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
Tomorrow, We Learn Where Mayor Mike Rawlings Stands on the Trinity Toll Road
After soliciting a week's worth of feedback from the luminaries on Facebook, Mayor Mike Rawlings, heretofore uncommitted on the controversial Trinity Toll Road, will hold a press conference at City Hall tomorrow "to deliver significant development" and also to "give his perspective on the Trinity Ri ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
DISD Candidate Damarcus Offord Filed an Ethics Complaint Against Mike Rawlins Today
Damarcus Offord, the 20-year-old Dallas Independent School District trustee candidate, struck back at Mayor Mike Rawlings today, and in the course of one short document managed to heed his supporters' call for a feisty outsider and confirm his detractors' suspicion that he just doesn't know what he' ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Mike Rawlings Endorses DISD Candidates, Continues His Wade into District Politics
Much has been made of Mayor Mike Rawlings' foray into Dallas Independent School District politics in recent months. Depending on who's talking, his involvement is either the leadership and commitment this city needs to save its schools; another sign of the business community's hostile takeover of th ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2012
Dallas Passes Twice-a-Week Watering Restrictions; Watering Can Stocks to Soar?
A key battle was won this morning in what cable-news commenters might call the War on Sprinklers: The Dallas City Council just voted 13-2 to permanently limit sprinkler use, either by hose or by automatic system, to two days per week, in what can only be seen as a huge victory for the hand-held wate ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Damarcus Offord, the 20-Year-Old DISD Trustee Candidate, Just Lit Up Mayor Mike
Like him or not, I'm sure we can all agree: Damarcus Offord, the 20-year-old Lincoln High grad who's challenging Bernadette Nutall for her southern Dallas seat on the Dallas ISD school board, is making the typical snoozefest that are school board politics a lot more fun. Last week, Greg showed the ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
LGBT Group to Remind Mayor Mike Tomorrow It's Still Upset Over That Marriage Pledge
It's not often we get invitations to flood the mayor's office with phone calls -- we tend to do that all on our own -- but LGBT rights group GetEQUAL TX is planning a different sort of mass phone-in to Mayor Mike Rawlings's office tomorrow. According to this here Facebook invite, GetEQUAL -- last se ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Mayor Mike Rawlings Gives Dallas ISD Board, Central Staffers a Lesson In Marketing 101
Rmember when DISD considered replacing its logo? It might come up again.Edwin Flores said it a couple of weeks back: The Dallas Independent School District has a communications problem. Which is one way of putting it -- the nice way of putting it. And so, following months' worth of dust-ups and s ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Mayor Mike Rawlings: "South Dallas Is Not a Charity Case. It's A Business Opportunity."
Photos by Anna MerlanFor months, Mayor Mike Rawlings has made it clear that he's got his eye on Southern Dallas. This afternoon, as promised, was the first of three public presentations he'll give on his Southern Dallas Economic Growth Plan, which played to a packed house of bigwigs at the So ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Yesterday, Rawlings Repeated What He's Said All Along: Charter Schools Need to Expand
At the end of yesterday's lengthy, heated debate over hopping into a bed made of tax-free bonds with Uplift Education, Mayor Mike Rawlings delivered the passionate testimonial Jim and I referenced. Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked to hear the entire thing, the "Our Poor Kids" speech, so ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
LGBT Leaders Ask Council to Help Mayor Rawlings Sign That Same-Sex Marriage Pledge
Daniel CatesThe leadership of the Thomas Jefferson High School student council (sniff), guests of Ann Margolin at this morning's meeting of the Dallas City Council, got quite the treat this morning: a parade of public speakers once again thoughtfully, kindly but also forcefully berating Mayor Mik ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Mayor Mike to Debut Plans for Fixing Dallas ISD, Growing Southern Dallas Next Week
Jim will be along shortly with his take on the passionate discussion surrounding Uplift Education's efforts to get the city to assist with the selling of bonds to help with the charter school's expansion. I'll just note this: During his closing remarks on the subject, just before council voted to ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Comerica Donates $15,000 Worth of E-Books and Readers, Setting a Trend, Rawlings Hopes
With its budget shrinking and shrinking over the past several years, the Dallas library system has an acute need for a Daddy Warbucks. Several, actually. More specifically, branches need deep-pocketed donors who can pick up the public book-houses by the boot straps, smack them in the behind and prop ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2012
Before Mayor Mike's Meeting With LGBT Leaders, A Rally Outside City Hall Last Night
Mayor Mike Rawlings has a closed-door, no-press-allowed meeting this morning with 25 LGBT community leaders to discuss something that's become, say, a small issue for him in the last week: his refusal to sign the "Mayors For Freedom To Marry" Pledge. Earlier this week Rawlings also elected to back ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Mayor Backs Out of Citizens Meeting Tonight. "Unexpected Circumstances." (LGBT Protest.)
Left a message this morning for Paula Blackmon, chief of staff to Mayor Mike Rawlings, to talk about his decision to pull out of a long-scheduled meet-and-greet with the citizens tonight at Kiest Park on Hampton. It's been on our schedule for a month, and just Monday morning he (or someone, Black ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Mayor Mike Rawlings on Why He Didn't Join Mayors in Signing Same-Sex Marriage Pledge
The Dallas Voice ran a piece last night in which Mayor Mike Rawlings's chief of staff, Paula Blackmon, explains why he's not joining more than 70 other mayors in supporting same-sex marriage at a press conference tomorrow to be held during the U.S. Conference of Mayors in D.C. Todd Gillman follow ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2012
At the Lighting of the Calatrava Bridge, That "Elegant Sculpture" and "Connection in Time"
In the end, the timing was perfect: The rain, scarce for far too long, had moved off but not before topping off the Trinity River just enough so that it resembled an actual river -- roaring, even, almost mighty. The clouds remained, and the glare from an ever-illuminated downtown gave the sky a s ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2011
Ethics Reform: You've Got to Know What Needs Changing Before You Can Change It
Ethics: They're hidden somewhere in City Hall, and it's a tough case to crack.Since becoming Mayor, Mike Rawlings has been consistently passionate about a few key things: South Dallas, DISD, pizza, economic development, Halloween, ethics reform -- not necessarily in that order. On Rawlings's ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Mayor, Police Chief Ask You Not To Buy Your Christmas Gifts On The Black Market This Year
Photos by Anna MerlanMayor Rawlings, Chief Brown and the council at this morning's presser to announce "attack" on buyers, sellers of stolen goodsThis holiday season, City Hall, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office would like to remind you not to buy y ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2011
Mayor Mike Rawlings Last Night: "Everything I Look At, I Ask, 'Is It Right for Southern Dallas?'"
Last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings hosted a community forum at Cedar Crest Golf Course, billed in the invitation as an "update on the City of Dallas." Backed by council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins and a large supporting cast of other city officials, he tried to reassure the crowd: City Ha ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
City Council Will Not Trim Public Speakers' Time at the Mic From Three Minutes to One
Acting City Secretary Rosa RiosYesterday we noted that the city council would be briefed today on two minor changes to rules governing public speakers, chief among them a proposal from Acting City Secretary Rosa Rios's office that trims speakers' three minutes at the mic to a mere 60 seconds if t ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011
Mayor Mike Rawlings on Occupy Dallas Encampment: They Can Stay. Tonight, Anyway.
Photo by Chris HowellTrue to his word, City Hall spokesman Frank Librio just sent a statement from Mayor Mike Rawlings in response to U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle's ruling this morning, which cleared the way for the city to give Occupy Dallas the heave-ho from the parking lot behind 1500 Marill ... More >>
News
November 3, 2011
The Continuing Leppertness of Mayor Mike Rawlings
Even his opponents say Rawlings is a good guy. Why is that exactly?
Blogs
October 27, 2011
Turns Out, Not Everybody Loves Continental, Lone Star Gas Building Makeovers
Photos by Anna MerlanA seemingly run-of-the-mill downtown development press conference had two surprise guests.Over the years, the re-do of the Continental Building downtown has started to feel like a bit like Guns N' Roses's Chinese Democracy. Forest City, the developers behind turning the vaca ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
"Moving the System Forward": Once More, City to Hold Dallas Parks Summit at Fair Park
One years ago, when Mayor Mike Rawlings was merely Park Board President Mike Rawlings, the city held its first-ever Dallas Parks Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. By way of invite in 2010, ad man Rawlings said this:"Walt Disney once said he didn't want the public to see the world where they ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2011
"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 >>
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