City of Springfield, IllinoisDid not see that coming. Yesterday, first thing, I pointed out Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's call to arms -- meaning, of course, his call for folks to part with their firearms in exchange for 50 bucks' worth of Kroger groceries Saturday morning at Reunion. Shortly after that, on his blog and in the Unfair Park comments, gun-slinging D contributing editor Trey Garrison chimed in with his own counter-proposal: "My plan is to be there with envelopes containing $
Amanda WarrDeputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and Trey Garrison at Reunion Arena SaturdayAs he promised last week, right after we first mentioned Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's offer to swap guns for $50 Kroger gift cards, D contributing editor Trey Garrison went out to Reunion Arena to make folks a better offer. (The city collected 147, incidentally.) What he and Best of Texas's Amanda Warr returned with instead was a lengthy video and accompanying story documenting how the twosome spen
Contrary to what's been reported elsewhere, the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel party at Tucker on Ross Avenue is, in fact, open to the press and public. Matter of fact, not only is Merten on hand for the gathering, but so too are KXAS-Channel 5's Ken Kalthoff and Trey Garrison -- and, for that matter, Mitchell Rasansky and Gary Griffith were also spotted walking through the door moments ago. Also present, of course, Harlan Crow, who'll speak to Unfair Park shortly, and Lucy Billingsle
Last time 'round, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's call to turn in your arms arms turned into quite the sideshow, complete with a French New Wave film of some kind starring Caraway and Trey Garrison. Which hasn't deterred Caraway one bit: This afternoon at Dallas City Hall, he'll provide further details concerning yet another gun buy-back scheduled for August 15 at City Hall. At the last guns-for-groceries swap meet, the city collected 147 firearms in varying states of "working."Same deal as la
Sam MertenWhat, them worried? D'Angelo Lee, Don Hill and Sheila Farrington outside the federal courthouse[Editor's note: Jim's on deadline, and Sam's on vacation. So Trey Garrison's down at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse live-blogging the City Hall corruption trial for Unfair Park today. Jim's back tomorrow; till then, take it away, Trey.]Don Hill's defense attorney, Ray Jackson, spent the morning building on a main part of their argument that Jim so brilliantly summarized l
