Sarah Dodd

Pig Blood in the Trinity and Bullshit on the Blogs: About That Shiny, Happy Video

Update 3:37: City Hall isn't buying that Columbia Pack video any more than we are. City spokesman Frank Librio sent out the following response just now: March 12, 2012 To: Media From: City of Dallas PIO Re: Columbia Packing The City will use all legal means possible to ensure that Columbia Packi ... More >>

Mayoral Race Now In Overtime as Mike Rawlings, David Kunkle Go to Runoff

David Kunkle and wife Sarah Dodd at the San Francisco Rose tonight, after it became clear he was headd to the runoff against Mike Rawlings​It's all over but the drinking: Mike Rawlings, who will wind up with around 41 percent of the vote, and David Kunkle, who will claim around 32 percent, will fa ... More >>

Rawlings, Kunkle Say They'd Ban Political Consultants From Lobbying City Hall

​If Mike Rawlings is serious, the political consultants running his campaign will have a hard time making a living with him in office. At last night's GLBT Chamber mayoral forum, candidates David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings agreed that political consultants who run campaigns and raise campaign money ... More >>

Mike Rawlings Clobbers Ron Natinsky and David Kunkle in Mayoral Fund-Raising Effort

Photos by Sam MertenWe're guessing this was Rawlings's reaction when he received bills from his consultants.​Former TracyLocke CEO Mike Rawlings easily outpaced the field of mayoral candidates by raising a whopping $1.03 million -- nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David ... More >>

Dallas' Next Mayor Will Face Tough Budget Choices. Too Bad The Candidates Won't Talk About Them.

Welcome To The Dull House

David Kunkle Says He's Not Hiding Laura Miller's Support Because He Doesn't Have It Yet

Patrick MichelsFormer Mayor Laura Miller praises then-Police Chief David Kunkle in November 2009 after he announced he was calling it quits​She spoke at former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle's retirement press conference. She appointed Mike Rawlings to be the city's homeless czar. She was ma ... More >>

Rawlings Nabs Top Spot as Mayoral and City Council Candidates Pick Ballot Positions

Photos by Sam MertenThe selection of the top spot by mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings turned out to be anticlimactic because it was the only envelope left.​City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff oversaw the selection of ballot positions this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall, as mayor ... 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 >>

Mayoral Circus 2011: Not the Greatest Show on Earth, but Pretty Fun Anyway

​I gotta say: The coming mayoral election season already smells like a holiday for mediatoids. Things are rockin' and rollin' early. Looks to me like the money just tilted way away from North Dallas city council member Ron Natinsky, who thought he had the money. Meanwhile the campaign of for ... More >>

Bill Fisher handed the FBI a chance to clean up City Hall. Does that make Fisher Mr. Clean?

The Only Person Who Counts When It Comes to Counting Wet-Dry Petitions Is City Secretary

Daniel RodrigueMatt Spiller, owner of Eno's Pizza Tavern, signs the petition at the March 23 kick-off​I see here that Andy Siegel, an attorney at Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, is claiming that Progress Dallas has come up 5,555 signatures short of getting the dry parts of Dallas soaking wet i ... More >>

Drink Up, For Tomorrow Progress Dallas Begins Petition Drive to End Booze Ban

​I've been trying to find out for days when Progress Dallas was going to kick off its petition drive -- you know, the one that would ultimately lead to Dallas getting rid of its those "dry" parts of town. Turns out, all I needed to do was call Sarah Dodd, wife of the No. 1 cop, the commissioner, t ... More >>

That Zoning Fight Over Simon David Has Moved From the Neighborhood to City Hall

Sarah Dodd​[Editor's note at 4:27 p.m.: Jim has opted to turn this item into a live blog concerning the afternoon's doings at Dallas City Hall. The Simon David debate has wrapped with a vote in favor of the store's expansion, so the council has moved on to the University of North Texas Dallas camp ... More >>

Grocer, Point Blank: Randall's Says That "New" Simon David is All But a Done Deal

​Well, looks like Randall's Food & Drugs, which owns the Simon David at 7117 Inwood Road, thinks they've got next week's zoning vote at city council in the bag.I wrote to Connie Yates, their PR person, earlier this week, asking questions about their plan to demolish houses and re-route a stre ... More >>

Kunkle's Retirement Press Conference Was More Like a Melancholy Family Farewell

Photos by Patrick MichelsChief David Kunkle at his retirement press conference today; standing next to him, wife Sarah Dodd​When a big-city police chief announces a sudden early retirement, you expect a lot questions -- most of which begin with "Why ...". Apparently, they were all answered las ... More >>

What Don Hill's Conviction Means for Dallas

How the Feds Convicted Don Hill

Till Today, Andrea Grimes Had Never Been in City Council Chambers

The Awards Show That Took Us

See You Tomorrow Night, Right? Right.

The Source of Love

Ginger Allen Has a New Gig

Dodd Done at Channel 11

Celso Martinez's Waiver Denied. Gonna Have to Move Within DISD Boundaries. We're Done Here, Right?

Ya Know, We Want to Let This Celso Martinez Thing Go, If Only He'd Stop Lying

"Please Hold For Mrs. Kunkle."

C'mon Get Happy

Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

Fifth Time's the Charm

Till, like, whenever do us part

Meet the New Mrs. Chief Kunkle

Damn the Innocent | Sizzlin' Sarah | Oink | Git Thee Gone, Hillary | Drone Angels | Superfreak

Mayor: "Steve Pickett Always Smells Good."

Reporter Envy

Awkward

The mayor, local reporters and, of course, Chief Kunkle all have an opinion on Sarah Dodd

No Newy. But There's Always Dr. Mona.

Quacks Like a Lame Duck

Port of Call

Take This Job and Shove It

Too Much Information

Did I Miss Something?

Best TV News Show

CBS Channel 11 at 10 p.m.

Thanks for Nothing

The return of Gonzilla, and other literary concerns