Dallas County's FY2009 budget was passed by the commissioners on September 9 and went into effect October 1 -- and chief among the Commissioners Court's objectives was balancing the budget without raising taxes, as you'll see on Page 2 of the 371-page document. But just two months into the new fiscal year, a single line on this morning's Commissioners Court briefing agenda ("FY 2009 Budget Update") has spawned this potentially bad news: There may well be a $25-million budget shortfall next fisca
Sam MertenCity Manager Mary Suhm debuting her 2009-'10 budget to the media three weeks agoOn August 10, when the Dallas City Council met to discuss City Manager Mary Suhm's budget proposal that gut services and employees to make room for a $190-million budget shortfall, the city's chief financial officer, Dave Cook, warned that next year's process will be even more painful. He said that preliminary discussions with appraisal district officials indicated commercial property values would contin
Kimberly ThorpeAt the Belo Mansion this morning, Michael Hinojosa touched on everything from educational gains to the juvenile curfew.Last time we checked, there wasn't much to laugh about when it came to the state of public education in Dallas. But leave it to Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa to at least try to insert some humor, even at his own expense.
This morning Hinojosa gave the "State of the District" address at the seventh annual Symposium on E
