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Waste Management Services

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Harold Simmons' Radioactive Waste Dump Gets the Go-Ahead from State Regulators

    A radioactive waste disposal company owned by Harold Simmons' Dallas-based Contran Corp. has been given the green light by state regulators to dispose of low-grade radioactive waste at a West Texas site. Representative Lon Burnam, who says he possesses confidential documentation exposing an undercu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    So Much For Flow Control. For Now, At Least, as Federal Judge Dumps Waste Control Ordinance.

    ​It's been a couple of weeks since lawyers hired by the city and the National Solid Waste Management Association squared off in U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor's over the flow control ordinance that would have dumped all the city's solid waste at the McCommas Bluff Landfill. I say "would have" b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    We Checked and, Yup, Dallas's Flow Control Plan Is Still All About the Benjamins

    Back in September, when the city passed its ordinance requiring commercial solid waste companies to dump in South Dallas's McCommas Bluff landfill, the proposal drew an unexpected foe: a group of Paul Quinn College students, led by school president Michael Sorrell, who protested in front of City Hal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    From the Memos: Still More About Bike Plan, and A First Look at Flow Control "Study Group"

    Click to enlarge one of the unfunded projects in the Bike Plan memo sent to council.​Kim Jong Il will never get to see implementation of the Dallas Bike Plan; neither will Václav Havel. Whether you will remains to be seen: Last we looked it's going to take 10 years for the city to roll out a maze ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    City Hall: No, This Is Not Project Wall-E, Where the "E" Does Stand for "Environment"

    Gary Liss​This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park sent me this press release, which, on the surface at least, appears to reveal the mystery behind that real estate deal known only as "Project Wall-E" the council chatted about behind closed doors two months ago. The release is a bit inscrutable but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Next Week, Federal Judge to (Temporarily) Decide Fate of City's Flow Control Ordinance

    Photo by Danny Hurley​Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will go behind closed doors to meet with city attorneys about a host of legal issues staring down City Hall, among them: a long-going federal wrongful arrest suit about to get even more expensive (council will vote next week to pay Brown & ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Waste Management Association Sues City Over "Anti-Free Enterprise" Flow Control Ordinance

    ​Saw this one coming; so too did the city council. After all, in mid-September the council met behind closed doors with city attorneys to review "legal issues regarding proposed resource flow control ordinance" -- which, as I am sure you recall, is the ordinance directing all solid waste collecte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    "Sounds Too Good to Be True": WFAA Sifts Through a Few Issues With Flow Control

    ​The council may or may not vote on that ordinance involving the redirecting and recycling of solid waste today. It all depends where flow control falls on the action-packed agenda, which includes passing the budget (that should go smoothly) and debating Yucatan and Service Bar's denied-at-CPC spe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    "A Moment of Truth for the City": Mayor Demands Council OK Flow Control. It Did.

    ​Brantley's been at Dallas City Hall for this morning's flow control vote, which began with that promised pre-game protest by the students of Paul Quinn College, who stood throughout the entire discussion that ran close to two hours. (Save for one protester, who fainted during the discussion, prom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Dallas NAACP Will Meet With Local EPA Officials to Discuss City's Flow Control Proposal

    ​Speaking of flow control ...On the other side you'll find a letter that Juanita Wallace, president of the Dallas branch of the NAACP, sent to Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 chief Al Armendariz in which she decries the city's proposal that would force all solid-waste collectors to dump t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Talking With the Trashman About Flowetry: Solid Waste Haulers Make New Pitch to City

    ​First, let me apologize for the headline -- I was listening to Billy Bragg and friends on the way into work this morning, and it could not be helped. Now, then. It's been a whole two days since last we discussed flow control -- I know, right? -- which, as you're well aware, involves the city forc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Knee-Deep in the Waste Stream as Sanitation Services Head Mary Nix Talks Flow Control

    ​Reason I missed Sanitation Services head Mary Nix last week was because she was on a plane bound for California -- Roseville, specifically, site of a "resource recovery" facility that converts trash into renewable energy. Which means ... get ready ... we're about to talk about flow control, the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Talking Trash with Mary Suhm, Because You Have Not Heard the Last of Flow Control

    ​Last we looked, the council tabled till after its summer vacation a proposal from Marys Suhm and Nix to force all the solid-waste haulers in the city to dump their trash at the McCommas Bluff Landfill rather than one of the dozen other sites in the region. The city manager and head of Sanitatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Before the Council Talks Trash This Morning ...

    ​No doubt most of you aren't all that concerned where your garbage gets dumped, so long as it's picked up and hauled off on time. That said, the subject's slowly but surely becoming a hot topic at City Hall, as City Manager Mary Suhm and Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix make their solid-waste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Talking Trash With the City Manager As She Looks At Ways to Generate Additional Revenue

    ​In a few weeks, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm will present to the city council some revenue-generating brainstorms she hopes could offset some of this year's $60-million-and-maybe-more budget shortfall. Among her proposals, she tells Unfair Park, will be one familiar to anyone paying attention la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Harold Simmons One Step Closer to Getting What He Wants: Everyone's Nuclear Waste

    Annette and Harold Simmons​At the end of last year we spent quite a bit of time following Nuke Free Texas's efforts to stop  Governor Rick Perry's appointees on the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission from giving Waste Control Specialists the thumbs-up to bury nuclea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Solid Waste-rs Tell Caraway They Really Don't Want to Be Told Where to Dump Trash

    ​Last June, we took a look at some moneymaking brainstorms Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm presented to the city council, which Suhm hoped would offset some of the $131-million budget shortfall with which she was faced at the time. Among them was one in particular that didn't get very far, or so it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    How a Projected Increase in Solid Waste Disposal Will (Kinda) Save Rec Centers

    ​This afternoon, City Hall spokesman Frank Librio forwarded a memo City Manager Mary Suhm sent to Mayor Tom Leppert and the council last night, in which Suhm broke some news: She found an extra $1.8 million with which to fund the city's rec centers, whose hours she's proposing to drastically cut i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Peek at Three Moneymaking Brainstorms on Tomorrow's Council Briefing Agenda

    ​Today or tomorrow, depending upon when she's got the time to wrap up our chat, we'll post the Unfair Park Interview with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm concerning this year's $131-million budget cutting that's more like a gutting following last year's to-the-bone. So far in our conversations she's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Let's Talk Trash For a Second

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    Trash Ain't Nothin' but Cash

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    How Vonciel Jones Hill Will Spend Valentine's Day

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2007

    A Trashy Tale

    Last night, the missus wondered why we received a postcard from the city's Sanitation Services Department inviting us to a "community meeting" with our city council member this Saturday to discuss garbage collection. "Um," I told her, "probably because they want to tell us that starting in February, ... More >>

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    American Toxic

    The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

    The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2006

    D/FW Whistleblower to (Finally) Get Day in Court

    The railroad tie plant that gave birth to tiny Somerville may now be killing the town, residents claim

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Getting the Bird

    West Nile keeps animal control officers hopping to collect dead birds

  • Best of Dallas

    September 25, 2003

    Best Handyman

    George Miller

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    Garbage by Numbers

    City's recycling rate takes a dive

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    Cash for Trash

    The city's new recycling center is up and running, sort of

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Trashy Questions

    City auditors take a belated look at Dallas' recycling program

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Why Dallas' recycling program is a $17 million joke

  • News

    September 16, 1999

    Troubled waters

    DFW Airport officials were warned years ago that they had a problem with water pollution. So why are fish still dying?

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Trashy behavior

    Dallas gets blamed for doing too little to stop an illegal dump from choking a neighborhood

  • Music

    July 29, 1999

    Soul Coughing

    Dallas gets blamed for doing too little to stop an illegal dump from choking a neighborhood

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Getting dumped

    Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground

  • News

    January 19, 1995

    Trashed

    State examiner recommends rejection of Ferris' controversial landfill-expansion permit

  • News

    January 5, 1995

    Talking trash

    Ferris' landfill stays in limbo--while state regulators fight among themselves

  • News

    December 15, 1994

    BeloWatch

    Ferris' landfill stays in limbo--while state regulators fight among themselves

  • News

    November 24, 1994

    Letters

    Ferris' landfill stays in limbo--while state regulators fight among themselves

  • News

    November 10, 1994

    FBI probes bribery allegations in Ferris

    Ferris' landfill stays in limbo--while state regulators fight among themselves

  • News

    November 10, 1994

    The Trashing of Ferris, Texas

    When a giant came to a tiny town, it soon became clear that almost everyone has a price.

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