Hey, Bruce Sherbet fans, I know you mean well, but you’re never going to get anywhere with that stuff about traipsing downtown to the commissioners court meeting and making your little mini-speeches during the open-mic session. Last time you tried it, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the guy who…

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 former…

Tell me first. To be a cool place to live, what does downtown Dallas need? Action. Tons and tons of people, not all super-rich, not all homeless, either. But that’s the problem with downtown. Rich people in the towers. Desperadoes in the alleys. Long empty sidewalks between. For that to…

I refuse to jump up and down and scream about John Wiley Price. There’s this story floating around the media that they had to shut down yesterday’s meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court because Price had a meltdown when some in the peanut gallery called him the county’s “chief…

This is Day Four of the “How Totally Useless Is the Dallas City Council” watch, and you know what my problem is already? I’m bored. This is all about the serial faux pas problem with Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, who is slated to become the real mayor of…

Time to start a watch. I hereby declare this the beginning of the “How Totally Useless Are the Dallas City Council and Mayor?” watch. Day One. I wrote here yesterday about the huge dilemma City Hall faces with Dwaine Caraway, the council member who is next in line to fill…

Just came from that joint meeting of the Downtown Connection Tax Increment Financing District board and Downtown Dallas Development Authority (please don’t ask me what any of that means), and I am happy to report that Ted and Larry Hamilton’s Atmos Center project is a go, with, matter of fact,…

You know what is one of the most common questions I get from people about Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway? They always ask, “What the hell is a mayor pro tem?” Let’s talk about that. Pro tem is a shortened version of the Latin phrase pro tempore. According to…

You know how people always rearrange themselves a little bit on an elevator every time someone gets on or off? Think of political Dallas as one big elevator ever since former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle announced last week he’s going to run for mayor in the May election. Shuffle…

Three weeks ago I did a smack-down on Tim Rogers, the editor of D, after he was the subject of a bad front-page story in The Dallas Morning News. The story was about phone calls Rogers made to the media relations department of the school district to get his kid…

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway was on The Ticket’s Dunham & Miller show about an hour ago talking about why he gave the key to the city to convicted dog torturer Michael Vick. It was so typical. The Ticket guys started out all big and pissed off, talking about…

Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn’t know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all over the world. There’s a way to keep them running in an ice…

I’m serious. I want Jimmy Carter to come monitor our elections. We need his help. So, if you were around here eight years ago, when Dallas was getting national attention for vote fraud, you might be especially concerned about recent developments in the county elections department. Until the Legislature adopted…

I watched that video of Tuesday’s Dallas County Commissioner’s Court meeting — the one about Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and the firing of elections administrator Bruce Sherbet — and I swear that Price was doing a whole new persona. He speaks now with a new gravitas, slowly and…

All you people are here for the Super Bowl. I know what you’re thinking. You call Dallas things like “the Buckle of the Bible Belt.” Then you mock us for being hypocrites, because we have so many nekkid bars. It’s true. We do have a long history of trying to…

In the ’08 Obama/Clinton primary election, it was clear we had two Democratic Parties in Dallas County. We had the one that won that election — the smart Obamacrats. And then we had the losers, the Dallas County Demacrooks, the usual suspects, the ones who took all that Clinton money…

Ever since Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert announced on January 17 that he won’t run for re-election next May, people have been talking about who will run. I say people. Maybe six people. Most people don’t care. I know. People these days are into other things, like unemployment. Wondering what to…

On January 13, I wrote a column for the paper about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and how thin-skinned and paranoid he seems to be getting. Two days after my column came out Watkins issued a new policy directive to his entire staff telling them they are no longer…

Great. Tell me you’re sick of journalists talking about journalists. I was too. I was perfectly ready to drop L’Affaire Tim Rogers — whether or not he used his clout as the editor of D Magazine to get his kid bucked into a preschool program ahead of qualified poor kids…

As a community, we get horrible leadership from City Hall. Terrible. City Hall brings out the worst in us. On Monday, Building Community Workshop (called bcWORKSHOP), a housing advocacy group, began installing plywood silhouette figures of homeless people around town with cardboard signs urging people to think about the homeless…