City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff oversaw the selection of ballot positions this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall, as mayoral and city council candidates for the May 14 election chose envelopes with numbers inside. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings landed the top spot among mayoral…
Standing near the pool at the Belmont Hotel in what 2007 mayoral race runner-up Ed Oakley called “the best part of the city of Dallas,” mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky this morning announced his five-pronged approach to implement the West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines plan. He said the first step…
All four mayoral candidates are running on similar platforms to improve neighborhoods and boost economic development. But underdog Edward Okpa sought to set himself apart from the field this afternoon, claiming David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings “don’t have the relevant facts” to make the necessary progress in neighborhoods. He also…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway sent a letter on Friday expressing the city’s “deepest condolences” to his counterpart in Sendai, Japan, Mayor Emiko Okuyama. Caraway mentioned in the missive that his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, had attended the Sendai International Marathon, and said, “Due to our years of people-to-people exchanges…
The majority of neighborhoods surrounding Fair Park are riddled with vacant, boarded-up homes and empty lots. Atlanta Street is no exception. Across from the Park South Family YMCA, Todd Russell bought a 672-square-foot house in June 2009 from the city to save it from demolition. But less than a month…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s Merten’s End: *Well, that was quick. Chuck Greenberg formed the current Rangers ownership group, and less than seven months after the sale was complete, he’s out. No longer managing partner. No longer…
Sure, it’s not the death penalty, but the NCAA just released a statement saying it has accepted self-imposed sanctions by Southern Methodist University on its basketball program. SMU’s recommendations included two years probation (March 10, 2011, through March 9, 2013), a reduction of 15 recruiting days and a two-week ban…
Back on February 11, former four-term city council member Sandy Greyson told us that she was “seriously considering” a run for her old District 12 seat now occupied by mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky. The self-described “night owl” e-mailed us shortly after midnight Monday morning to let us know she was…
Real estate broker and international trade consultant Edward Okpa has submitted the necessary 357 signatures of registered Dallas voters required to run for mayor, joining David Kunkle and Ron Natinsky on the May 14 ballot. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings has also announced his candidacy, but he hasn’t submitted…
As a big fan of Tosh.0 — a 30-minute show on Comedy Central featuring YouTube clips and jokes from comedian Daniel Tosh — I set my TiVo for Sunday’s premiere of Tosh’s stand-up special Happy Thoughts. Finally got around to watching it last night. It sucked. Laughed maybe once. Nevertheless,…
A couple hours after U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert tweeted what you see above, we contacted Leppert spokesman Shawn McCoy to find out why the former mayor supports eliminating public funding for National Public Radio. He said he’d talk to him and get back to us. We never heard back…
If there was any question that former Park Board president Mike Rawlings would be the top fund-raiser among the three announced mayoral candidates, he’s seemingly answered it by unveiling a new television ad this morning as pricey mailers hit mailboxes throughout the city yesterday. The TV ad and mailer –…
In the comments of yesterday’s blog, commenter “sporty” posed the question of whether Neftali Feliz should be moved into the rotation since we both agree the Texas Rangers rotation needs help desperately. He said the “transition makes a lot of sense.” I disagree. The argument for Feliz becoming a starter…
You hear it every year around this time: Spring training stats are meaningless. And, sure, while that can be true for guys like Doug Deeds — the 29-year-old career minor leaguer who’s hitting .357 with two homers and four RBI for the Texas Rangers at the moment — there are…
Along with a handful of other media outlets that filed open records requests about the incident at Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s home near Cedar Crest Golf Course known as the “Arthur and Archie” ordeal, we asked for notes, audio, video and any other possible documents related to the case. However, as…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway and 11 current and former council members endorsed council member Ron Natinksy for mayor this afternoon at City Hall Plaza. Caraway urged voters, especially those in the southern sector, to choose Natinsky instead of David Kunkle or Mike Rawlings because the city is already headed in the…
As he explained to us a couple weeks ago, Chad Lasseter has some grand ideas, including moving the Texas Rangers to either Fair Park or West Dallas and providing free Wi-Fi downtown. He also disagrees with District 14 council member Angela Hunt on a handful of issues, such as her…
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 in the Flag Room at City Hall that he’d continue the “positive direction of the city” during his four months in office…
Political consultant Carol Reed answered questions about the battle for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Dallas mayor’s race, the 2012 Republican presidential primary and an assortment of local and state issues last night at a meeting of the Dallas Log Cabin Republicans. However, she…
Following the mayoral forum held last night at Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium, District 3 city council candidate Scott Griggs and incumbent Dave Neumann took their turn to disagree on several issues — including gas drilling, that Walmart, affordable housing at Cliff Manor and the Trinity River toll road. Griggs quoted…
Although he typically exhibits a dry temperament, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle nabbed some much-needed laughs from the audience last night at the first mayoral forum of the campaign season. “This is our Iowa,” he told nearly 200 folks at Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium in North Oak Cliff. Kunkle…
Tom Leppert has hired Shawn McCoy, the deputy communications director for the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign of Linda McMahon, whose website was designed by the same folks who are behind Leppert’s. While it’s apparent Leppert is preparing for a Senate bid of his own, until he leaves the city council…
