Steve Salazar

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 >>

Talkin' Love Field Concessions With the Mayor

​Ken Carter, a consultant working for Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, sent us word yesterday afternoon that the city council's seven minority members are expected to appear at noon today inside City Hall's lobby along with other community leaders for ... More >>

Sweatin' It Out With the Justice League!

Photos by Sam MertenState Senator Royce West and county judge candidate Clay Jenkins help pump up the crowd as District Attorney Craig Watkins grabs the mic Saturday afternoon.​This, in case you have not heard, is the "Summer of Justice." Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in betwee ... More >>

Oak Cliff Becomes Cool Embracing What Other Parts Of Dallas Have Fought: Builders, Bikes And Immigrants

In West Dallas, Bulldozers Clear the Way for New Homes and New Residents

Alexa SchirtzingerClaudia Hernández didn't know the house across the street from her home would become bulldozer fodder until a few minutes before it happened Saturday afternoon."We saw people looking at the property [over the past few weeks]," Hernández said. "But we had no idea they'd do this!"N ... More >>

Lily Tomlin Talks Jenny the Elephant, Dallas City Council and Ross Perot Jr.

The Whore Truth About Tomorrow's City Council Meeting

The Good Laura

Or, how Bill Blaydes locked up the Bastard of the Year award

Don Hill Goes Down the River with Sam Coats and Angela Hunt. Say What?

Have a Carona on David Dean

Default

City council could cost us $20 million by tanking the Merc deal

The Pearls

Forget political science. The strong-mayor debate is about Laura on the sofa.

No. 1 With a Bullet

Welcome to America's crime capital

Mayor TV

Great on the toob, but no machine

Bare Knuckles and Bare Breasts

Forget talk of a settlement. Bachman Lake homeowners vow to fight their war against bare nipples to the bitter end.

Love's Labor Lost

The silence is deafening at City Hall over expanding Love Field, but Jim Schutze has some advice for airport neighbors: Buy earplugs.

Buzz

Taking sides; This blows; Hard time

The king of Cockrell Hill

Dallas Constable Aurelio Castillo claims the criminal charges against him are a political conspiracy. His opponents say he's just a doofus.

Ethical dilemma

It was reformers vs. the business-as-usual crowd on Dallas' ethics task force. Somehow the reformers won. Sort of.

Whipping boy

John Loza learns that making friends is easy for a city council member. Keeping them is harder.

It's the money

And it's nowhere near enough to attract a slate of decent city council candidates in southern Dallas

Big Brother does Dallas

Jim Schutze unmasks the Orwellian Dallas Plan Inc.