Mayor Tom Leppert’s in D.C. this morning at the invite of Barney Frank, whose House Financial Services Committee is set to discuss why it’s become so danged difficult and cost-prohibitive for cities to issue bonds — and how Washington can fix it, despite the Fed’s “important misgivings” about guaranteeing municipal…
Writer-director Rian Johnson fashions a universe in which time is a fluid thing—where everything takes place in a familiar today and an otherworldly yesterday, where the audience is at once agreeably comfortable and inexplicably unsettled. When his characters don’t look out of place in their derbies and dusters, they sound…
Every so often someone will still post a comment to the imc2 item from way back in December ’07 — only 123 till we break the 1,000 mark, so let’s go team! Which is why it’s just a little surprising that this little news nugget hasn’t made its way into…
I don’t get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here’s part one; parts two and three follow. I won’t lie: She needs something to spice up…
Turns out, Errol McKoy didn’t wake up Monday morning with any intention of announcing plans to turn Fair Park into a year-round destination complete with towering rides and rollering coasters. Matter of fact, he says he expected — still does — to hold “a massive press conference” in, oh, 18…
On Monday, Tawnell Hobbs posted a poll in which she asked readers of The News’s Dallas ISD Blog, “Who should be the next DISD board prez?” Perhaps not surprisingly, the outspoken Carla Ranger — who led the charge to overturn the board’s decision not to hold 2009 elections, and who…
Courthouse News this morning highlights the story of Ginger Weatherspoon, a former assistant attorney general in Greg Abbott’s office who claims she was fired after refusing to lie under oath about 254th District Judge David Hanschen. Weatherspoon, who worked from July 2006 through February ’08 in the the Office of…
Alexa’s at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library for today’s Municipal Library Board confab, during which board chair Suzanne Charriere — a Mayor Tom Leppert appointee — will discuss the “formation of Dallas Public Library Foundation.” Which is … ? Dunno. Hard to say. Since early this morning I’ve tried…
I’ve left a message for Wright Lassiter, chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District; he is at a meeting and not expected to return till later today. I’ve called the law offices of Jerry Prater, chair of DCCCD’s board of trustees; he is out of the office and not…
Earlier this year, the city released the results of a community survey in which code enforcement ranked high on Dallas residents’ list of priorities — behind only public safety, infrastructure maintenance and health services. But the survey also revealed something else: A majority of those surveyed rank code enforcement as…
Late yesterday I came across this story in which Which Wich CEO Jeff Sinelli expressed a certain angst over his Dallas-based sandwich chain’s decision to offer the so-called Which Wich Super, a 15-inch, low-priced variation on the standard 8-inch offering. Sinelli was speaking on Sunday in Chicago at the National…
Late yesterday I came across this story in which Which Wich CEO Jeff Sinelli expressed a certain angst over his Dallas-based sandwich chain’s decision to offer the so-called Which Wich Super, a 15-inch, low-priced variation on the standard 8-inch offering. Sinelli was speaking on Sunday in Chicago at the National…
View Larger MapEarlier this month, Alexa was in West Dallas for the tearing-down of several problematic properties courtesy nonprofits promising safe, affordable housing in coming months. Among those in attendance was Mayor Tom Leppert, who said, “We are very interested in rebuilding and revitalizing [West Dallas]. This investment is going…
Four years ago, the Dallas City Council authorized the so-called “Alternative 3B” as the locally preferred alignment for the Trinity Parkway. (It was resolution 05-1210 — you can look it up.) But that was then. Today, the council’s Trinity River Committee will meet at City Hall, where members will be…
“Provide year-round midway features: ferris wheel, carousel, roller coaster, sky ride and observation tower.” So says Page 22 of 2003’s Fair Park Comprehensive Plan, which offered myriad suggestions for turning Fair Park into a year-round attraction rather than the ghost town it becomes during those 49 or so weeks out…
Just last Thursday, Dallas Morning News City Hall co-reporter Dave Levinthal said his official adios: Sooner than later, he wrote, he’d be leaving Dallas for Washington, D.C., where his fiancée is taking a position at the National Institute of Health. “No good-byes, thank-yous or anything of the sort now,” Dave…
Friend of the show Danny Hurley was way out and very about Saturday at the Hot Rods and Heels shindig in Deep Ellum. For those unable to make it, he has returned with a slide show. A very, very intriguing slide show…
CBS won’t officially announce its fall lineup till Wednesday, but today word came down that it’s given the green light to at least one new comedy: Accidentally on Purpose, starring Jenna Elfman as … lesse here .. a “a San Francisco movie critic who finds herself accidentally pregnant after a…
But two months ago, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm told Unfair Park she was “looking for quarters in the couch” in order to cover the estimated $100-million budget deficit. Won’t be nearly enough. She and the Dallas City Council will go over the ugly why’s and what-to-do’s Wednesday, during yet…
In about an hour, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle will go before the city council’s Public Safety Committee to present the city’s latest crime statistics, at least as counted through the end of April. This sneak peek, for those who can’t read be bothered to read the whole four pages…
Just last October, KXAS-Channel 5 was congratulating anchor Mike Snyder for 25 years of service: “Mike has changed very little over the years, and is still dedicated and committed to his journalistic craft.” But last night, Ed Bark noted that Snyder may be on his way out of the 10…
Three months ago, I spoke with Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, about the enormous pile of cash Curtis Lockey wants from the city in order to redo the old LTV Tower — about $76 million from the Downtown Connection Tax Increment Financing District for a…
